Thank you spez for freeing me of my reddit habit. Shoutout /r/neography for being the chillest hobby subreddit. I will miss looking at other people's weird ways of writing but it's for the best.

Do you have anything you'll miss from reddit?

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I'll miss the tech support advice and actually being able to talk to real people about problems with tech instead of some robot or sales person/official employee who knows shit about fuck.

    Won't miss all the pedantic condescending nerds that embody the Dunning Kruger effect though lol.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Won't miss all the pedantic condescending nerds that embody the Dunning Kruger effect though lol.

      If a program automatically blocked replies that started with "Um," you'd have cut down on pedantic condescending nerd messages by almost half. yea

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          It wouldn't stop the links to crisis prevention hotlines and/or "who hurt you?" concern trolling responses, though. very-intelligent

    • THC
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      1 year ago

      The two sides of the reddit gold coin lmao, fully agree

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        No other subreddit embodied these two sides more than the formula 1 subreddit lol. We'd get AMAs from ex F1 engineers, current drivers, articles about leaked designs, with great information about the racecars and the sport. And then some jackass would show up in the comments peddling the popular Reddit narrative of the time and get hundreds of upvotes, while the actual experts got downvoted lmao.

        Imagine working for your entire life to get to the top of your career field as a race car/vehicle dynamicist, just to get downvoted by cringe redditors because you said that there was no such thing as the Mercedes superpower engine in 2021 💀.

        • YEP [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          My favorite random conspiracy at the back half of 21 on that sub was "They obviously took all of botas engines gave them to Hamilton and turned them all the way up !!!!!!!!!!"

          They also complained endlessly about Twitter when they are just as baby brained, very funny.

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            Yeah a verified F1 vehicle dynamicist, that actually works in F1, came onto the subreddit to debunk the "They obviously took all of botas engines gave them to Hamilton and turned them all the way up !!!!!!!!!!" stuff, by stating the facts that every Mercedes customer would have access to Hamiltons engine maps due to a rule change after 2016/17ish that forced engine suppliers to make that information public and accessible, and that the McLaren team principal at the time (Sedil I think) said there was nothing unusual about Hamiltons engine and throttle map. They got downvoted to the bottom lmao.

        • 187_Invitation [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          The sports subs were the absolute worst. Just a constant stream of changing of the hivemind back and forth on certain topics while also being incredibly smug. I was so glad to see how made they were after the subs closed.

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            They are also the most entitled babies, instantly started moaning and scabing after the Reddit blackout. Most of them have to be teenagers

            • 187_Invitation [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Yep pretty much. Its okay for seeing news all in one place but comments are terrible. Why would you want to see every iteration off "haha rival team you lost and suck!" Even when I was a child it got old pretty quickly.

    • LaughingLion [any, any]
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      1 year ago

      those subs were great

      "why is path of exiles crashing when i log in"

      "probably your power supply you need to buy a new one"

      awesome advice

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        "Um... Google it much?" debatebro-l

        "It's almost as if Googling it would have answered that very easy question." galaxy-brain

        "Get out of here with your facts and reason." very-intelligent