vinnymac
Y’all, I’ve been on Reddit for 14 years. It has been lowest common denominator garbage aside from the niche communities for over 4 years now. If it wasn’t for RES, RiF, and Apollo I would’ve stopped using it years ago.
The average redditor has been lowering the quality of posts and comments for quite some time. Around a year ago, I noticed people I personally know, using Reddit, whom I assumed never would do so. These individuals spent most of their time on apps such as Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and TikTok. I believe this is Reddits intention, and they want to stabilize to compete with some of the larger social media communities, rather than remain as they were.
I’m glad to see it rot over time, and will recommend no one uses it going forward.
This is common enough for me, that I feel the english language needs a good new word to describe it.
I asked ChatGPT what word it would use to describe this experience, and here is what it came up with.
Certainly! I propose the word “lexidaze” (pronounced lex-ih-daze) to describe the feeling you’ve described. Here’s the definition and usage example:
Word: Lexidaze
Part of Speech: Verb
Definition: The act of reading a book while being completely absorbed in the words, but failing to comprehend or process their meaning, resulting in a disorienting feeling of confusion about the plot. Example: As I delved deeper into the novel, I became so engrossed in the sentences that I started to lexidaze, losing track of the storyline and finding myself perplexed by the events unfolding before me.
I hope this newly created word captures the essence of the experience you were looking to describe! Let me know if there’s anything else I can assist you with.
Long term I could see this become more like multireddits. We could tag a group of communities, and then filter by tag.
For example, you could have a garden tag that covers communities for composting, zeroscaping, mycology, trees, vegetables, CSAs, farming, recipes etc.
Rather than being on a niche discussion thread online, it would be great if classrooms across the globe taught this tip as a practical skill to have instead. I bet it would go a long way if everyone had the chance to use a fire extinguisher in action before a fire broke out.
I’d be down to test out the app.
What do you think is the most valuable coin that could possibly be in there?
Also what is the least valuable thing that makes a coin-like sound?
I am experiencing this as well. I had to sign in to another account, and then switch accounts back to @world to get Mlem to pull down posts again. Definitely something funky going on with the API in this build 🤔