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i can't stand megathreads -- no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All the mindless circlejerking and echochambers. I hope the federation helps split up communities about the same topic which should help prevent echochambers from being as strong, and keep people seeing more information and opinions about the same topic.

I was so tired of seeing blatant lies and misinformation being spread just because it fit people's narratives. Like those "dawn project" tesla videos, people hate musk so much (which I'm sure all the much worse billionaires love), so they feel they must hate teslas too, so they keep spreading those videos that have been debunked and proven incredibly questionable that were made by a competitor that's been failing to compete. That's just one tiny example. Don't even get me started on the outright lights and misinformation people spread about crypto.

And of course if anyone ever tried to correct anyone, share actual facts, real articles from trusted sources, anything that went against a particular thread's circlejerk, you would just be harassed, personally insulted, and downvoted immediately. It was so hilarious and sad spending time responding to someone's bullshit with real information and a real argument just for them to do a one-liner personal insult based on nothing, because they knew they didn't actually have anything but the circlejerk is all that really ever mattered.

I'm ranting, but this attitude people have of just not caring about reality when the lies fit what the circlejerking hivemind wants is one of my biggest gripes about modern internet and it's incredibly dangerous. It's exactly the mindset that trump supporters have that allows them to believe whatever the fuck they want and that led to people dying at the capitol, and it's the type of mindset that will eventually lead to far worse things if social media companies don't do more to combat misinformation and echochambers.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You realize that if things get weird enough at Reddit, they may attempt federation (or at least to pull federated content).

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Official NFTs collectible.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I actually liked megathreads, they usually meant big news and I didn't have to read 20 posts about the same thing.

But what I disliked about reddit was when trolls from some subreddits would spam CP to get other subreddits closed

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

“doggo wans hugs plz” speak

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

c/Xporn when X is not sexual. Like r/foodporn, r/earthporn, or r/animalporn.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Memes. Communities filled with trolls and most all content created as creative writing exercises or trollbait. Communities filled with indignant self righteous members trying to force their own worldview or morals on the rest. Politicising everything.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Using autism as an insult. And the r-word. I'm sure I'll see both, but I wish there were a corner of the internet free of mocking people with disabilities.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Any extreme intolerant politics, and group think

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Edit:Typo.

If an edit changes the context of the comment, then sure, put up an edit note. But no one cares if you erase typos.

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