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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Which is fine at least we arent following reddit which started out with racists, atheiests and child porn.

What are you on about? There's tons of atheists still on reddit now. They don't spread child porn.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think they might be talking about the “atheist culture” that used to exist on reddit back during the New Atheist Movement. This might seem unnecessary but maybe we should distinguish between atheism and Atheism, since that’s usually what people are objecting to.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even "new atheism" is really not fairly put alongside child porn or racism.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not the movement, the people on reddit. I think they were comparing their behavior.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That still seems outrageous to compare a smug new atheist to someone who posts child porn

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Ok so I don’t want to go to bat too much for an opinion I was mostly speculating on (since that person never clarified), but the atheist community on reddit was a lot worse than just smug pricks back then. Serious sexism, racism, defense of gay marriage but tons of homophobia, etc. This is what I assume the comment OP was talking about.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Reddit removed /r/atheists from :r/all years ago so it's not as visible now.

Arguably a big part of the enshittification imo.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, it used to be more visible. I know.