Again, not really. If a good swath of people there didn’t share those ideals, we never would have gotten things like the Ellen Pao Riots in 2015 in response to FatPeopleHate being banned. Sinophobia and sexism plastered on every large subreddit, like, full on no holds barred hate against the concept of Reddit having, 1, a Chinese CEO, and 2, a woman CEO. Didn’t even try to cover that shit up. There was a pretty infamous photoshopbattles thread where people were photoshopping her face onto scat porn (I wish I was making this up, I am scarred for life after stumbling into those pictures, and tangent, now I’m an admin on lemmy.ml where people from 4chan occasionally come over to post scat porn that I have to see reports for and remove, why can’t I escape this?!)
Also, racist and sexist jokes, LGBTQphobic jokes, jokes about super dark shit like child sexual abuse or the holocaust were (are) all pretty par for the course since the dawn of Reddit. And by “jokes” I mean basically just unabashed hate speech/edginess thinly disguised as jokes. It’s common enough for there to be multiple subreddits dedicated documenting this, /r/jesuschristreddit and /r/evenwithcontext (a play on /r/nocontext). Though I think they’ve been mostly superceded by /r/cursedcomments, which, again, shows some disgusting “”“jokes”“”, don’t go there. They also harassed the family of a suicide victim because they thought he was involved in the Boston Marathon bombing, that’s actually where the phrase “We did it Reddit” originated.
I was terminally on Reddit in high school, back when rage comics and advice animals were the hit thing in meme culture. Ashamed to say that I didn’t realize how bad it was (still is), never participated in the hate, but the fact that I didn’t see this as a problem still bothers me.
TL;DR, Reddit has always been trash. This seemingly new wave of fascism isn’t new.
Interesting. I’ve never seen any of that, which is likely because I only started using it a couple years ago and only go on specific subreddits such as socialist ones like r/GenZedong and ones related to my specific fields like r/golang and r/linux. I rarely even look at the feed, I just go to each subreddit individually.
From my experience, the tech subbreddits are still mostly free of bullshit. Mostly because they’re way more niche with a much smaller userbase than somewhere like /r/funny, so the people just trying to be edgy about how much they hate Russians don’t go there to unload their crap, and the mods are usually pretty good about enforcing that people stay on topic and act professional. Most subreddits dedicated to specific things have blanket bans on memes/shitposts (or confine them to a megathread or two). I pretty much only use Reddit for the nicher tech stuff these days, mostly asking questions about how to do very specific things namely in Linux, networking, server administration, or programming, and I avoid mainstream subs like the plague. The only reason I don’t use Lemmy for that is because there still aren’t enough people to really fuel that, I can’t ask “how do I configure this very specific Linux software as a daemon in systemd to interact with this code I wrote in ObsecureLang++ and and send these very specific things over my local network to my other devices from my home server?” and expect to actually get an answer or discussion. Yet.
I can’t ask “how do I configure this very specific Linux software as a daemon in systemd to interact with this code I wrote in ObsecureLang++ and and send these very specific things over my local network to my other devices from my home server?” and expect to actually get an answer or discussion. Yet.
Those are the exact kinds of questions I like to try to figure out myself. It’s very satisfying when I can solve the problem, and as a bonus, I learn a lot in the process. Most of what I know has come from doing stuff. I learned Linux basics from trying to run Minecraft on a Chromebook, networking from building my own server cluster (currently containing 11 servers total) at home because I wanted to get away from big tech spyware, server administration also from the same cluster, etc.
Usually, I use the subreddits to announce my projects, answer people’s questions, and see new software releases and such.
Those are the exact kinds of questions I like to try to figure out myself. It’s very satisfying when I can solve the problem, and as a bonus, I learn a lot in the process.
That’s definitely what I do as well. I don’t actually ask someone to just show me how to do the whole thing while I twiddle my thumbs, usually I’m asking about a specific error or weird behaviour in one part of what I’m trying to do, if searching it up doesn’t yield anything helpful. Just having someone else comment on your problem or ask questions is really helpful when you’re stuck and don’t know what to do.
I also use Reddit to discover lesser known stuff, like Linux packages, libraries for programming languages I use, and to read up on techniques other people are using.
Yeah, it can be very helpful, but sometimes, what I’m doing is so insanely specific that searching it doesn’t yield much of anything and there are like 3 people in the world that have even tried it. For example, I got my chromebook that barely anyone owns to run a mainline Linux distro with all the features that aren’t available even in Google’s open source chromium kernels. I was extremely happy when I played a video and sound actually came out of the speakers. That one was a nightmare and took me weeks. I had to develop a whole process for getting these features to work. Compiling a kernel with a custom config, getting systemd to actually boot on that kernel, getting the sound configuration right, connecting pulseaudio with Google’s audio server, etc.
I also use Reddit to discover lesser known stuff, like Linux packages, libraries for programming languages I use, and to read up on techniques other people are using.
