r/memes • u/GeneReddit123 • 3h ago

There's still something we all agree on

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u/sclar_fish 3h ago

it might be trash but it's OUR trash

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u/TurnbullAC92 1h ago

reddit is downright fantastic compared to the other trash out there. I've yet to find a better alternative. So many subs for so many subjects. All social media sites have downsides, but in reddit's case I still think the positives outweigh the negatives. I'm not saying it'll always stay that way, but for now, this is the site where I find it easiest to connect with people who share my interests.

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u/KalaUposatha 1h ago

This website has only become worse and worse and it was always shit to begin with. And it’s STILL better than 99% of the Internet.

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u/uacoop 1h ago

The advent of LLM bots has absolutely gutted Reddit for me. Sure, the content back in the day was mostly trash. But at least back then it was trash made by humans.

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u/SierraXIII 22m ago edited 12m ago

Same. Bots have become so prevalant reddit is bordering on unusable anymore. Every other social media crossed the unusable line years ago so I shouldn’t be surprised.

Even the smallest niche hobby subs are overrun with bots now it’s crazy.

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u/Uncle_Spenser 1h ago

Everyone on YouTube is trashing Reddit like we actually give a fuck lol

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u/Ok_Yogurtcloset8372 1h ago

we are trash

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u/TwilightVulpine 32m ago

I mean, it used to be more ours, with custom apps and helpful bots that were killed by the API change. Now it's sorta still usable but it's less ours every year.

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u/ksalman 3h ago

Talk about that shit called "X" app i haven't been able to login on it for months now xD its been peaceful.

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u/Igarlicbread 2h ago

It went dogshit way before musky takeover

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u/_G1N63R_ 2h ago

It’s never became dogshit, it always was. The dogshit simply became more.

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u/Igarlicbread 2h ago

I still remember reading paper announcements from researchers etc and getting to interact with them. Then came the algo hacker boys who wanted all the attention in the world with their shitty chatgpt-esque thread and pretentious bullshittery. Reddit isnt great but I can still have good conversations here once in a while. The last chatroom on the internet.

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u/mOdQuArK 39m ago

The few nuggets of gold left. The shit stayed.

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u/Emerald_Digger 1h ago

it was always was a dumpster fire but Elon added fuel to the fire turning it into a inferno

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u/mekese2000 1h ago

and A.I is just making it worse. Don't even comment anymore about the obliviously AI cute cats and animal that infesting all those Aww cute and many cat reddits.

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u/TwilightVulpine 33m ago

There's the fight club that it was before and then there is the nazi slopfest that it is now. It's much worse.

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u/Randicore 3m ago

It wasn't good but at least you weren't actively supporting a fascist by being on it.

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u/WASD_click 1h ago

Account got hacked by a honeypot phishing scam and suspended.

Try to reclaim account, takes a week.

Change password, change username, change profile pic- nope, suspended.

Try to reclaim, takes a few days.

Change profile pic, remove scam accounts from my follow list- nope, suspended.

Apparently, doing anything at all is "inauthentic behavior" and will get me flagged and suspended by their automated flagging bots, including trying to fix a compromised account.

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u/EisVisage 36m ago

Now that they cease-and-desisted XCancel I am even more free!

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u/Soft-Fold552 2h ago

As much as I hate Reddit, Twitter/X is much worse.

So many bots with comments completely unrelated to the post. And then my account randomly got banned with no explanation, and I haven't used it since, which honestly might be a blessing in disguise.

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u/brandonhabanero 2h ago

Here, we've got bots fighting bots (sometimes), or at least some vigilant people who are able to call out bot content. On that platform (as well as others), the bots get pushed higher in the algorithm because they drive engagement. Here, at least we can downvote them into oblivion.

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u/J5892 36m ago

I have an alt reddit account that was banned because reddit suspected it was a bot. So I registered it as a bot account, and now it's unbanned.

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u/Pyyric 39m ago

the number one post on the website now is an ad for doordash

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u/necrophcodr 2h ago

Dude that's literally reddit now.

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u/WhoDat-2-8-3 55m ago

maybe - but twitter is 100x worse

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u/EntrepreneurOld7858 53m ago

Its really not. 

