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The idea of reddit is amazing and we had a great fifteen years!

Sadly it’s now a swamp of censorship and intolerance to opposing viewpoints. Constant virtue signaling by attacking the other side. It wouldn’t be surprised if it was 95% bots right now.

(I was just told I’m not allowed to have opinions on any subjects I don’t have a PhD in.)

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Accusing "the other side" of virtue signaling is attacking the other side. You must know you're not the only person who actually believes in things.

I do see your point but I’d accuse any side of virtue signaling. Both sides do it for sure but it’s just been really in your face on reddit and reddit is pretty one sided at this point.

Yes, Reddit surely has the worst community of all the big websites, it is magnitudes worse than Facebook/Twitter etc.

The website seems to encourage extremes of people screaming at each other and having fringe views from which dissension is forbidden.

It's a hellhole. Some of the smaller specialist subreddits are high quality though.

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