I used to be a lot on r/travel. Back then there were posts with pictures that had upvote ls in the triple to quadruple digit range. There were also user questions, usually in the double digits.
Now the majority is just discussions that mysteriously have thousands of upvotes. And some of them quite boring. That must be bots or fakes directly by reddit. No way this happens naturally.
Is this common practice now or is that something r/travel did specifically?
I see. So far I’m really enjoying my migration to lemmy, I find it both easier to concede points in an argument and to receive actual answers and even have conversation instead of just endless squabbling over an apostrophe or autocorrect error.
The reddit gotcha culture was really wearing on me over there.