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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[-] realitista@lemmus.org 9 points 16 hours ago

I feel that most conversations I have here are someone genuinely trying to make a point and have a discussion whereas on Reddit it's mostly people just trying to take a shit on any comment that's made.

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