I just clicked there and it looks like shittier twitter
There is a ton astroturfing going on and rebranded anti communist propaganda being posted in highly popular subreddits. It is awful and it seems to be intensifying recently.
reminder that Eglin AFB was the "most addicted city" according to reddit in 2013. sure this is just a coincidence.
Reddit has been dying for literal years. I've had accounts for 8 years now and the drop in quality has been noticeable for a long time. All that happened is the people running the show stopped pretending they cared about their users.
Easy mistake to make considering it's reddit we're talking about.
I left and then came back like two months ago. I wanted to get back to see subs that post content for my hobbies, but within a month probably I was back to arguing with the same libs over the same stupid things. I deleted the app again yesterday.
Also, Reddit is not real life. The fuming anti communist smuglords rarely seem to go outside. The vast majority of the people I spoke to wrt actions of our party are willing to listen, are respectful and are even supportive of what we do. Because, you know, a party that claims to be for the people is actually popular among... the people.
It's easy to hate on the internet created concept that is communism with its billions of deaths and all. It's harder when your local communist party is the one making efforts to save your bus line, or your energy bills or whatever.
Source?! That's wat a Putler dickrider wud say u stupid tankie!
Genuinely curious.
I had to disable my old reddit redirect extension, and then my VPN because apparently reddit blocks those now, because I was curious whether it was a design thing.
Turns out it's still ugly as shit. But regarding politics, it looks more like 4chan to me. I suppose a particle of 4chan was always part of every redditor, but now that a lot of the older power users left and it became a designated content farm, all bets are off.
In a way it kinda makes me hopeful, lots of people used to think that r/worldnews was balanced. I wonder if normal people will look at the libs craving blood in every post and be weirded out by reddit altogether now (rather than just the very obviously reactionary spots like the trump subreddit).
I suppose a particle of 4chan was always part of every redditor, but now that a lot of the older power users left and it became a designated content farm, all bets are off.
Been a long-ass while (years) since I was on 4chan, but I'd say if anything- default/mainstream subs on reddit make 4chan look balanced and almost (still not really) rational, usually, nowadays. Perhaps mainly due to how rabidly effective reddit is, as a platform for manufacturing narratives and stifling dissent, and how compromised it is (and always was- though it got even worse) as a result.
I kinda figured. It's been the default mobile browser layout for a while, and it's fugly, but I'd gotten used to it. I always use old.reddit on desktop for the lemmy-inspired theme.
I hate the old reddit, does it even have dark mode, my eyes bleed.
If you install the Reddit Enhancement Suite I think it has a dark mode option. It has many other cool features, though the team has entered maintenance mode in recent years.
the old redirect extension still works for me. But they recently changed the url format and so half the links to other posts just direct me to the "submit post" for whatever sub was linked.
7 times out of 10 a image link will send me to a negative upvoted post on /r/pics from 12 years ago. same one every time.
Good to know that the "nice hat" bug wasn't just for me. That and the droves of deleted zombie threads are so annoying after years of depending on Reddit threads for troubleshooting.
Yeah, since I'm not a Reddit developer, I couldn't tell you exactly what they're thinking, but they're definitely taking a more... Shiny and graphical approach to things. It's no longer a nerd platform. They're trying to turn it into the next major social media. Which it was already competitive in that way, but at the same time, it was kind of the nerd tool for a while.
Not to mention there's ads now like every third post. It's fucking ridiculous. I feel like they've ramped that up a crazy amount.
