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>Hopefully people are leaving FB because of their toxic "political discussions" (more like insult-flinging)... If that were the case, reddit should be sufferin
by renholder 8y ago
>Hopefully people are leaving FB because of their toxic "political discussions" (more like insult-flinging)...
If that were the case, reddit should be suffering the same mass exodus plight but - it seems to me - that people (predominantly in the states) revel in that sort of behaviour.
- jsemrau 8y agoOne could argue that the anonymity of Reddit in addition to the mods encourages a civil discussion
- kace91 8y agoPeople aren't exactly nicer to each other when they're anonymous...
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- SiempreViernes 8y agoSure, but it is a strange argument: morality is very sensitive to context, but in anonymous discussions lack most context and have to guess it. So anonymous discussions are largely free of the restrictions imposed by the notions of common decency, so any civil discourse in unregulated media is a minor miracle.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoThe online disinhibition effect would argue the exact opposite.
- netsharc 8y agoWell, people thought they could join FB to connect with their friends and family, but later on it turned to an insult-slinging platform, so hopefully the saner ones have left. As for reddit, I guess people are in the news and politics subreddits to actually fling shit at each other.
- thousandautumns 8y agoDue to the way reddit is subdivided, it mostly keeps that toxicity quarantined to the groups that revel in it. For people who want to avoid it, it isn't particularly difficult to.
- hugh4life 8y agoYou can use reddit and completely avoid politics.