At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.
Everything at reddit devolved into pushing political ideals. That’s what happens when nobody can respect that others are allowed to have different opinions.
man why is kbin being swamped with nazis and “im a centrist but…” people all of a sudden, it’s getting really annoying
So ‘people who respect other people’s opinions’ are nazis?
EDIT: The amount of stuff you have to assume, lie about, and make-up is astounding. I pity you. You’re making up your own enemy and that’s very sad. I hope one day you can have a productive discussion without villifying anyone who dares simply say they have a different opinion than you.
It’s clear that you don’t even understand the ‘paradox of intolerance’ that you like to misquote.
Your “opinion” that certain people should be killed on sight does not have to be “respected” by anyone.
Certain people should not have to justify their existence to anyone, especially not in the form of “reasonable debate”.
Conservatism has repeatedly shown itself to be a belief set that brings only pain. People don’t have to listen to you screech about your bigotry if they don’t want to.
It’s a mind-shortcut taking piss out of the blatant centrist mindset of criticising the left and defending the right by saying shit like “you cannot censor people you disagree with!” while talking about people posting bonafide hate speech and mistaking it for freedom of speech.
Something something Popper’s Paradox and Nazi Bar analogy.
nobody can respect that others are allowed to have different opinions.
It’s the paradox of tolerance social contract. I will respect their right to an opinion as long as they uphold that contract. Unfortunately, many don’t.
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Stop misusing the ‘parodox of tolerance’ if you haven’t actually studied it. It doesn’t mean what 99% of people on reddit/lemmy think it means.
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I’ve seen more people shut down anyone who disagrees with them (both here and on rddit) than I have people ‘not uphold the social contract’. Yes, there are trolls, but there are way more people who say ‘shut up nazi!’ at the first sign of even a slightly different opinion.
r/oddlysatisfying. I remember when it was actually things that were satisfying. Animations were common, and they were really good. At the end, it was just another dump for stuff that barely fit the sub.
As a data junkie I loved r/dataisbeautiful at first, but it definitely became painful. It got to the point I couldn’t looks at the charts and graphs.
Controversial opinion maybe, but /r/AskReddit, when they introduced the rule that you couldn’t put a story in the question. I absolutely LOVED reading whatever wild story someone had that prompted the question, and then reading the thread only if the story was interesting. Then they didn’t want that to be the point of the sub and that ruined the magic for me. So I left.
/r/PointlessStories filled that niche though, and it never decreased in quality.
Is that what happened? I knew something had changed but I didn’t realize it I guess. It went from being a really fun sub to being so boring and the same shit every day.
Yep, I said I thought it might be a controversial opinion because several months after the change I posted something saying “I hate this new rule, what do you think?” (since the mods had said that they’d solicit feedback after a while with the new rule & I never saw an actual feedback-seeking post) and got super downvoted. So I thought I was in the minority on this one.
It wasn’t really one sub in particular for me, honestly. The one big thing was the ever-increasing repost comment bots: they started to show up here and there and by now they’re all over comment sections. I don’t get the point of why they were created in the first place, and to me it was very analogous to the overall decline in the site. More bots, less actual discussion.
Agreed on your point about it not just being one particular sub.
It seemed that the comment sections on most subs just devolved to lame jokes that got repeated, or spiraled into into arguments. There were obvious exceptions, but as a whole this was my experience.
This too, hugely. I went back to reddit today for a bit and the comments in askreddit were brief, some only one word as an initial reply to the post, or just jokes. I’m all for jokes but it really stood out how reddit has slowly evolved and I really was a boiled frog who didn’t notice til I came to Lemmy and it was actual(!) discussions(!) again.
The entire reason I started using RES was to filter out any comment that had the words “and my axe”, “this guy’s dead wife”, “fun at parties”, “poop knife”, etc.