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WTF is wrong with redditors?

they're americans

I once had one tell me that my bonsai pancake arborvitae was dead and I should throw it away because it had winter bronzed foliage. They went on ad nauseum about its crunchy brown needles. Now mind you this is a very happy little tree, and this person lives in a zone that would not sustain it, but they simply wouldn't shut up about how they were some grand master gardener and they knew a dead tree when they saw one.

It's literally run as a psyop from an USAF base. The board has CIA agents on it. They let AI run rampant.

It's literally completely fake now, every honest actor is drowned out or moved on. Don't waste your energy being mad at math equations and designed rage bait.

It's how the algorithm that redditors have trained now trains them to behave and so on. I've noticed on a lot of social media even though I never click on like f.ex anti-feminist stuff they, still show me that in recommendations no matter how many times I say I don't want it. So I think it's like intentionally trying to keep me engaged through negative emotions.

Reddit was infinitely better before ai. It's very obvious now everything is overran with AI bots. Literally every subreddit, gets overran with nounnoun12345 who says the most right wing shit.

My fucking reddit account was just mass reported and suspended for three days because I said "Russians aren't subhuman" and that was on a communist subreddit.

The AI chat bots have taken over every subreddit.

There is also the issue of corporations given control of subreddits.

For instance you cant talk about certain shit on r/NFL (mostly political shit) because the mod team changed and is now working for the NFL.

It's not the only subreddit like that

It's mostly bots though

The Internet was killed by llms

I’m convinced most of the top subreddits are just ChatGPT at this point

Reddit is only good for really niche stuff, and NEVER good for engaging with any of its users. Even then you will still get fucked up shit.

They've been socially conditioned into it. Remember that this is the same 'internet' culture that rewards headlines about one person "slamming" another. Redditors (and lemmings, and diggers, and just about everyone else on websites that use upvote/downvote bologna) upvote things that sound correct, are contrarian, sound like they're from an authority, and especially that hit the target for the bot/ai/content farmer networks. A comment offering a subtle redirect or correction won't get the 'traction' that a semi-angry, "I'm a X-and-Y on Z subject" comment calling you out for every single little tiny thing that is(n't) wrong will. Also, anyone admitting they were, gasp!, wrong!!!, will get dogpiled on, and lose them the argument (which seems like that xkcd about internet arguing was not only correct in its time, but prophetic of an ever worsening future) which they absolutely will not stand for.

I hate the fucking NPC meme and how it gets used by fascists to dehumanize everyone else, but god damn if it doesn't feel appropriate there. The top 500 comments on literally every single thread are repetitions of exactly the same three or four jokes ("and my axe!" or "I also choose this guy's mom" or some song written out line by line). That was pretty much always true for the big mainstream subs, but it is increasingly true for even niche subs now. People say is overrun by LLMs these days, but I'm honestly not sure how you could even tell.

One of the things I hate so much about redditors is no matter what the issue, their answer is always "GEt tHEraPy." And if you don't then your issues are your own fault. No thought at all that some people can't afford therapy, or live in a country where they get really shitty therapy from the state or in a country where they just have literally no access to it at all. Just this belief that everyone can access great therapy that's always guaranteed to work. And that all problems can be solved by therapy. I mean, if you're dying of cancer or starving to death in the street that can be solved by therapy, right?

I think that's any online community, but reddit is especially bad with their inside jokes and one liners that nobody finds funny. or people blatantly lying.

my favorite one is literally any post where a profession is described, and coincidentally that person with the profession, no matter how ridiculous it is, always finds the post.

Good question, but I'm honestly not sure where to start.

I want to call social media a mistake, but it wasn't. Its operating exactly as intended. Reddit is special in that its combined so many awful aspects of them all, with a culture of perceived righteous indignation and the aesthetics of logical, sophisticated debate. Its liberalism squared, celebrating the myths of meritocracy and a "justice will prevail" mindset. The end of history nonsense pervades every discussion, boiling it all down to "change is bad, actually" and if you're suffering it is because you did something wrong.