I have a bunch of FB friends who share reddit crap all the damn time
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
the niche subreddits are fine because they're usually small and of likeminded people
― diamonddave85, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
I think the people who think about reddit the most are the ones most disgusted by it
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
the hivemind of reddit is depressingly stupid and naive. people making inside jokes and puns on middle east riot threads. imo the site is full of sheltered philistines who know very little about a lot
― spazzmatazz, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
"I have nothing to say, but I want to say it anyway"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
its popular on the internet, so if you spend a lot of time on the internet you will probably run across it,
― max, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
it's possible to spend a lot of time on the internet and not see much or anything reddit related
or it was until 'reddit' became shorthand for a load of stuff ppl hate + an easy laugh at the expense of dorks
― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
it is possible yes
― max, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
One of the most popular Reddits is IAmA ("I am a") where users prompt others to AMA ("Ask me anything"). Recently, many celebrities have taken to this section, including President Barack Obama, Jimmy Kimmel, Ron Paul, Stephen Colbert, Bear Grylls, Deadmau5, Zach Braff, Neil Strauss, Tim Ferriss and others.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Men’s Rights thing is probably overstated. It’s the 171st most popular subreddit and most people only know about it because of Gawker clowning them for it. Not totally fair because anyone can create a subreddit about anything and with a user base of millions, shitty niche areas will arise. That said, “Redditors” are mostly awful 20 something white male alpha nerd atheist gamer types who think they’ve got the world figured out and they’re insufferable and have terrible taste in everything.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
I do know that Deathdrone wrote about Reddit a lot so that's the persona I associate "redditor" with
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
It’s the 171st most popular subreddit and most people only know about it because of Gawker clowning them for it.
This is key info here. Thank you.
― how's life, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
171st most popular of 3,692 subreddits
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
171 was the peak US chart position for the first velvet underground album
only 500 people read the men's rights forum but every one of them etc etc
― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like this thread is going to good for exposed the extent of the reddit/ilx cross-over.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
"for exposting"
a local acquaintance just got divorced and is sliding into men's rights shit on his Facebook and it's like...dude...you gotta just back away from the men's rights community
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
I thought I was into men's rights back when Norwood Fisher was trying to get child custody. I don't know if I heard anything about it until it got brought up in the context of reddit/extreme misogyny.
― how's life, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
In fairness, if we had a men's rights board, I would be totally okay with Gawker clowning us for it.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
xp: just realized that was "father's rights" and so a different thing I guess.
― how's life, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
It's a gateway drug iirc.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
Every time I look at an AmA, the comments are so loathsome that I give up pretty much immediately.
But sometimes the train wreck is just too compelling
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ypb8j/third_world_child_ama_with_translator_via/
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
there's a disconnect between what some notable people (some of whom probably should know better) who end up doing IAMAs think reddit's readership is like and how it actually is, that you get a lot of cool people who aren't joss whedon getting only a few responses to the point where you can ask, say, James Fallows a question and it will probably get answered. It's kind of nice!
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
i'm pretty glad ILX exists or else i'd probably be on reddit or still reading somethingawful forums or whatever
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
Ground zero for GWB image rehabilitation:http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/101a82/good_guy_gw_greets_troops_at_the_airport/
― Dan I., Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
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― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
this is a pretty good site for clearing out the riff raff:http://topiama.com/
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think I 'get' reddit... I've only ever seen a couple of the ask me anything threads and they just kind of seemed like the comments section of the av club or whatever.
I quite like metafilter though. Is it considered equally hateful? Am I accidentally joining fathers4justice by reading it?!
― sktsh, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
avclub comments are the worst, seriously
"GET CANCERAIDS LOL"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Metafilter is much better than reddit imo, but they both have their uses. With reddit, the key is to register and then only subscribe to the subreddits that have actual interesting content.
― *sad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
iow what call all destroyer already said
rettit is horrible nerds
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
they should just call the site horriblenerds
metafilter is objectionable too, but it's right at the opposite end of the spectrum from reddit's misogyny4u, over at the the po-faced navel-observation end. We're somewhere in the happy middle, I guess?
