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You know lemmy is better than Reddit when a post about Greta isn’t filled with people that feel personally attacked by a girl that is just trying to make the world a better place.
That always pissed me off so much.
Yeah, there was a time when non-violent protesters against societal ills were considered brave heroes. What happened?
The polar opposite isn't necessarily better
He's not talking in general terms, he's talking about the Gretta hate train on Reddit, and I for one agree with him.
Even at work grown ass men getting all fucking butt hurt over her fighting to make the world a better place. Disagree with her all you want, even disagree with her methods, but this fucking persecution complex because someone young (and let's be honest, female) dares to try to make a change is just so pathetic.
Fully agreed. It’s very telling. They get REALLY pissed and defensive.
What hate train? Reddit has millions of users, even if thousands say bad things about her doesn't necessarily mean that theres a hate train coming for her, it's still a small percentage of people who have their own opinion, regardless if you or me agree with them.
Just look at any thread with Greta in the title, all the top comments will be grown men whining about her, her methods, how she's not making any difference, making fun of the way she talks or her appearance.
I don't know how anyone can care so much about someone doing something they care about, but Redditors, uniquely, manage to get incredibly worked up.
I think it might depend how soon you look at the thread, and how you sort. I often find on Reddit people moaning about the deplorable mass replies to this or that, but by the time I get there, nine times out of ten the top comments are civil.
Ed: to be fair, though, I assume lots of awful nonsense on the internet so I tend to click past... So I suppose the civil comments have a survivorship bias in my memory.
Also, why are you complaining about people complaining? Should everyone, including yourself, just shut it when it comes to expressing an opinion that might be seen as complaining by others? Or opinions that might offend others? The hipocrisy is huge...
I love a good whinge, everyone does, but a reddit whinge in 2023 leans heavily towards right-wing, pro-capitalist, thinly-veiled anti-women rhetoric. I'm not seeing posts here get bombarded with the same comments over and over.
People are usually way faster to give their opinion when it comes to complaining. It's normal, deal with it or don't.
And yet you don't see it here on Lemmy. The point is the difference in culture between the 2 websites.
What's the difference in user numbers? Do you follow every thread on Lemmy?I remember seeing negative comments about Greta in Lemmy communities as well, but you don't see me saying Lemmy sucks or is worse then A or B because of that.
Funny how your and most people minds imagine arguments to justify their opinions.. have a great day.
I've probably read all the threads on the front page of Lemmy about this Greta story, and used to be a heavy reddit user so regularly read threads about her there. The difference in contributed content is night and day. The odd negative comment here would be the main discourse on reddit. I'm not sure why you're so insistent that there isn't a difference. It's ok for the two sites to be different.
You're trying real hard to cover up the fact that you're one of the people being called out.
Lol.
It usually is.