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The same is true of Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Lemmy. There are pockets of shitty users everywhere. I don’t think it’s endemic to Reddit. I do think their moderation fuckery and homogenization of the top subreddits has made it much more obvious there.
I think it's really obvious when you break it down, the people who post the most on these platforms are the ones who are online the most. It's also been proven that those people who are online the most are the least mentally healthy.
Bad mental health doesn’t necessarily mean scumbag on the internet 🙃
No but again, the correlarion is there.
Misery loves company. We humans love being cynical edgelords sometimes.
Honestly Mastodon is pretty nice compared to Reddit or Lemmy. It's like mostly a bunch of gay and trans ppl posting pics of their cats or gardens and saying they are "eepy" all the time then writing out long technical posts about the Linux kernel or group theory or something.
I'm pretty sure the tone of this place would go up a few ticks if every other post had a blob fox emoji.
I’d agree with this.
I also kind of think it doesn’t help that every joke or meme — seemingly — we get now has the punchline as being like “…I guess I’ll die.” There always seems like there’s a negative bend to the joke, and even if we understand that it’s a joke (“Missed the bus; guess I’ll die”), seeing that over and over again all over the place can start to taint your perception some.
Or at least it can for me.
I had some hope for Bluesky. I thought it was going to be the mid term between Twitter and Mastodon, but I got disappointed.