I found Reddit about 6 years ago, took a little while to understand what it was about but when I finally got it, I felt like I had found the best place on the internet. Somewhere I could be my true self without being myself. Every time I logged in, I felt free. Like solo roaming the streets of a new city in a foreign country for the first time. Intellectual conversation, assistance on vague problems, sharing life experiences, advice, watching porn you didn’t know existed, and then slipping out the back door when you were done.
As many here already know, those days are gone. The freedom is gone, it feels like a communist regime and it seems that their success is their downfall. The entire personality of Reddit has changed and will never come back, it even shows in the users. The community is broken, unauthentic and the Truth has left the conversation. Freedom is dead over there. What a shame. It’s like my favorite bar burnt down.
But the thing that really gets me is that it didn’t just change, it became the exact opposite. It has become the exact reason why someone built it, in the first place.
I read that it’s attracting the most new users of all the social apps. Best performing app, which means the end is near. Soon it will just be a limb of the pretend society that we used to hide from behind the walls of Reddit. And for some reason, I just want to see it burn.
to this i’d like to add that when i browse there sometimes i keep seeing people saying things like “this is reddit libs are everywhere” “this is reddit even slight conservatism will make people call for a death sentence” or “this is reddit you can’t say anything non-progressive” and those are getting many upvotes, whilst anything said that’d paint you as anywhere left of centre will get you downvoted.
it seems like the conservatives have taken over and yet they still feel like they’re surrounded
I miss when making fun of libs on reddit came exclusively from leftists
The issue is we roast our extremists while they hype theres up or act like they arent so bad lol
sorry, when you say ‘when i browse there’… do you mean… .world? or reddit?
Its 3am and I think my language parsing skills have given out, lol
oop sorry, seems like i’m from the opposite side of the world and my phrasing after waking up could also have used some work
by “there” i meant reddit in that comment
Ah, all good, no problem!
Given that clarification, yes, I completely agree.
Conservatives tend to be the masters of projection, of seeing themselves as victims when they objectively are not…
…well, small caveat to that, as lately in the US they’ve become victims of the party and policies they voted for, but claim they didn’t vote for, because they are too ignorant to understand how anything actually works, as well as too devoted to their orange cultic god to see any of his insane hypocrtitical nonsense as such.
But anyway yeah back to reddit: yep, the platform has gone fully corporate, anyone aware of … what that means for a social media tech company bailed the hell out as soon as news of that broke, now the easily predictable enshittification has begun, and the less well informed but still generally capable of objectively assesing the world crowd is now also starting to stream out… and the people who are left are the asocial or antisocial conservative dullards who continue to gaslight themselves and refuse to acknowledge or understand what has happened…
… because for an insecure conservative, admitting you were ever wrong or uninformed about something is seen as a damnable sign of weakness and personal failure… instead of the learning and growing opportunity it could be with just a bit of a mindset shift.
I know this because I was raised that way, in that kind of a household, and was fortunately able to un-brainwash myself and realize that its ok to be wrong about things, to learn and grow.
Reddit is driving a lot right wing topics to site in order to drum up conservative users, because they love drama and conflic and are more likely to be exposed to ads
Morons are easier to scam with microtransactions, so market to morons.