In my early years of reddit, it always seemed like a place where people really knew what they were talking about. It was exciting!
That is… until I started posting about things that I really knew about and I quickly realized that most redditors had no clue and were talking out their asses, however convincing it actually sounded.
Yup. And the crowd latches onto whatever narrative they like more. Doesn’t matter if it’s wrong.
Are we still pretending that isn’t happening on Lemmy? I’m cool with that, just DM me when we can exhale and be real about it.
Oh, it definitely happens here and everywhere else on the Internet. It seems to be just part of the human condition.
But since this post is bagging on reddit, and I’m still mad at the company’s recent decisions, I figured I’d not rock the boat and just bag on reddit too lol
I will henceforth always be down to join in bagging on reddit. It’s just becoming aggressively shit these days. That IPO and the censorship it demands will end up being one of the worst things to ever happen to the site (it already has been, just in preparation for a sterile place for advertisers)—the others:
- NEW reddit (old.reddit so much fucking better it’s ridiculous)
- The changes to the website under Ellen Pao (who was hired for the sole purpose of being scapegoated for the backlash to said changes)
- Ignoring the clear will & interests of their users, e.g. removing the visibility of downvotes
- The recent API fiasco
- The lack of any real/effectual commitment to curtail karma farming bots and shills.
- The powertripping mouthbreathing neckbeard population called “moderators”
Idk i’ve definitely seen less groupthink in the voting on here than on reddit in recent years…
On reddit I cant even remember the number of times I’d seen practically the same exact comment/sentiment in the same context be wildly upvoted in one thread and obliterated with downvotes in another one. People’s votes on there are like 80% decided by the balance of votes already on the comment.
Early on when it was a smaller user population of decidedly more geeky people, you could trust the so-called Reddit Experts more often than not. Just like any community, once it reaches the mainstream it begins to lose its identity/charm/uniqueness and then at some arbitrary number of people it all goes to shit. You could see this with individual subreddits again and again, and then eventually with the whole site.
I was always happy to chime in with my expertise and help myself and others learn, but I just got banned for calling clarence thomas a “cunt” because it’s sexist hate speech, so along with the massive influx of new users with no concept of (or vested interest in) reddit’s identity, they’re also banning ~13 year users like me for no-no words. The shittiness is compounding.
Sorry this just turned into a reddit hate rant. I’m still bitter about what a shit website it’s become, I used to love it. I looked at a thread the other day and like 30% of the comments had been “removed by moderator” on a post that had no conceivable incitement to TOS-breaking comments.
Umm… username checks out? Lol
(It feels weird saying that here on lemmy)
Well actually it’s not limited to reddit-- its an ever-present phenomenon on any discussion-based platform.
…fuck.
Good thing we’re not on one of those!
Right, fuck those guys we are way better.
Those guys: Right, fuck those guys we are way better.
And twitter. And mastodon. And lemmy ffs, we’re not immune. (I’m doing it right now, in fact.)
I think Reddit is especially guilty though, not sure why. Maybe because there’s so many chodes.
Actually…
The only winning move is to not play
Reddit like is the Library of Babel except a fat middle aged man in his mom’s basement went though it all and removed anything that isn’t complete junk then called himself a hero.
Not the hero we need, but the hero we deserve
… removed anything he does not understand.
Correction is always needed 💢
“Haha, Reddit bad. Give Internet points now.”
What internet points there’s no karma here
