• tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    Kids are Reddit. If they sense weakness; the others will pile on.

    One shining star will talk about the injustice of it all in the aftermath, and everyone will privately forgive themselves and conveniently forget until the next time it happens.

    The solution is to be arrogant. Insist your position in their society and force your presence. If you show you have self worth, others will be forced to grudgingly acknowledge it

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      Kids are Reddit. If they sense weakness; the others will pile on.

      I’m all for a little reddit-bashing but fucking lmao. Did they bully you on askreddit or something?

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      Kids are Reddit. If they sense weakness; the others will pile on.

      The same happens here. Just try to say anything remotely positive about Twitter/X, Elon Musk, or conservatives in general. I don’t even like any of those, but sometimes I call out hypocrisy and get absolutely dumped on (even got a couple death threats). The problem isn’t with Reddit, it’s with social media in general, it really brings the worst kinds of people together.

      People suck. Try to be just a little better than the person next to you and we’ll all hopefully get through this.

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        You’re right. I’d argue that lemmy has the advantage of not being so popular, and that the mindset is by default more counter-culture than status-quo (otherwise we’d still be on the major sites), so I do think that the people here tend to pile on less… though I do admit that there are plenty of pylons here