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Another reason to leave Reddit: I forgot how hostile it can be (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by xray@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

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I've mostly left reddit and switched to beehaw, but I posted on somewhat of a niche tech-related subreddit today since there really isn't a community for that here yet. And wow, I got instantly downvoted twice and the first comment response was rude and hostile. All I posted was a feature suggestion for software that I thought would be useful and that a good amount of people would like based on other feedback I've heard. This is not the sort of topic that should be controversial or aggravating, and it wasn't like I made an ignorant post suggesting a feature that already existed or otherwise wasn't well researched.

This type of instantly hostile response has happened numerous times on reddit for various different topics, but I just haven't posted for a while, so I forgot just how shitty it can feel. It makes me really appreciate how friendly and respectful the community is here on Beehaw and on Mastodon. People seem to have good faith in one another similar to how the internet used to be in the old days.

Have you had similar experiences with Reddit and similarly opposite experiences here on Beehaw/Lemmy?

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[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a game developer of 10 years and was on several programming and game development subreddits was constantly hostile. The annoying thing is that Reddit downvoted anything that was against the hive mind information. Information that was simply repeated a lot because it sounded logical but when you came in with actual experience and concrete information it was pinned up against this hive mind information, if it differed the hive mind information was upvoted and your actual industry experience and inside information was downvoted.

I've provided information from game studios I've worked at just to have people initially call me a liar, have someone else pop up and say, "you know this person actually works there." And get upvoted.

Frustrating for anyone trying to share industry information that they can't immediately back up with a website.