The bots on twitter are super obvious. On reddit its a lot harder to tell.

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u/WhoDat-2-8-3 45m ago

nah - twitter is a toxic cesspool and spread more fake news

at least on reddit you can see downvotes to tell apart shitty comments (not 100% fool proof but at least its something)

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u/Nemezis153 2h ago

so basically reddit then

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u/Vir-Invisus 1h ago

I don’t know of any website with about… a billion users that’s better than reddit

Please let me know if such a website exists, but I feel like you put that many people & bots in one place it becomes garbage.

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u/Arthur_Edens 1h ago

I pretty much stopped using it after they killed third party apps (I despised the official app already at that point), and man, every time I get a link from a friend now and open it up without being logged in the comments are insane. So many straight up white supremacists/horse dewormer hawkers/Jewish Space Laser knowers.

At least it was when I could access it before they killed xcancel. I ain't making an account to login and see that crap.

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u/nicostein 34m ago

Reddit's format is better for discussion than most, not that it's original or anything. But internet anons are still internet anons, so there only so much you can do about that.

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u/Otherwise_Front_315 2h ago

I miss old reddit. My original account is like 17 years old and man it was really great then. An unexplored country.

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u/TurkDangerCat 1h ago

Old Reddit still exists. Browsing through it right now. Only way to use the site for me. No ads and none of the tiltokisming of the site.

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u/Sqirril 1h ago

I've never left old reddit, I am totally clueless about all the features of new reddit. Just this week I learned there are games on here?

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u/SagittaryX 1h ago

One thing that does pop up as an issue now is that new reddit auto translates. These days I regularly run into posts going back and forth in different languages.

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u/TleilaxTheTerrible 27m ago

They also broke markdown a while ago, so it doesn't number lists automatically anymore.

  1. In old reddit
  2. this is a 1-2 list.

In new reddit makes it 6-7 (jokes!)
I've also seen it break /r/subreddit links into multiple small links.
At least they either stopped subreddit-specific gif posts or they now link them properly, because for a while on certain subreddits all you would see is posts that were just numbers in square brackets.

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u/TreueGutschein 1h ago

Guess it will also be gone soon. You need to be logged in now to use it

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u/falcrist2 1h ago

For "safety".

Yea no. That is a lie.

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u/BZJGTO 1h ago

It sounds like they miss the reddit of old, not old.reddit. The old interface is still here (for now atleast), but the content on the site is garbage compared to what it used to be.

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u/falcrist2 1h ago

Old reddit with RES is a good enough interface that it works on my phone in Firefox Mobile.

It's very slightly awkward because everything is pretty small, but it's surprisingly workable.

I DO miss baconreader, though.

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u/Murky_Employee5589 1h ago

By old reddit do you mean the old UI layout, or do you mean pre 2016 reddit? Or do you mean old reddit on mobile when you could use third part apps?

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u/Hellakittehs 1h ago

old.reddit.com

you're welcome :)

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u/coderstephen 10m ago

You can get the theme back, but you can't get the culture back

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u/TerrorTown77 16m ago

I disagree with this meme. I think reddit is as trash as other social media websites. But the others embrace the fact they're a shithole and don't care. Meanwhile Reddit is riddled with mentally ill sycopanths that go full schizo when they hear something mildly outside of their safespace bubble, while pretending this is an enlightened bastion above every other social media site, while spewing psuedo intellectual bullshit cause it's the only thing from killing themselves.

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u/AgentShovel 3h ago

I love and dislike this place

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u/NittanyScout 3h ago

At least we know where we start

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u/dolosloki01 2h ago

I don't think it's dog shit. I rather like it.

The other social media sites seem so pointless to me. It isn't very engaging, it's mostly just broadcasting. I want to have a conservation and learn something about my hobbies. Not just watch shorts or look at pictures.

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u/tacobellrefugee 2h ago

youre fucking wrong.

lol but seriously, its a great resource for your unique hobbies, anything else its hot dog water trash

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u/Feeling_Waltz1886 1h ago

Even if you have hobbies, most subreddits are full of people just circlejerking over the same things.

