Every community set to "private". As if that site wasn't absurd enough already.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | June 14, 2023 11:21 PM |
Oh look at op being a stupid ass again.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 12, 2023 11:45 PM |
Oh look at r1 being a stupid ass again.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 12, 2023 11:48 PM |
Good. If you haven’t been following, the CEO made really poor decisions regarding the third party apps API, doubled down on it, and blamed others while being nasty about it.
It’s also been brought to light how he moderated a very questionable subreddit in 2008.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 12, 2023 11:53 PM |
Absolute shit website full of shit stuff and people. They memory-holed Aaron Swartz, the IT genius who founded the place, after he took his own life.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 12, 2023 11:55 PM |
how will the neckbeards survive two days of reddit going "dark"?
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 12, 2023 11:57 PM |
I don’t give a shit about the API. If people don’t like it, start their own Reddit.
But don’t be whiny crybabies. Fuck them. And their weakness.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 13, 2023 12:02 AM |
DL may be full of dysfunctionals, but at least it isn't full of outright nerds like that site.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 13, 2023 11:59 AM |
I’m not quite sure what the controversy is about, so I can’t speak to that. But Reddit is not “absolute” shit. I’ve joined some great communities related to my interests and experiences, filled with knowledgeable and courteous posters. While I expect there are mouth breathing degenerates to be found (of course there are) I only encounter them in communities I’d expect to encounter them in.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 13, 2023 12:38 PM |
R4, can you tell us about the controversies involving the CEO, the API and the controversial subreddit?
I like Reddit too. I just stick to subs that have few ignoramuses.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 13, 2023 3:20 PM |
I use Reddit a ton for the local travel areas and the music discussion. Those areas are in incredibly helpful, but I don't just browse Reddit generally.
I'm glad the subreddits are striking today.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 13, 2023 3:26 PM |
It’s a cesspit of sanctimony where upvote points are valued more than sincerity. I guess that’s social media in general.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 13, 2023 3:31 PM |
How’s Reddit really any different from any other aspect of the nest-of-angry-yellowjackets we like to call “modern culture?”
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 13, 2023 3:36 PM |
I have a friend who comes here but spends more time on Reddit. When I asked him about it, he said he only lurks on Reddit and never posts. When I asked why, he said that while DataLounge has a few real cunts, Reddit posters are absolutely vicious and gang up on posters which the subreddit has decided don’t fit in.
More vicious than this “snake pit of trollery?” We’re losing our edge.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 13, 2023 3:39 PM |
Yes, I also wonder what the controversial sub-Reddit was?
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 13, 2023 3:40 PM |
It was the pasta draining that tore them apart
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 13, 2023 3:45 PM |
The fact that what drove this is finding out that Chat GPT was mining reddit for responses explains so much about the issues with ChatGPT. Reddit is pretty racist, people are rude with no filter. It's basically the main meeting place for internet trolls and people who spend their lives gaming in their parent's basements. And the designers of ChatGPT thought- hmmm let's direct this new database to Reddit to figure out how to assimilate proper responses to queries. Yeah, that's gonna work out.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 13, 2023 3:53 PM |
[quote]It’s a cesspit of sanctimony
Perfect description.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 13, 2023 4:10 PM |
[QUOTE] Why is Reddit absurd?
Hard to post or navigate for new users. Stupid "karma" rules. Circle jerk hive mentality where people kiss each other's asses and say the "right" things to get upvotes.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 13, 2023 4:35 PM |
This "strike" won't change anything. They'll just be back tomorrow, and it will be business as usual.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 13, 2023 4:51 PM |
Reddit is the only "social media" I use outside of DL. Sure, it's probably 90% full of shit like everything online, but it's great for following specialised interests and getting info, news about certain things.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 13, 2023 4:53 PM |
At least on Datalounge you get called out for being full of shit, for lording over people with your fake, internet-only morality/ethics. It's amazing how everyone on Reddit is an environmentalist, a perfect parent, a very intelligent and hard worker, and is unfailingly kind to all strangers, yet they still have time to rush over to Reddit and wax poetic about life. How can that be?
Oh, the other thing that drives me up the fucking wall about these people is, when they 'slip up' and say or do something that is incongruent with the pretend ethics of other Redditors-- say they post a picture of their food and-- whoopsies-- they forgot to put it on a real plate instead of a paper plate like they use and throw away every day, and someone tut-tuts them for it, the go-to defense is to reverse-shame the other idiot by announcing post-haste that they're suffering from some alphabet soup "diagnosis" such as ADHD, PTSD, OCD, Depression, Aspergers, Autism, and they only wish they could use real plates but they are so hindered and handicapped by their diagnosis that they can hardly get out of bed to come post on Reddit, and how very dare the other dingdong call them out and not check their mental health privilege! Then everyone downvotes the caller-outer and upvotes the phony who blamed their self-ascribed mental health woes. That's just one example, they are many.
Someone else here can articulate this phenomenon better than I.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 13, 2023 5:31 PM |
I guess because I only look at my favorited subreddits, I don't see anything controversial or bad there. I nearly am only looking at travel, alternative music, and genealogy sections - and no one is ever racist or off the chain, or at least I haven't seen it, luckily.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 13, 2023 5:35 PM |
Oh and EVERYONE there suffers from crippling anxiety, that's just a given, goes without saying.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 13, 2023 5:35 PM |
It depends on the subreddits you use.
I find it very helpful, in general, and learn a lot. I WAS banned from commenting on the Portland subreddit for thoughtcrime against our drug-abusing mentally Ill homeless population, though.
