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.
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
