People there are so greedy, so eager to lick rich people’s balls, and so likely to throw insults and downvotes at you, if you give any hint that you support communism. It’s honestly such a disgusting place, full of slavers pretending to be smart, kind and moral.
It’s feels like there’s less and less people using reddit recently. Especially in the left-wing subreddits.
Then why complain here about it instead of… anything else?
reddit deserves slander
I use Reddit for pr0n like the founding fathers intended and I haven’t seen any weird shit lately, so I’m not disgusted yet 👍.
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Redditors have always been like that.
It’s the same story with every single social media platform. All of them optimized their content towards what gives the most engagement, which is politics. So every single app out there is doing political content now, and as we all know the average person is merely reacting to headlines without much deeper understanding of the issues at hand. It makes for a total mess and imo it’s very important to curate the content you’re seeing every day. I still use Reddit but I unsubscribed from the major toxic subs like /r/worldnews, /r/politics and /r/europe. I’m subscribed to explicitly left wing political subs but even then it can be a mess.
Nope, I left permanently the first time I opened the comments on a post about immigrants fleeing to Europe, and every single top comment (with hundreds of upvotes) was the most vile racist shit.
Reddit and Twitter have gone the way of 4chan. If you’re still there, you’re a part of what is wrong with modern online culture.
comments on a post about immigrants fleeing to Europe, and every single top comment (with hundreds of upvotes) was the most vile racist shit.
r/europe ?
back when I used Reddit, they were so rabidly anti-Romani that I was a bit taken aback.
If Europeans aren’t rabidly racist against Muslims then they return to their default state; rabid racism against Romani people.
If “lately” is last ~10 years.
I have no idea what reddit is like these days. I left when they shut down third party apps and honestly don’t miss it that much. Occasionally there’s some hobby related things I’ll find myself wandering in from a search to find resources but I leave the moment I find what I’m looking for. I don’t log in and I don’t stick around anymore.
ive always seen reddit as a cesspool: some good things can be found, but you have to dig through alot of shit to get there
Supposed reddit leftists are calling NK a “supervillain evil dictatorship” and literally explode in rage when I tell them that the US is basically that and North Korea does nothing wrong.
It probably depends a lot on what subs you visit.
In most subs I use I can now talk well of Korea and China or in favor of Russia and Iran and people will agree, specially if I call out double standards and things like that.
I am still reading Reddit for a couple niche topics that Lemmy doesn’t cover. (RVs and Sailing)
And I keep reading about how Reddit it’s going to shit with all AI bots everywhere, but in my small subreddits I read, everything was fine.
But now the bots have come for RVs and lately all the posts are like, “So, fellow humans, does anybody want to discuss the pros and cons of the new Model XYZ trailer?”
So now I have one topic left on Reddit….
brother, why are you still on le r*ddit when you have le mmygrad? why rummage through garbage when you can look into the fridge?
My headcanon is that it took a hard right turn after the API / mod protest debacle. Prior to that, it was still bad in various ways, but I think it was more mask on liberal. Though maybe it goes back further, to when they started doing the quarantining stuff. That might be a more notable turning point.
They blacklisted r/fullcommunism for getting John Brown on the front page.
They banned r/thedeprogram just for the reason of it being a communist sub some months ago. Reddit was already bad before that, but banning that sub cemented the fact that reddit is becoming a 100% anti-communist website.
I don’t know the history of it well, but didn’t similar happen with a sub called genzedong years back, which had something to do with people making lemmygrad? I want to say that was back in the quarantining of subs era, but I’m not sure of the dates.
Genzedong is another big communist sub purged by reddit. My guess is reddit will start to end when even “softer” leftist and anarchist subs start to get banned, such as r/latestagecapitalism and r/piracy. This coupled with overall enshitfication will lead to mass abandonment of the platform, which will allow for a place like lemmy to replace reddit in the consciousness of society. Things tend to get destroyed when capital and profit become the main justification for them to exist; but it may take some years for that destruction to happen.
Let us hope but also be aware that Lemmy.world is basically reddit and what many reddit users wander to when searching for an alternative.
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They do still exist (in their quarantined form) but barely get any traffic nowadays. Interestingly nothing of the like from Reddit for the subsequent genocide apologia from Zionists however.
People were really big mad about genzedong, I was in some discord and got a DM from discord about how participating in misinformation servers can get me a ban or something
Using “licking balls” as an insult is misogynist and/or homophobic, don’t do that.
Licking balls is fine. It’s doing it for rich people that makes it an insult.
Yes, we’re all proponents of mutually consensual ball lickage
honestly the only thing going for it is that u can still get banned from there quite easily (like i was). you SHOULD be able to get totally ip banned very easily from social media because it shows that the website is moderated and you can also be forced off and get a life. in 2023 i was banned from twitter and made a vow to avoid tiktok and instagram and it was the best time in my life in terms of screentime. now i would love to get banned from instagram but thats impossible. it’s a real addiction and i want off.
avoid tiktok
I tried it for the first time few weeks ago and I had to uninstall it the same day. The feeling of Fremdscham was simply to strong, hard to describe. Its nothing for me. Someone tries to do a sketch and simply fails then. Then some video of a grandmother, which made a screenshot of her profile, it was flying around and hearts and effects appeared. Followed by pregnant fruits. Maybe I am simply out of the loop. The worst part actually is the app performance, its bad. I could use it without problems, but it really needs more CPU cycles. The web version is truly awful, full of JS junk.
For me TikTok is good in small doses, it’s one of the better ways to get videos made by normal, regular people, and not professional content creators like on YouTube. But I keep mostly to the dog side of things
