4chan was hating on Reddit before it was cool
Yeah but what good has ever come from 4chan?
Always seemed like a place for people to be subversive and provide a haven for hate and degeneracy.
Reddit is cool?
updoots encourages circlejerk
I mean, making a post about hating on Reddit, on Lemmy, is pretty circlejerky too at this point.
I’d argue discord is even worse.
Most toxic moderators of large subreddits does come from discord.
So many on Reddit bitch and moan about reddit. Just delete your account and use alternatives if you hate it so much.
Forgot
- APIcalypse
- sold user content to AI
- let’s only Google index.
• A website built by unpaid users and mods that Reddit wants to profit off of.
Restricting search results to reddit is still a nice way to filter out corporate junk and just get honest end user opinion on things. As much as I hate the management of the platform now, you have to remember that Reddit didn’t always used to be shit. Aaron Swartz was a co-founder.
Aaron Swartz was a co-founder.
Swartz has been six feet under for longer than some Lemmyites have been alive.
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Eh, I still get Reddit results through DDG. They may not be fresh, but they seem to still be in the index, and honestly, that’s fine because I only really care about the older content.
at this point I get like 75% fuck spez/etc post edits instead
You still have to filter through bots posing as real people replies on some posts high in google results
I miss the IMDB discussions under each film…
Was great to finish a film and have a question or and ideas and be able to talk about it.
It’s not exactly a replacement, but TV tropes provides a lot of satisfaction on this front.
The hardcore forums survived.
Are you kidding? They were some of the first to go.
What makes you think so? I read hardcore as ‘small and tight-knit’, exactly the kind of forum that could survive easily on user donations and due to the more personal relationship there’s more loss in leaving it. I know some forums that fit that description that are still around now.
None of the small tight knit ones I used have survived outside of VI Control. But even the remaining ones are barely turned up by search engines.
I’m sorry to hear that, that’s a shame. My experiences are more with gaming communities from the early 2000s, so perhaps my view isn’t universally applicable to other hobbies, professions, and such.
Nah, I’m happy to hear there are still some thriving out there. Gives me hope for the future. I’ve just noticed that I’m corralled towards Reddit any time I seek out the sorts of discussions that used to happen on forums.
Yeah I can definitely say for a while that was the case for me as well. It’s honestly why I like Lemmy, since by the nature of federation it can both be self-contained and owned by the people actually using it, but still kept around even if the specific instance doesn’t last forever.
So so so many of my old favorite forms are dead. I’m not sure I agree with you
I’m sorry to hear that. For me I’ve seen far more (relatively) big forums either turn into a discord, a subreddit, or just die out altogether due to being unsustainable for it’s cost. Just seems more logical to me that the less personal places have more trouble sustaining themselves, but we can disagree on that.
I use it less and less. I only really visit two sub reddit, and one of them has been really declining as it has grown.
To be fair reddit is still better than some instances of lemmy
If you use Inoreader, you can just skip going to it for the most part.
I’ve made an active effort to bookmark any active forums I come across. Even Lemmy doesn’t quite fill the niche that actual forums provide, though it is still useful.
I still use reddit for looking up information even after deleting my account. Yesterday i decided i wanted to compile the zen kernel for fedora. And reddit had the best guide for doing so. And what settings were worth a damn.
What’s your favorite forum?
Civfanatics. I actually joined up long before I ever signed up for Reddit. It’s probably the one site besides Youtube that I’ve consistently used since middle school.
It’s about the Civilization games?
Yes.
Nobody likes reddit. Nobody. Everyone is just stuck with it and spez’s dumbass moneygrubbing bullshit.
Will the bots be what ends it?
bans controversial subreddits
They are ruining valuable conversation by banning GasTheKikes and Jailbait. My free speech!!! /s
My account has been banned for like 2 years but I can still watch porn so idc.
It was dead to me over here until you posted about it. Want a reddit hate circle jerk updoot buddy?
