What are the bad patterns of Reddit to never repeat on Lemmy?

sociablefish@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 424 points –

A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, "this" comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers

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Calling communities "master race" as in /r/pcmasterrace

Lol everyone should go read the couple of posts on the community / magazine with the same name. Hilarious seeing people so triggered by people pointing out that the name is a bit problematic.

IIRC, it started of as a joke and an explicit nazi reference to make fun of PC gaming fanboys, and then they just embraced it without understanding the context?

It was supposed to be a shitposting sub and in that context the stupid name makes sense, but it kinda morphed into a pc community that was meme-centric.

yeah I thought it was more of a behold the master race type sub

the origin is this exact video: https://youtu.be/P0dXtOVi2yo

There was a second factor in its creation that most people have forgotten, involving a power-tripping mod on /r/gaming. People were posting their gaming setups (both consoles and PCs) when one mod decided to ban all pictures of gaming PCs for a very stupid reason. So PCMR got a lot of initial subscribers from leaving the "dirty console peasants" behind, with that mod's stupidity held up as a representative of the console community. Hence the joke, especially the "superiority" jokes.

The sub was created specifically because of the joke. It's always been a joke. Who honestly believes that which system you choose to game on is a genetic or racial trait anyways? It's a ridiculously exaggerated take on the "console wars."

The usual cycle of edgy jokes. They start off as mocking a group of bad actors, then those same bad actors miss the joke and take on the term for themselves without irony.