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Research: The whole Reddit has become more negative over time. Also, the longer the community exists, the more negative it get — and the longer a comment thread continues, the more negative it becomes (news.harvard.edu)
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[-] beep@piefed.world 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Their study was based on analysis of 2.05 billion comments from 2,150 Reddit communities.

If they want to generalize their findings to all social media platforms, that's on them.

this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2026
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