I joined reddit on the tailwind, so it was all echo chamber, we hate newcomers, gatekeeping, automod frenzy, too many rulebreakers, too many rules, etc I could be wrong, but thats what I imagine it used to be like.

  • @bobdowl@lemmy.world
    12•2 years ago

    Definitely, you can also see that on certain communities, there are very strong opinions which don’t allow for discussion.
    Say anything that goes against the grain and you will be shunned immediately.

    Also - not that that is always a bad thing but Lemmy is extremely left leaning and you just can’t discuss certain topics here at all.

    (Guns are always bad / Cars should all be banned and traded for bicycles / traveling by plane is bad and you should feel horrible for destroying the environment…)

    What I enjoyed about early reddit was the tech/nerd focused community that did not try to push their political opinion into every thread.
    Basically the worst part of reddit is already here, just that the echo chambers are smaller for now.

    Honestly, I’m not sure how I feel about it.

    • @mholiv@lemmy.world
      14•2 years ago

      As someone who was on Reddit when it was young I am going to disagree with you here. Young Reddit was absolutely full of political ideology. It was a Ron Paul, legalize weed, atheist, soft anti feminist, cypher punk, USA style libertarian pool of ideology.

      All places have an ideology. We are all constantly swimming in ideology. It’s just when an ideology matches you (either you being molded by the ideology or you joining a place with a matching ideology) you don’t notice it. A fish only has to think about the medium it is in after it is pulled out of the water.