everybody on ilx complains about reddit

my manager talks about it all the time

i have some irl friends who are active on reddit.

at first i only knew of reddit because my wife started forwarding me a bunch of the image memes from whichever board of theirs focuses only on pictures. i started clicking around the site and ended up on one of those creepy boards dedicated to men and how terrible women are and have p much written the site off since. i mean, i'm sure there are some just fine places on reddit, but i got a really uncomfortable vibe from it.

only thing i know about reddit is there's this crazy keyboard techno-busker in town who's constantly trying to get his Facebook "fans" to sign up to it so they can vote for him in a poll, except he keeps writing the wrong instructions on exactly what to do and he's been at it for days and days....

i started clicking around the site and ended up on one of those creepy boards dedicated to men and how terrible women are and have p much written the site off since.

Yes, I hear about this one the most, probably.

i only ever hear about it here too

challenged a friend on that and he offered the semi-convincing argument that you can control your subscriptions or whatever and make the site into whatever you want it to be. but i still steer clear.

that being the men's rights board.

Reddit is basically the future of language. We'll have trollface, Jackie Chan face, Freddie Mercury face, "me gusta", rageface, and that's it. No words just memes

are u on reddit frogbs?

god no

Reddit is basically the future of language. We'll have trollface, Jackie Chan face, Freddie Mercury face, "me gusta", rageface, and that's it. No words just memes

don't most of these things come out of 4chan?

I don't know, but both times I've been on reddit it was full of this stuff. either way I think my point stands. this is just how young people communicate.

I have a bunch of FB friends who share reddit crap all the damn time

the niche subreddits are fine because they're usually small and of likeminded people

I think the people who think about reddit the most are the ones most disgusted by it

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

"I have nothing to say, but I want to say it anyway"

its popular on the internet, so if you spend a lot of time on the internet you will probably run across it,

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

it is possible yes

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]

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.

I do know that Deathdrone wrote about Reddit a lot so that's the persona I associate "redditor" with

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.

171st most popular of 3,692 subreddits

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

I feel like this thread is going to good for exposed the extent of the reddit/ilx cross-over.

"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

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.

In fairness, if we had a men's rights board, I would be totally okay with Gawker clowning us for it.

xp: just realized that was "father's rights" and so a different thing I guess.

It's a gateway drug iirc.

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/

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!

i'm pretty glad ILX exists or else i'd probably be on reddit or still reading somethingawful forums or whatever

Ground zero for GWB image rehabilitation:
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/101a82/good_guy_gw_greets_troops_at_the_airport/

i'm pretty glad ILX exists or else i'd probably be on reddit or still reading somethingawful forums or whatever

― ciderpress, Tuesday, September 18, 2012 6:47 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

should we move /r/ILX over to lemmy?

some of the most fun discoveries I've made online is when you websearch a band and stumble across some dude's personal page where they write about entire music scenes that aren't really covered much elsewhere. or like, that guy who tries to review every single album with a mellotron on it. I don't even bother looking for those anymore.

yeah that's the stuff I'm looking for

the one thing I want now is a search engine where I can search for x and get links to actual humans writing about x

Google supposedly took concrete steps last August to rank this stuff higher, but i can’t tell the difference

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/08/helpful-content-update

then a month ago they launched a “Perspectives” tab that is supposed to highlight more trusted human content. i’ve never seen it though. maybe it’s US only.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23717685/google-perspectives-search-human-experiences-io-reddit

that stuff is out there but you pretty much only find it by accident -- on blogspot or whatever, or on weirdo joints like neocities xp

The irony is the way people do this now is when searching a topic to add the keyword "reddit"...

― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:45 (three hours ago) link

that does not sound like it would be any better

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:50 (three hours ago) link

At the risk of sounding as if I'm here to defend Reddit from your slander, why don't you think it would be better? It's not the dream search engine experience you're asking for, but it does successfully produce as you say "actual humans writing about x" at least as much if not much more than the other examples you mentioned (youtube comments etc).

it produces, perhaps, some people on reddit talking about it, and if I'm on mobile (which I usually am) I can't even read that properly without it trying to push me into the app. For music, I've never found the discussions on there very interesting, I'd rather search twitter or, you know, here.

?? you just have to press "continue" to get rid of the app redirect popup. it's annoying but not exactly unique to reddit these days

?? that's bad

I mean it then asks me to log in, and yeah I have a password but fuck knows what it is, so I have to close that too, then the link (usually what I want) is hidden somewhere and most of the comments are folded in, if there are any comments, plus it's always more than 6 months old so comments are closed.

it is much worse to access and navigate than than anything else I attempt to use on mobile which is really saying something and getting the app would just feel like defeat

xp lol how is it any worse than x-ing out of a mailing list popup on a recipe website? this isn't like yelp where it literally forces the app to open if you want to do anything on mobile. it's just an overlay that you press one button to get out of.

CaaL, i have no idea what you're talking about with it asking you to login. i'm opening it in the chrome app in incognito so i'm not logged in, and it never once prompts me to. i click "continue" and that's it.

and if comments are closed after 6 months, that's not a reddit thing, that's another thing specific to certain subs (or threads). i've rarely seen that. for threads that get a lot of search engine attention, it's not uncommon to see people leaving thank you comments years after it was made.

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

I also hate recipe websites, but after all the faff there is usually a recipe at the end.

look, it's asking me to log in with Google

https://i.postimg.cc/JhM69VXN/Screenshot-20230615-225624.jpg

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/

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.

Spez is going on the full offensive:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182457366/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-its-time-we-grow-up-and-behave-like-an-adult-company

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

I also hate recipe websites, but after all the faff there is usually a recipe at the end.

A two day blackout was never going to make them change their minds. Nothing short of permanently going dark was going to do that.

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.

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.

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

thanks for sharing that. i'm glad we are finally allowed to talk about this topic

Multi-xposts: people complaining about the terrible mobile web experience were probably referring to this recent experiment in deliberately breaking functionality.

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.

*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.

i thought Reddit CEO Steve Huffman came off bad in his interview with The Verge

this new one with NBC News is disqualifying

Reddit'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

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

"So Twitter lost 70% of its revenue and I said HELL YEAH GIMME SOME OF THAT"

Had a feeling that this would turn out to be the case.

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.

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.

100% old Reddit is the way to go

I dont mind the look of nu-reddit? But I guess its all I ever knew having come in late.

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.

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

from https://www.garbageday.email/p/were-all-living-on-rmademesmiles

Too bad they didn't come to ilx!

Turns out Reddit talks about us just as much as we talk about reddit

https://reddit.com/r/PeeKitchen/s/x6KPaHdnNZ

Dare we ask why you were on a sub called PeeKitchen? :/

It would have to be a sub rly

lmao

https://i.imgur.com/XgAoN4h.png

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-soldier-indicted-attempting-pass-national-defense-information-peoples-republic-china

how to not get caught selling state secrets site:reddit.com

i just visited reddit for the first time since... idk, july?

why did i waste so much time there?

Reddit reportedly signed a multi-million content licensing deal with an AI company
https://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.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/f94j0y/oc_how_much_of_reddit_is_pornographic/

can't imagine how this could go wrong

Reddit's IPO plans are the stupidest thing I've heard in a while

(specifically this plan: https://apnews.com/article/google-reddit-ai-partnership-a7f131c7cb4225307134ef21d3c6a708) which IMO just means most people who care will stop using reddit