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So for years I've avoided Reddit because I've heard how it's the Wankiest Place on Earth. I've recently gotten into it through a friend, and... it's not, really? There've been some people I felt were a little mean, but not any more so most places on the internet.

Did something change, or am I just missing the evil parts? OR am I a sweet summer child and in for a shock when I dig really deep?

Reddit is basically like...a tiny version of the internet. So, how bad it is depends on where you go.

There are def evil parts, but like with Tumblr you have to either go looking for them, or be pretty unlucky, to stumble across nasty stuff on the default subs.

It's not all bad either. Plenty of wholesome and positive subs. Depends on what you subscribe to, and that's up to you.

This.

I avoided it for a long time, too, but now I casually follow a few subs. I think there are just such a variety of communities you can follow that have their own culture. I haven't run across ones that came across as too toxic, that I didn't immediately unsubscribe from.

I think a lot of it is pretty male dominated so I've seen a lot of wank about the "myth of the gender wage gap" and there do seem to be groups of haters that come out whenever certain topics pop up that just flood the thread, but yeah. For the most part, what I follow is all fairly civil and pretty "liberal".

Not had much luck in the anime groups though. Definitely felt dominated by high school boys (or girls, depending on the anime), which is for the most part not the demographic I care to socialize much with. Ah well, that's the nature of it, I guess.

It's male dominated. A rec request for a slash fic on HPfanfiction got downvoted just the other day.

It depends on what subs you frequent, really. Avoid the obvious cesspools and you'll avoid the worst of it. But I'm not going to kid you, reddit skews make and asshole, so you should expect that to crop up in popular subs that appeal to both genders. Nasty comments do get smacked down but maybe not as hard as they should.

Me too! I find myself following a dozen or so subreddits, and with the exception of one smeg on the r/Stranger Things, the discussions have been fun.

Depends on where you go and how good moderation is.

I wouldn't go on r/incels or r/redpill and even r/movies has it's stupidity but it's okay provided you don't really interact with people.

Incels finally got banned recently actually

I don't care for it, so I don't use it a lot. I think it's probably not as bad as some people make it out to be. That said, the sense that I get is that it's basically founded on the relatively traditional, core, male-nerdy-internet style of interacting. Which isn't necessarily bad, but it's not something that I necessarily care for, and it seems pretty pervasive there.

Pretty much this. Unless a reddit is particularly created and modded for women and/or LGBT ppl, it’s very obviously (white) gamer dude-centric. I’ve seen some surprisingly good stuff about sexuality, gender, etc from users. Basically “you do you,” but more often than not it’s vastly outweighed by the shit you’d expect. Racism, sexism, ableism, classism. Oh god the ableism and classism is fucking annoying.

So in short, yeah it can be as fucking awful as some people say it can. It can also be great. It’s like anything other social media site (tumblr, twitter, Facebook...sorta), how good it is depends on where you go.

Except YouTube. YouTube is always a cesspool of shit.

It's like any other website tbh, it's got it's perfectly fine bits and it's bugfuck insane bits. I only ever frequent a few reddit pages and I've never seen anything that bad.

It just really depends on which subs you frequent. For me, reddit is the friendliest and most peaceful place to wander through.

There are wonderful corners of reddit, but it has corners of horrendous awfulness. And then there’s its dominant culture, which trends towards deep seated casual racism and misogyny.

Most of the subreddits I know of that are associated with wank involve either politics or public shaming.

Reddit is no worse than Tumblr or 4chan or SomethingAwful or Youtube or any other big website. The vast majority is regular people posting regular shit, with a few isolated pockets of really horrible or really great people.

Every website has it's own culture, and Reddit is very "straight white male nerd", but idk how that's worse than Tumblr's "pan-aro genderqueer transracial factkin morality police" culture. Or Facebook's "every horrible member of your family" culture. Or LJ's "Harry Potter RP mean girl clique" culture. Or any other place online. They all suck in their own ways.

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