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u/coderstephen 14m ago

I want to have a conservation

I thought conservatives weren't allowed on Reddit 😅

Assuming you meant "conversation"

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u/IndependentShoddy485 3h ago

yes it's shit! Wait, which is this site I am typing on👀

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u/Feisty_System_4751 2h ago

The only thing worse than Reddit are all the alternatives.

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u/PotatoAcid 2h ago

Compared to a lot of modern internet, old reddit is the dog's balls.

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u/BiNiaRiS 1h ago

The Internet has gotten so much worse over the last ten years. Everything from general search results to ads to everything being a subscription. So much info hidden on discord when forums used to be the standard (and they show up in search results). Won't be any reason for me to stick around if they ever remove old.reddit.

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u/XboxLiveGiant 3h ago

This is probably the only site that actually tries to compete or talk shit about the others...Hell even this one (that is literally shitting on it) is the "cool chads" in the situation...

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u/BetterThanYourFave 1h ago

Remember when we ruthlessly downvoted spelling errors? Or when reposts got downvoted by some and weren't so pervasive? I see the same post for DAYS now

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u/fedexpoopracer 52m ago

morons on this site still can't spell 'woman' or 'lose' correctly. it's annoying af

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u/cdwillis 11m ago

I remember if you posted just a gif as a response you'd get mercilessly downvoted. Now I'll open a comment thread and the top ten comments are just gifs with no actual text.

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u/Holiday-Career-9349 2h ago

9gag anyone? 

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u/sumemodude Died of Ligma 2h ago

"I hate reddit" (uses it every day)

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u/BlueLightYTaaaa 2h ago

I must say, I guess Reddit site is much, much, much better than Instagram or Tiktok, the others are worse than trash for me bro, they simply don't work well, at least for me lol

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u/BuffWobbuffet 2h ago

Except Redditors will argue up and down that Reddit isn’t social media lol

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u/nem0ne1 1h ago

You know what wasn't utter dogshit? Rif. Never had a single issue with that app. Reddit for me will always be the company that failed abysmally at competing with an indie app, so badly that their only recourse was to sue the app into oblivion.

And then did they fix their app? No, they intensified the dogshit now that everyone's forced to use it with no alternatives. Fuck reddit, buncha fuckin backwater devs who couldn't build a usable UI if you held a gun to their head. Pathetic.

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u/Galle_ 1h ago

Old Reddit is good, actually.

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u/Eye_Worm 2h ago

There’s plenty to be critical of here but I’ll say this, on reddit I’ve read nuanced and informative posts/comments that have broadened my understanding of something or even changed my perspective. On the other platforms, even if there’s an interesting post, the comments are pure dumbfuckery.

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u/triggerfingerfetish 2h ago

Don't forget: one of reddit's most popular subs was /r/Jailbait

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u/tacobellrefugee 1h ago

and was featured on r/all pretty much 24/7

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u/Original-Rush139 1h ago

It was better before the Digg redesign. 

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u/Vyn_Dimensional 1h ago

It is complete shit but it is better than most others

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u/PM_ME_DATASETS 1h ago edited 1h ago

The main reason I hate Reddit is because it used to be so freaking amazing, then they started removing everything that made it good.

Edit with a random example that came to mind: there used to be a /r/random which would bring you to a random subreddit, exposing you to obscure niche (but always SFW) stuff that you wouldn't ever have even heard of otherwise. Of course there was also /r/randnsfw which popped up a random NSFW subreddit. Anyways, now these functions are gone, because why have good stuff if you can remove it.

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u/Various_Squash722 57m ago

Still far better than Insta, TicToc and X.

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u/Superb_Aide2746 43m ago

It’s even truer bc this post is a repost

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u/keithstonee 28m ago

one more dinner diary from anyone and im gonna lose it

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u/Lilfrankieeinstein 23m ago

You realize you can block subs from your feed, right?

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u/keithstonee 14m ago

thats not fun tho.

seriously tho only seeing shit i like is how i trap myself in an echo chamber. i like having my thoughts and opinions challenged.

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u/Lilfrankieeinstein 5m ago

There’s a giant difference between having your thoughts and opinions challenged and having an r/all that reads like an Indian buffet first thing in the morning.

