Reddit is far gone. It's an extremist hellhole. You can't "be water" there, they'll sniff you out in an instant and ban you for no reason, just for not liking who you are.

Twitter has rules and centralized moderation by people who are at least internally accountable and get a paycheck, so they couldn't just get rid of people just for questioning the narrative. They had to at least pretend to have a law. But on reddit the mods are all powerful. I've been banned for the most milquetoast of reasons; for jokes, for observations, for asking questions.

It really ramped up during the riots. Anywhere they sensed that someone might be even the slightest bit anti-narrative they banned. Perm bans for dissidents, temp bans to scare the normies into compliance, and shadow removal of posts to make normies think that everyone believes the same things.

The result is that only NPCs are left, riling each other up to new heights of banality. The groupthink is actually remarkable. The syntax they use very predictable. And every thread they return to their hate objects de jour. Because hate is the strongest control mechanism, and ideological groups turn to hate to keep each other in line.

Reddit has become the greatest propaganda tool ever known, and it's all because of the mod system where the always online fanatics of SRS could, over years, spread and take control over a forum they deeply hated, and then use that hatred to shred it apart and instill fear and totalitarian control.

Reddit, which used to be centrist, is what happens when you drive away all opposition, all dissent, all intellectual challenge, and you instill people with a sense of fear for disagreement. Any large sub is now just a festering rotting place of hate, vitriol, sarcasm, sadism, and depression.

Topic -> hate object(s) to blame for Topic OR hate object(s) to blame for vaguely related Topic -> expressions of hate for the hate objects -> despair and depression because the hate objects exist -> nothing good can ever happen as long as hate objects exist -> hate objects are to blame for all the evils -> capitalism is bad and hate objects only exist because of capitalism.

Repeat ad nauseum.

The irony is that they look at this place like that. But the reality is that this place is quite relaxing. There's no feeling of groupthink, but rather of shared interests. Low censorship counteracts ideological thinking. Keeping the extremists around moderates everyone else. It's amazing that the people who frequent places where hatred is the most dominant emotion, think of places like kia as hateful, while really the most frequent emotions here are probably melancholy and nostalgia.

Everyone is here for different reasons. It's a weird mishmash of outcasts. We all disagree, we have dissidents, lunatics, weirdos, zealots, you argue with one guy one day and upvote him the next because even people you disagree with have good insights.

And that's what reddit is missing; the insights. Because that's what you trade away when you become a hivemind. Reddit is now just infinitely boring and predictable, hateful and sadistic, and sometimes useful if you're researching the best temp to cook your steak or which bike to buy.

Reddit is far gone. It's an extremist hellhole. You can't "be water" there, they'll sniff you out in an instant and ban you for no reason, just for not liking who you are.

Twitter has rules and centralized moderation by people who are at least internally accountable and get a paycheck, so they couldn't just get rid of people just for questioning the narrative. They had to at least pretend to have a law. But on reddit the mods are all powerful. I've been banned for the most milquetoast of reasons; for jokes, for observations, for asking questions.

It really ramped up during the riots. Anywhere they sensed that someone might be even the slightest bit anti-narrative they banned. Perm bans for dissidents, temp bans to scare the normies into compliance, and shadow removal of posts to make normies think that everyone believes the same things.

The result is that only NPCs are left, riling each other up to new heights of banality. The groupthink is actually remarkable. The syntax they use very predictable. And every thread they return to their hate objects de jour. Because hate is the strongest control mechanism, and ideological groups turn to hate to keep each other in line.

Reddit has become the greatest propaganda tool ever known, and it's all because of the mod system where the always online fanatics of SRS could, over years, spread and take control over a forum they deeply hated, and then use that hatred to shred it apart and instill fear and totalitarian control.

Reddit, which used to be centrist, is what happens when you drive away all opposition, all dissent, all intellectual challenge, and you instill people with a sense of fear for disagreement. Any large sub is now just a festering rotting place of hate, vitriol, sarcasm, sadism, and depression.

Topic -> hate object(s) to blame for Topic OR hate object(s) to blame for vaguely related Topic -> expressions of hate for the hate objects -> despair and depression because the hate objects exist -> nothing good can ever happen as long as hate objects exist -> hate objects are to blame for all the evils -> capitalism is bad and hate objects only exist because of capitalism.

Repeat ad nauseum.

The irony is that they look at this place like that. But the reality is that this place is quite relaxing. There's no feeling of groupthink, but rather of shared interests. Low censorship counteracts ideological thinking. Keeping the extremists around moderates everyone else. It's amazing that the people who frequent places where hatred is the most dominant emotion, think of places like kia as hateful, while really the most frequent emotions here are probably melancholy and nostalgia.

Everyone is here for different reasons. It's a weird mishmash of outcasts. We all disagree, we have dissidents, lunatics, weirdos, zealots, you argue with one guy one day and upvote him the next because even people you disagree with have good insights.

And that's what reddit is missing; the insights. Because that's what you trade away when you become a hivemind. Reddit is now just infinitely boring, hateful and sadistic, and sometimes useful if you're researching the best temp to cook your steak or which bike to buy.