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I did a year on Reddit after trying to quit 4chan and go be with the "normal people." It was miserable. No matter how nice, how polite, how respectful your opinions are, the nature of the voting system means people there have been literally trained to attack anyone with a dissenting opinion.
After a few months I got sick of it and just started attacking people the way they were attacking me. It made them SEETHE. They're so used to being the aggressor and making you defend yourself against strawmen that the inversion of that completely shatters their worldview. They don't know how to react. It's like they take it for granted that they're the "good guys" and you're the "bad guy" and that's just how the conversation's going to go. Refuse to accept your role of the bad guy and it's like they have no script to follow.
The biggest eye-opener for me was just watching how differently people treat each other there. I spent a year on that site and I never saw, let alone had, a genuine, heartfelt conversation between two people. Everything felt so artificial, so hollow. It was just rows of shitty puns and shallow anecdotes sandwiched between corporate advertisements. This place has a lot of dogshit, don't get me wrong, but I've had life-changing conversations with all sorts of people from around the world on here. There are no points. There are no cliques. There's no social credit feedback. It's just people in their rawest form.
I've come to the conclusion that it's not a meme. You are unironically here forever.