Randomly made a little post on Reddit that cloned one I made on lemmy, and it really showed the difference in user. I brought a screen protector and mentioned it didn’t have glue and got a comment from each platform regarding the same issue that really made me realise the difference in communities and how tired I’ve become of the whole “well ackually” mentality of Reddit.
Lemmy comment, just asking a question and provides a solution trying to help: “Is it perhaps static cling, or do you have to apply with a water/soap solution?”
Reddit comment just randomly guessing and making out I’m a moron who doesn’t know how screen protectors work despite me saying in the description I’d done so, got 14 upvotes on a 20 upvoted post, so this is basically the vibe of that sub I guess.
"I’m inclined to believe that you didn’t peel the right side. "
This is my rant for the evening, think I’ll go back to not bothering with Reddit any more, maybe I am stupid :D.
It happens here too, because it’s not a Reddit problem. It’s a human problem. Any group of humans is bound to have the one that thinks they’re the smartest/prettiest/whatever-est. And small communities amplify those voices.
I’d argue that the structure of reddit is almost perfect for that kind of nonsense.
You have a huge pool of users from a wide variety of backgrounds, but split into different communities that are simultaneously tightly knit and very open. It’s the perfect storm for the ackshuallys to get in contact with normal people, and thus feel absolutely superior.
Lemmy has the same structure, but simply not that many users.
I remember plenty of pre-Reddit forums also being exactly the same way.
If anything, the big difference was that whoever was in charge tended to end up just banning whoever disagreed with them. So most people either learned not to contradict “what was known”, or got kicked out. (In fairness, Reddit also had that problem, but subjectively not as often.)
Came here to say this. I’m guilty sometimes too even without realizing it 🥲
Live and learn
What seems second nature to us may be so confusing to someone else
I consider my self a very nice and patient person but one time I was playing a game with a buddy (and kinda was having a bad day) and he asked me a basic question about the game that to me after hundreds of hours of playing is “so obvious” I kinda snapped at him for not knowing. I apologized once I realized what I said
Anyways pointless story aside is we all make mistakes we just gotta correct them and learn :)
Redditors typically are the smartest person in the room, until their mom enters her basement.
You leave your mother alone! She is a saint
This is absolutely not unique to reddit
This happens on every single online community, not just Reddit, fyi.
This same issue is actually mirrored on Stack overflow and is the result of the archaic upvote system which rewards whatever gets the most attention, and not whatever is actually useful or relevant.
Lemmy is less because it’s smaller and also doesn’t shadow mask content based on the vote meter, but it still sometimes happens.
There was a thread on the linux community here once where OP asked how to install a very specific piece of terminal software that he liked. There was at least 100+ replies which ranged from people telling him to use arch + aur, use a better terminal, use a better package manager, use yet another distro, or subthreads of people fighting over terminals and distros.
The correct answer was to just git clone + make because it was a small program, and if he wanted to, he could upload to to COPR if he wanted to have a package available.
All the way at the bottom
because I made that comment lol
Some nice people left Reddit to come here, so maybe there’s that
Reddit was literally built on a backbone of “Um actually…” people.
There is something I don’t understand with people who rant about Reddit: if you hate it so much, why do you stay there?
I had a Reddit account myself. I wasted it and moved on. I certainly don’t torture myself with it anymore: the communities here on Lemmy are smaller but they’re a lot nicer to be a part of, so it’s a no-brainer.
Yeah I’m with you usually my way of doing things I stupidly thought it might have charged in the year I ignored it.I thought I’d give it another go been on there since 2007 and it’s just not the same or I’m not either way it’s a net negative time to go.
Genuinely interested: was it static cling?
Not sure it’s specifically Redditors, more the kind of person who is also on Reddit?
You know how when you rub a balloon on some fabric and hold it near long hair, the hair rises and sticks to the balloon?
That’s static cling.
A lot (most? All?) screen protectors don’t use an adhesive. They are designed to tightly conform to the glass of the screen meaning tiny amounts of static will keep it securely stuck on there.
That’s why they (and the screen) have to be so clean to apply and stick well.Thanks. I didn’t know that’s how most screen protectors work.
Some subs on Reddit are unpredictable. You may get totally different responses and it sometimes seem to depend what the first responses are. a couple of times I’ve made a post and the first answer is some sort of scolding “well you should’ve known better!”, And then everyone votes that up and the next five replies are the same… So I just deleted it, and reposted at a different time of day two days later, and the replies are helpful, sympathetic and supportive.
There’s a crowd mentality on Reddit it completely depends on if your first vote is an up or downvote. After you get a downvote I don’t think anyone even reads your point they just add their own.
I think this is true because I’ve deleted my comments posted the exact thing again and this time it gets positive karma.
Right. I think people just see the downvote and pile on. It’s easier than actually reading the post and figuring out the person’s demeanor and whether it’s sarcastic and so on. There are a few other dynamics about that. Some people look for people whose posts are downvoted so they can chide them, scold them, insult or argue with them. I have had comments that are originally misinterpreted or targeted for ideology that end up turning around, though. Sounding rational or clarifying in replies sometimes works, as long as the comment wasn’t too far down before other people actually read it. If you get a defensive or insulting attitude, though, there’s nothing people on reddit like downvoting more than that.
I usually chalked it up to immaturity, an inferiority complex, and/or anger at the world. All toxic and useless.
I so wish I lived in a world where I was the dumbest and poorest man.
Granted.
Nothing changed
A lot of users on Reddit have an intellectual security. They know that they actually know nothing about anything but treat their opinions as if they’re factual and insightful takes on issues and situations they likely never have experience or knowledge in. So they apply that, while looking at Google on the side or thumbing up other threads with similar situations to gather a response.
There’s nothing to be afraid of with saying ‘I don’t know’ but that doesn’t exist in their vocabulary, so rather than saying that, they demonstrate how little they actually know. And when confronted and contested by people who do know, that insecurity comes out and they flip into being a pretentious shit mongerer who’s got to now antagonize everyone around them in any way, because their insecurity is beaming for everyone to see.
They can’t handle anyone who’s more educated than they are. I guess they got to put that GED into use somehow.
This is CLASSIC reddit. They have to be the smartest, they downvote everything that’s goes against their bullshit hivemind, they suck.
“well ackually”
One wonders how you’d prefer the sentence start where you’re offered a correction by someone thinking of your success.
I suspect you’ve heard it a bunch, and if that trend continues then you’ll want to advertise a better way for people to help you so they don’t inadvertently offend you … while they help you.
And it’s cool; I get you. I too hate it when people volunteer their finite time in a sisyphean effort to fix one error at a time. I realize it’s ultimately selfish, in that they’re just trying to make the world better for themselves, but it’s the blow to my ego that really gets me. How dare they offer some different viewpoint and bring the receipts to attack my world-view?
