Not one of my usual rants, this time. I just…
It still amazes me how toxic Reddit is. Sure, it’s anonymous, but so is this place, and yet we manage to largely keep it civil, most of the time…
Even in small subs (geographical in particular, but also sports), though, Reddit is just… Fucking vile. Utter hostility on all sides.
And yet, it is still one of the most popular sites on the internet, especially amongst the demographic I “belong to” (white, male, under 30)…
How very fucking sad that is.
Yeah, that’s all I wanted to say.
Glad we got “off” that shithole, even if I stupidly still keep going back to that awful, awful site/place.
Maybe I won’t, after the last couple of weeks.
It’s honestly just extra-shit, anonymous Facebook, now, with the demographics and woke virtue signalling of Twitter and all the simping of Tumblr (and Twitter, of course)…
:-(
This makes me terribly sad, as someone living in a place that lost its only equivalent “pop culture” store (mostly games, but comics and books, too), a few years ago, while I was away…
Oddly enough, the exact, mirror equivalent of what you mention in the nearest city also burned down, a few years ago. Though that was most likely insurance fraud and inadequate fire protection by the neighboring department store, which then burned down half the block of century-old buildings…
Anyway, I posted recently in the local sub that I missed that place, and the pubs we lost to (property) development corruption, and the various other venues that have been… Removed from public access (turned into shitty apartments, international student housing or luxury “private hotels” that you can’t even walk into, etc.).
The local sub treated me like I was absolute trash. Like, not just an idiot, or just “wrong”, but some Uber-conservative backward “NIMBY” standing in the way of “inevitable progress”, “a fairer society” and “what people (i.e. Reddit) akshually want”… Even though some of them admitted they didn’t even live here, or had only moved here recently.
Oh, and then they banned me. For “offensive language”, after I called out some of the commenters for vested interests (they were exposed as working for the University).
So… I feel that, and I really, really get it (even if the context isn’t quite the same), lol… Sadly.