everybody on ilx complains about reddit

this is a pretty good site for clearing out the riff raff:
http://topiama.com/

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?!

avclub comments are the worst, seriously

"GET CANCERAIDS LOL"

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.

iow what call all destroyer already said

rettit is horrible nerds

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

(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)

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.

reddit does insane traffic which is why many people have heard of it and talk about it

oh man hacker news, the internet is so awful we should just turn it off

there are no good communities on the internet except on ilx and twitter

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.

best communities imo are those torrent sites

there are no good communities on the internet except on ilx and twitter

Youtube comments imo

tween blogz

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

ha waht

http://achewood.com/comic.php?date=01172010

lol that is irl currency now?

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.

Reddit upvotes will replace USD

do people have discussions on tumblrs? maybe it keeps things positive by discouraging discussion...

tumblr is way fucked up

i had the beginning of an argument from evidence there but fuck it

tumblr is the worst platform ever but i find it fascinating

between the pro-anas, the nazis and the porn, i think it's safe to say that tumblr is fucked up, is my point

and yes the interface is ?????!?!????!?!????

i'd suspect that the tenor of nazi ana porn rhetoric on tumblr is much more light and positive than on reddit.

but also the otherkin and the social-justice radicals and the hundreds of thousands of anime/k-pop gifs

w/shallow depth of field xp

all three are very into pretty pictures now that i think of it, if that counts as positive

xp

i'm surprised metafilter is still around, i remember reading it like 10 years ago but hadn't heard anything about it since until this thread

it still looks exactly the same too, hah

most tumblrs i cant figure out how the hell people comment on them. but there`ll be like 13 thumbs up or hearts or whatever on a post, then like, one person leaving an almost totally content-free comment.

metafilter totally looks ten or twelve years ago. that's another thing about reddit, is that I've gone to the site a couple times and it wasn't visually inviting, so I peaced.

lol u read reddit

yeh cos you can hardly move for gradients and rounded corners here

metafilter still consistently trafficked, I've spotted a few ilxors over there. I think the median age seems older, but there are a lot of known personalities and in-jokes and, yeah, very po-faced these days

reddit's frontpage culture is like a whirlpool of mediocrity sucking in a variety of interests but ends up pandering to a 20 year old white male in college who plays video games, likes cat pictures, and has odd paternalistic or misogynistic views but no self-consciousness about it. I can skim over the front page or two occasionally if I want lots of links but little content, and can go to specific areas that are about topics. Most of the topical areas are total cesspools, but it's a large enough site that some of them get enough traffic to gain popularity.

The image-site mining areas and the people exposing themselves for site cred are kind of the worst

pretty much none of the tumblrs I follow ever have any written content, so I forget that there is this other tumblr where people write stuff.

I started a thread like this a week ago, but no one commented on it. Oh well.

With the spare time I've had to myself since I made that thread and my wife left me, I have this new way of organizing snacks.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvlyy628bS1qgeygd.jpg

What do you think?

I've had to work a whole lot lately, so my dog stays at home by himself a lot.

http://i39.tinypic.com/ily9vk.jpg

Yeah, he's on the couch, but who cares anymore. What do you think?

An upvote would make my day.

My address is 2400 Cottondale Lane, Little Rock, Arkansas if someone wants to send me a pizza.

pplains has the reddit frontpage ethic on lock, here

My grandmother's about to die in three hours. It would mean the world to her if someone could colorize this.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G_hrRlCTD6U/Tbs4_Agmt9I/AAAAAAAALOg/i9imKRfeIeo/s400/Family%2B02ca.jpg

hah

I've tried to dig into reddit a couple times (halfheartedly) since my job involves internet & social media but the way comments are threaded I find it super confusing and non-user-friendly

xpost - lol

/r/baseball sits to the left of the DSA national committee

one of the most annoying things about this website is the preponderance of pages called things like JustGuysBeingBrosTogether and the communities that frequent them, seemingly composed of men who have never had any friends or ever left their homes, who think that things like "bonding over a shared interest" or "making a silly face in public" are "Guy Things"

I have regrettably stepped back into reddit this month after nearly a decade away, and am already ready to leave again. One problem is the attitude that sharing other people's work is fine, sharing your own work makes you a spammer, just this feeling that everyone is there to consume and not to create. But that's just the thing I remembered.

The other thing, which I had forgotten about, is the scolding / debate club tone of the place, you cannot do the mildest of shitposting without getting hoards of redditors descending upon you with demands for lists of sources, and since everyone is a stranger they assume that you're a completely sincere idiot, it's exhausting. I recently read that a lot of the training data for AI was reddit, and that completely makes sense, that same humourless bland tone, also explains why I find it infuriating to read.

Also the content is boring, the same things posted over and over again no matter how much you try to get them out of your feed. I keep getting r/mealdealrates coming up because I keep downvoting people's shitty mealdeals, which I guess is engagement to them.

one of the most annoying things about this website is the preponderance of pages called things like JustGuysBeingBrosTogether and the communities that frequent them, seemingly composed of men who have never had any friends or ever left their homes, who think that things like "bonding over a shared interest" or "making a silly face in public" are "Guy Things"

That’s kind of charming, it could be much worse.

I would simply not seek out /r/guysbeingdudestogether if I was annoyed by that content.

i just go to reddit.com and look at whatever comes up so i'm kind of at the mercy of whatever is most popular, for better or worse

Every platform requires curating your feed - even ILX. Unless a platform is actively hostile to that (Facebook, mostly), letting the algorithm serve you a pile of turds is a user error.

If I go to reddit.com it’s almost entirely sports highlights and posts from music/instrument subreddits. The worst things I see are the centrist libs of indieheads and European soccer fans.

idk i feel like having a reddit account is kind of an L. i just go there for the same reason i would stare at the magazine selection in a grocery store. because there's nothing better to do and it's strangely horrifying yet appealing

internet conspiracy: since about 2015/ellen pao fallout, reddit has had paid writers.