I deleted Reddit from my home screen when the mods did the fake strike and I’ve mostly kept off of it since then, but in the past few weeks I’ve opened it out of boredom and holy God is it just a truly awful place. My only explanation is that it’s a window into the psyche of the American middle class email job worker and they’re so fucking brain rotten that it hurts to even look at.

I thought I was misremembering or that reddit-logo was just a good meme, but that site really does represent the absolute worst of American liberalism. I don’t even have anything specific to say, I just need to scrape out the festering mass that a 15 minute scroll session there created in my brain.

  • reverendz [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    I went back a couple times because no instance has really got a large MMA community at this point and reddit had an active sub on r/mma.

    I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been away for a while, but it did seem like there was a lot of anger.

    • Phish [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Yeah I pretty much only use reddit for sports stuff and I’ve noticed there being a lot more aggressive weird shit on there lately. People are talking about sports like it’s politics. Maybe they always have and I’m just noticing it now though.

          • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            I got a random permanent ban from the atheism sub for mentioning that some countries in Africa are asking adult men to get circumcised for HIV control. Apparently I’m advocating for mutilation, am sick, and was threatened to never contact them again. It was very strange.