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[โ€“] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That dynamic would mean reddit is full of people who sound very very confident in the joke position

A lot of the time people on reddit/lemmy/the internet are very confident in their non-joking position. Not sure if the same community exists here, but we had /r/confidentlyincorrect over on reddit

[โ€“] tea 3 points 6 months ago

Yep. It's gotta be hard to distinguish, because there are legitimately helpful and confidently correct people on reddit posts too. There's value there, but they have to figure it out how to distinguish between good and shit takes.