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 never posted there but I had already moved away from the site by the thirdish banwave. The bullshit included:
Manipulating r/all because of r/the_Donald and meme magic
Banning r/CringeAnarchy and r/fatpeoplehate for being too based.
Banning various pro-White subs, claiming they were promoting "white supremacy" (the beautiful white women subs and the fragile black sub, which was just a mirror to r/FragileWhiteRedditor, a racist sub which still exists)
Banning r/theredpill and leaving a notice instructing visitors to seek psychiatric help from a group that doesn't actually respect men
And this was before mods nuking entire threads on verboten subjects had become commonplace, and before r/the_Donald was taken out. The place was already too insane for me to tolerate by late 2019 and COVID combined with the opening of communities.win created an out. I explored some other reddit alts but .win was the only decent one.
Reddit will be 100% bots and astroturf eventually, don't look back.
Damn I miss cringeanarchy.
That's when i left reddit.
No offense but this place doesn't even reach that level of fun.
I'm getting old aren't i
I've been trying to keep some of the subs alive:
/c/fatpeoplehate
/c/smuggies
/c/churchofcurrentthing
The problem is that everyone here mostly agrees with each other and there isn't really much of a reason to create very specific niche topics when those posts are appreciated everywhere.
I subbed to fatpeoplehate but there's not a lot of content yet