Yesterday it kinda hit me that the feed left a lot more “reddit-y” suddenly. More american politics for one.

There is a also aspecific thing that alerted me: Sudden appearance of this pattern plagueing reddit where a post about some bad muslim person escalates into edgy atheism which is also kinda racist and lowkey fascist in a very specific way.

I don’t have a lot of empiric evidence, just the vibe seems to have shifted.

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Also the comments are all same because no one actually engages with the article and just post a reactionary comment to the headline.

    I think this has even gotten worse over the last year. It’s amazing how often I see people arguing with each other over what they interpreted through the headline. Neither realizing that not only does the article completely explain whatever they’re arguing about, but they miss key details about the topic because they wouldn’t make the effort to read.

    I dont know if its because the articles are so low quality there is nothing to engage with, no one cares enough to read the article or everyone is so ideologically aligned the response is the same.

    Lots of garbage blog spam here. Often not factual. And then yeah, everyone circle jerks under it as if anything productive is happening.

    I wish we had better sources, more people willing to read and not immediately become adversarial with replies. Same problems we had with Reddit.