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NotYourLawyer·

The best outcome for humanity at large would be if it never came back.

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Reddit is one of the few places where I have actually been able to help people. Twitter is like shouting into a void.

Yeah, I’m maybe exaggerating slightly. Reddit is tolerable if you unsubscribe from the default subs.

Still, on the whole… probably net negative.

Yeah I dont understand why people are glad its down. I have an account specifically curated to my interests, where I unsubscribed from all the default subs and only subscribed to things I'm interested in. Theres a lot of great niche communities out there for my hobbies that I've found on reddit.

You think you're helping them but the people you're arguing with believe they're helping you.

I have a genetic condition that the medical establishment is particularly bad at treating. I've had tons of productive arguments on reddit about it.

If you're just arguing who's who in the Karpman Drama Triangle, those arguments are never productive, even outside reddit. Those are more about status than facts.

And Facebook is like the void shouting back at you.

I mean, yeah, if you get off the default subs, but at some point the dross makes its way into the rest of the steel, and you can only do so much filtering and babysitting.

It's all subjective though and very much dependent on one's approach.

Reddit is a huge store of human knowledge, larger than Wikipedia, and, unlike Wikipedia, an interactive one. This where I go if I have trouble operating my new kettle, or to find key combos for the new game I just bought.

these mega-websites that are designed to host every community simultaneously and manage all their flamewars has been an entertaining but terrible experiment.

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