People there are so greedy, so eager to lick rich people’s balls, and so likely to throw insults and downvotes at you, if you give any hint that you support communism. It’s honestly such a disgusting place, full of slavers pretending to be smart, kind and moral.
Supposed reddit leftists are calling NK a “supervillain evil dictatorship” and literally explode in rage when I tell them that the US is basically that and North Korea does nothing wrong.
It probably depends a lot on what subs you visit.
In most subs I use I can now talk well of Korea and China or in favor of Russia and Iran and people will agree, specially if I call out double standards and things like that.
ive always seen reddit as a cesspool: some good things can be found, but you have to dig through alot of shit to get there
brother, why are you still on le r*ddit when you have le mmygrad? why rummage through garbage when you can look into the fridge?
I am still reading Reddit for a couple niche topics that Lemmy doesn’t cover. (RVs and Sailing)
And I keep reading about how Reddit it’s going to shit with all AI bots everywhere, but in my small subreddits I read, everything was fine.
But now the bots have come for RVs and lately all the posts are like, “So, fellow humans, does anybody want to discuss the pros and cons of the new Model XYZ trailer?”
So now I have one topic left on Reddit….
It’s feels like there’s less and less people using reddit recently. Especially in the left-wing subreddits.
I have no idea what reddit is like these days. I left when they shut down third party apps and honestly don’t miss it that much. Occasionally there’s some hobby related things I’ll find myself wandering in from a search to find resources but I leave the moment I find what I’m looking for. I don’t log in and I don’t stick around anymore.
Nope, I left permanently the first time I opened the comments on a post about immigrants fleeing to Europe, and every single top comment (with hundreds of upvotes) was the most vile racist shit.
Reddit and Twitter have gone the way of 4chan. If you’re still there, you’re a part of what is wrong with modern online culture.
comments on a post about immigrants fleeing to Europe, and every single top comment (with hundreds of upvotes) was the most vile racist shit.
r/europe ?
back when I used Reddit, they were so rabidly anti-Romani that I was a bit taken aback.
If Europeans aren’t rabidly racist against Muslims then they return to their default state; rabid racism against Romani people.
I have to add that it often disturbs me how absolutely angry people there are. People need to calm down. One person says something and the other goes into full rage mode.
“This bridge in Moscow looks cool” Reaction:“Putler, orc orc ZZ kill all blablabla”
Almost everything gets read as its said in bad faith. You like the famous stairs in Odessa? Be prepared to witness the appearance of ten larpers, which will escalate a topic about those stairs into “404-country” and similar stupidity.
This platforms dehumanise other humans so easily and its tolerated. As long as its not involve us humans, things can be however more friendly, subreddits like: geese, ducks, birdbutts, snails, frogs… you get it. But stay away from bridges in Moscow and stairs in Odessa.
that anger over anything russian is a young lib thing. i was hanging out with my grandma and her friends and one of them mentioned how she went on a trip to russia and nobody exploded (this was the generation traumatized by soviets supposedly)
Most of us left Reddit in disgust long ago and never returned.
Lemmy was created by communists seven years ago because of Reddit’s anticommunist moderation.
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/LemmyThere are two explicitly communist Lemmy instances: Lemmygrad and Hexbear. Lemmygrad is dedicated to Marxism-Leninism,[2] and Hexbear is dedicated to left unity.[3]
TF happened to hex?
After many struggle sessions it was decided Unity was a CIA psyop.
😂
I use Reddit for pr0n like the founding fathers intended and I haven’t seen any weird shit lately, so I’m not disgusted yet 👍.
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No, because I don’t visit anymore
Those who were good left after admins actively antagonized reddit’s power users. Only ones left are… not the best people
It’s the same story with every single social media platform. All of them optimized their content towards what gives the most engagement, which is politics. So every single app out there is doing political content now, and as we all know the average person is merely reacting to headlines without much deeper understanding of the issues at hand. It makes for a total mess and imo it’s very important to curate the content you’re seeing every day. I still use Reddit but I unsubscribed from the major toxic subs like /r/worldnews, /r/politics and /r/europe. I’m subscribed to explicitly left wing political subs but even then it can be a mess.
My headcanon is that it took a hard right turn after the API / mod protest debacle. Prior to that, it was still bad in various ways, but I think it was more mask on liberal. Though maybe it goes back further, to when they started doing the quarantining stuff. That might be a more notable turning point.
They blacklisted r/fullcommunism for getting John Brown on the front page.
They banned r/thedeprogram just for the reason of it being a communist sub some months ago. Reddit was already bad before that, but banning that sub cemented the fact that reddit is becoming a 100% anti-communist website.
I don’t know the history of it well, but didn’t similar happen with a sub called genzedong years back, which had something to do with people making lemmygrad? I want to say that was back in the quarantining of subs era, but I’m not sure of the dates.
I used to lurk r/genzedong back in the day. It got quarantined (but not full on banned) shortly after the start of the SMO for spreading “misinformation” (read: the truth). I think it still might exist, but I haven’t lurked reddit since then.
Lemmygrad existed before the genzedLong March, but the influx of users was pretty big relative to the instance’s size at the time. Gosh, the threadiverse was so much quieter back then.
They do still exist (in their quarantined form) but barely get any traffic nowadays. Interestingly nothing of the like from Reddit for the subsequent genocide apologia from Zionists however.
People were really big mad about genzedong, I was in some discord and got a DM from discord about how participating in misinformation servers can get me a ban or something
Genzedong is another big communist sub purged by reddit. My guess is reddit will start to end when even “softer” leftist and anarchist subs start to get banned, such as r/latestagecapitalism and r/piracy. This coupled with overall enshitfication will lead to mass abandonment of the platform, which will allow for a place like lemmy to replace reddit in the consciousness of society. Things tend to get destroyed when capital and profit become the main justification for them to exist; but it may take some years for that destruction to happen.
Let us hope but also be aware that Lemmy.world is basically reddit and what many reddit users wander to when searching for an alternative.
Getting temporarily banned from the whole site for advocating against occupied Palestine is what got me to delete the app.
