• TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I dont know how to break this to you but there has always been a LOT of incorrect bullshit on Reddit, and it’s always done just fine.

    If the Boston Bombing didn’t do the platform in, canning surely wont.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not about Reddit. The platform will continue. It’s about the communities with some built-in danger reducing the bar for safety, potentially leading to death.

      The internet is pretty callous, but someone dying over this would be bad, right? That’s still a living person who might not do enough research or follow the unsafe article and get hurt or die. Reddit as a platform aside, and even if you or someone else believes they should have been more careful, people dying in part because of this is the issue.