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    SETWARD DOMENICA: Perché le persone si affollano a Reddit man mano che il resto di Internet peggiora

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    2. killianm97 on

      Reddit feels like the last bastion against enshittification of social media tbh. It still allows for more open discussions instead of hate-filled disinformation and extremism with people shouting past eachother.

      But Reddit like all private commercial social media companies is intentionally making the service worse in order to maximise profit. They have started using recommender systems in order to promote the most hateful and enraging content in order to maximise engagement aka profit. All social media will continue to get worse until we ban all recommender systems on social media.

    4. HugoZHackenbush2 on

      I well remember the day I opened this reddit account. I was prompted for an eight character password, so I chose SnowWhiteandtheSevenDwarfs…

    5. Socks-and-Jocks on

      It’s the only place where you can discuss irish stuff and aren’t immediately bombarded with obvious bots or nutcases talking about invasions of furrigners or the rape of ar country. Etc etc

    7. ShapeyFiend on

      I’m on here forever (and Digg before that) and it’s always been a bit mid to me. Dedicated forums have the edge on it and now those have largely died off I tend to gravitate towards Discord. Twitter and FB have always been kind of bad but I go there to talk to specific people I know and don’t really post myself.

    9. Cruderra on

      Most social media is populated with people whose comments reflect a toxic gloop of black and white agendas and talking points manifesting as block capital rage rants and a mindless, vacuous film of iffy intelligence.

      Used to be you could speak your mind.

      Used to be commentators could change their minds when presented with overwhelming evidence.

      Used to be you could have a back and forth and shake hands figuratively speaking afterwards.

      Used to be …

      Reddit still a nice place. A last bastion of online sanity, mostly. Bad cess to the rest of them.

    10. Competitive_Pause240 on

      Reddit is mostly great tbh, then you go on twitter and realise how many dickheads there are in the world

    11. stevewithcats on

      It’s why I’m here.
      Facebook was a cesspool of antvaxxing dog whistle racism. Twitter was the newsletter of the Neo Nazis .
      And insta made me feel like my body needs 800,000 sit ups .

      The rampant sarcasm and piss taking here is refreshing

    15. boardsmember2017 on

      Yes agree with the article, Reddit is the most welcoming place on the internet (despite the occasional death threat i get in my DMs). It’s definitely where sane sound Irish frequent. Boards has gone to shite due to the moderation being far too loose and too many headbangers. X & FB have become the bottom rung of society just above pond life sadly

    17. Robin_Gr on

      It’s not really anything positive. It’s just the least bad one. The slowest car crash.

    20. Joecalone on

      Great, more scum from TheJournal’s comment section are gonna migrate over here now

    22. Guy-Buddy_Friend on

      Oh the irony, it all depends on whether you’ve taken a side in US politics I suppose.

    23. barfdildo on

      so i’ve been on reddit for about 13/14 years and it’s clear that the very reasons i fled other platforms is starting to take over here also.

      it used to be pretty much an unregulated yet moderated space that would let people come together and discuss all sort of life issues, questions, beliefs.. that’s pretty much gone now.

      i understand that they are now in the place where they are trying to commodify what reddit is but reddit really wasn’t a space that was designed to be commodified.

      anyone who hasn’t seen “the internets own boy” really really should check it out, it’s a wonderful insight into what reddit was founded on.

      r/ireland is still pretty small and isolated from most of what’s happening on here but it’ll eventually make its way here. i’ve seen a number of posts that are definitely motivated to cause fracture and comments reinforcing that.

    24. earth-calling-karma on

      It’s in ribbons, people are idiots. The saving grace is the downvoate. I’m going back to digg.

    25. jaqian on

      I feel that the internet has gotten smaller over the years, there are very few forums left where you can interact with people on different subjects/ interests. This is one of the few places left that is basically a forum type experience. Boards has imploded, CAF and Spymac are dead

    26. fjmie19 on

      Much the same as all the other comments all the others have gone to shit for a while.

      Always feels weird to me to think that I was there (mid to late 30’s) for what I consider the peak of social media.

      There was a time when you could go on Facebook or Bebo / myspace before it  and actually catch up with what was happening in the lives of people you know, and everyone had updates, everyone had new pictures and you actually had an idea about what was happening in people’s lives

      Then Facebook prioritised advertising, then everything became ad, bots and assholes and now anyone real left on Facebook are just there to complain about everything.

      It’s just depressing on Facebook now, Instagram was more geared to following people who liked who were popular rather than just friends but even that now is all really fake scam ads.

      Mark Fuckerberg has never had a clue, I will always maintain he lucked out with one good idea and has spent every day since then trying to ruin it.

    27. DartzIRL on

      Mastadon has some nice people on it.

      The whole world is a lot more misereable than it was a decade ago. Maybe it’s just the algorithm fucking with heads.

    28. EvenResponsibility57 on

      Reddit is just an echochamber. It’s anything but sane and human and doesn’t reflect the beliefs of the average person down in the pub. You just want to find people who don’t challenge your beliefs at all which isn’t how it works in the real world.

      Any increase in usership is likely down to the fact Google is becoming more shit rather than Twitter or Facebook. It’s becoming harder and harder to get anything useful out of Google and searching ‘reddit’ before any search query has become quite the norm for trying to get answers about anything.

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