Discussion Damn, back on Reddit

GodisanAtheist · Jun 6, 2024

Well, that was a nice run of no reddit after the app-ocalypse but after a little over a year after I quit I've started to find myself back on Reddit either for doom scrolling purposes or to actually engage with folks on more esoteric topics.

The app sucks and the webpage REALLY sucks, but its been hard going trying to find another web forum that's quite as robust as reddit is.

ATF is like a nice warm blanket, but its slow and its the same 15 octogenarians posting on everything around here, which is nice from a community perspective but crap from a "diversity of topics and viewpoints" perspective.

Other tech forums like TPU are too tech heavy and too lite on the actual community element.

And then it just seems to be a vast wasteland of BS comment sections that reward shitposting over anything else.

So, back to Reddit I go...

jpiniero · Jun 6, 2024

Never been a fan of Reddit's comment system... But old reddit is still there for viewing posts and all that.

lxskllr · Jun 6, 2024

Try redreader for android. It beat the blockade due to it's accessibility features. It's simple and sane. I don't patronize reddit aside from one tiny niche community I check every week or so for news. I overwrote my comments and nuked my account during the api debacle. I ran into one of my overwritten comments during a general web search. That amused me.

I spent most of my life without reddit, and I can spend the rest of my life without it. For general nonsense to scroll through, I look at lemmy. If there's something I really want to comment on, I can do it through mastodon, but I'm not usually inclined to comment. The reddit style voting system is shit, and fundamentally broken. It sucked in reddit, and it sucks in lemmy.

nakedfrog · Jun 6, 2024

I'll have you know I'm firmly middle-aged, fucko
Yeah, reddit is a bit shit, but it does have diversity of topics. I got an accordion, I could post about it here, but I think probably most of these octogenarians don't know any more about accordions than I did nine days ago. So yeah, I hang out there and here.

Red Squirrel · Jun 6, 2024

I've seen many complains about the new UI being terrible but I'm still on old.reddit.com and it seems to be fine. My only complaint is viewing images, if it brings you to the gallery thing it seems hard to go back to the post, it always hangs when you try to get out of that mode. You can't view an image directly in the browser, if you try it still brings you to the Reddit viewer. There is something about that which makes the browser slow to try to get out of it. I've gotten used to just hitting middle mouse button to open threads in a new tab.

GodisanAtheist · Jun 6, 2024

lxskllr said:
Try redreader for android. It beat the blockade due to it's accessibility features. It's simple and sane. I don't patronize reddit aside from one tiny niche community I check every week or so for news. I overwrote my comments and nuked my account during the api debacle. I ran into one of my overwritten comments during a general web search. That amused me.

I spent most of my life without reddit, and I can spend the rest of my life without it. For general nonsense to scroll through, I look at lemmy. If there's something I really want to comment on, I can do it through mastodon, but I'm not usually inclined to comment. The reddit style voting system is shit, and fundamentally broken. It sucked in reddit, and it sucks in lemmy.

- Indeed, I'm actually a little concerned with what am I missing in my real life that is driving me back to reddit and doom scrolling etc.

Generally when I fall into one of these ruts, I've come to learn that I'm trying to avoid something/ feel under socialized/ under accomplished/ am mildly depressed and my conscious mind simply hasn't caught up with it yet.

So time to look inward a little bit as well and see what's got me down.

Shmee · Jun 6, 2024

I don't go there much, I mostly stick around here or on discord.

DAPUNISHER · Jun 7, 2024

I ran the OP through my turn of the century ATOT translator -

"I'm an attention whore. Back to working a much busier corner"

👍

GodisanAtheist · Jun 7, 2024

DAPUNISHER said:
I ran the OP through my turn of the century ATOT translator -

"I'm an attention whore. Back to working a much busier corner"

👍

- Whatever, you're not my real dad, you can't tell me what to do

GodisanAtheist · Monday at 10:09 AM

Ok, well it took me less than a month to earn some dog crap 3 day ban for "promoting violence" somehow.

Reedits interface is so terrible I'm not even sure what message I posted, but I think it's the one where I said I wanted conservative women to suffer under their state's abortion bans because the only route to progressive liberal policies is through the pain of conservative ones.

Guess someone took issue with that...

nakedfrog · Monday at 11:51 AM

GodisanAtheist said:
Ok, well it took me less than a month to earn some dog crap 3 day ban for "promoting violence" somehow.

Reedits interface is so terrible I'm not even sure what message I posted, but I think it's the one where I said I wanted conservative women to suffer under their state's abortion bans because the only route to progressive liberal policies is through the pain of conservative ones.

Guess someone took issue with that...

Depends on the subreddit, but reddit mods are known for being notoriously terrible for a reason.

GodisanAtheist · Monday at 12:03 PM

nakedfrog said:
Depends on the subreddit, but reddit mods are known for being notoriously terrible for a reason.

-Yep, nothing makes me thankful for AT's nuanced moderation quite like Reddit's moderation.

I'm been permabanned from at least a dozen subs over the years and I'm starting to understand why there are like 12 copycat subs for each popular one...

The situation is in the dumpster post App-ocalypse as well, gotta imagine each mod there is watching over 100 completely unrelated communities at any given time and plenty of subs have strict metering of new content to allow mods time to review what's getting posted.

Site is a shadow of the shadow of its former self.

brianmanahan · Monday at 12:40 PM

GodisanAtheist said:
ATF is like a nice warm blanket, but its slow and its the same 15 octogenarians posting on everything around here

hey i'm only a half of an octogenarian!

MrSquished · Monday at 4:50 PM

GodisanAtheist said:
-Yep, nothing makes me thankful for AT's nuanced moderation quite like Reddit's moderation.

I'm been permabanned from at least a dozen subs over the years and I'm starting to understand why there are like 12 copycat subs for each popular one...

The situation is in the dumpster post App-ocalypse as well, gotta imagine each mod there is watching over 100 completely unrelated communities at any given time and plenty of subs have strict metering of new content to allow mods time to review what's getting posted.

Site is a shadow of the shadow of its former self.

Indeed. The moderation is so fucking suspect in a bunch of subreddits, and that's just a common story from lots of users.

But I do have some communities I enjoy. Everything from subs on video games I play, to local subs about stuff to do and eat, to various other hobbies I have. I follow literally zero political subs on reddit at all. Sure some topics bring up political topics, but I avoid any politically driven sub altogether.

sdifox · Monday at 6:01 PM

I don't know, Reddit seems safer than Home Depot parking lot.

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