People there are so greedy, so eager to lick rich people’s balls, and so likely to throw insults and downvotes at you, if you give any hint that you support communism. It’s honestly such a disgusting place, full of slavers pretending to be smart, kind and moral.
Redditors have always been like that.
Most of us left Reddit in disgust long ago and never returned.
Lemmy was created by communists seven years ago because of Reddit’s anticommunist moderation.
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/LemmyThere are two explicitly communist Lemmy instances: Lemmygrad and Hexbear. Lemmygrad is dedicated to Marxism-Leninism,[2] and Hexbear is dedicated to left unity.[3]
TF happened to hex?
After many struggle sessions it was decided Unity was a CIA psyop.
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I have to add that it often disturbs me how absolutely angry people there are. People need to calm down. One person says something and the other goes into full rage mode.
“This bridge in Moscow looks cool” Reaction:“Putler, orc orc ZZ kill all blablabla”
Almost everything gets read as its said in bad faith. You like the famous stairs in Odessa? Be prepared to witness the appearance of ten larpers, which will escalate a topic about those stairs into “404-country” and similar stupidity.
This platforms dehumanise other humans so easily and its tolerated. As long as its not involve us humans, things can be however more friendly, subreddits like: geese, ducks, birdbutts, snails, frogs… you get it. But stay away from bridges in Moscow and stairs in Odessa.
that anger over anything russian is a young lib thing. i was hanging out with my grandma and her friends and one of them mentioned how she went on a trip to russia and nobody exploded (this was the generation traumatized by soviets supposedly)
My headcanon is that it took a hard right turn after the API / mod protest debacle. Prior to that, it was still bad in various ways, but I think it was more mask on liberal. Though maybe it goes back further, to when they started doing the quarantining stuff. That might be a more notable turning point.
They banned r/thedeprogram just for the reason of it being a communist sub some months ago. Reddit was already bad before that, but banning that sub cemented the fact that reddit is becoming a 100% anti-communist website.
I don’t know the history of it well, but didn’t similar happen with a sub called genzedong years back, which had something to do with people making lemmygrad? I want to say that was back in the quarantining of subs era, but I’m not sure of the dates.
I used to lurk r/genzedong back in the day. It got quarantined (but not full on banned) shortly after the start of the SMO for spreading “misinformation” (read: the truth). I think it still might exist, but I haven’t lurked reddit since then.
Lemmygrad existed before the genzedLong March, but the influx of users was pretty big relative to the instance’s size at the time. Gosh, the threadiverse was so much quieter back then.
People were really big mad about genzedong, I was in some discord and got a DM from discord about how participating in misinformation servers can get me a ban or something
They do still exist (in their quarantined form) but barely get any traffic nowadays. Interestingly nothing of the like from Reddit for the subsequent genocide apologia from Zionists however.
Genzedong is another big communist sub purged by reddit. My guess is reddit will start to end when even “softer” leftist and anarchist subs start to get banned, such as r/latestagecapitalism and r/piracy. This coupled with overall enshitfication will lead to mass abandonment of the platform, which will allow for a place like lemmy to replace reddit in the consciousness of society. Things tend to get destroyed when capital and profit become the main justification for them to exist; but it may take some years for that destruction to happen.
Let us hope but also be aware that Lemmy.world is basically reddit and what many reddit users wander to when searching for an alternative.
They blacklisted r/fullcommunism for getting John Brown on the front page.
Nope, I left permanently the first time I opened the comments on a post about immigrants fleeing to Europe, and every single top comment (with hundreds of upvotes) was the most vile racist shit.
Reddit and Twitter have gone the way of 4chan. If you’re still there, you’re a part of what is wrong with modern online culture.
comments on a post about immigrants fleeing to Europe, and every single top comment (with hundreds of upvotes) was the most vile racist shit.
r/europe ?
back when I used Reddit, they were so rabidly anti-Romani that I was a bit taken aback.
If Europeans aren’t rabidly racist against Muslims then they return to their default state; rabid racism against Romani people.
Using “licking balls” as an insult is misogynist and/or homophobic, don’t do that.
Yes, we’re all proponents of mutually consensual ball lickage
Licking balls is fine. It’s doing it for rich people that makes it an insult.
Those who were good left after admins actively antagonized reddit’s power users. Only ones left are… not the best people
I have no idea what reddit is like these days. I left when they shut down third party apps and honestly don’t miss it that much. Occasionally there’s some hobby related things I’ll find myself wandering in from a search to find resources but I leave the moment I find what I’m looking for. I don’t log in and I don’t stick around anymore.
Supposed reddit leftists are calling NK a “supervillain evil dictatorship” and literally explode in rage when I tell them that the US is basically that and North Korea does nothing wrong.
It probably depends a lot on what subs you visit.
In most subs I use I can now talk well of Korea and China or in favor of Russia and Iran and people will agree, specially if I call out double standards and things like that.
Getting temporarily banned from the whole site for advocating against occupied Palestine is what got me to delete the app.
No, because I don’t visit anymore
brother, why are you still on le r*ddit when you have le mmygrad? why rummage through garbage when you can look into the fridge?
For me it’s just sitting there watching people just have the dumbest fucking ideas about why things are wrong and what needs to happen. It’s so utterly obvious but they are all so caught up in this idea that someone will magically just uncorrupt the government. The utter cluelessness and lack of critical thinking. Like they see cops kill people and talk about how they need to be tried and jailed blah blah blah. Tried by who? The very system that pays these bastards to be bastards? They really just cannot comprehend. They think that someone else is gonna come in and just fix the problems.
Literally right before coming here I saw a discussion about Texas moving to ban more THC products and a post was about some guy bringing up an argument to the Texas government about how this will just help the cartels. Thinking he can use this logic to stop it. Not understanding that like, that’s literally what they want. They make it illegal, cartels ramp up. Crime ramps up. The GOP gets to further crack down on minorities claiming “look see the immigrants ARE all criminals” then use it further as an excuse to invade Mexico and other South American countries under the guide of fighting said cartels. It’s so fucking obvious and they just cannot fathom it because they just have no comprehension of the world outside of their immediate little bubble of reality. So no, the Texas government isn’t going to listen when your rebuttal is “you shouldn’t do this because it will…give you everything you want…”
This is just one example but it’s all over the site. It’s so depressing seeing just how utterly clueless the average person is to how anything works.
I use Reddit for pr0n like the founding fathers intended and I haven’t seen any weird shit lately, so I’m not disgusted yet 👍.
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It’s feels like there’s less and less people using reddit recently. Especially in the left-wing subreddits.
