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As a long, long time user of Reddit, it has been quite saddening to see its descent into the shallow, ultra-toxic husk of a corporate entity that it is today.
by to_bpr 8y ago
As a long, long time user of Reddit, it has been quite saddening to see its descent into the shallow, ultra-toxic husk of a corporate entity that it is today.
I'm not surprised by its popularity; it's a headline-surfers paradise, one in which you get feel good points for displays of virtue or shitposting easily digested content in an era of unparalleled narcissism and shortened attention spans.
All is not lost though; as the steaming pile of defecation of the internet it serves effectively in attracting and distracting basically those who would otherwise pollute the greater internet community with their presence.
So congrats, Reddit, I guess.
- hoffbrau99 8y agoI'd like a reddit-like site that is more exclusive, it filters out the non-serious users with a yearly subscription fee of say $100.
- tmpz22 8y agoSubscription filters might also filter out un-employed content producers who have free time to produce the quality content in the first place.
- curiousgal 8y agoMetafilter started with premise but it grew into something so obnoxious imo.
- heckanoobs 8y agoI've made reddit more enjoyable in the past by using plugins that auto collapse comments past depth 1 or 2. On avg, conversation devolves past that point. I've since quit Reddit but comments here have convinced me to take a second look. I think this time around I will put even more filters in place, like no subreddits with over 10k subs, and some way to hide everyone's karma count including my own. I guess what I'm trying to say is maybe you and I don't need a pay wall to filter, we just need an opinionated browser plugin (or easy way to share settings in RES)
- empath75 8y agohttps://tildes.net/ https://tildes.net/
- thanatropism 8y agoThat's invite-only. Got any?
- rsync 8y ago"I'd like a reddit-like site that is more exclusive, it filters out the non-serious users with a yearly subscription fee of say $100." This exists: https://www.metafilter.com/ https://www.metafilter.com/ The fee is $5 which turns out to be an insurmountable barrier for just about everyone. I personally like the site very much.
- GSimon 8y agoThis is cool, I may join! Thanks
- ajryan 8y agoMetafilter has just about the highest groupthink quotient of any site I know of. Every single post ends up being about social justice, even when it isn't.
- rsync 8y agoAgreed. I know that going in, though, and I still enjoy a lot of it.
- thanatropism 8y agoAbout two years ago I tried membership in The WELL, the semi-mythical web community that used to be featured in the printed booklets that came with 28.8kbps dial-up modems. The retro interface was nice but the populace was incredibly homogeneous and everything was saturated with San Francisco liberal politics. I concluded that the insurmountable joining fees led the website to be frozen with a small self-referential community.
- tianheyang 8y agoI made an ad-free reddit alternative that has the option of super-liking a post to send $5 (minus paypal fees) to the author: https://www.vlnc.co/ https://www.vlnc.co/
- dageshi 8y agoI am also a long time reddit user, 10 or so years at this point. It's not obvious to me that reddit is particularly different than it was in the past. There's just more of it now.
- liotier 8y agoIt depends: each subreddit is its own little world
- akie 8y agoAs another long time (10 year) reddit user: agreed.
- draw_down 8y agoYes, that's my feeling as well.
- fudged71 8y agoIf you browse /r/all/top?t=day it is VERY different from a few years ago I remember the first slide to anarchy was vague titles. "This." or "Good boy" etc would never be upvoted. Instead you would have long descriptive titles that summarized the link. Images became far more common to share, with imgur and then reddit providing hosting. Subreddit politics got crazy between moderators of large subreddits and between admins and users when very questionable subreddits started popularizing. US politics happened. Conspiracies and fake news and then The_Donald somehow taking over half of the entire front page. I still love using reddit for the smaller communities, but to say it hasn't changed is so false. You can rewind and check out archives of the site from 10 years ago and you'll see.
- Macha 8y agoReally? f7u12 was really big early on, as was wtf, politics, atheism (back when the sub was way more crapping on religion) and videos: https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.gawkerassets.com%2Fimg%2F19a9xrtbzvofbpng%2Foriginal.png&f=1 https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.gawkera...
- 8y ago
- disiplus 8y agoalso 10 year club, defaults are full of stupid memes and what is popular right now but there are tons of great smaller subreddits that i read daily.
- KozmoNau7 8y agoI used Reddit for a long time and stayed in niche interest subreddits[1], far away from the defaults featured on the front page. While there was certainly some interesting discussions happening, anything even slightly controversial or contrary to the groupthink got downvoted quickly, or even deleted by mods in some cases. In some cases, even the mods got into flamewars and harassment. Add to this the absolutely horrible user interface that makes navigating long comment threads borderline impossible, it's just a damn mess. The whole setup and layout encourages pithy one-liners instead of longer more thoughtful posts. Not that those don't exist, but they're exceedingly rare. I deleted my account and I haven't looked back. I'll still look through a Reddit thread if it comes up as a search result, but I don't go there deliberately, and I refuse to create a new user. [1] Mostly related to my hobbies, such as vintage audio gear, pro audio, cars/motorcycles, metal music, booze and cooking.