Reddit is exhausting. One big feedback loop. People will say anything to get good karma or avoid saying certain things to avoid being down voted. If there is even just a slight majority in the way the group thinks, it will soon become the dominate opinion.

For example, there was a voice actor that lied about being paid a pitiful sum of money for a gig. Everyone took her side initially (as one should _if_ it were true) but the people saying "well, this just seems odd" were being more or less attacked and told their opinions were awful.

The quality of discussions I have on HN and niche forums are 100x better than reddit.

TBF, the same can happen here to a lesser extent. False or misleading stories blow up quickly because “$BIGCORP bad”.

It's trained on Twitter data so I assume Reddit data as well.

Honestly feels like they're both pretty important datasets to ingest if trying to build a model on human speech, I reckon social medias, comment sections and co have the most natural human conversational text online.