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Whoa boy. You should spend your time in some different subs. I've carefully curated a list of subs that match my interests, and Reddit is delightful.

Sure, it can be. That does not mean the aforementioned content goes away. That's why I don't like reddit.

"You should spend your time in some different subs."

That's not very nice of you to imply that I watch or enjoy this stuff. Ever considered looking up press articles about reddit, or more generally, online content moderation? You would be surprised...

> I've carefully curated a list of subs that match my interests

So has tornadofart

You know, there is something called journalism. That's where I get my information from. Suggesting I look at this stuff because I am calling it out is disingenuous and a little insulting.

If you weren't looking at it, then how would you know it was there? I never ever see that stuff on Reddit, because I never look at those subs.

Please research on your own instead of implying something about me. Documentaries and press articles about online content moderation are freely available for all to read.

I stay for a couple of worthy subreddits. Overall the site is trash.

The subreddits for my local city are slowly turning into a weird BLM/Nextdoor hybrid though. Any mention of cops results in an endless parade of ACAB/bootlicker comments and most of the rest of the content is nitpicky complaints.

I'm not sure where else I can go to stay connected with some local folk though.

Some country subreddits are also starting to go in this direction. Lots of extreme opinions.

But that's nothing. Most hobby subreddits are becoming Instagram feeds thanks to the new design and the mobile app.

And professional subreddits are becoming a weird mix of people wanting to start in the field asking the same basic questions over and over, and people only really answering the basic question while simultaneously complaining about a "lack of depth" in the discussions.

This is why you see so people saying "there are good communities!" but they never tell which ones are good. God forbid more people join them.

> The subreddits for my local city are slowly turning into a weird BLM/Nextdoor hybrid though. Any mention of cops results in an endless parade of ACAB/bootlicker comments and most of the rest of the content is nitpicky complaints.

I would ask if we live in the same city, but I think this is every city subreddit now.

I once engaged with a seemingly deranged and very politically opinionated individual in a Canadian subreddit.

I later found out that person is somehow a moderator on nearly every city/town-specific subreddit across the entire country. Easily 40-50. Spending something like 10 hours a day banning people and deleting threads/comments according to their narrow view of how people should think and what news is worthy of being seen, even though they clearly had no ties to the locals.

I’ve never seen the latter 2 on reddit and I’ve been a user for many years.

You're also probably a decent human being and not searching for that kind of stuff. That does not mean it does not exist on reddit, sadly. Reddit as a company, however, is doing nothing against it, or not enough

You get out of Reddit what you put in or look for most of the time, and well, some people are apparently looking for the scum from the bottom of the Internet, so they find it.

Obviously those are different people

Valid criticism, updated my comment.

We are the Reddit. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your tornadofart distinctiveness to our own.

Wat ?

i think he's talking about rape 'fantasy' subreddits and women using dogs for sex

Pretty sure they banned both?

Sadly no. They banned specific threads / subreddits, not the content.

They banned most of the proper feminist subreddits and just left the ones that pander to males. No surprise they're hands off on all the porn subreddits that debase women as well.

The only reason they started removing the absolute worst porn subs is that it started getting them negative media attention for hosting "jail bait" and similar. Though they did give the guy who ran those an actual physical award, back in the day. Woman-hating pedophiles, the lot of them.

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