I deleted Reddit from my home screen when the mods did the fake strike and I’ve mostly kept off of it since then, but in the past few weeks I’ve opened it out of boredom and holy God is it just a truly awful place. My only explanation is that it’s a window into the psyche of the American middle class email job worker and they’re so fucking brain rotten that it hurts to even look at.
I thought I was misremembering or that was just a good meme, but that site really does represent the absolute worst of American liberalism. I don’t even have anything specific to say, I just need to scrape out the festering mass that a 15 minute scroll session there created in my brain.
Since the API thing it’s all bots and angry people.
its soooo angry in there. I use it to keep up with manga and game communities mostly, dont feel like having 8 discord instances just to know when a new chapter drops and the difference in tone on reddit versus something like tik tok is nuts, the redditors are constantly in a near catatonic rage state. It feels like a recent development too, I dont remember it always being like this.
It’s always been a rage bait generator. I’m sure it’s gotten worse, but people interact with reddit most when angerry enough to make comments. Always has been.
I really do think that made a difference. Don’t get me wrong, it was always shitty, but I think the people who stuck around and keep commenting are mostly the ones so addicted to arguing online they downloaded the official reddit app to keep going, while the slightly less brain broken people just said fuck it.
I gave it a chance because lemmy wasn’t quite ready yet. It’s better here now and I’m slowly spending more time here than there.
I’ve always preferred smaller online communities. I think you’re right though, there’s a sweet spot.
I went back a couple times because no instance has really got a large MMA community at this point and reddit had an active sub on r/mma.
I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been away for a while, but it did seem like there was a lot of anger.
Yeah I pretty much only use reddit for sports stuff and I’ve noticed there being a lot more aggressive weird shit on there lately. People are talking about sports like it’s politics. Maybe they always have and I’m just noticing it now though.
That part about who reddit represents is so true. I feel so alienated from those people unless it’s a niche hobby topic. They overwhelming represent a cross-section of white middle class office workers who were all told they were gifted as kids. They’re so smug and smarmy. They’re all addicted to porn too.
The part that’s even more alienating about it for me is that I’m from the same stock as them. I was the smart kid in all the gifted classes, I never wanted for anything, my parents were a Republican booster dad and a Ralph Nader volunteer mom who my dad would pay to not vote every election. I came from exactly where they all do so the fact that they choose to see the world through the obviously and brutally false lense of meritocracy just kills me.
I have poor and working class friends in real life and their politically incoherent views don’t bother me because I can understand why they’re losing the thread. On the other hand, I make a point of really digging into the comfortable liberals I know because they have no excuse for not seeing the world for what it really is. With the personal social aspect removed in a place like Reddit, those comfortable liberals are way too dug in to get them to engage in an ounce of self reflection and they can brush you off as an agent of misinformatzyion if you press them.
I really fucking hate it there.
my parents were a Republican booster dad and a Ralph Nader volunteer mom who my dad would pay to not vote every election
Hold up, what’s this now?
r/europe has to be one of the most bigoted subs I’ve seen, the comments are disgusting, but it’s ok you see, because it’s dignified cultured european racism.
Yeah, I come from the area and it was a breath of fresh air seeing people mocking the everday situation here, where there is just a shitton of xenophobia baked into the culture. Or at least that’s how I saw that subreddit. It made it easier to cope with dealing with the everday casual xenophobia.
But yeah I understand that it’s a lot at the same time and that it isn’t for everyone. Honestly it’s probably for the best that it went down do people that didn’t go on there for the irony, but took it seriously don’t have a large platform like r/2balkan4you for their antics.
I found a new, fairly specific sub that seemed pretty harmless yesterday, and being bored out of my mind at my job I decided to look thru some of the top all time
I think the fifth or so post had a top comment of a mod asking people to not be racist and someone following that with a wikipedia entry about how all Chinese eat dogs and have a holiday for it and just so much unbridled racism sooooo…no, not just a meme
like, the last subreddits i was active in were a few niche band subreddits and 196 just as it was starting to get worse and worse bcs like, as shit as the western chauvinism in there is, it was at least, idk, a space where i could be openly queer and shit, even though it was like stuffed to the gills with chasers (at least they weren’t open transphobes / queerphobes ig) and i was kind of just a pick me femboy egg gradually coming to terms with non gender comformity.
but yeah, eventually i got banned for telling someone to minecraft themselves for doing like an “upvote to scare the tankies” thing over an image of Syngman Rhee, either that or for saying basically the same to someone saying that the US should go back into afghanistan, i cant remember which one the ban was for, and then i decided to like, just delete my account
“upvote to scare the tankies” thing over an image of Syngman Rhee
I thought it was like, decently common consensus that Rhee was a brutal dictator, I’ve certainly seen liberal Youtubers say as much (in a “he was just as bad as Kim” way but still), but I guess nothing is too far for Vaushite radlibs if it pisses off the tankie boogeyman.
