• @[email protected]
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    1241 year ago

    reddit is transforming itself from a social media platform into a history lesson at this point. I’d say don’t feel guilty if you still browse reddit at all, but don’t be shocked when it’s gone either.

    the attitude and behavior of the company towards the community is what’s going to finish it off more than anything.

    there’s so other ways they could’ve monetized reddit without causing all this, but they seem hell bent on being obtuse. to that, i shrug and move on.

    • @[email protected]
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      691 year ago

      Honestly I’ve been addicted to reddit for several years, and it even had negative consequences for my life. When I was depressed I just used reddit all day and became obsessed with the subreddit moderated. I deleted that account and now I’m in a much better place but that constant urge to open reddit is still there.

      Before July 1 my reddit usage was around 2 hours every day, now it’s been 0 for 5 days.

      So I’d like to Thank Reddit admins for this.

      • @[email protected]
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        181 year ago

        I used reddit for 11 years, founded multiple subreddits, and was a head mod on even more. I had over 150,000 karma. I spent hours a day for over decade in that shithole. I recently walked away. My account still lives but it is no longer a mod of any sub and I have deleted every single comment I ever made. I struggle every day to stay off reddit.

      • Wrench Wizard
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        141 year ago

        Happy for you friend! I also went from a few hours a day to nothing. Wasn’t trying to improve myself, it was just out of sheer rage at how things were being done over there. Any time I would log in I would feel self hatred and just end up making lengthy comments about spez being an asshole.

        Question, have you tried replacing the hobby? I’ve found hiking and writing - (writing lyrics/other things as I hike/walk) to provide even more enjoyment than I was getting online 24/7

      • @astral_avocado
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        91 year ago

        I got banned for wrong-think (essentially talking back to a sub mod) and it greatly improved my mental health not being able to call out the absolutely driveling imbeciles that populate reddit. It just made me not care anymore.

        And yes reddit admins will ban you if you respond to sub mods to complain

        • Wrench Wizard
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          11 year ago

          They ban permanently for all kinds of bs. Felt like walking on eggshells at that place.

          Didn’t help that I wasn’t 100% “left” - ironically I did lean left but if you’re not 100% emphatically regurgitating all of the talking points they’re currently recycling they gang up on you, mass report, call for mods, twist words etc.

          Last month a mod flipped out and called me a Nazi bc I commented that it’s bogus that mods blanket ban everyone that stumbles on and comments any sub that they dissaprove of.

          Their logic was that if I comment on a conservative sub (Nazi?) Then that absolutely makes me a Nazi and there’s absolutely no grey area or context.

          That seems to be what most of the communities in some subs is like as well. If you’re not high fiving them, you’re shooting at them.

          I don’t like it… I miss the old days of the internet, sure we all argued and shit but everyone at least had their little factions. Now it feels like the left runs the entire internet because most sites don’t want Republicans there.

          I get why but it sucks feeling like I don’t belong on either side. I’m apolitical, which in itself has sparked a dozen redshit arguments and accusations. Can’t say “apolitical” you’re just secretly a centrist if you do. Can’t disagree with BOTH sides because neither can fathom that. Can’t sympathize with a single “red” point of view bc you’re a Nazi.

          Ugh.

          Cringetopia (the sub) branched off and made a website. Loved that place. Unfortunately the subs own userbase hates the chAnge and boycotted the site, also running smear campaigns and bs saying the site was only in it for the money via ad revenue even though the site owners had paid out of their own pockets for the servers and there wasn’t a single ad…

          Loved that site :(

          • @[email protected]
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            51 year ago

            Now it feels like the left runs the entire internet because most sites don’t want Republicans there.

            It is interesting that this is your experience, but I can say that this is objectively not true. Especially if you’re on social media and not logged in, the content has a far right bias, there’s often at least one recommended video which goes in that direction. About twitter was one study that twitter systematically preferred right-wing content… before Elon bought it. And I mean, everyone knows about Facebook.

            The fascist Bolsonaro (he literally said the dictatorship was Brazil’s best time and that its only mistake was to not torture enough; you gotta agree he’s a literal fascist) movement just won the presidential elections because of Facebook and social media. It is a massive system driving people especially to a far-right extreme.

