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Originally Posted by calgarywinning
On this note; how does CP compare to a Reddit or local Facebook groups?
While choosing not to engage the above mentioned, this forum has been a wonderful place to meet people, hire people, sell things and tickets. It also has the ability to uplift or some really cool conversations you just can't get anywhere else. Such as the Parents with Alzheimers/Dementia.
Perhaps the focus of CP needs to be in attracting new users and old users that are new users?
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CP seems about the same as other websites, really. Local reddit pages like r/calgary often echo what's said on CP. IMO it's not a site-specific thing but just a certain type of person that is going to engage in longer form discussion like this rather than just something like twitter or Instagram. Most people seem to just be normal, everyday people that are rather centrist overall. Lean right on some things, left on others, and are just tired of day-to-day bs. Of course reddit also has aggressively right-leaning individuals that treat any centrist behavior as communism and cry about left leaning bias, but they're usually ignored. Long answer short, the behaviour here is largely about the same as elsewhere, at least on the sites I visit
Of course being reddit there are the people that cry about echo chambers and start their own pages... which just turn into
their type of echo chamber. People are neat
I will say though, r/alberta stands out as very left leaning. I once commented on how much work is spent on inspecting and maintaining old pipelines and basically, I was hitler