<human>: Can you summarize the given text in a few sentences?

When I joined reddit I was craving for some place where I could participate in insightful discussions where different points of view could be reviewed and commented. It didn't take long to have a feeling that either I followed the hivemind (by trolling or by following the opinion of the majority) or I would be downvoted into oblivion. Even though I love the site, most of the times now I'm thinking thrice before attempting to actually discuss something.

However, someone once told me that this usually happened in "mainstream" reddits, and that there was some smallers reddits where people was still able to discuss things without trolling or using the votes as a way to express agreement or not with the point of view of the author, but on the quality of the comment (like it should be). 

So, is this real? Are there reddits like these? Do you have some suggestions? Thank you very much!
<bot>: Love reddit, but would like to be able to write and read different points of view without being flamed by the hivemind, and thus am looking for smaller reddits.