Stop going on Reddit. :funny-clown-hammer: you have been it with a large funny clown hammer.
Check out this peak Reddit post
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Check out what r/neoliberal said about
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You won’t believe what redditors are saying about Ukraine
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Le redditors post epic bacon
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Stop going on Reddit.
My position formerly was that those of us whose mental health was not at stake, actually should continue to go on reddit and argue with libs, chuds, feds, whatever. Not because we would change the minds of those we're arguing with but because of the countless lurkers who would see our arguments and the seeds that would then be planted. And please stfu up with "omg this guy thinks posting is praxis! har har!" because the pipeline I followed to land on /r/chapotraphouse and then here was because I was a lurker watching those arguments and I could identify the good faith and the sensical and empathetic from the bad faith, cruel, and nihilistic bullshit. And I know there were many others like me. How many of you were libs who were fortunate enough to read some good "tankie" arguments and started thinking about the implications?
That said, we really have been shut down now. Systematically. Anything that goes against the predominant neolib narrative in any major subreddit, and a vast majority of the smaller ones, is immediately silenced one way or another. We not only get downvoted to oblivion, dogpiled with flames, shadowbanned, or just regular banned, they're doing petty shit like literally not making our up/downvotes count anywhere else on the site. (I know that's inconsequential, but it's something they do that they don't admit to that just pisses me off). So yeah... at this point, it's not even worth trying to have arguments for the sake of the lurkers - as I used to always advocate for. I still say, if you think you can be heard, go there and spout some fucking truth. But they're making it so that truth can't even be heard anymore.
I don't have a fucking clue, but maybe for those of you who still are interested in trying to win over or at least sway some terminally-online hearts & minds might consider advocating for reddit alternatives. There's always hexbear to mention, but probably better just to start spamming about the lemmy fediverse. Instead of trying to engage in arguments on reddit (like I recently would have said was a good thing to do), start trying to draw the marginally open-minded people away from that cesspit of indoctrination towards places where lurkers can once again hear a counternarrative.
I just hate "giving up" on such a massive tool of propaganda like reddit is, and leaving it entirely for the three-letter agencies to infiltrate completely without repudiation - something they've been striving for and why they banned chapo and why they're getting rid of GZD, et al. Just..... propaganda works, people. Pipelines are real. We need to establish some fucking pipelines instead of letting them have them all! Gah.
I have to admit I'm not entirely clear on what you're saying. (?) I agree it may well be time to stop trying to argue on reddit but only because they're making it so that our arguments cannot be seen by more than two people before they're deleted and we're banned. Horrible people are going to be spreading horrible takes, like you said, and if we can circumvent that in any meaningful way, it would be a good thing for us to do so (for those of us that are inclined, and who won't suffer much from the ways in which that may be detrimental to mental health). Doomscrolling is, for better or worse, very addictive, you're totally right. But when I doomscroll here on Hexbear, I get a much more accurate idea of what doom is ahead of me and what remaining avenues might be left, however unlikely, to avert it. The goal is to get those few people with a lobe or two of brain left uninfected with brainworms to see this, and join up with us instead of just eating the neolib lie-slop that would be the only thing they're otherwise being fed.
As for petty hostility, yeah... that never helps anyone ever. I think I need to read the rest of the thread more closely, I just kind of skimmed it, but so far as I can tell, you and I are in agreement.
for reddit posts can I gently ask you to consider posting a screenshot and putting a link in the body? want to see what you're talking about but not as excited to load reddit to do it
Not just three letter agencies, but think tanks and political entities and local police too. For example, I'm in an MMA hole right now and I just stumbled over this post by the cop who knocked out Kimbo Slice once: WARNING: REDDIT
So many anti-left groups with such deep pockets.
You should be making propaganda on tiktok or wherever people go. Reddit is a dying social media format.
What’s the next tiktok? I aim to get in on the ground floor and contaminate it full of communist filth.
For a guy who was saying “touch grass” a little higher in the thread, you sure have revealed yourself to be in need for some grass touching yourself
This.
Calling others smug assholes after doing the "touch grass" schtick is laughable. The sweeping pronouncements and insults don't make ya seem more enlightened or less-redditor-esq
Talking about reddit doesn't help anyone, not talking about it we can at least save ourselves
Unless you can permanently destroy reddit (please do) that's a bad analogy
I may have put that badly, what I mean is:
-destroying pol is the only way to deal with it
-if you believe pol is analogous to reddit, that's the only way to deal with reddit also
-posting screencaps from r/news is not going to destroy reddit, maybe the opposite
Just from my forum experiences (not a 4chan user): The nazi trolls failed when mods and admins deleted, banned and punished them with prejudice
Not one of them was defeated by people epically arguing with them forum style
I hardly use reddit at all anymore but that's exactly the reason I appreciate people posting bad reddit takes here. Hexbear is the only social media I use regularly so if not for comms like the dunk tank I'd have no idea what the wider internet is actually thinking.
Plus if we don't regularly dunk on and laugh at the libs, the overwhelming consensus against leftism both in real life and elsewhere on the internet eventually starts to make me feel like a fringe weirdo for being a communist.
Like, I get using it for niche forum stuff, but only subscribe to those subs and ignore the rest of the garbage.
I just go on for r/TrueAnon and they have a really niche west coast underground hip hope subreddit I'm into.
Is hip hope a thing or did you just get auto corrected on hip hop? ::*search engine commencing....::
Result: "Hip-hope cushions falls to prevent fractures in elderly"
Kinda a thing.
"Stop using this particular social media, only use this other social media"
:brainworms:
Like, use the niche forums by all means, but unsubscribe from all of the garbage.
Broke: Stop going on Reddit
Woke: Stop going on the internet
Bespoke: Stop going...
But this website's audience loves being outraged by things. If people stopped posting outrageous reddit takes, they wouldn't get that good feeling. You want people to feel bad?
We always need to have something outside of ourselves to be enraged about or else we'll just need to start cannibalizing each other.
I hate it when i see Reddit linked or screenshotted here. If i wanted to see stupid people on reddit I’d go there. It’s not outrageous: people on Reddit are stupid. Get over it.
Deleting your reddit account is the mental health equivalent of going vegan: you're just sort of instantly healthier
