Australia/NZ-specific subreddits, in particular, were always absolutely fucking awful (everything from city subs, to politics, to finance), but this is worse than even during ‘Rona…
For context, this week the Australian Tax Office (ATO) essentially declared war on small (but not big) business, and said that they will use every tool at their disposal to squeeze every unpaid tax dollar out of said businesses, no matter what consequences that has for insolvencies, the economy, and hell, everything that follows that.
I am not kidding when I say that they literally said “Well, if this destroys more businesses than the GFC, that’s too bad.”
In a normal world, such an announcement would have been treated with… At least some degree of disgust, but not on Reddit. On Reddit, people were literally saying they wished that the ATO could employ lynch mobs. In the AusFinance sub (the irony), they were saying they hope small business owners kill themselves over this, because they clearly deserve to…
It’s pretty crazy to me, to see how toxic this discourse has become.
That place is… Well, it’s probably worse than I ever expected it would become, honestly. And that’s just with me lurking, not even wading back in to discussions again…
I only read reddit when it's found as a search result. The site is 100% bots, trannies and NPCs. Accidentally stumbling onto the unlogged-in frontpage is vomit inducing - they live in a completely separate reality of their own creation.
Curious how much worse it'll get when they IPO.
Remember when they briefly lost control of the algo and the entire front page was T_D?
Reddit usually lies to advertisers claiming more human trafic than reality for all their subs except The Donald.
Imagine underselling ( lying ) your platform to advertisers because you'd rather suppress people for their politics.
In real life or online? I have only seen it online. david-me being the most notorious example.
A lot of responses are some variant of "ur dumb." Sometimes I just respond "no ur dumb." What are you gonna say?
Of at least two dozen times that Reddit appeared in a search result for me, only two of them were ever useful. The rest were either abandoned threads or filled with troll posts or "yours is a stupid question" posts.