I like how Lemmy is much for efficient by just starting off negative with everything.
I feel that most conversations I have here are someone genuinely trying to make a point and have a discussion whereas on Reddit it’s mostly people just trying to take a shit on any comment that’s made.
gEnOsiDe EnAbLeR!!1
me_irl was stupid meme place and now all posts are jus ragebait about economics lol
The article was interesting but your title is a little misleading, OP. They were not singling out Reddit. Merely using it as an example in their study on why social media threads tend to skew towards negativity over time. It was about human psychology more than any specific social media platform.
Their study was based on analysis of 2.05 billion comments from 2,150 Reddit communities.
If they want to generalize their findings to all social media platforms, that’s on them.
Would a remark like this one count as positive or negative?
After reading the article, I feel that the reply was negative and fits the article assessment pretty well
Oh yeah? Well, that’s just like - your opinion, man.
Let me tell you something, pendejo…
I posted a small comment on Reddit for the first time in, oh, idk, years. It was in a thread about the book Dungeon Crawler Carl. My comment said, paraphrasing,
DCC is not a nihilistic book
Short and to the point. I received three replies, all of them antagonistic. The first one said,
You’re wrong, because DCC is not a nihilistic book.
Except weird and long-winded. The second one said,
your definition of nihilism is wrong. DCC is not a nihilistic book.
The third one was,
You’re being pedantic.
Aaaand last time I post a comment on reddit.
Maybe it’s not a nihilistic book/series, but it does push readers into nihilism by steeping them in god awful writing.
I’ve noticed this too. There seems to be someone to violently disagree on even the most benign points and chase the thread indefinitely. I’m sure they are pretty much all bots.
(Rare preemptive /s) I have no idea what the fuck youre talking about because i know at least 3 people who regularly post on reddit so they cant be bots (/s, again)
Good to have research that backs up logical observations. I’ve never encountered any human occupied space that did not follow this pattern.
That’s not quite fair, some places do an amazing job at maintaining a harmonious environment, but they are the exception.