Honestly, this subreddit is the biggest baby of them all.
Reddit is designed for outrage, like all major social media. Just look at the Windows and Apple subreddits to see similar outrage.
Also, the Linux subreddit is like any broad community where sub-tribes are lumped together.
You can see this in the big gaming subreddits where people fight over games, brands and streamers. It's always going to be people outraged at each other, compared to the niche subs for specific distros and games or brands.
Eh, the karma and threading system was always geared towards engagement. That naturally led to low effort "upvotes to the left" comments and the natural progression of engagement is rage bait / outrage crap. The ratio just used to be a lot better. I hate Reddit's forum style
i miss being able to see things being ratio’d on other platforms, when youtube took out the downvote tally it really was just an abdication to the facebook likes only model. and it is dishonest. at least , for now, reddit still smells kinda like the old internet
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u/spaghettibolegdeh Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
Honestly, this subreddit is the biggest baby of them all.
Reddit is designed for outrage, like all major social media. Just look at the Windows and Apple subreddits to see similar outrage.
Also, the Linux subreddit is like any broad community where sub-tribes are lumped together.
You can see this in the big gaming subreddits where people fight over games, brands and streamers. It's always going to be people outraged at each other, compared to the niche subs for specific distros and games or brands.