IMHO, it was an elevator ride that killed r/atheism…
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DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 months agor/Atheism held the line for decades, and y’all cyberbullied them for it.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
raynethackery@lemmy.world 2 months ago
OOTL. Can you explain further?
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Rebecca Watson had some guy proposition in her in an elevator at a conference, felt uncomfortable and talked about it during the conference. This blew up the internet atheist/skeptic community around 2011 or so, led to a big split. “Elevatorgate”
JonVoightKampff@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I always thought it was the “faces of atheism” thread.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That was a killing blow + “the professional quote maker.”
But it was a good place for some decent discussion back in the day. I learned enough biology from arguing with creationists there + youtube to test out of college biology….
dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
/r/atheism often got cyberbullied for being a bunch of insufferable jerks.
I don’t believe in god but you would never find me any closer to hanging out in /r/atheism than any other actually religious subreddit.