Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever

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masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Way more arguments on Lemmy seem to end with the two users stop down voting each other, and then basically concluding ‘that I see your point but still think you’re wrong because youre over emphasizing x or y’.

Way more arguments on Reddit just end with an endless loop of insulting and talking past each other.

I think the effect is probably like 30% selection bias of people coming to Lemmy more intentionally, and 70% lack of bots. Between paid influence campaigns, and Reddit’s own use of bots to juice engagement, my gut feel is that most of those endless arguments are either directly arguments with bots, or indirectly people who have grown so frustrated arguing with bots in other threads that they’re no longer capable of rational discussion.

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