SaidIt should be seen as an intellectual platform, not as a social media site.

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[–]Papitas 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It can't be helped, honestly.

I come from "the wild west era" of the internet and, even though everyone of us were mostly anonymous, assholes were very few and far between (at least, compared to today). Nowadays everyone is well known in real life, but most people act, to put it flatly, like children throwing temper tantrums.

Everyone is addicted to rage nowadays and everyone loves to be offended and feeling like a victim.

I don't personally think there's a massive infiltration from Reddit, but I think this is the actual sorry state of mind of modern humankind.

[–]Chipit 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It was the barriers to entry.

You needed to know something to get on the internet back then. This kept the people with personal problems out, mostly, and they couldn't treat the internet as an outlet for their frustration and as a therapy session. But then AOL got connected...and it was all downhill from there. Today you could be arguing with an 11 year old or a genuinely mentally ill person instead of a rational adult and there's no way to tell.

[–]Aureus[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Very accurate take.