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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by willis936@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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I find the quality and variety of discussions on the fediverse to be lower than what I had on reddit. Lemmings have strong preconceived notions and little interest in changing viewpoints from new information. I think I'll be switching back.

Edit: you'll find that most of the comments deny any shortcomings of the culture and go directly to invalidating my opinions via character assassination. If lemmy was a community that actually stood for the ideals which it espouses it would take constructive criticism in the spirit in which it was intended. QED.

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[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

*On the old reddit you mean. Because now its a shitshow.

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why? Honestly asking, it looks the same to me, as if nothing happened.

[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You probably not using the official reddit app. But just the lag, the delay, the mega mods, those crazy admins that ban them just by saying there name and just the ammounts of ads, there are just so many karma farmer.

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Oh man, I say that I'm honestly asking because I really don't know and I still get downvoted. That's hilarious.

Anyways, I really haven't experienced anything new besides a bug with the comments. Sometimes it loads the comments from a different post, so they obviously forgot to update the value of a variable somewhere in the code, and the comments are referencing a post I already saw.

Besides that, it's the same as before. Bots, karma farmers, insane mods... it feels the same as 2 years ago.

[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I meant even far before 2 years ago, where reddit was not bs.