Discussion Damn, back on Reddit

[GodisanAtheist]

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]

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

 

[lxskllr]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[DAPUNISHER]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

-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]

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

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Aaaannnnddds I've been permanently banned from Reddit for "promoting violence" apparently (on the Star Trek sub of all places).

Ofc I cannot actually see the message I posted, and I don't remember what it was and so I cannot properly dispute the ban.

I have a couple alt accounts I can always use but I think it's the universe telling me to drop reddit for a while again. So that was an interesting couple months, but I'll be glad to be rid of it once again.

 

[lxskllr]

Was it Luigi related? There's a lot of powers at work that don't like Luigi.

https://imgur.com/Y515jwm

 

[nakedfrog]

Aaaannnnddds I've been permanently banned from Reddit for "promoting violence" apparently (on the Star Trek sub of all places).

Ofc I cannot actually see the message I posted, and I don't remember what it was and so I cannot properly dispute the ban.

I have a couple alt accounts I can always use but I think it's the universe telling me to drop reddit for a while again. So that was an interesting couple months, but I'll be glad to be rid of it once again.

A whole-ass Reddit ban, not just from one subreddit? Wow.

 

[KMFJD]

Aaaannnnddds I've been permanently banned from Reddit for "promoting violence" apparently (on the Star Trek sub of all places).

Ofc I cannot actually see the message I posted, and I don't remember what it was and so I cannot properly dispute the ban.

I have a couple alt accounts I can always use but I think it's the universe telling me to drop reddit for a while again. So that was an interesting couple months, but I'll be glad to be rid of it once again.

which is strange seeing as how /r/combatfootage was still around last i checked as well as the shit that gets posted on /r/worldnews

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Yeah Reddit has really made me appreciate ATF's mods so much more.

Entire system over there is Kafkaesque, don't know who accused you, for what (cause your message gets scrubbed) and the remediation process is a black hole.

I've been banned from various subs for literally quoting Thomas Jefferson "The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots". Promoting violence evidently, temp ban in that case...

Mods will look through post history and if you post in a sub they don't like, then ban. If you said something somewhere else they don't like, ban. sometimes posting in a sub will result in you getting auto banned from other subs (regardless of the content of your post).

It's actually wild how far Reddit has fallen from a modderation perspective since the IPO and the App-pocalyspe. It's just a complete shit show, and a lot of the content feels like it's posted by bots to drive "engagement", the algorithm keeps recommending shitty conservative subs (I dunno why Reddit wants me to engage with the shit castle that is r/Babylonbee so much).

Anyhow, it will be for the best. Reddit time is time I could have been using finishing up a couple models or spending time with kids or literally anything else that is more productive.

 

[Chaotic42]

I'm pretty new to Reddit, and while I like forums like these a lot better, Reddit is a lot nicer than Discord, IMO. I hate Discord, but everyone wants to use it, so I deal.

 

[Greenman]

A few times over the last decade I've been tempted to check out reddit, then I see stuff like this and think, maybe next year.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

And not a dang nabbed on of ya's over the the ATOt er thing.

 

[Torn Mind]

I've dipped my toes in many reddits. Also have over 2.8k karma.

 

[nakedfrog]

Looks like I have 95k comment karma. That and ten bucks will get me a sandwich, I think.