My boomer parents are lead infested and can’t do mental math worth a damn.

And it is important to memorize facts instead of looking them up every time because “true facts” become interconnected. You can find any info you want, true or false, but only true facts are interconnected. I recently had someone pull the “democrats supported slavery and the KKK” fact, which is historically true, but ignores that the republicans switched to supporting the bigots when the democrats starting supporting civil rights.

You actually need to retain information and be able to process that information to inoculate against misinformation.

Boomers invented Participation Trophies and then blamed Millennials for receiving them. I was a Millennial that would rather have failed then get one and the school system hated me for that

Saudi Arabia or Sexual Assault?

25 years ago. Every study on social media and mental health back then showed it was bad.

It was sort of funny, but it only had one punchline and wore out quickly for me. Shock humor has a really low retention rate. Compare that to say, Rejected or the parody GI Joe PSAs, they’re really not great and a wonder why Youtube hired them to make their old copyright volition training videos.

It was run by genocidal fascists before. Just different ones.

now your opinions are based on that bad experience instead of reality.

The fuck does this mean? How is my experience not reality? What else are my opinions suppose to be based on, if not my experience?

Reddit was showing signs of introducing a more algo based experience, so I fucked off. They would hardly be the first website I left because of shit like that.

I used reddit long before the /r/thedonald showed up. Before /r/atheism became a default sub, which was terrible for the community of that sub. It became meme infested and caused /r/trueatheism to be made for sharing stories about religion intolerance from politicians, educators and employers. At a certain point, I started wholesale blocking any major sub and power user to reclaim some usability, but the API change signaled to me it wasn’t worth the effort anymore.

A lot of lemmy users are ex reddit users and have reason they switched. I switched because it started looking more and more like twitter.

Have you ever heard a twitter user talk about reddit? They all hate each other.

Looks like it’s in the middle of being repainted.