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[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Meme user accounts. Keep the comments relevant to the post.

[–] 4burgers@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I liked that guy that wrote poems, but the other ones were bad

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[–] ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (16 children)

/s on stuff that's so obviously sarcastic. The begining of that to me was a big indicator for how stupid the reddit userbase had become.

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair, that stemmed from an inability to sense tone through text. It doesn't matter if something seems obviously sarcastic to you, other people don't know you, or your sense of humor, and are more likely just to think you're an asshole or blatantly wrong

[–] RufusFirefly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Poe's Law does run a bit rampant on Reddit

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[–] fiat_lux@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dehumanisation. I feel as though people are increasingly becoming ok with other people being punished for their involvement in something that is genuinely wrong/evil/bad. But the people experiencing the steepest punishments are almost never the people with significant culpability for the wrong/evil/bad decisions.

"Just following orders" might not be a great excuse, but punishing pawns for a king's choices isn't an effective deterrent or remedy either.

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[–] fiat_lux@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] May@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah i agree. It was a very sad thing. And even worse to make light of when you consider the number of people who become imprisoned for minor things or even wrongly. If prison rpe is so prevalent as Reddit jokes made it seem, it wouldn't only happen to people who those making the jokes believe 'deserve it' (which, also, is awful to think about rpe.) I remember learning in class about David Milgaard, and he wrote about his experiences, including that violation. I wonder if those who joked "they'll love (random young guy in publicfreakouts video) in prison" even know or care how awful r*pe really is. It's really something that should be prevented.

[–] AndreTelevise@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

"Third reply downvotes" and other types of bullying done for absolutely no reason. Also, people misleading others to disgusting communities just to troll them, for example (and I am paraphrasing the names of the communities): "misspell the community's name to c/vercute instead of c/verycute and you accidentally get a sub full of gore" or "check out c/audioing, it's definitely not people doing a very disgusting thing to one of their body parts". I do, however, like the fact they're bringing the whole subreddit swap meme - for example: on Reddit we have had r/trees and r/marijuana_enthusiasts and I've seen that implemented into Lemmy instances already. I wouldn't get rid of that, I think there are some traditions that are neat and don't harm anybody.

[–] Poob@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Posting clips of TV shows to places like r/funny

[–] Lightsong@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] philz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

“This.”

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Username doesn't check out

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