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shufflerofrockson Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness

I find myself doing this more often recently. I enjoy posting/discussing/debating, but it's hostile right now on social media - it's exhausting.

You can't have a discussion with someone who wants to "gotcha" you for clout

shufflerofrockson Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed – study

Kindered soul here. People are way too aggressive about this stuff, and not even in an objective manner.

Tedious is the perfect word for it.

shufflerofrockson Reddit shares plunge 25% in two days, finish the week below first day close

I swear, Reddit had a golden goose:

- their software stack was relatively simple and easy to maintain

- their moderators were volunteers who worked for free & loved their job (as opposed to FB who are hiring them for 30/hour)

- their expenditures were very low for a company of that scale.

- third-party developers built great apps for free and boosted the site, and this was when Reddit team didn't have the resources to build a proper app of their own (they ended up acquiring Alien Blue, one of the favorite apps of that time and adopted it as their mobile client)

They had a huge presence for minimal expenditure, and they let it all go with more & more short-sighted decisions. Quite sad to see something just decay like this.

shufflerofrockson Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe

That's important context then.

Using Canva for a design assignment is obviously a mis-step by the student, not a flaw of the tool itself

For short-term & quick usage, canva is a perfectly fine tool for editing/formatting stuff

shufflerofrockson The Reddits

For real, reddit introduced me to so many new ideas & concepts as a dumbass teen, and helped me a huge amount in getting through tough times.

I definitely would’ve been a different person today if I hadn’t found reddit, sad to see it is a shallower former-shell of what it was

shufflerofrockson The Reddits

Completely agree with you.

My circle & I have stopped reddit on phone almost completely.

So many active posters have left reddit, that it is a shell of what it previously was. Some of my favorite subreddits have become inactive and shallower, to the point that admins are actively boosting up alternate subreddits

From what I can gather, the large majority of the remaining active users in the site are people who use reddit as alternative to 9Gag & Porn sites - prolly hyperbole, but that is what the new r/all felt like

shufflerofrockson Don't fuck with paste

Lol it is for this exact problem that I added one more shortcut to my script

Ctrl+8 will paste in the latest item on my clipboard, and honestly it has been so helpful that I'm quite elated.

I recommend others running a userscript for themselves, this extension is awesome, but it's something that can be broken again and again. not really a permanent solution