Reddit is dying

It has its uses, I've found loads of useful things on there, like questionable links to sporting events on channels I don't subscribe to, but as is always the case with these things it also attracts some people who probably haven't seen natural daylight or social interaction with others in quite some time.
 
For tech content, Reddit may or may not be king (after man and the stacks), but it's up there. Nowhere else, really, can I need to know how one particularly arcane piece of old server config needs formatting, and find not only ten other users of said software, but also the guy who wrote the thing...

Subs like /r/openbsd, /r/freebsd, /r/linux, /r/sysadmin, /r/selfhosted and /r/homelab are gold mines. You'd be hard pressed to search something even relatively technical and not find a dozen results from Reddit answering the query. You need an ad blocker and old.reddit.com to make it usable, but after losing Apollo and the way the management has gone I only go there when I need to, rather than because I want to.
 
I really like Reddit if you make sure you are following sub-Reddits that actually interest you. It’s a decent substitute for discussion forums which are dying on the whole (I recognise the irony). A lot of it is an utter binfire, though.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
You are a reflection of what you hate and you can't see it. Antifa :cry: :cry: :cry:
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What a load of tedious nonsence....

For one I don't spend my time moderating a right wing forum suspending and banning anyone who doesn't parrot the party line.

It's only dogmatic groups like socialists that need to force ideological compliance because their ideas often can't stand even moderate challenge.
 
One More Solo said:
I really like Reddit if you make sure you are following sub-Reddits that actually interest you. It’s a decent substitute for discussion forums which are dying on the whole (I recognise the irony). A lot of it is an utter binfire, though.
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No different to here IMO, if you ignore GD, the rest of the forums here are an invaluable technical resource.

Nate
 
I cancelled premium when then made it impossible for Baconreader to continue functioning. As a premium/paying user I should be able to use any third party reading app I choose. Now I only use it when sitting at my desk and have the browser version open and only for stuff like Hearthstone and Diablo4 content.
 
Caracus2k said:
What a load of tedious nonsence....

For one I don't spend my time moderating a right wing forum suspending and banning anyone who doesn't parrot the party line.

It's only dogmatic groups like socialists that need to force ideological compliance because their ideas often can't stand even moderate challenge.
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Yes of course it is :cry: The right wing never ban anything, tell people what they should say, think or try to control people's lives do they. This is what I mean, you are obsessed with the left/hard left, you seem to see everything though that lens and just end up sounding as entrenched as they are. You sound as far from the centre as they are.
 
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Colonel_Klinck said:
Yes of course it is :cry: The right wing never ban anything, tell people what they should say, think or try to control people's lives do they.
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The 'right' is not synonymous with religiosity.

As I assume this is mostly a reference to things like abortion? I'm mostly quite liberal in my stance on this matter but recognise that the ability to suffer and feel pain is an emergent priority of humans in the womb and so fetuses, in more advanced stages of development, should not be killed unless there is a very good medical reason to do so.

Otherwise who knows what you're on about?

Gay people are free to love and have relations with who they want but aren't immune to the same sort of criticism others would receive for their conduct.

People are feee to present socially how they want (within the same sort of constraints we all are subject to - so you cant expect to walk uo the street naked without having some bother with the law) but they arent free to compel others to afirm their subjective views about themselves.


Colonel_Klinck said:
This is what I mean, you are obsessed with the left/hard left. You seem to see everything though that lens and just end up sounding as entrenched as they are.
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I see things that are far left as being far left.

Such as reddit moderation which is well known to be ridiculously partisan in one direction.
 
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I see things that are far left as being far left.

Such as reddit moderation which is well known to be ridiculously partisan in one
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Reddit moderation is done on a community basis (or subreddits). Are you saying that all subreddits on Reddit are moderated in a far-left manner? That seems a bit of a stretch. Sure, there certainly are some far-left subreddits but all of them? No, that is a massive generalisation.
 
Cromulent said:
Reddit moderation is done on a community basis (or subreddits). Are you saying that all subreddits on Reddit are moderated in a far-left manner?
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Anything vaguely political is.

Cromulent said:
That seems a bit of a stretch. Sure, there certainly are some far-left subreddits but all of them? No, that is a massive generalisation.
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Other people have given examples of technical subreddits that are largely devoid of these sorts of issues so it's not 'all of them'
 
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Reddit moderation is done on a community basis (or subreddits). Are you saying that all subreddits on Reddit are moderated in a far-left manner? That seems a bit of a stretch. Sure, there certainly are some far-left subreddits but all of them? No, that is a massive generalisation.
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All he sees is Antifa everywhere. The man is as obsessed with culture wars as they are.
 
I used one niche gaming sub-Reddit until the mods, as always happen apparently, got power crazy and started banning people and blocking posts from those who disagreed with the directions/decisions the games Devs took and if you ever mentioned that the game company was based in Russia (literally just that) you were then banned for it, and I mean literally just saying "they won't listen to players on the EU server, they're a Russian company so they listen mostly to players on the Russian server" was enough for a ban for xenophobia, racism etc.

I had about 12k karma from that sub-reddit and deleted my whole reddit account after seeing how the mods were allowed by reddit, after people complained to them, to continue to be very nasty people. Whilst it'd be a shame to lose what is undoubtable some great info tucked away in various sub-reddits, if the whole platform was wiped from the web I wouldn't shed a single tear.
 
ianh said:
I used one niche gaming sub-Reddit until the mods, as always happen apparently, got power crazy and started banning people and blocking posts from those who disagreed with the directions/decisions the games Devs took and if you ever mentioned that the game company was based in Russia (literally just that) you were then banned for it, and I mean literally just saying "they won't listen to players on the EU server, they're a Russian company so they listen mostly to players on the Russian server" was enough for a ban for xenophobia, racism etc.

I had about 12k karma from that sub-reddit and deleted my whole reddit account after seeing how the mods were allowed by reddit, after people complained to them, to continue to be very nasty people. Whilst it'd be a shame to lose what is undoubtable some great info tucked away in various sub-reddits, if the whole platform was wiped from the web I wouldn't shed a single tear.
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Are you a grown adult?
 
Classic Blue Theme said:
Are you a grown adult?
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I used Reddit for one thing, I didn't use that one thing anymore so I deleted my profile, just the same as people on twitter, facebook and many internet forums do every single day. Are you possibly a young person who is fairly new to the internet and maybe is unsure about how to quit a website?
 
ianh said:
I used Reddit for one thing, I didn't use that one thing anymore so I deleted my profile, just the same as people on twitter, facebook and many internet forums do every single day. Are you possibly a young person who is fairly new to the internet and maybe is unsure about how to quit a website?
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Aye lad. There's nothing in-between lurking and being a full time poster.
 
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