Reddit is a shithole

I hate this pov so much.

I think it perpetuates that things are better than they actually are and inhibits change and progress… we’re all different I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️

If you consider that we are currently destroying our eco system that we need to survive and have known for over 50 years that the co2 levels will cause major issues, but nobody really felt the need to act. And when the countries actually sat together and made the Kyoto contracts the USA steped in and fucks up the whole idea. Thanks Bush you little Oil-fucker!

Considering that you could say humanity is fucked and humans are at fault. And if you look at it the people voting are at fault too, falling for company and other proparganda and voting for a government that fucks them even harder.

I would say humanity as we know it won't exist anymore in 200 years. War, droughts, floods and shit will get us. Even if we would act now the whole planet would need to cooperate. No Chance!

It's ok to be a freak. It's not ok to be an asshole for the sake of being an asshole. We like the weirdos for the colourfulness they bring to our lives. No one likes an asshole.

Keep Lemmy weird. Don't be an asshole. Live by these rules and this place will always be great.

I can't imagine thinking redditors are cool. Not even redditors think redditors are cool.

I'm not going to support a scummy corporate company because Lemmy's users can sometimes be elitist.

They didn't care for many years when /jailbait or /creepshots (pictures taken of women without their consent) was still a thing. It brought them traffic along with all their other porn subs

They only cared when advertisers caught wind of them & considered dropping out

From Wikipedia:

Communities devoted to explicit material saw rising popularity, and r/jailbait, which featured provocative shots of underage teenagers, became the chosen "subreddit of the year" in the "Best of reddit" user poll in 2008, and at one point, making "jailbait" the second most common search term for the site.[3] Erik Martin, general manager of Reddit, defended the subreddit by saying that such controversial pages were a consequence of allowing free speech on the site.[117]

Yes it does

We prefer being called debian fundamentalists, but yes..

IBM

Edit: also, I use Arch.

As long as you're not posting toxic stuff, you should just ignore downvotes because many people use them as disagree button instead of replying why they disagree with your points.

Well, the good thing about Lemmy is your downvotes don't add up to some Karma like it did on Reddit. You're free to state your opinion in one post without having to carry it around everywhere.

If you were on a linux or heavily privacy focused community, that'll do it. I don;t mention that I use windows, I just say I'm looking into the swap to linux.

Reminds me of the time I got downvoted for saying that I'm not going to pre-emptively leave Chrome due to their plans to make adblock stop working until my adblock actually stops working.

You can tell you're perfectly in touch with the Lemmy use base by how your comment claiming they all are evil and hate you is upvoted a lot.

I posted a link in !technology@lemmy.ml about how mozilla had ruined firefox, damm got a hell lot of downvotes and a bunch of comments who hadn't even watched the video going 'hurr durr google baddd'

Firefox not having tab grouping native on mobile is the sole reason I won't switch from chrome, i run adGuard as a vpn anyway so nothing google is doing will affect me.

But also - 20 is rookie numbers, i think i broke -400 on one of my reddit comments years ago, I don't even remember what I said, I don't think it was even political as I lean pretty left.

go sudo pkill yourself

I use Arch btw.

Nothing ever happens, and everyone is a bot but you

Yet. Reddit has been around for over a decade and has millions of users and lemmy has like a half million users. Lemmy isn't better, there's just a lot less of it. Duh.

Your opinions on Italian food are probably wrong and I love drinking piss

"People I disagree with are probably conservative."

Sometimes it only takes one comment to know my life will be better never seeing another. Blocked

I'll take "examples of adult tantrums" for $100, Alex!

*...we still do Jeopardy jokes right...? *

One of those is just weird unsanitary behavior and the other is a kink to some.

Are you really going to conflate kink shaming and misbehavior shaming?

Sounding is just a kink. A really weird one, but a kink nonetheless. Think it's really just an alternative way to pleasure the prostate or something?

If yah want the actually fizzityucked urethral insertion subreddit you had to go to r/peehole. Which is the second subreddit to permanently traumatize me enough to stop using r/randnsfw.

People pissing in sinks believe it or not.

Which is pretty bitchin' really, it's like a poor man's urinal.

I assume the thinking is because it's toxic, nothing lives in it. It's an incorrect assumption, there are bacteria in it, but that's probably where the misconception comes from.

Stop trying to explain jokes Gary, just enjoy the fucking things and smile. If someone is done enough to believe anything from a random comment fuckem lettem nature themselves away.

I add to that with: When was the last time you and your social circle IRL let someone with contrasting ideas hang out with you? Echo chambers are inevitable every space humans congregate and share ideas.

You need an email now?

What argument? I said insults and comebacks. You've tried very hard to miss the point.

Siiiigh, would it help if I said penis? The last time this happened, it happened to be a woman.

And it's pretty obvious when someone starts shit with people on the Internet for no reason, then posts their uglies all over the net, that they've got a pretty juvenile issue with attention-seeking behaviour in general.

Reddit tended to be best where it had stolen better communities from the old web.

For example, r/Excel was always a stunningly chill place to get help with MS Excel. But notice that the community was/is tightly focused on a subject, that subject would have objectively correct answers to any questions about it, and the mods could politely but firmly discourage any spicier conversations as off-topic. You can keep that sort of place decent almost indefinitely.

Such communities would have been their own little message board before Reddit came along and hoovered them all up.

Likewise with all the other subreddits that were famously full of answers, ones you never had heard of. Just the other day I googled a question about some random piece of cable I had in my hand and guess who had answered it 4 years ago? Yeah. Those little communities tend to be really solid. They never get that big, either. You can't just fuck around in them, you have to stay on topic and the average user hates that.

But Reddit turns into a wretched, life-draining parasitic monster in any form where the public feels like they have the right to run their mouths and chatter. So, most of Reddit, really. Anywhere that gives the average schmuck a place to vent will degenerate, rapidly, usually toward an abusive groupthink. It's just populism, then, and a textbook answer to why that's bad.

It's the bane of all social media. I don't think people are generally that shitty. I've decided that social media, including Reddit, just empowers small, loud minorities of miserable, exhausting people who have nigh-fascist opinions on every single thing, and as soon as the normal-ass people see that they've joined the chat, the normal-ass people all vanish, overnight, leaving behind only shitbags who love attention, or believe they have a right to it, at everyone else's expense. There's no getting rid of them when they show up, you can only get rid of you. I hope you weren't having a nice time, because it's over now, time to move on.

Reddit always had its great little subreddits full of truly precious answers as a counterweight to all that. It would appear that they were the only thing of value that Reddit ever had, too.

Lemmy doesn't really have that. It looks like the most obnoxious parts of Reddit came here, so, you know, every computer problem is solved by installing Linux, and other mouthfuls of that flavor. Then somebody opened the floodgates and now you're arguing with Commies about every political thing. Meanwhile, no great little subLemmies full of answers for your obscure questions exist to make up for it.

Like you said, it was super chill for a month, but then, yeah. It's kinda same shit different day. It's reminding me that I've decided to view social media as a vice, almost exactly like smoking, and changing cigarette brands does not solve the problem.