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This is such an absurd statement. I have to assume that you're trolling.

local_crmdgeon 3y ago
Have you used Reddit or Twitter recently? They're basically open air insane asylums. You should spend 0% of your life talking about being a "Based Alpha Male." You absolutely should not use the same website as a "Based Alpha Male" influencer. I can come up with left wing equivalents if you're more into that?
- d1str0 3y ago
  You’re comparing internet communities with real life institutions. You do realize there is a difference between real life and the internet?
  - local_crmdgeon 3y ago
    Elevating extremism is harmful, and when it's this large it's an emergency. However, this comment doesn't make a ton of sense but you're not engaging in Good Faith so I'm done with this thread.
    - rvz 3y ago
      You are totally correct. What I can say is that there are some extremists on both Twitter and Reddit on both sides and as also found in other communities. Unfortunately, the commenters you are replying to choose to pretend that it is not the case with ridiculous anecdotes such as 'on my feed', 'not for me though' to dodge and as another question without answering yours. As soon as one uses an anecdote, it is safe to immediately dismiss their comment.
- TwoNineA 3y ago
  I don't see any of that crap you are talking about on my feed. I am subscribed to tech, news, soccer, some linux subreddits, a few game subreddits like Dyson Sphere Program, Diablo and finally programmer memes. I browse "home", ignore "all" or "popular". It's a really nice tool that is being destroyed by incompetence.
  - rootusrootus 3y ago
    That's a smart strategy. If you allow your feed to have things from whitepeopletwitter, blackpeopletwitter, politics, news, damnthatsinteresting (and other similar things), then you get a really awful experience. Every bit as bad as some people claim. But if you filter all those out and go for smaller, targeted subreddits in your interest area, you might as well be on an entirely different site, it isn't the same at all.
rootusrootus 3y ago
Having spent too much time on Reddit recently, I'm not entirely sure. The comment is hyperbolic, to be sure, but on the other hand the most popular subreddits have gone largely insane. Quite noticeably in the last year. Every subreddit now has a political ideological stance, and some quite overtly threaten your access if you don't toe the line.
- sosodev 3y ago
  I don't think this is a Reddit problem. All social media platforms have increasingly large groups of crazy people. However, I highly suspect that those groups are just a very vocal minority and not hundreds of millions of people as the OP said.
  - rootusrootus 3y ago
    If I recall the statistics, and assume them to be accurate, something like 1 out of 100 people make almost all the posts you see on a site like Reddit. Which means if anyone who looks at Reddit thinks the thoughts & opinions they are reading are representative of the population at large, they are very mistaken. I think after a while a lot of the quieter people get so turned off by the whole experience they just step away altogether. I strongly suspect that a subreddit claiming to have a million subscribers probably has at least two orders of magnitude fewer in reality. And that may still be an overestimate.
- cool_dude85 3y ago
  Whether or not "toe the line on the subreddit's political stance or be banned" is insane depends heavily on what the political stance is. Saying you can't post your Nazi grandpa in SS gear in r/oldschoolcool is a "political stance" but it makes total sense to force users to toe that line.

Have you used Reddit or Twitter recently? They're basically open air insane asylums. You should spend 0% of your life talking about being a "Based Alpha Male." You absolutely should not use the same website as a "Based Alpha Male" influencer. I can come up with left wing equivalents if you're more into that?

d1str0 3y ago
You’re comparing internet communities with real life institutions. You do realize there is a difference between real life and the internet?
- local_crmdgeon 3y ago
  Elevating extremism is harmful, and when it's this large it's an emergency. However, this comment doesn't make a ton of sense but you're not engaging in Good Faith so I'm done with this thread.
  - rvz 3y ago
    You are totally correct. What I can say is that there are some extremists on both Twitter and Reddit on both sides and as also found in other communities. Unfortunately, the commenters you are replying to choose to pretend that it is not the case with ridiculous anecdotes such as 'on my feed', 'not for me though' to dodge and as another question without answering yours. As soon as one uses an anecdote, it is safe to immediately dismiss their comment.
TwoNineA 3y ago
I don't see any of that crap you are talking about on my feed. I am subscribed to tech, news, soccer, some linux subreddits, a few game subreddits like Dyson Sphere Program, Diablo and finally programmer memes. I browse "home", ignore "all" or "popular". It's a really nice tool that is being destroyed by incompetence.
- rootusrootus 3y ago
  That's a smart strategy. If you allow your feed to have things from whitepeopletwitter, blackpeopletwitter, politics, news, damnthatsinteresting (and other similar things), then you get a really awful experience. Every bit as bad as some people claim. But if you filter all those out and go for smaller, targeted subreddits in your interest area, you might as well be on an entirely different site, it isn't the same at all.

rootusrootus 3y ago

Having spent too much time on Reddit recently, I'm not entirely sure. The comment is hyperbolic, to be sure, but on the other hand the most popular subreddits have gone largely insane. Quite noticeably in the last year. Every subreddit now has a political ideological stance, and some quite overtly threaten your access if you don't toe the line.

sosodev 3y ago
I don't think this is a Reddit problem. All social media platforms have increasingly large groups of crazy people. However, I highly suspect that those groups are just a very vocal minority and not hundreds of millions of people as the OP said.
- rootusrootus 3y ago
  If I recall the statistics, and assume them to be accurate, something like 1 out of 100 people make almost all the posts you see on a site like Reddit. Which means if anyone who looks at Reddit thinks the thoughts & opinions they are reading are representative of the population at large, they are very mistaken. I think after a while a lot of the quieter people get so turned off by the whole experience they just step away altogether. I strongly suspect that a subreddit claiming to have a million subscribers probably has at least two orders of magnitude fewer in reality. And that may still be an overestimate.
cool_dude85 3y ago
Whether or not "toe the line on the subreddit's political stance or be banned" is insane depends heavily on what the political stance is. Saying you can't post your Nazi grandpa in SS gear in r/oldschoolcool is a "political stance" but it makes total sense to force users to toe that line.