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
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:03 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
avclub comments are the worst, seriously
"GET CANCERAIDS LOL"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:08 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
iow what call all destroyer already said
rettit is horrible nerds
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:15 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
there are no good communities on the internet except on ilx and twitter
― max, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:18 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
Youtube comments imo
― *sad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
tween blogz
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:24 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
ha waht
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://achewood.com/comic.php?date=01172010
― *sad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:26 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
Reddit upvotes will replace USD
― *sad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
do people have discussions on tumblrs? maybe it keeps things positive by discouraging discussion...
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
tumblr is way fucked up
― goole, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
i had the beginning of an argument from evidence there but fuck it
tumblr is the worst platform ever but i find it fascinating
― max, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
between the pro-anas, the nazis and the porn, i think it's safe to say that tumblr is fucked up, is my point
― goole, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
and yes the interface is ?????!?!????!?!????
― goole, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
i'd suspect that the tenor of nazi ana porn rhetoric on tumblr is much more light and positive than on reddit.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
but also the otherkin and the social-justice radicals and the hundreds of thousands of anime/k-pop gifs
― max, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
w/shallow depth of field xp
― stet, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
all three are very into pretty pictures now that i think of it, if that counts as positive
xp
― goole, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― how's life, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― how's life, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
lol u read reddit
― buzza, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
yeh cos you can hardly move for gradients and rounded corners here
― stet, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
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
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
I started a thread like this a week ago, but no one commented on it. Oh well.
― pplains, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
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
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
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
― pplains, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
hah
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:25 (eleven years 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 (seven months ago) link
Dare we ask why you were on a sub called PeeKitchen? :/
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 14 September 2023 03:25 (seven months ago) link
It would have to be a sub rly
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 14 September 2023 10:57 (seven months 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 (six months ago) link
how to not get caught selling state secrets site:reddit.com
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 6 October 2023 23:24 (six 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 (four 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 (two 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 (two 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link