[15457345234]

> * Blind is a toxic hellscape and redditors are broadly pretty dim.

Reddit is, at this point, a literal mirror held up to reality.

Everything you read there isn't happening.

Maybe people want it to happen and think if they spam it enough times people will believe it is happening and report that it is happening, but it isn't.

If you read something on reddit, believe the opposite.

[hifromLA]

I don’t disagree with this, but when did this happen? About a decade ago I remember Reddit being pretty decent. Did Reddit change or did I change?

[blharr]

It's progressively gotten worse, but the point for me was when they removed access for third party apps. Many people who contributed meaningfully left in protest.

[cutthegrass2]

and they're licensing it for LLM training purposes. It'll only make the LLM output even less trustworthy.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/02/reddit-has-already-booked...

[15457345234]

The comments were delusionally disparate from reality for a long time before that.

Reddit always leant left, but pre... idk, 2014 you could imagine the conversations you read on there occurring with someone you might conceivably meet in real life, even if they would be a bit of an outlier.

After that, no chance - everyone on there had the personality of a delusionally dug-in activist, the type of person you'd instinctively flee from if you met on the street. And the level of bullying you'd encounter if you went against 'the narrative' went up by a huge factor, as in, instant bans in just about every subreddit, 'if you're not on this side of the issue you're supporting genocide, this is a fact not an opinion' type of interactions. Then reddit updated their blocking system so that blocking someone cut _them_ off from contributing further, which basically made every user a mini-moderator, which was (and is) of course massively abused.

The place is long overdue to go under; offlining it would remove about 50% of the overall negativity from the internet, and considering it's such a small space compared with FB/Twitter that's really saying something.

[jf22]

> everyone on there had the personality of a delusionally dug-in activist

I question the credibility of people that use broad hyperbolic generalizations like this.

[15457345234]

I am definitely incredible.

[enterprise_cog]

Ah yes, the leftists who posted in fatpeoplehate, jailbait, theDonald, and all the gamergate subs.

[jasonjmcghee]

Ha. A decade and a half ago I remember the community similar to today. Some people are helpful, some people aren't. Some people are decent and some people aren't. And those two groups often don't overlap.

The platform itself is a much worse experience though.

[tensility]

Everything on the internet has been seriously enshittified over the prior decade. It isn't just you nor just Reddit.

[dsattt]

It’s the same here as well. Everything you read about tech is wishful thinking.

[15457345234]

There's a lot of very weird optimism here for technologies that are VISIBLY making the world worse or aren't appropriate for the use case.

So many comments praising Discord in the 'why you shouldn't use Discord for FOSS' thread, all of which were basically 'yeah you should use it; it's cool and has a great UI' and zero substantial discussion of how it meets the needs of a support platform (because it doesn't, the searchability and retrievability is terrible.)