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ParanoidObsessive posted...

This is more or less what I always say to people who complain that Reddit is terrible.

Oh, I still dislike the site for being a horrible format. Its fundamental design means that threads don't flow like public discussions where people add to the conversation of posts that have come before. They instead end up fragmented into a bunch of sub-discussions (which themselves get fragmented into a bunch of sub-discussions) such that it's largely impossible to follow any single conversational flow. It's like being at a party and bouncing between groups that are talking about different things, except those different things are all actually pretty similar and belong to a single overarching topic but nobody can seem to get together and have the discussions as a larger group so everyone hears everything.

But all the "eww it's an echo chamber" critiques are indeed more a matter of trying to jump into the larger circle jerks. You can find perfectly civil, helpful discussion if you stick to smaller communities that you select on that basis.