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What have you tried? There are communities of all types on here. If you say something, there are definitely people who will agree and others who will disagree. Most will express it quite badly and few will give a thoughtful response. Reddit, I find, was much worse at nuance.

/r/askmen for example was open to anybody asking questions while /r/askwomen was heavily heavily moderated and didn't allow diverging views. /r/science turned into a place for science memes. /r/politics was just a battleground for left and right wingers calling each other names, and places about men's health were consistently attacked by other subs. Reddit seemed like twitter's second coming - with communities.

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Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

/r/askwomen was heavily heavily moderated and didn’t allow diverging views.

Oh my god yeah, that one was a bit ridiculous. I have a vague recollection of trying to help someone in a thread with like a domestic abuse situation or something and the mods quashed my comments because they had an opinion and I’m not a woman (mind you nothing I said was remotely sexist and it was a comment thread on an existing comment).

/r/signal was also a bit ridiculous. Rather than having a discussion on the merits of Telegram’s design vs Signal’s design for the average person, I got temp banned for “intentionally trying to compromise people’s security” or something like that.

Reddit seemed like twitter’s second coming - with communities

I will say Reddit never topped some Twitter Trumpies calling me a caribou diaper baby … that was particularly deranged and such a strange insult lol

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- gimpchrist@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Rofl 🐮
  
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- atro_city@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  caribou diaper baby ... that was particularly deranged and such a strange insult lol
  
  That made me laugh. It's more hilarious than an insult. Maybe they are comedians in their free time?
  
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  - Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No idea, I think they were just that strange… Their entire reply was majorly conspiratorial to the point of complete derangement then it went into this deranged ad hominem “caribou diaper baby” and I think some more stuff I don’t remember.
    
    I think they were probably a Twitter troll … honestly I left that conversation a few IQ points lower, I try not to think about it 😂
    
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WldFyre@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Lol are you complaining about men’s rights subs??

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- gimpchrist@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I mean, my eyeballs read ‘Men’s Health’…
  
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  - atro_city@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Prime example of such behavior.
    
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