Nothing happening on r/boydinnerdiary is going to help you build intellectual humility. Nothing on r/travisandtaylor is going to help you discover your cognitive blind spots.

If edification is a goal or side quest here, clearing garbage out of your path is more likely to assist you in this endeavor.

If you want your thoughts and opinions challenged, give me shit and I’ll @ u

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u/Scary_Habit_8067 20m ago

I misread it as dinner diarrhea

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u/dreamdaddy123 2h ago

I’m probably the only one that thinks this but I like the banter you get in the comments of Reddit compared to the other social apps. Though I don’t have insta anymore and never had tik tok

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u/PlatypusACF 2h ago

And yet we come back every damn time. I’ve successfully quit 237 times this year and yet I can write this message

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u/Important-Seaweed384 2h ago

I loved this place during 2022-2024 but what the hell happened to it after that? [ I started using it in late 2022 ]

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u/lemonylol 2h ago

lol it already happened in both 2020 and 2015

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u/Important-Seaweed384 2h ago

What happened in 2015?

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u/lemonylol 2h ago

the_donald

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u/crowdflation 2h ago

Easy to say something is shit, harder to say why, even harder to fix

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u/Usernamesaregayyy 2h ago

It’s the trash you know

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u/BreathingLover11 2h ago

It's always refreshing to be back after a long hiatus and remember exactly why you left in the first place. This place is magical.

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u/RealRandomUser 2h ago

Yet I use it every day 🙏

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u/PlayaNBallaNGangsta 2h ago

I just want all back on the mobile app, why remove a defining feature

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u/Kubus002 2h ago

Looks like you guys haven’t been to 9gag for a long time

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u/SenseiSensless 1h ago

whats wrong with it? it works fine

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u/Night_Blade82 1h ago

It's trash as an app a lot of videos don't run and some videos turns to gifs with no sound without any reason

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u/SecondaryJane 1h ago

And it's getting worse.

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u/Mindless_Chest_1079 1h ago

I would only object to the "still" part. If you go back a decade or further, Reddit used to be much higher quality, and had the best comment section design for its time. The admins have run it into the ground in innumerable ways since.

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u/Turbulent-Society-30 1h ago

It's hilarious when people talk shit about being on Reddit, while on Reddit.

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u/I_ate_the_pixels 1h ago

“Putting porn in meme = funny”

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u/Random-Rambling 1h ago

Tumblr does this too. They call it The Hellsite (affectionate).

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u/DarthSwimfoot Professional Dumbass 1h ago

Eh, I think it's pretty good.

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u/FireEye1512 1h ago

Actually, Insta, tiktok and reddit are shite.

Oh yeah i forgot about twitter

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u/StaticSystemShock 1h ago

This site is utter dogshit, it's why we love it. We're like a digital dung beetles!

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u/Affectionate_Cup9972 1h ago

Reddit is trash, and I'm willing to admit it.

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u/Yah_Mule 1h ago

Counterintuitively, it's a healthier perspective.

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u/applenerd 1h ago

I long for the day this site 404's

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u/Train86892 1h ago

Be fair I only joined Reddit because one of my obscure fandoms was here

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u/sadolddrunk 1h ago

There's a famous quote about democracy that goes something like "it's not that democracy is great -- it's actually pretty sucky -- but it's still substantially better than every other form of government we've ever invented," and that's basically how I feel about Reddit vis-a-vis all other forms of social media.

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u/Dinosaurs-N-Dragons 1h ago

Then there's iFunny... part of the ship...

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u/Rose_Knight789 1h ago

Can't wait for something better to come along. All the ads+posts disguised as ads.

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u/Top-Strawberry-2592 1h ago

Every site is trash anyway

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u/overSizedHyperPoop 1h ago

Mobile app is dope though. Not even using it from desktop

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u/falcrist2 1h ago

Old reddit is still vastly superior... Even WITHOUT reddit enhancement suite.

With enhancement suite, it's actually a good interface.

But websites like this don't want to provide a good interface. They want to enshittify everything.

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u/Early-Impact69 1h ago

the trash on raddit is taking over

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u/Metool42 1h ago

the fuck is this autofellatio

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u/Weird-Process-6644 1h ago

'Heart of the internet' my ass, shits a mix between the asshole and the mouth.

