Sometimes I legit need the site for niche things. Asked for advice about an AirBNB. This time I had literal fecal water coming up from the shower drain. The host claimed it was impossible. I had him come into my unit and flush the toilet and he saw the water come up.
Half the replies were about me clogging the toilet (lol) so it was my fault. Others were saying plumbing issues can be common and to be patient with the host. Had some other replies just straight up calling me dishonest and saying I broke the drain somehow.
Looked into their profiles, low and behold they were all on real estate subs, wall street bets, landlord subs, air bnb host subs, etc. You get the picture. And there were enough of them to sort of shift the narrative in the replies.
Fucking gross and annoying. Just wanted to vent. Got my host to at least start working on the problem. Based on a little snooping the host is a toolbag who got a little inheritance so that bought a place he can barely afford. So he does the plumbing and maintenance all himself while living here. He can't actually afford to be doing this, but the profits are too good to pass up!
So he does the plumbing and maintenance all himself while living here.
Lmao, the biggest of red flags
The trick is to spend a thousand hours blocking everyone from the bad subreddits
Reddit is a website designed for people with unlimited free time, which under capitalism means it's for rich white dudes, but those who are not so rich that they wouldn't want to accidentally bump elbows with normal people.
While initially that meant it was a haven for techbros and nerdy teens because they were the only ones terminally online enough to spend so much time on a website, as other social media fully captured more people (especially those with nothing to do) it began to attract other groups. Finance dudes. Landlords. Small business owners. Trust fund kids. Feds who are paid to post propaganda. Weird perverts.
A cottage industry of people popped up, producing content specifically for some of the worst people in society. This continued to attract other people who were just there for funny pictures and porn. These people mostly stick to their own subreddits and are mostly "lurkers." Women are largely relegated to being a posting underclass, they produce content and are seen more as a resource to be mined for content than actual human beings with opinions. Upvote distribution reflects this.
All power posters and generally most posters there are just the dudes with jobs that let them spend the entire workday on Reddit: feds, creeps, and "passive income" ghouls, with an undercurrent of techbros and queer people who got addicted to posting in now-banned or dying communities.
Reddit is a website for landlords.
Btw for anyone who is like "that's a thing? How do you fix it?" The fix is expensive to do correctly if you own the building, but pretty cheap to fix the wrong way if you don't. The wrong way is buy two bottles of drain cleaner and pour it in small batches down the bathtub and/or sink if you think they are attached until the problem goes away. My landlord was gonna make me pay for it to be done the right way but after doing it the wrong way I told them it magically went away on its own. Cost me like 40 bucks. Whatever. I hope the pipes explode after I leave fuck landlords
It's bad for the environment and probably pouring acid down your pipes for hours is not good for them either. The right way is to snake it but thats something a plumber should do and that's expensive.
Reddit this
Reddit that
Can't we talk about Instagram or something?
I sometimes forget that much of this community comes from, well, Reddit.
posts in an instance originally started as a lifeboat community for the infamous chapotraphouse sub that got banned for actually threatening narrative hegemony on Reddit
Complains about the community coming mostly from Reddit
Hey I'm as self-loathing as every other ex-redditor, but I don't question the forces of nature that put us together here.
arr slash chapotraphouse is a subreddit about being gay with your dad
Okay, sure. Instagram is an absolute cesspit. The comments on every damn thing are some form of bigotry. It's insane how fucking right wing everyone there is. It's not in the usual libshit way, but like actually denying people's existence, or calling groups animals. Racist old talking points that should have died out in my grandparents generation. I try to scroll to let it know I don't want to see it, but it's just everywhere. I follow several left wing creators and it just doesn't matter. It's one of the worst fucking apps I've ever used. The algorithm also sucks compared to tic tok. I wouldn't even use it if you could easily download videos to send on other places.
Wait, really?
I'm using it and there are a lot of accounts that are left-wing, but I get that we may be the minority there.
hmm. I swear the comments used to be filled with garbage like that. Maybe the algorithm finally learned I don't like that stuff, or maybe they've started moderating more. I definitely remember them being pretty awful (that's why I stopped reading them/using Instagram less), but I couldn't find anything like that after a little bit of scrolling.
Looked into their profiles, low and behold they were all on real estate subs, wall street bets, landlord subs, air bnb host subs, etc. You get the picture. And there were enough of them to sort of shift the narrative in the replies.
reddit is literally a hive of landlords.
I say we invent a national labor program to find constructive uses for our landlords
Reddit is demographically the worst social media website. Even youtube sucks less because they have more poor people and non-white people watching videos there.
I've lived in a lot of places and plumbing is always a problem, especially with older buildings.
