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Reddit slowly became filled with hate
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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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Roughly 5 years, so I joined when things already went to shit. But I still did notice a decline into utter shit.
What kinda pissed me off the most was the constant know-it-ally behavior. People were wrong but they still defended their standpoint not because they believed in it, but just out of spite. "I don't care about the truth, I only want to own the others big time!"
Reddit is a site full of bratty children and adults acting like bratty children. The worst part about that is, it is toxic and before you know it you start acting that way yourself. Me included. This whole fuckening was a wakeup call and I am glad it happened.
Yeah I was the same as you, I joined about 5 odd years ago, I needed the push to get off of Reddit, like I still enjoyed it but you say one tiny thing and you're getting abused by someone sitting on the toilet on the other side of the planet.
I ended up losing a friend because of reddit. They found it and just morphed from cheerful to always in a bad mood. Occasionally picking arguments with me from stuff they had seen on that site. At one point I just told them to stop going there, that they were becoming a nasty person because of it. She said she did but I didn't believe her.
Early march 2020 I am dealing with the lockdown and watching my entire life deathspiral. My toddler won't wear a mask, her older sister is crying because she misses her friends at school, I have no idea if I will have a job next week, and my wife is a nurse going into NYC hospital every day. All this going on and my friend sends me an email demanding I get her pictures of the corona beer public burnings going on. That she knows for a fact are happening because she read it on reddit.
I called her and I won't repeat what I said because I am highly confident it would get me in trouble with LEOs. Not a "hey I know you have small children and your wife works in a hospital in the hardest hit city in the US, are you okay? Is there anything I can do to help?". No, just an email trying to make fun of the people in my country.