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Honestly, I've had worst experiences on Reddit. The communities I'm part of are generally pretty chill. But, they're generally smaller ones with a few users.
When you end up on bigger communities like this one with a larger user base, you're bound to find a larger sample of... questionable people with questionable opinions and values. And they're usually the more vocal ones making it seem like the community is made up of rotten people.
It's not even about this post, it's mysogynist, isn't the first time I've seen it and won't be the last.
It's that too many people on here fell for conspiracy theories, are believing things too easy and also have very radicalised mindsets. Just one example, I read some "thought police" bullshit comments on here way too often and in every topic. Also all the questionable sources I see on here that only get questioned when it doesn't fit the narrative. I've had a past with conspiracy theories and I notice a lot of people eating them up on here. There's no nuance in the comments, just extreme opinions. There's also a lot of antisemitism on here thinly pretending to be critics to Israel, while commenting on disinformation posts sourced by Qatari government. When Formula 1 is in Qatar they flip their shit, when the source is from a Qatari state owned source, they rush to uncritically believe it.
What's the biggest community on here anyways, 50k? That is already incredibly small and shouldn't be as extreme as it is, unless the base line has lost their marbles.
The sorting algos in the comments also make it too easy to manipulate old and established posts that are already kind of dead, turning them from extreme left to far right in the visible spots. Sure, extreme left is better than extreme right, but generally extremism is a mind virus and I don't want to surround myself with it.
I don't like it here, and I don't think I will go out of my way to search for tiny places that are acceptable enough to excuse this.
Have a nice day.