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Anon doesn't like reddit (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 171 points 1 week ago

4chan was hating on Reddit before it was cool

[-] Dominic1234321@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago
[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 43 points 1 week ago

Ah, the ol’ lemmy switcheroo!

[-] SeekPie@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago

I think they meant that hating on reddit is cool.

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[-] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 133 points 1 week ago

updoots encourages circlejerk

I mean, making a post about hating on Reddit, on Lemmy, is pretty circlejerky too at this point.

[-] Senseless@feddit.org 65 points 1 week ago

true.

anyway, fuck spez.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 24 points 1 week ago

I mean, making a post about hating on Reddit, on Lemmy, is pretty circlejerky too at this point.

There's a key difference, at least when it comes to hating Reddit.

Most [all?] users here have actual, informed reasons to hate Reddit, from past experiences with the site. They aren't simply joining some bandwagon due to social expectations to bend to the crowd.

[-] drathvedro@lemm.ee 62 points 1 week ago

Whenever I stumble on reddit I make sure to post disinformation or some kind of dumb shit to throw a wrench into the LLM training data they sell to google.

[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago

Make sure to have some LLM generate the comment for you, as LLMs learning synthetic data may fuck them up over time: AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense

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[-] Antiproton@programming.dev 57 points 1 week ago

"ruins the Internet"? This coming from 4chan? That's rich

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago

4chan is kinda the sump of the Internet. All the crud sinks there.

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[-] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

4chan, in part, ruined real life. So much of the initial meme buzz around Trump came directly from 4chan - god emperor, etc. /b/ and /pol/ had large coordinated campaigns to boost Trump for lulz and to fuck with people. These made the news occasionally and were sometimes quite wide-reaching. Edit: not to forget Qanon, pizzagate, etc.

Additionally, 4chan is responsible for a massive swathe of meme culture more broadly. Most people don't dredge its depths or even know "the hacker named 4chan" exists, but it has been a massively influential force.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

There have been dark corners of the internet for several decades now. 4chan is just one. Trump didn't achieve popularity because of it. There aren't enough users, and there certainly aren't enough politically and economically influential users, for that to be true.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

QAnon started on 4chan lol

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[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

4chan doesn't nearly have the kind of traffic to ever have ruined the internet.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

It used to. Used to be the #1 most visited website worldwide for many years.

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[-] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 1 week ago

Reddit doesn’t even like Reddit.

It's like a teenager.

[-] duckduckohno@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

So many on Reddit bitch and moan about reddit. Just delete your account and use alternatives if you hate it so much.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was one of those. Before Lemmy, nothing was truly an alternative for Reddit. There were alternative Twitter-like sites up the ass and Facebook; but nothing similar to Reddit's layout/presentation.

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago

Forgot

  • APIcalypse
  • sold user content to AI
  • let's only Google index.
[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

• A website built by unpaid users and mods that Reddit wants to profit off of.

[-] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

It's not exactly a replacement, but TV tropes provides a lot of satisfaction on this front.

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[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Aaron Swartz was a co-founder.

Swartz has been six feet under for longer than some Lemmyites have been alive.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 15 points 1 week ago

It is rapidly becoming an unviable way to find info these days. I have to specifically ignore anything from the past couple years.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

at this point I get like 75% fuck spez/etc post edits instead

[-] JameUwU@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Except companies have learned the meta, and now a bunch of search queries for Reddit are filled with ads on Reddit. (not to mention you have to use google to get their results now.)

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[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] nl4real@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

"Ruins the internet"

I happen to remember the forum culture of the mid-late 2000s. It wasn't that great.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I do recall that people were extraordinarily toxic online. Reddit for a few years was a breath of fresh air but then got too big.

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[-] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

It's gonna die like Digg or Fark ... Which are still around, but shells of their former selves. TBH most normal folks haven't even heard of Reddit, let alone Lemmy or Mastodon.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 32 points 1 week ago

I disagree with you on how well known Reddit is, it's been mentioned in enough news stories over the years that most people have heard of it, even if they've never been there.

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[-] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Since about 2018, I’ve gotten the sense that most internet users know about Reddit, but are embarrassed to admit they know about Reddit.

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[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Nobody likes reddit. Nobody. Everyone is just stuck with it and spez's dumbass moneygrubbing bullshit.

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[-] Stern@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

bans controversial subreddits

They are ruining valuable conversation by banning GasTheKikes and Jailbait. My free speech!!! /s

[-] comrade19@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Will the bots be what ends it?

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago

Eventually it'll be all bots jerking themselves off

[-] Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

AI really is taking our jobs, huh?

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[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

Half the users may as well be bots anyway, it's just dorks yelling the same catch phrases at each other in the comments.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

My account has been banned for like 2 years but I can still watch porn so idc.

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Look, I also left Reddit because it got worse, but this just reads like "I said something racist and people got mad" to me.

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