Reddit's downfall is a major disruption in the internet, of course everyone is going to talk about it, especially considering most of us are coming from there. Chill, bro!
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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Arguably one of the most important sites too. People had accounts for week over a decade, they're rightly pissed when a place you used to love turns to shit because some dropkick CEO wants to pump his upcoming IPO
Yup. It was very different back around 2011 when I made my account.
It was a hard first month not going there but I’m pretty over it now.
I am very chill my friends.
Just exercising my right to express myself. If that goes against what you believe it doesn’t mean that I’m mad or vexed.
You think my reply goes against your believe in the freedom of expressing yourself? Lol, I think I'll have to say it again: Chill, bro!
No, I don’t.
I was merely pointing out that just because you don’t agree that we should see less of it mentioned that I am not chill, when in fact I’m more chill than frosty the snowman.
You have a wonderful day brother.
You too, mate!
It's interesting that you're exercising your right to tell people to stop exercising theirs....
Can was there operative word I used. It wasn’t telling people anything.
I was merely hoping to start a discussion.
Start a discussion about not discussing it? Right. Brilliant move. Your responses so far haven't even been on the topic you wanted to start/stop. It's been replying mainly about defending your ability to complain, even though most of it is in contradiction to your stated goals.
Chill people usually don't go straight to waving their constitutional rights in other people's faces at the first sign of any minor disagreement.
When the goto defense is that it's not illegal, you're pretty much admitting you have a terrible position and already know it.
"I am going to create a discussion about a thing I would like people to stop discussing"
It's like saying "smoking should be forbidden" and the lighting a cigarette.
Hey, I gotta try make some content on here. Haha
Except OP is starting a meta discussion about Reddit discussions, not a direct discussion about Reddit. I don't necessarily agree with OP, but you've crafted an artificial contradiction using a false equivalence. I'd be happier if we left the Reddit-tier logic back where it belongs.
Fine, I'll stop talking about 9gag. Sheesh.
Do you remember, when even once 9gag was actually a good platform and not destroyed by money? Pepperidge farm remembers.
Honestly, I dont
I sincerely wish people would use the block feature, rather than keep making threads complaining about content/communities they don't like to see.
I have done that but I am still allowed to have a discussion.
Some people made some valid points against my sentiment, I would not have gotten that had I not posted.
For me it’s important to see opposing views, otherwise what’s the point.
Than make a post about having a discussion. Not a declarative statement of what needs to happen and a subjective sentiment delivered in objective format. You don't start a discussion about immediately saying others are wrong.
Than make a post about having a discussion. Not a declarative statement of what needs to happen and a subjective sentiment delivered in objective format. You don't start a discussion about immediately saying others are wrong.
I thought the word can was asking a question. Had I used something like you must stop it would have been different.
Every other post is about that site. It’s like getting a new girlfriend but constantly talking about your ex.
Where is the question? If you were sincere, which I don't think you are, you could have worded it much better. For example: "Is it better if we do not talk about that site...?"
Sincere question, how do I use the block feature, I mean, can we filter out certain words? I only know of blocking of users.
On kbin and I think most major lemmy instances, you can block communities, so if you don't want to see content from them, say redditmigration posts, you can filter the whole community. That won't stop you from say seeing it in unrelated communities, in which case blocking the users who keep bring it up reduces visibility of the topic even more. Finally setting your default page to your subs rather than top reduces the visibility of unwanted topics even more.
I don't mind it. In fact as a person who spent countless hours at Reddit over the past 6+ years I'm very much interested on what's going on there despite the fact that I'm no longer using the platform.
...No? It's relevant news.
Seems like it'd be more odd if there wasn't news about it.
Removing per rule #4.
You’re talking about it right now!
hey guys stop talking about the thing that i just made a post about but won’t name and therefore is not about that thing that i’m complaining about.
if you want to see better content, create it. you’re making it worse by posting about it yourself.
Akin to saying the same thing a third of the commenters said.
No
It gets to be a lot, but you can just filter out the obviously Reddit-centered communities/mags/whatever a lot of the time.
I don't mind those posts. But I am on the other hand slowly getting bothered by your kind of posts. They seem to be posted more often than any other reddit related news/shittalking.
Im sorry that they bother you and I hope you cast your vote to show this.
That said I’ve not seen too many posts like this, not that I don’t believe there are many.
Have a nice day.
DAE hate old site????? xDDDdD
Just ignore it or block it and move on. No need for the same post everyday.
At 120 up and 60 down I would argue that the majority are happy with the post.
I appreciate your point, however - if you wish for this series of communities to succeed, it needs to be welcoming to newcomers. And one of the ways of doing that is allowing for a continuation of conversations that were on the source communities - including, "Oh, we're getting out", "Why it's so bad", "Where do we go to", "How do we make the new community look/feel like I'm used to", etc. etc.
I'm happy to see this because it means that a corrupt and non-people-focussed environment is losing members. Like anything, it will pass, but please don't push people away by making them feel unwelcome.
I see your point, but you could be making me feel unwelcome (you’re not).
I was asking a question based on the content I want to see. I am not saying people can’t do this or that. I’m just initiating a discussion.
Whether people agree with me or not is fine. I respect that other people have other opinions.
That's fair enough. I didn't read it as "initiating a discussion", more "get off my lawn". That may, however, be me - I'm coming off my meds and it's making me grumpy.
No, it was absolutely "get off my lawn." They didn't say let's talk about it. They just said it needed to stop. They didn't introduce it as an opinion. They wrote it as something that needs to happen. If they wanted to start a discussion, they're terrible at communication and they're going to make people feel unwelcome with their approach to communication.
Aww I’m sorry to hear that and I hope things get better.
It’s hard to say how things will be perceived, and it’s difficult to gauge tone in peoples text.
It's easy. Introduce opinions as opinions. Not the way you did it. You didn't say "I feel..." or "let's discuss XYZ". You said "can this stop? It is like yada yada yada." Not, "in my opinion.". You stated it as fact. It's easy to know how something will be perceived if you think about it from any other perspective than your own and just know the definition of words and how to communicate. And your first and immediate defense wasn't "let's discuss" it was about your right to complain. That's quite possibly the weakest defense of any possible stance that anyone is capable of making. Your go-to defense was that it simply wasn't illegal to say it. That's absolutely weak.
This sounds like a You issue. You interpreted my meaning incorrectly.
Can is a perfectly acceptable way of asking a question and not a demand.
, he said, contributing.