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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
I remember one guy felt irked by their obtrusive racism, and created "tolerant Europe" sub which slide into the same thing in like a week then died because it was redundant lol.
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
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.
"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.
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.
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
I think @Awoo@hexbear.net did some digging and they realized the subredditstats site got messed up by the API thing. It's not a 75% drop but probably like a smaller percentage. Similar Web which checks web traffic doesn't see that much of a drop for reddit. I think it might have dropped 1-2 places max.
We checked against some other stats and while it was less disastrous we're still seeing a 30% drop and right now there is a very obvious declining trend downwards occurring across communities, which isn't good.
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 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.
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’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.
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.