Honestly, I'm fine with that. I was in university back in the early 90's, and the majority of folks on Usenet were either in university, or worked for large businesses or the government. The level of discourse was surprisingly high, especially compared to the sewer that is the modern internet. I dumped reddit a couple of years ago when it closed off access to 3rd-party apps, and I'm happy to leave it for the karma farmers, bots, and AI slop. I much prefer Lemmy.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

I really miss usenet.

Used to hang out on the startrek NG's and had a blast. Met a ton of people and even on soc.men - which was a rock 'em, sock 'em kind of group (flame wars galore!) there were people that I came to admire and though we had differences of opinions, (and how!) we also found a lot that we agreed upon.

It all went away for me, when my ISP (comcast) dropped access because of the threat of prosecution for distributing child porn that then NY State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo promised, if they didn't.

Part of why I gravitated to Reddit was that when I signed up it was the cascading newsgroup comment style (old.reddit.com) that I could make sense of.

Now I'm here via old.lemmy.zip, and I haven't missed a beat.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't realize how angry the popular posts on Reddit made me feel. If the post isn't about some awful news going on in the world it's about someone's frustration or hot take and it makes you want to add your opinion on the matter or refute someone else's.

It's especially bad when you shit on someone's views and are "rewarded" for it by upvotes, it encourages you to be confrontational for the sake of being confrontational. I guess that's the same here, but maybe it doesn't seem as bad because we don't have as many users — for now.

Anyway. That's my opinion and I'm expecting you all to upvote me.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 3 points 23 hours ago

Well you get an upvote from me, not because you expect it but that you are quite correct in the rage-baiting that is consuming reddit ATM.