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Reddit and Twitter are mostly for tech-focused nerds? Hahahaha, ah. Thanks for the laugh. Reddit and Twitter are outrage machines. I'm sure there are some good

Reddit and Twitter are mostly for tech-focused nerds? Hahahaha, ah. Thanks for the laugh. Reddit and Twitter are outrage machines. I'm sure there are some good subreddits out there but all of the ones I used to be a part of got taken over by mods who care far too much about the Current Thing To Get Upset About (take your pick). If there are any recommendations for good subs I'm all ears. Can't convince me about Twitter though, it's an absolute cesspit and it has been for a long time. For information hoarding I use logseq (https://github.com/logseq/logseq https://github.com/logseq/logseq) + syncthing (https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/). I've been doing it for a few months now and it's quite a nice workflow.

TheFragenTaken 4y ago
I think your take on Reddit is maybe misplaced. "Outrage machines" stem from algorithmic feeds that push that. Reddit pushes your own subreddits, and the popular ones are quite heavily moderated. Though I would agree that constant memes aren't terribly useful. On the other hand, Twitter push tweets for users I don't follow, never engaged with, and tweet content I am not remotely interested in. Generally I find Twitter promotes personal attacks in a whole different way from Reddit, because you follow people, not topics.
- guntherhermann 4y ago
  > I'm sure there are some good subreddits out there but all of the ones I used to be a part of got taken over by mods who care far too much about the Current Thing To Get Upset About (take your pick). If there are any recommendations for good subs I'm all ears. It's not misplaced, it's my personal experience. It might differ from your own, but it doesn't make it wrong. Got any recommendations? /r/$language isn't as good as the $language IRC channels. The rest of the popular "tech" ones (space, futurism, tech) have exactly the issue I outlined above (calling those subreddits 'outrage machines' is a reach, but they _are_ shit, and not really for 'tech' people. Probably because they're popular, maybe because I'm too elitest?).

TheFragenTaken 4y ago

I think your take on Reddit is maybe misplaced. "Outrage machines" stem from algorithmic feeds that push that. Reddit pushes your own subreddits, and the popular ones are quite heavily moderated. Though I would agree that constant memes aren't terribly useful. On the other hand, Twitter push tweets for users I don't follow, never engaged with, and tweet content I am not remotely interested in. Generally I find Twitter promotes personal attacks in a whole different way from Reddit, because you follow people, not topics.

guntherhermann 4y ago
> I'm sure there are some good subreddits out there but all of the ones I used to be a part of got taken over by mods who care far too much about the Current Thing To Get Upset About (take your pick). If there are any recommendations for good subs I'm all ears. It's not misplaced, it's my personal experience. It might differ from your own, but it doesn't make it wrong. Got any recommendations? /r/$language isn't as good as the $language IRC channels. The rest of the popular "tech" ones (space, futurism, tech) have exactly the issue I outlined above (calling those subreddits 'outrage machines' is a reach, but they _are_ shit, and not really for 'tech' people. Probably because they're popular, maybe because I'm too elitest?).