But ye I spend time on both: Metafilter gives better link than reddit, but for tech stuff I can bear the horrible nerds on the programming reddit more than the "bro, bro, watch me pivot" clan on Hacker News
― stet, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
(The traffic that reddit sends is astounding, btw. We more than doubled our daily average when a link got on reddit, and it wasn't even on the front page, it was buried somewhere with 5 upvotes)
― stet, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
I think there are cooler dudes per capita on metafilter but on average it's about the same as reddit. i'd recommend straightdope over metafilter.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
reddit does insane traffic which is why many people have heard of it and talk about it
― max, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
oh man hacker news, the internet is so awful we should just turn it off
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
there are no good communities on the internet except on ilx and twitter
― max, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
also tumblr, but not really
i think the way tumblr allows you to like something but doesn't really facilitate shitting on something makes it more positive a force, though facebook has the same dynamic and is super shitty so i dunno what the magic formula is.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
best communities imo are those torrent sites
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
Youtube comments imo
― *sad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
tween blogz
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
two weeks ago i was walking across campus w/ a friend and these two fairly fratty looking dudes carrying a heavy wooden palanquin offered us upvotes on reddit to help them carry it
― Lamp, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
ha waht
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://achewood.com/comic.php?date=01172010
― *sad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
lol that is irl currency now?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
Philip Nunez: Max: also tumblr, but not really i think the way tumblr allows you to like something but doesn't really facilitate shitting on something makes it more positive a force, though facebook has the same dynamic and is super shitty so i dunno what the magic formula is.
Max: also tumblr, but not really i think the way tumblr allows you to like something but doesn't really facilitate shitting on something makes it more positive a force, though facebook has the same dynamic and is super shitty so i dunno what the magic formula is.
― stet, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
Reddit upvotes will replace USD
― *sad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
I also hate recipe websites, but after all the faff there is usually a recipe at the end.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 15 June 2023 21:54 (one year ago) link
look, it's asking me to log in with Googlehttps://i.postimg.cc/JhM69VXN/Screenshot-20230615-225624.jpg
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 15 June 2023 21:59 (one year ago) link
They're now openly threatening to take the privated subs away from the moderators:https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/14a5lz5/mod_code_of_conduct_rule_4_2_and_subs_taken/
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 15 June 2023 22:12 (one year ago) link
look, it's asking me to log in with Google
I think that's actually a Chrome thing, I found a way to kill it for every website in Chrome's settings.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 15 June 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
Spez is going on the full offensive:https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackouthttps://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182457366/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-its-time-we-grow-up-and-behave-like-an-adult-company
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 15 June 2023 22:16 (one year ago) link
xp oh, i see. i guess i don't see that because i don't link my google account to chrome. i believe that's a chrome setting you can turn off.
bigger issue is that Reddit is just really bad for conversation, it's hard for any comment longer than a couple sentences to get more than a few upvotes, which means most people just won't see it, and even if someone replies, if you start replying to that you just wind up in a horrible nesting situation which quickly becomes utterly unreadable
― ✖, Thursday, 15 June 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
A two day blackout was never going to make them change their minds. Nothing short of permanently going dark was going to do that.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 15 June 2023 22:27 (one year ago) link
I was late to Reddit, only joined 4 years back bcs everyone'd abandoned FB and I hate twitter and wanted new grist.
TBH I have not experienced a jot of what the fuss is about. I dont use 3rd party OR the native app - I just browse Reddit in Chrome. Oh, the site determinedly tries to force me onto the app every time I refresh with a rude popup but I just doggedly dismiss it.
I've said it upthread but if you stick to yr own corners its a mostly pleasant experience. Gaming reddits are especially useful for detailled tips and charts and whatnot. My greatest disappointment is that /r/melbourne has decided to just close shop completely and move to Discord and I agree with ppl upthread - it is NOT a replacement, Discord is just a fucking roided up IRC client and I'm too old and busy to fuck with instachat. The whole point of forums is you can take your time to read and respond when you want.
I do miss Usenet, on that front.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 15 June 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link
the admin on one discord I’m a member of switched a few channels to a forum mode that’s kind of ok. good for persistent threads that don’t get lost in bot spam.
― beard papa, Thursday, 15 June 2023 23:30 (one year ago) link
good detail in this case study on trying to stay afloat in a sea of garbage
https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 June 2023 13:28 (one year ago) link
thanks for sharing that. i'm glad we are finally allowed to talk about this topic
― budo jeru, Friday, 16 June 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
Multi-xposts: people complaining about the terrible mobile web experience were probably referring to this recent experiment in deliberately breaking functionality.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:22 (one year ago) link
If you didn't encounter it, count yourself lucky. It was way more obnoxious than the single pop-up when the page initially loads; it popped up again any time you tried to upvote, respond, or post a comment, and the pop-up actively prevented you from doing any of those things on the mobile website no matter how many times you told it to fuck off.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:25 (one year ago) link
*upvote, respond, post a comment, expand a comment thread, "show more replies," or do basically anything other than look at the OP and the top two or three responses.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:27 (one year ago) link
i thought Reddit CEO Steve Huffman came off bad in his interview with The Verge this new one with NBC News is disqualifyingReddit's unpopular changes were inspired by Elon Musk's layoffs & cost-cutting (like not paying bills) at Twitter. insane. https://t.co/xE4aqxVkl1 pic.twitter.com/opBU6gD2Bk— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) June 16, 2023
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 16 June 2023 20:27 (one year ago) link
considering reddit's role in building up the cult of musk there would be a symmetry to the platform getting totally muskified
which would presumably mean the return of explicit nazism among other things
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Friday, 16 June 2023 20:36 (one year ago) link
"So Twitter lost 70% of its revenue and I said HELL YEAH GIMME SOME OF THAT"
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 June 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link
Had a feeling that this would turn out to be the case.
