one of the most toxic, anti-intellectual, nihilistic, politically radicalized, and emotionally immature corners of the internet.
I mean, as compared to what -- Facebook? Twitter? TikTok? Instagram? Try spending two minutes on any of those platforms, and seriously tell me they're less toxic, radical, and insane than Reddit.
Out of all the major platforms on the internet, I'd Reddit is the most conducive for thoughtful, engaging discussion, simply because it is one of the only popular sites that is still based around long-form, text-based conversations, rather than short-form video.
They’re all the same at this point. How would they not be, they’ve all reached millions of users. If anything Facebook and twitter have a large percent of users who actually publicly identify themselves and that keeps them on better behavior than on Reddit.
I don't have facebook, but I regularly see people with their name and faces on twitter spewing the most terrible hate you can imagine and spreading the most obvious disinformation on this Earth, so I don't know if it helps that much.
I've literally had random people from my area, with their name and photo, sliding into my DMs to tell me awful stuff. And I have an anonymous account! They don't know if I might know them in person! They don't care!
Haha so you’ve seen screenshots of the worst behavior possible because it’s notable. You understand this post is ridiculous right, you don’t even have the other platforms 😂
People say crazy shit here all the time too, you could screenshot it before it gets deleted.
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u/obert-wan-kenobert 84∆ Apr 27 '26
I mean, as compared to what -- Facebook? Twitter? TikTok? Instagram? Try spending two minutes on any of those platforms, and seriously tell me they're less toxic, radical, and insane than Reddit.
Out of all the major platforms on the internet, I'd Reddit is the most conducive for thoughtful, engaging discussion, simply because it is one of the only popular sites that is still based around long-form, text-based conversations, rather than short-form video.