• minorsecond
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    1 year ago

    I was on the fence about it until the Spez AMA. Then, I decided I’d be leaving on the 30th.

    Then, I had a user call me “fucking stupid” for supporting a sub shutting down, and that was the final straw for me. I had seen how friendly people on Lemmy are and this showed me how toxic Reddit is by comparison. So I immediately nuked all my comments & posts and deleted my account. This was around two weeks ago and I’ve been much happier here.

    • whitewalker_646@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      In that AMA I discovered a subreddit literally named friends of spez they were going around that ama and raining people with legitimate criticisms with downvotes although most of the other redditors tipped the scales fairly quickly they were also throwing reports on these users as well and of course they weren’t banned because they’re friends with spez

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      1 year ago

      The number of people that were throwing a fit because they couldn’t go for a few days without reading a subreddit that they don’t submit content to was pathetic