Lemmy has so few comments that I am now reading many more articles

owen@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 681 points –
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That, and when switching from reddit to Lemmy I realized how toxic the relationship there was, and I just use all social media way less now.

Reddit for sure is toxic. Generally, it’s much easier to be toxic in a large, anonymous group with an endless amount of subreddits to retreat to. Here, it’s maybe 10-20 people talking, so there’s not much room to hide, as it were. You keep running into the same faces, so it’s a bit more important to stay polite.

I would agree but then I see a lot of toxicity even in small Facebook groups where most people use their real names. It's just people I guess