My "Warm" Welcome to Reddit Where Decency is a Crime and AI-Phobia is a Religion

[skip.knox]

Just to drop something into the other side of the scale, I don't recall ever having a bad experience on reddit. Like others here, it is not a community for me, it's just an occasional resource, but no visit has ever been upsetting to me. The same, for that matter, goes for other social media platforms. One learns how to scan and sift, how to use the tools of the platform to filter what one can, and ultimately how to spot toxic characters and avoid engaging with them.

Doesn't mean I don't sigh sometimes, but it's only occasionally. For the most part, I'm able to separate the road from the car and the car from the driver.

 

[Meema]

Just to drop something into the other side of the scale, I don't recall ever having a bad experience on reddit. Like others here, it is not a community for me, it's just an occasional resource, but no visit has ever been upsetting to me. The same, for that matter, goes for other social media platforms. One learns how to scan and sift, how to use the tools of the platform to filter what one can, and ultimately how to spot toxic characters and avoid engaging with them.

Doesn't mean I don't sigh sometimes, but it's only occasionally. For the most part, I'm able to separate the road from the car and the car from the driver.

It would be lovely if everyone took that attitude. Unfortunately, on a great deal of social media, people tend to butt in where they're not invited and hurl their views at you as the only solution to every problem. I can't do it any longer.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

It would be lovely if everyone took that attitude. Unfortunately, on a great deal of social media, people tend to butt in where they're not invited and hurl their views at you as the only solution to every problem. I can't do it any longer.

Same honestly, I avoid 'twitter' like the plague, and I have a facebook but I barely use it at all.
Reddit I only lurk on game centric communities and those tend to be hit or miss. I axe the ones that are 'misses' and lurk in the ones that are decent.

 

[pmmg]

I think to truly get upset, you need to be participating, have your own comments there, and have them do it to you.

Its easy to read others being unkind to others, you have no skin in the game.

I dont know, generally, I enjoy the wild west and am glad it is there, but I find the site visually untidy, and I dont wish to give it the energy it would require to make it useful. So, if I am looking up a computer problem and end up on Reddit, sometimes it has an answer... Sometimes not and I have to keep looking.

I agree with Meema. I dont care for places like facebook. They are mostly toxic.