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I really hope that the political communities don't devolve into just useless name calling.
What I like are the comments that discuss the nuances of politics. Why things happen the way they do and the strategies, OR even other people's takes on a topic.
What Reddit turned into was is an ass or is <Stupid/fascists/baby killers> Or is too old and stupid. Nothing of substance just writing the same thing someone else wrote in the last post. Got really boring.
The smug, smarmy attitude Redditors are known for even when they're obviously wrong.
I don't care about ads on Reddit. They aren't intrusive, although I don't like fake "organic content". I think the worst thing is seeing the same thing over and over again in the same sub, being reposted by bots. It's OK if it's from time to time, but they don't even try to change the title.
Toxic gatekeeping in communities.
Leftie spaces being overtaken by USSR\China\North Korea stans. That just another win for opponents.
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Pun threads. They're not clever. They're the same, old, recycled jokes, and they just get progressively worse with every reply.
Powermods and fat hate. Lizzo is more healthy than 95% of the losers that are so intereted into the "promotion of a healthy role model" and I don't see as many people saying anything about the rampant use of drugs or alcoholism there is in the famous people, so come the fuck on!
AskReddit topics:
"Who is a very popular and esteemed actor but actually is pretty bad at acting?"
"What's a cheap thing that is actually expensive?"
Paywall articles, or articles from "news sites" that are all opinion pieces marauding as factual reporting
Gif’s that end too soon for “comedic value”but too often just end up feeling suuuper unnecessary and contrived.
Just stop that trend already, please. It’s 2023, not 2016.
/u/spez
"On mobile, apologies for bad formatting."
As if posting from a mobile device somehow prevents you from using paragraphs and punctuation? Give me a break. You either can't be bothered, which means you're not worth interacting with; or you had to repeat at least a high school English class or two growing up. Either way you need to stop blaming your fucking phone.
During the final days I spent on the platform, Reddit was starting to become very generic. Many subreddits, despite being about theoretically different topics, devolved into a generic Reddit frontpage community. Even if Lemmy becomes a lot more popular, my hope is that the communities here will stay somewhat distinct and won't become as much of circlejerks.
Circle jerk because of dissenting opinions, regardless of their objective legitimacy, getting downvoted to oblivion