You might’ve seen this then (I’m quite proud of it)
Nah, it always had a fascist streak. Remember Coontown? Fatpeoplehate? TheDonald? And the absolute riot that happened when the admins banned them?
/r/Conservative is still active, makes it to the front page occasionally and stains my eyes with utter shit.
Yeah, but at least it was mostly hidden. Now, I feel like it’s just everywhere and nearly everyone on the site engages in it.
Again, not really. If a good swath of people there didn’t share those ideals, we never would have gotten things like the Ellen Pao Riots in 2015 in response to FatPeopleHate being banned. Sinophobia and sexism plastered on every large subreddit, like, full on no holds barred hate against the concept of Reddit having, 1, a Chinese CEO, and 2, a woman CEO. Didn’t even try to cover that shit up. There was a pretty infamous photoshopbattles thread where people were photoshopping her face onto scat porn (I wish I was making this up, I am scarred for life after stumbling into those pictures, and tangent, now I’m an admin on lemmy.ml where people from 4chan occasionally come over to post scat porn that I have to see reports for and remove, why can’t I escape this?!)
Also, racist and sexist jokes, LGBTQphobic jokes, jokes about super dark shit like child sexual abuse or the holocaust were (are) all pretty par for the course since the dawn of Reddit. And by “jokes” I mean basically just unabashed hate speech/edginess thinly disguised as jokes. It’s common enough for there to be multiple subreddits dedicated documenting this, /r/jesuschristreddit and /r/evenwithcontext (a play on /r/nocontext). Though I think they’ve been mostly superceded by /r/cursedcomments, which, again, shows some disgusting “”“jokes”“”, don’t go there. They also harassed the family of a suicide victim because they thought he was involved in the Boston Marathon bombing, that’s actually where the phrase “We did it Reddit” originated.
I was terminally on Reddit in high school, back when rage comics and advice animals were the hit thing in meme culture. Ashamed to say that I didn’t realize how bad it was (still is), never participated in the hate, but the fact that I didn’t see this as a problem still bothers me.
TL;DR, Reddit has always been trash. This seemingly new wave of fascism isn’t new.
Interesting. I’ve never seen any of that, which is likely because I only started using it a couple years ago and only go on specific subreddits such as socialist ones like r/GenZedong and ones related to my specific fields like r/golang and r/linux. I rarely even look at the feed, I just go to each subreddit individually.
From my experience, the tech subbreddits are still mostly free of bullshit. Mostly because they’re way more niche with a much smaller userbase than somewhere like /r/funny, so the people just trying to be edgy about how much they hate Russians don’t go there to unload their crap, and the mods are usually pretty good about enforcing that people stay on topic and act professional. Most subreddits dedicated to specific things have blanket bans on memes/shitposts (or confine them to a megathread or two). I pretty much only use Reddit for the nicher tech stuff these days, mostly asking questions about how to do very specific things namely in Linux, networking, server administration, or programming, and I avoid mainstream subs like the plague. The only reason I don’t use Lemmy for that is because there still aren’t enough people to really fuel that, I can’t ask “how do I configure this very specific Linux software as a daemon in systemd to interact with this code I wrote in ObsecureLang++ and and send these very specific things over my local network to my other devices from my home server?” and expect to actually get an answer or discussion. Yet.
Those are the exact kinds of questions I like to try to figure out myself. It’s very satisfying when I can solve the problem, and as a bonus, I learn a lot in the process. Most of what I know has come from doing stuff. I learned Linux basics from trying to run Minecraft on a Chromebook, networking from building my own server cluster (currently containing 11 servers total) at home because I wanted to get away from big tech spyware, server administration also from the same cluster, etc.
Usually, I use the subreddits to announce my projects, answer people’s questions, and see new software releases and such.
That’s definitely what I do as well. I don’t actually ask someone to just show me how to do the whole thing while I twiddle my thumbs, usually I’m asking about a specific error or weird behaviour in one part of what I’m trying to do, if searching it up doesn’t yield anything helpful. Just having someone else comment on your problem or ask questions is really helpful when you’re stuck and don’t know what to do.
I also use Reddit to discover lesser known stuff, like Linux packages, libraries for programming languages I use, and to read up on techniques other people are using.
Yeah, it can be very helpful, but sometimes, what I’m doing is so insanely specific that searching it doesn’t yield much of anything and there are like 3 people in the world that have even tried it. For example, I got my chromebook that barely anyone owns to run a mainline Linux distro with all the features that aren’t available even in Google’s open source chromium kernels. I was extremely happy when I played a video and sound actually came out of the speakers. That one was a nightmare and took me weeks. I had to develop a whole process for getting these features to work. Compiling a kernel with a custom config, getting systemd to actually boot on that kernel, getting the sound configuration right, connecting pulseaudio with Google’s audio server, etc.
You might’ve seen this then (I’m quite proud of it)
I’ve not heard of it, but it sounds great! Definitely will be watching it and trying it out!
That’s really damn cool. If I wasn’t already on arch I’d be yelling for this.