            What I can say about “Can’t disagree with BOTH sides because neither can fathom that.” is well… I mean, yeah, if you disagree with both, both probably won’t like that haha. But there is one problem to disagree with both sides if one side of them is e.g. literally trying to eradicate trans people, trying to deny them their existence, discriminate, etc., and also literally trying to undermine democracy and overthrow elections and is actively restricting who is able to vote, and the other one… isn’t.
            I can understand if someone financially benefits from Republicans, or is business-friendly or such, but criticising both as in that both are the same amount of bad is just wrong and harmful, because we just got to the point where only one side got completely off all norms and in an antidemocratic and borderline genocidal.
            (And for the record: I’m not a US-American. I am certainly not a fan of the US Democratic party. And I do think that of course it’s good to criticise everyone who does bad stuff, and to point that out.)

            • Wrench Wizard
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              11 year ago

              I don’t support Republicans going against trans people or messing with abortion, to be honest I think they should keep their nose out of our personal choices and leave us be.

              But I don’t like the left either.

              It’s not “left vs. right” - that’s just how it’s framed to us. The U.S government is fucked up on all levels and both sides have done heinous things and kept us divided throughout history.

              I truly believe that’s all the two party system is, division. Ever listened to “Binaural beats”? Where they play for example a lower frequency in one ear, but a higher frequency in the other. I don’t remember the exact method so pardon if I’m Rusty but basically the end result is we hear and are tuned to the frequency in between the two, low and high, sounds.

              To me that’s what the two party system reminds me of. One party outrages and destroys certain liberties or whatever. The other party fights back and the result is whatever they want it to be.

              I just want to do away with all of it. Remove every part of the government that isn’t directly benefitting our quality of life and start over.

            • @astral_avocado
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              If you view reddit in incognito or on a VPN, the front page absolutely, 100 percent has the most hard far left slant possible. Half the front page posts are from whitepeopletwitter which has the collective personality of a meth-ed up AOC crossed with Stalin

              • @[email protected]
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                01 year ago

                Well, I was generally talking about social media, and for Youtube, Facebook, Twitter it was all the other side. To be fair, I do not know about Reddit (haven’t read any studies about it and are personally not enough in that sphere), so I could imagine it to be the outlier. Besides that, this comment does not respond to any of my arguments or talking points.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Not left? Banned. Not far left? Banned. Not authleft? Banned.

            I was banned from subreddits more often for opposing the open advocation of totalitarianism than anything else.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              I guess some of that has come over here based on your comment scores, but at least your comments aren’t being removed 🤷‍♀️ I haven’t been downvoting anything here based on disagreement cause a) I think discouraging people from sharing their opinions here will kill the site, even if you don’t like their opinions and b) I think it’s wrong anyway.

              • @[email protected]
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                21 year ago

                I hope the extreme polarization and just general toxicity doesn’t last here. I get that Reddit is perfectly designed to split people into tribes, and I hope that’s not true of this site as well.

                • @[email protected]
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                  21 year ago

                  I agree entirely. Just because I might not agree with someone on their politics doesn’t mean we can’t have a civil discussion, especially regarding apolitical topics

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        i liked reading discussions and learning things from lurking reddit but never felt compelled to participate in discussions. now that i got my lemmy account figured out my desire to be on there is even less.

        for some reason i actually want to be a part of the fediverse community. maybe it rekindles some of that old internet spirit for me.

        • @[email protected]
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          161 year ago

          the only thing I miss about reddit is how much more diversity it had. cause let’s face it, there just isn’t as much content here. it’s also how I stayed caught up on current events

          • @[email protected]
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            101 year ago

            reddit certainly had a plethora of communities. the fediverse can get there too.

            it’s going to be more hands on than reddit. we can’t wait for things to come to us like products on a conveyor belt. the content is in the discussions.

            as long as people continue to participate, it will grow. stay positive.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              that’s a good point. I’ll probably do my part and post a bunch just to fill stuff up a little more

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        I put a time management app on my phone for that. After 5 minutes, reddit was blocked for an hour. Max time on app, 30 minutes a day.

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      81 year ago

      It’s a shame because there’s so much good stuff on the site. (So much bad stuff, too, don’t get me wrong.) All that stuff is looking more and more likely to go up in smoke.