I have to admit I'm not entirely clear on what you're saying. (?) I agree it may well be time to stop trying to argue on reddit but only because they're making it so that our arguments cannot be seen by more than two people before they're deleted and we're banned. Horrible people are going to be spreading horrible takes, like you said, and if we can circumvent that in any meaningful way, it would be a good thing for us to do so (for those of us that are inclined, and who won't suffer much from the ways in which that may be detrimental to mental health). Doomscrolling is, for better or worse, very addictive, you're totally right. But when I doomscroll here on Hexbear, I get a much more accurate idea of what doom is ahead of me and what remaining avenues might be left, however unlikely, to avert it. The goal is to get those few people with a lobe or two of brain left uninfected with brainworms to see this, and join up with us instead of just eating the neolib lie-slop that would be the only thing they're otherwise being fed.

As for petty hostility, yeah... that never helps anyone ever. I think I need to read the rest of the thread more closely, I just kind of skimmed it, but so far as I can tell, you and I are in agreement.