I just referred to Brussels sprouts as cabbage tots

@mattblaze @brunoph There was a storm incoming, so they went a day early. Better sinking it on your own terms than nature’s.

Totally - “jailbait”, beatingwomen, rapingwomen and creepshots were also fetish subs. The more you know 💫

@carnage4life an uncountable amount of compute time (and thus energy) spent to make a worse (performance, feature set, usability) version of something that already exists in open source. Sounds like the future indeed.

Alv si es el compayito

I didn’t know about this sub but now am horrified and unsurprised.

SVU shit happened there. It wasn’t just actors or consensual bs from some freaks. It was, compare that girl to the girl on the missing posters on vicap and the fbi missing people posts shit.

Then the Arabics found the place. They began auctions of their “concubines” giving their real cell numbers.

You forgot the Slavetrade sub. Where they’d post pictures of women that appeared to be have been tortured in cages for sale.

@Xibanya she's missing the arrow: <--
:3

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#tech #technology #news #technews #politics #uspol #flock #donations #bribes

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the RAMPANT sexism and racism as thinly veiled intellectualism that has gone on for DECADES

This what I came to associate with reddit.

This kind of very super shallow toxic intellectualism that consisted mostly of call-and-responses opinions play-acted in weird rituals really wore on me. Even the more organic conversations were more like people just slapping opinions at eachother.

Not that we’re immune to ANY of this. Our smaller scale and decentralisation sidesteps the issue a bit, though. For now anyway.

The API thing and forced logins is probably one of the least shitty things this site has done.

Cannot agree more. That was shitty, but the turds had already filled the bowl.

宮崎県

#tokyocameraclub

Anyone remember how redditors thought the „most evil“ subreddit on the site wasn’t any of those but „ShitRedditSays“ which made fun of them while pointing out how awful they were? What a website.

@photoncollector This day is very triggering for living war survivors like me & my family. We're surrounded by ignorant folks who glorify their "war heroes" - who are mass murderers. It's surreal seeing people celebrate mass murders in any way.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

Reddit was always shitty from when

• The only reason the jailbait sub came down was do to main stream media pressure - if you missed jailbait was a “SFW” sub for posting reveling photos of other people’s children to be gooned over. It was voted “Subreddit of the year” in 2008

• the mod who ran jailbait was an ICON on reddit for years and he also modded dozens of other equally questionable subs

• The insane redditor backlash to them banning FatPeopleHate sub - which for those who missed it was a sub dedicated to posting photos of overweight people without their knowledge so the internet could mock them. This was mostly made up of - yes you guessed it - mostly photos of fat women getting mocked.

• Leaving up the BeatingWomen sub that is specifically for posting videos of women getting beat up for 10+ more years after jailbait came down.

• leaving up the Creepshots sub, a sub dedicated to upskirt and down-shirt photos of unsuspecting women, for YEARS and only taking it down due to to it hitting the main stream news and forcing their hand. This sub was also modded by the Jailbait mod.

• the RAMPANT sexism and racism as thinly veiled intellectualism that has gone on for DECADES

• Ghislaine Maxwell was a moderator on worldnews - I cannot back this claim up so I am removing it.

The API thing and forced logins is probably one of the least shitty things this site has done.

i dont see any goofy self promotion videos on lemmy the way reddit has them. there is just less HailCorporate crap here. and the fixed-by-the-duet garbage that is just really uninteresting except WHEN LOUDLY YELLED AT YOU.