I have a conspiracy theory about Reddit and social media in general:

I think its algorithm not only puts up links but users and their comments in their view that are more likely to piss you off, and they measure this based on observing your post and comment history. I believe they categorize users by political affiliation and moral outlook by this method, and use that info to purposefully expose you to people who will cause you conflict to drive up engagement and therefore ad dollars.

I believe they also use chat bots to argue with people for that purpose.

Well Karma ain’t a thing here so there’s not that much reason for bots to exist. Where on Reddit people make certain karma bots to sell. So here! Have a updoot. 👍

Haha prove it, bitch! I'm upvoting the hell out of you...

I feel some redditors have the downvote button as the sole mean of power in their lives. There are some who massively downvote to the point it's concerning

Think again fuckface.

-throws the ball and runs away to cloud district-

I just upvote to make the posts go away. I unchecked "show read posts" and upvoting keeps my feed fresh.

Oh how I wonder how the comments will be with this streisand effect

Im too new to tell if Lemmy is more left or right leaning or somewhere in the middle. But Reddit is extreme left wing, you can’t even make a (bad) joke without getting banned.

There's a lot less of us, we can't lose anyone.

You have a lovely bum

It's just social credit. Why care?