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You'll be happier if you just don't use Reddit.

by swiley 5y ago

WesleyHale 5y ago
It's sad to see reddit fall to such low a low level. Aaron Schwartz is rolling in his grave.
hellbannedguy 5y ago
I refuse to have it bookmarked, but I do end up there once a day. It's a mindless escape. I did enjoy the Wallstreetbets drama with the short. And there's the boobies. (I still have testosterone?)
- swiley 5y ago
  Again, you'll be happier with real ones rather than images. Also the more I look into it the more some of the WSB stuff looks fake. Some was certainly real but there was a lot of manipulation going on there.
dgellow 5y ago
Just avoid the main subreddits, and use an alternative client like teddit.net (no ads, fast to load, no tracking). Reddit still has lot of niche communities that are interesting to follow.
kilroy123 5y ago
I agree! For years I frequented Reddit many times a day. No I don't go there at all. What worked for me was slowly unsubing until it was so boring, it just kind of lost the dopamine hitting effect. Eventually, I never returned.
cenkozan 5y ago
I've been using reddit just for funs for a long time so all.reddit.com/top - and that's it.
Tenoke 5y ago
People sure love to generalize their experience. No, I wouldn't. I've gotten plenty of value out of it without incurring whatever costs you did which make you so sure your experience is universal.
- mdp2021 5y ago
  Surely that place has value: in the posted material, if you can scavenge. On the human side, it can be a mess - extremely difficult to have a proper and mature discussion there. In places that entice emotional participation it is sheerly consequential that gut behaviour is effectively promoted. But this excludes «proper and mature discussion» as a consistent plan. It is very different from "[scope: ] «anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity»".
  - Tenoke 5y ago
    The audience and types of conversations vary wildly between subreddits and the issue you are experiencing is likely due to where you have subbed.
    - jldl805 5y ago
      Or due to the emotional context and baggage you bring to the website.
    - mdp2021 5y ago
      I am sure it does - it will depend on the moderators. For many reasons, I am sure that it will be much, much easier to find there guts-dictated comments - no content, no reasoning, no arguments, but lots of partial statements claiming status of truth, and declarations of sympathy. I have not see it happen here. Incidentally, I noticed there are guidelines there, being circulated in the past hours, very recently, that are inviting to censorship. Which creates another effect: sequences of "Yea, Well done, This is the way, Down with the scum, Frown on the snakes", with no single "Yes but" and obviously no "Boo". In the section about "horror movies featuring fancy cars", the participants and/or moderators are now scientists with truth in the pocket. Honestly, this makes it unnatural to go to those places to note a fancy car in an horror movie.
chansiky 5y ago
This article isn't about "you" though. Its about the average joe who does. All the censorship and radicalism we're seeing in real life is because of these wierdos who do nothing but spend their entire existence commenting and accumulating internet reputation - then turning it around to silence any opinions that disagrees with them.

You'll be happier if you just don't use Reddit.

by swiley 5y ago

You'll be happier if you just don't use Reddit.

WesleyHale 5y ago

It's sad to see reddit fall to such low a low level. Aaron Schwartz is rolling in his grave.

hellbannedguy 5y ago

I refuse to have it bookmarked, but I do end up there once a day. It's a mindless escape. I did enjoy the Wallstreetbets drama with the short. And there's the boobies. (I still have testosterone?)

swiley 5y ago
Again, you'll be happier with real ones rather than images. Also the more I look into it the more some of the WSB stuff looks fake. Some was certainly real but there was a lot of manipulation going on there.

dgellow 5y ago

Just avoid the main subreddits, and use an alternative client like teddit.net (no ads, fast to load, no tracking). Reddit still has lot of niche communities that are interesting to follow.

kilroy123 5y ago

I agree! For years I frequented Reddit many times a day. No I don't go there at all. What worked for me was slowly unsubing until it was so boring, it just kind of lost the dopamine hitting effect. Eventually, I never returned.

cenkozan 5y ago

I've been using reddit just for funs for a long time so all.reddit.com/top - and that's it.

Tenoke 5y ago

People sure love to generalize their experience. No, I wouldn't. I've gotten plenty of value out of it without incurring whatever costs you did which make you so sure your experience is universal.

mdp2021 5y ago
Surely that place has value: in the posted material, if you can scavenge. On the human side, it can be a mess - extremely difficult to have a proper and mature discussion there. In places that entice emotional participation it is sheerly consequential that gut behaviour is effectively promoted. But this excludes «proper and mature discussion» as a consistent plan. It is very different from "[scope: ] «anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity»".
- Tenoke 5y ago
  The audience and types of conversations vary wildly between subreddits and the issue you are experiencing is likely due to where you have subbed.
  - jldl805 5y ago
    Or due to the emotional context and baggage you bring to the website.
  - mdp2021 5y ago
    I am sure it does - it will depend on the moderators. For many reasons, I am sure that it will be much, much easier to find there guts-dictated comments - no content, no reasoning, no arguments, but lots of partial statements claiming status of truth, and declarations of sympathy. I have not see it happen here. Incidentally, I noticed there are guidelines there, being circulated in the past hours, very recently, that are inviting to censorship. Which creates another effect: sequences of "Yea, Well done, This is the way, Down with the scum, Frown on the snakes", with no single "Yes but" and obviously no "Boo". In the section about "horror movies featuring fancy cars", the participants and/or moderators are now scientists with truth in the pocket. Honestly, this makes it unnatural to go to those places to note a fancy car in an horror movie.

chansiky 5y ago

This article isn't about "you" though. Its about the average joe who does. All the censorship and radicalism we're seeing in real life is because of these wierdos who do nothing but spend their entire existence commenting and accumulating internet reputation - then turning it around to silence any opinions that disagrees with them.