Since the API thing it’s all bots and angry people.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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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 have a 15 yo account. It followed the typical ark: a lot of fun, all the people come out to game the system for personal gain, people leave because it now sucks. Reddit was indeed a great place until 2010 or so.
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Definitely wasn’t always that way but the number of angry people increased over the years and they don’t seem to have moved on yet.
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.
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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.
They're all addicted to porn too.
They tend to accuse feeeemales of "attention whoring" if they dare to exist on a picture of something but also expect sexual stimulation from the same feeeemale. 
"Already checked guys, no gw posts!" On anything where the poster indicates they might have breasts
"Thank you for checking for gw posts, good gentlesir. FOR SCIENCE!" 
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?
Yeah my background is not boring. I'm very lucky that my dad was terrible with money or we would have had a whole lot of it.
r/europe hitlers off pretty fucking openly and reaches main on the reg, together with r/2westerneurope4u, which, despite the tough guy name, who scream and whine over a good and proper jdpon meme
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.
Me waking up and having to decide if I am gonna rant about ameriKKKan or €Uropean evil today
Say what you will about it, but I miss r/2balkan4you
ironic racism was too much for me, I'll be real
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.
Oh, I get you now
r/european is the hitler one isn't it?
idk about european, but r/europe is extremely aggressive against refugees and eats up the right wing propaganda about sea rescue orgs being human traffickers
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.
They get their personality cues from, like, fucking The Office and it shows.
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
196 is a hive of scum and villainy my god. unironic joe biden praise like, weekly from the vaunted 'leftists and anarchists' of 
"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.
Reddit is only good for one thing for me anymore, sports discussion. Anything else it's like you said, just painfully liberal and painfully lame
And even then they have awful takes. when I’m looking up how to do some random shit on the computer somehow China and Russia bashing breaks out. Libs stfu challenge
There's like 5 subs I check on every now and then and none of them are mainstream. Reddit had been an astroturfed liberal hellscape for a while but I'm just completely done with it now. I think a lot of the big corporate sponsored social media is on life support, Reddit and twitter are destroying themselves, nobody cares about facebook/meta and everyone else has either moved on to smaller independent platforms or group chat. I hope this trend continues because relying on techbros and megacorps for a public forum of communication could never end well.
I only use it for specific game subreddits anymore, but even that's slowly being supplanted by discord servers
I do find myself missing /r/TGCJ and /r/gamingcirclejerk but I don't really feel like remaking my account.
TGCG is so fun but probably not a net gain for anyone's health. As long as it's not 4tran I guess.
It's definitely not for everyone at the very least.
For me personally it was a way to vent any bad vibes into the relative void and it ended up being one of the only communities where I could be unapologetically trans until I came here.
I deleted my account and feel so much better. I still browse to keep up with news or interests that don’t have communities on here, but there is so much less psychic damage when I’m not engaging.
I only visit there for sumo news. I've been off that site for about 6 months and I have no intention of ever going back for any reason. This is coming from a girl that deleted a 12 year old account and was fairly addicted to it.
Sometimes im on reddit and i forget that im not on hexbear and im like boy the threads sure are sarcastic today
Sometimes im on reddit and i forget that im not on hexbear and im like boy the threads sure are sarcastic today
It's almost as if Redditors can't help using the same exhausting smug sarcastic templates over and over again. 
Every sub has lost major traffic. Here are three random examples
https://subredditstats.com/r/whatisthisthing
https://subredditstats.com/r/visiblemending
https://subredditstats.com/r/skincareaddiction
whoever is left is... a robot, oblivious, addicted, posting into the void... or what
I’m back to posting on reddit again and I’m not holding anything back but I haven’t been banned yet for some reason. One of my comments linking to the wikipedia page for the Maoist uprising against landlords was removed from a thread complaining about landlords, that’s the worst that’s happened.
Honestly I've gotten really desensitized/tolerant of most of Reddit's bullshit so I still browse and find enough stuff I enjoy that its not too much psychic damage. But I totally get how its too much for most leftists.
I think reddit is some sort of louche extraction machine by the archons while we're stuck in samsara. Reddit is only suffering these days. I used to use an app that could filter out by sub, so I would never run across the emotionally draining posts (about 95% of them) and then all apps were banned, and it's worse for my mental health than going at it without a condom.
I only go on it for news/shit talking on the NWSL Thorns and the MLS Timbers. Every now and again I auto pilot looking at the main page and it’s just awful, all the subs that I used to enjoy have turned into husks of their former self’s.
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