― peace, man, Monday, 19 June 2023 00:43 (one year ago) link
Rough couple of weeks for these guys.
Reddit’s month may be going from bad to worse.Hackers from the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, are threatening to leak 80 gigabytes of confidential data from Reddit that they claim to have stolen during a February breach, according to a post from the group on the dark web, which was reviewed by CNN and an independent cybersecurity expert.In their post, the hackers claim they first demanded a $4.5 million payout “for the deletion of the data and our silence” in April. After receiving no response, the group said it followed up on Friday with an additional demand: Reddit should withdraw a controversial new pricing policy that has sparked a protest from some of the platform’s most influential users.
Hackers from the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, are threatening to leak 80 gigabytes of confidential data from Reddit that they claim to have stolen during a February breach, according to a post from the group on the dark web, which was reviewed by CNN and an independent cybersecurity expert.
In their post, the hackers claim they first demanded a $4.5 million payout “for the deletion of the data and our silence” in April. After receiving no response, the group said it followed up on Friday with an additional demand: Reddit should withdraw a controversial new pricing policy that has sparked a protest from some of the platform’s most influential users.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 18:40 (one year ago) link
Some subs are now allowing NSFW posts in protest as Reddit has a policy of not allowing ads on NSFW subs. Check out /r/interestingasfuck as one of these.
Also to avoid the ugly desktop UI try old.reddit.com. As long as that's still around I'll still use Reddit at least on desktop. Reddit Enhancement Suite still works with it, fortunately.
Spez's recent comments are only going to embolden protests, trolling and backlash. I wouldn't be surprised if a clone successfully pops up by the end of the year and Reddit experiences the very kind of exodus that helped buoy their success back in 2005.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
100% old Reddit is the way to go
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 04:13 (one year ago) link
I dont mind the look of nu-reddit? But I guess its all I ever knew having come in late.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 06:07 (one year ago) link
This chart from SubredditStats show the daily comments and posts for 5 major subreddits: r/news, r/facepalm, r/mademesmile, r/oddlysatisfying, r/mildlyinfuriating.And that’s how we've now ended up with a Reddit full of r/MadeMeSmile. And, just in case you're curious about what that looks like — four of the top five Reddit posts were reposted TikToks.
And that’s how we've now ended up with a Reddit full of r/MadeMeSmile. And, just in case you're curious about what that looks like — four of the top five Reddit posts were reposted TikToks.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe543d86b-53c1-417d-8b01-807f48a205c6_1317x273.png?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link
from https://www.garbageday.email/p/were-all-living-on-rmademesmiles
Too bad they didn't come to ilx!
― fajita seas, Thursday, 14 September 2023 00:45 (one year ago) link
Turns out Reddit talks about us just as much as we talk about reddit
https://reddit.com/r/PeeKitchen/s/x6KPaHdnNZ
― H.P, Thursday, 14 September 2023 01:14 (one year ago) link
Dare we ask why you were on a sub called PeeKitchen? :/
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 14 September 2023 03:25 (one year ago) link
It would have to be a sub rly
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 14 September 2023 10:57 (one year ago) link
lmao
https://i.imgur.com/XgAoN4h.png
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-soldier-indicted-attempting-pass-national-defense-information-peoples-republic-china
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 October 2023 22:36 (eleven months ago) link
how to not get caught selling state secrets site:reddit.com
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 6 October 2023 23:24 (eleven months ago) link
i just visited reddit for the first time since... idk, july?
why did i waste so much time there?
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Friday, 8 December 2023 02:41 (nine months ago) link
Reddit reportedly signed a multi-million content licensing deal with an AI companyhttps://www.engadget.com/reddit-reportedly-signed-a-multi-million-content-licensing-deal-with-an-ai-company-124516009.html?guccounter=1
As the moderator of my town's subreddit, I suppose I should have some sort of doomed-to-fail opinion about data privacy. If it wasn't opvious already, only "AI" buzzword compliant b.s. is getting funding - all of it spent to monetize the shit out of everyone and everything.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 18 February 2024 08:25 (seven months ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/f94j0y/oc_how_much_of_reddit_is_pornographic/
can't imagine how this could go wrong
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 18 February 2024 08:41 (seven months ago) link
Reddit's IPO plans are the stupidest thing I've heard in a while
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 24 February 2024 18:30 (six months ago) link
(specifically this plan: https://apnews.com/article/google-reddit-ai-partnership-a7f131c7cb4225307134ef21d3c6a708) which IMO just means most people who care will stop using reddit
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 24 February 2024 18:31 (six months ago) link