10mo ago

god i hate reddit

make post in local
community looking to form a TTRPG group from burner account
include [LGBTQ+ friendly] in title
thirty downvotes, account locked from making new posts

mfw

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lgbtqia stuff isn't important right now. We need to focus on beating trump. Maybe you can have rights later
- this was in KKKlanada
  
  if your city subreddit is anything like mine then it is absolutely rammed with the most self righteous pearl clutching liberal reactionaries from the suburbs that you can find, something about local subreddits seems to attract these people like ants to sugar
  
  No time for TTRPGs in KKKlanada, were you not briefed on your Stormfront role? You need to post about why the entire world depends on Americans and this election is the most important election in history and they need to vote really hard in order to save the world from evil cheto Volodomort.
  
  sounds like some MAGA talk to me, kiddo. If Canada isn't voting for Biden, they are the enemy, and therefore support trump

Did reddit get a lot worse over the last 5ish years or did we just get cooler?
- Both I think. All the big websites have gotten worse.
  
  I recently looked at Quora for the first time longer than 30 seconds, and jesus christ that place is basically a faux-academic Fox News comments section
- reddit was never cool, but it has gotten worse because all the cool people are gradually leaving the site. like if you're still a redditor in 2024 what are you doing lmao
- Oh, it got noticeably worse, particularly within the last year or two. All valid complaints aside, I used to be able to block and curate my pages so I didn't have to worry about classic reddit-moments, but a lot of the good groups went private alongside the site really doubling down on its obvious fasc-posting pages and accounts. This caused a self-perpetuating issue of the well meaning groups and people and reddit continuing to jettison.
- I think over the last 6-7 years they've implemented more and more shadow-deletion automoderation bullshit. Like they're using a lobotomized version of chatgpt to tell if you sound too angry (too many fuck words? comment won't show up) or "advocate violence" (say something like "the working class had to fight to the death for their rights"? comment won't show up) and it's pretty fucked because you don't even know your comment has been filtered unless you try to view it while logged out and see that it doesn't show up

I love the paradigm shift that Hexbear gave me when it came to Reddit. At first, I was addicted to it, even though I knew it was bad, and I couldn't quit no matter how much I wanted to. It was to a point that I couldn't imagine my life without Reddit.
Once I discovered Hexbear and saw how it's comparatively much cooler, has far fewer losers, chuds, and bigots, and just has a better culture overall, not only did I stop using Reddit entirely, but I pretty much stopped even thinking about using it.
I no longer have thoughts in my mind like "Should I go back to that site one of these days?" It's just flat-out "Nope, fuck that hellhole of an internet cesspool," and I feel super content in it.
- I had a similar story but I only stopped browsing reddit in June last year. Critical support to them for banning third-party apps because it ended up breaking my addiction.

that's what you get for trying to turn DND woke I hope you learned your lesson

more and more people are saying it

Local :reddit-logo: is even worse than regular :reddit-logo:

If you went to a city subreddit all of those are brimming with fascists

The only thing I miss about Reddit is there was a dedicated lib-ass book subreddit which I terrorised frequently by posting barely-on-topic screeds about novels I like. For everything else, bear website. Hell, I've had luck talkin books here too, ngl.

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