The native app does kinda suck (although I grin and bear it and don't use Apollo).
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 13, 2023 5:40 PM |
I was excoriated for my racism when I mentioned the issues gypsy panhandlers were causing on a major thoroughfare.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 13, 2023 5:43 PM |
I was permanently banned from Reddit for “hate speech.” The crime? Daring to express my opinion as a gay man that nonbinary identity is nothing but attention seeking silliness.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 13, 2023 5:44 PM |
Can / Will someone explain to me what all the fuss is about? Reddit doesn't charge subscribers. They make their money from ads. Since subscribers aren't paying, why are they up in arms about third party applications for accessing / using the site?
I have three - four subs that I follow for my local area, and personal interests. It's been really frustrating the past two days.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 13, 2023 5:47 PM |
Reddit is owned by Advance Publications, which owns Condé Nast and a great deal of “local” newspapers. Redditors treat it like it’s some kind of holistic antithesis to Facebook and mainstream media, when in fact it’s owned by one of the biggest propaganda machine companies in America.
It blows my mind that the insanely wealthy owners of Reddit allow it to be one of the internet’s biggest porn receptacles without caution. Shit, they let everything slide on there. Reddit’s API protest should lead to somebody else making a much better, non-corporate Reddit replacement that in fact follows the values of the left-wing Reddit neck beard loser. There’s enough crypto bros on r/WallStreetBets to afford it!
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | June 13, 2023 5:48 PM |
Everywhere on the internet is filled with horrible people out for blood anytime someone posts something they don't like. Reddit is no different, but it's hardly the worst offender. That would be Twitter under Musk.
Reddit skews left unlike most social media, so it's pretty suspect when someone singles them out for behavior that is worse on sites dominated by conservatives.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 13, 2023 5:51 PM |
By the way, I am a longtime Reddit surfer, but I do most of my posting here. I do not like Reddit’s very cringey comment section, a whole boatload of self-righteous people who think their opinion is right, no matter what topic. It’s the very stuff that makes top world leaders question the viability of a democracy.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | June 13, 2023 5:51 PM |
[quote]a whole boatload of self-righteous people who think their opinion is right, no matter what topic.
So, it's DL?
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | June 13, 2023 5:54 PM |
Reddit has some great places for individual tv shows and movies. I followed a Picard subreddit during the third season and it was a nerd fest, but great. There’s also a geography subreddit that I like. Stay away from the political forums and you’re good.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | June 13, 2023 5:56 PM |
[quote] boatload of self-righteous people who think their opinion is right, no matter what topic
What subreddits do you visit? I honestly don't see anything like that, granted I'm in a 'sheltered' view of a handful of very specific subreddits.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | June 13, 2023 5:59 PM |
R31 here - I just found an article detailing Reddit's plan to charge for API use, so I'm up to speed.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | June 13, 2023 6:07 PM |
This thread has talked me into trying reddit... yet again. I just can't get used to the format. Datalounge is so easy and aesthetically pleasing.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | June 13, 2023 6:10 PM |
Good video on the subject:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 40 | June 13, 2023 6:56 PM |
[QUOTE] Reddit has some great places for individual tv shows and movies. I followed a Picard subreddit during the third season and it was a nerd fest, but great. There’s also a geography subreddit that I like. Stay away from the political forums and you’re good.
Eh. The weed forum there sucked. Too many people making unfunny jokes, not enough pot pictures or strain reviews.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | June 13, 2023 6:58 PM |
R41, r/vaporents was honestly my preferred weed subreddit. But I'm also not one for combusting copious amounts of pot. None at all anymore.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | June 13, 2023 10:32 PM |
The place is a palace of idiocy and exclusiveness for like-minded idiots.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | June 13, 2023 10:55 PM |
All the good reddit porn is set to private today. This is gonna shit the bed like Tumblr. : (
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | June 13, 2023 11:02 PM |
R33, so because conservative sites are worse (duh), anyone who says Redditors are a bunch of crybaby bitches about everything is a Trumper?
That logic is right out of the conservative playbook,and it isn’t serving us well. Not everyone who isn’t in lockstep with your every viewpoint is a nazi or a fascist.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | June 13, 2023 11:04 PM |
Reddit is a worse online experience than Datalounge and Twitter combined.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | June 14, 2023 12:29 AM |
I created an account to participate in the discussions about Below Deck and those people on Reddit bored me so much I stopped watching show.
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | June 14, 2023 12:32 AM |
Oh no! My cat subs have gone dark! (Admittedly cat pictures are what I mostly like reddit for. Intelligent or engaging discussion, nope.)
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | June 14, 2023 12:33 AM |
[quote] Too many people making unfunny jokes
Have you read posts here at DL before?
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | June 14, 2023 12:39 AM |
[quote] Reddit is a worse online experience than Datalounge and Twitter combined.
DL is way more fun but I'd much rather read most Reddit subreddits (aside from obvious rightwing/incel BS) than wade back into the cesspool that IS Twitter.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | June 14, 2023 3:07 AM |
Oh dear. Now I won’t be able to watch any woke circle jerks with lesbians complaining about how no one will respect that new gender identity they just assumed 5 minutes ago.
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | June 14, 2023 3:22 AM |
[quote][R33], so because conservative sites are worse (duh), anyone who says Redditors are a bunch of crybaby bitches about everything is a Trumper?
Stop putting words in my mouth, troll.
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | June 14, 2023 3:31 AM |
If Reddit doesn't come back, few will even notice.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | June 14, 2023 11:21 PM |
