I got perma’d for saying a straight-up sieg-heiling neo-Nazi harassing a Jewish couple in an American suburb should have his nose broken so he can worry about his own for a change.
At first I was kind of bewildered having had used it for nearly 10 years, but it was much better this way. I try to keep Aesop’s famous sour grapes fable in mind when I say things like this, but no: every time I end up on Reddit for some reason, I’m dumbfounded anyone could use it in its current condition. Even beyond the visual vomit that is the UI – before I left, mine was a very “Reddit circa 2015 frozen in time” experience thanks to RiF and RES – it feels like iFunny when I realized it was just backwash from other sites like Reddit and left it.
The content is so painfully insipid. It’s all something from fifteen million variations of “/r/damnthatsinteresting”, a repost bot, a dogshit tabloid discussing US politics, “ChatGPT writes a clear-cut ragebait story and users tell the OP if they’re justified”, screenshots from Twitter on their dozenth round of compression, or TikTok’s backwash in the form of v.reddit.
A lot of that stuff is here too, but at least it’s small enough here that real human interaction happens in the comments regardless, and it’s much worse there. I used to get on Reddit for an hour and feel honest-to-goodness enriched by the experience. I felt like I learned new things and saw new, cogent perspectives. I feel utterly hollow on the rare occasion I check Reddit these days, like I just got out of a soulless spin cycle designed to trap me by shutting off my brain.
This is kind of my feelings at this point. The vast majority of Reddit right now is careening towards Facebook levels of bot activity. Be it repost bots, Russian trolls, what have you…it’s just really hard to pick out what’s a real human at this point. Just so much repetitive shit. I will genuinely miss some of the special interest, more niche communities over there. The equivalents on Lemmy are still kind of ghost towns at the moment. But yeah, at first I was angry that I got permabanned (for telling a MAGA that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them). But the more I step back and assess the situation, I’m happy those dumbfucks did the job for me. Fuck Reddit. Which is sad, because it used to be pretty fucking amazing.
I got perma’d for saying a straight-up sieg-heiling neo-Nazi harassing a Jewish couple in an American suburb should have his nose broken so he can worry about his own for a change.
At first I was kind of bewildered having had used it for nearly 10 years, but it was much better this way. I try to keep Aesop’s famous sour grapes fable in mind when I say things like this, but no: every time I end up on Reddit for some reason, I’m dumbfounded anyone could use it in its current condition. Even beyond the visual vomit that is the UI – before I left, mine was a very “Reddit circa 2015 frozen in time” experience thanks to RiF and RES – it feels like iFunny when I realized it was just backwash from other sites like Reddit and left it.
The content is so painfully insipid. It’s all something from fifteen million variations of “/r/damnthatsinteresting”, a repost bot, a dogshit tabloid discussing US politics, “ChatGPT writes a clear-cut ragebait story and users tell the OP if they’re justified”, screenshots from Twitter on their dozenth round of compression, or TikTok’s backwash in the form of v.reddit.
A lot of that stuff is here too, but at least it’s small enough here that real human interaction happens in the comments regardless, and it’s much worse there. I used to get on Reddit for an hour and feel honest-to-goodness enriched by the experience. I felt like I learned new things and saw new, cogent perspectives. I feel utterly hollow on the rare occasion I check Reddit these days, like I just got out of a soulless spin cycle designed to trap me by shutting off my brain.
This is kind of my feelings at this point. The vast majority of Reddit right now is careening towards Facebook levels of bot activity. Be it repost bots, Russian trolls, what have you…it’s just really hard to pick out what’s a real human at this point. Just so much repetitive shit. I will genuinely miss some of the special interest, more niche communities over there. The equivalents on Lemmy are still kind of ghost towns at the moment. But yeah, at first I was angry that I got permabanned (for telling a MAGA that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them). But the more I step back and assess the situation, I’m happy those dumbfucks did the job for me. Fuck Reddit. Which is sad, because it used to be pretty fucking amazing.