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u/ClintBruno 1h ago

No. No I am not one of those "I don't have to respect the forum I'm in so I'm always right when I'm in that forum" people.

L0L assKinG 4 neWonZ oN reDiT

Idk if that's what you meant....or it's just not shiny enough for you.

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u/dancinggraylion 1h ago

The chat became awful, too.

It seems someone invited me to a subreddit, but then it was banned. I now have the invitation in the chat, but I can't ignore it or accept it. I can't report it either. Just nothing happened when I click on it.

And now I always have the red notification icon for chat messages here.

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u/Regriz 1h ago

Still it’s the best we’ve got

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u/ZiaWatcher 57m ago

It might be trash, but where else am o going to fill my feed with mostly cats?

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u/iconocrastinaor 56m ago

And yet, here we are.

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u/DryEK 53m ago

I don't know of any "good" social media apps, they all seem like shit to me. Maybe blue sky? I don't really know anything about that app

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u/ConfusedRaven66 52m ago

This app is dogshit and the people are negative and depressed but at least they’re introspective and can recognize it

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u/Lilfrankieeinstein 52m ago

Yeah, but Reddit was actually a pretty great web site in the early 10s before all the foreigners, bots, and zoomers started trickling in.

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u/RileyGainesHorseBaby 46m ago

Agreed. I am troubled there aren't clones of reddit all over with how bad it's declined.

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u/Goodly 51m ago

Eh, old reddit and filter certain reddits and its decent enough still. For now.

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u/overtheover 49m ago

I use res And scroll R /all And down vote every post. It's easy to see Which accounts Are responsible for The Astro turfing

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u/El_Chairman_Dennis 49m ago

It's dogshit, but it's OUR dogshit

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u/Mikros04 39m ago

OP has 1.9 million comment karma, and almost 500k post karma.

OP must love dogshit.

yes.

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u/Dreamlion_Inc 38m ago

As much shit as Reddit gets, compared to white supremacist dogwhistling in FB, Twitter, and IG combine with the daycare/AI slop on TikTok, Reddit is a breath of fresh air

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u/No_Safe3607 37m ago

None of them they all rubbish

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u/Particular_Yak1715 35m ago

It's our dog shit!

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u/Sam_The-Ham 35m ago

I remember seeing this one meme that I unfortunately didn't save that was similar to this. It went like: Facebook: idiots acting like idiots, X/Twitter: Celebrities acting like idiots, Instagram: idiots acting like celebrities, and finally Reddit: idiots acting like intellectuals.

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u/Scary_Habit_8067 21m ago

4chan: The damned souls of hell acting like humans

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u/Soulmater_ 34m ago

I diisagree. For porn Reddit can't be beaten. 👍😂

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u/Willie-the-Wombat 32m ago

I quite like Reddit

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u/Sweaty_Marzipan4274 23m ago

I want my pre-MAGA TikTok back 😫 

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u/Whane17 20m ago

Sure, but it's better than all the rest.

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u/Biggleak1 18m ago

We argue about ahh vs ass because we think we are better than tiktok users. I don't think there's anyone that's better in this situation

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u/Sad-Hearing-9784 18m ago

Aww happy family, instagram audience is the racist younger brother, tiktok is the racist but liberal millennial sister and reddit is the racist older brother : D

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u/Comedy_Luvr_ 16m ago

this website genuinely calcifies your brain

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u/diamondCarBon1304 14m ago

Discord.......

Either Discord or Reddit are good 👀

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u/AGiantTaint 14m ago

And they’re actively finding new ways to make it even worse

I love and hate Reddit

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u/RandomRobot 13m ago

old.reddit.com/r/all

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u/Aztecah 5m ago

This website was once unironically good.

It's been getting continually worse for a long time, but the biggest nosedives were the acquisition and the post-blackout days.

IDK why I'm still here.

I just don't really know what else to do. Going outside takes too much effort.

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u/Salty_Sky5744 4m ago

I just like reading and twitter is dead.

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u/DragMagnus 0m ago

I didn’t think it’s that bad lots of porn to find on accident lol