On r/SteamDeck: Upcoming Harry Potter game is verified on Valve's handheld, comments inevitably turn to how Rowling wants delusional genderspecials dead. Thread locked and removed by mods (because hateful content).

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[–]clownworlddropout 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Interesting. Maybe the tides are shifting on Reddit too.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Reddit is dying. You can look at the activity across the whole site and it's way down outside of the few super popular subreddits where you can't be sure what is and is not a bot.

For the most part the whole site has become a kind of circlejerk , normies are either getting banned or leaving, and it's increasingly leaving a very small insular and stereotypical, "reddit mod" type as the only kind of user remaining.

The site is increasingly more and more difficult to use as you'll just get banned for even the most pedestrian shit. Seems that the moderation style of choice for many is an immediate permanent ban without warning then ignoring any appeals. Pretty much every sub eventually gets taken over by mods that want to keep their little kingdom ideologically pure, even if that's something as benign as not being super enthused about some new TV show the mod likes.

Granted, I suspect that most entertainment subreddits are at this point controlled by corporate interests directly.

I'm not sure the tides have shifted because I'm not sure there was ever a grassroots movement on this. It all seems like very online concerns by people with political motivations and fundraising intentions. I've barely seen it spill over into my real life save some whom are a bit too into the Twitter Drama. It just got picked up by the 24 hour news much like how the bearded lady is an attraction to monetize at a freakshow.

[–]Caessium 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I certainly hope this is the case because social media replacing forums was a tragedy. The Internet should never have been centralized to the point where several corporations effectively dictate what billions of people are allowed to talk about.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

COVID pushed loads of people online due to boredom and basically made more people realize how crazy people online are. Forced the issue really. Back in the late aughts when reddit was still kinda nerdy and lame we couldn't mention any of this shit we saw online to anyone older and not in the know cause you'd not be able to explain it in a way that didn't make you look totally insane. Unfortunately the spread of it has increased the insanity but basically everyone I know uses redditor as a synonym for idiot now.

They might still browse the site for the lulz but nobody respects what they see there.

And as reddit Facebook and everything else self-destructs well, people will just move onto something else. Like Digg and Myspace they were relevant until they weren't. Cycle will keep cycling. Soon as a site gets too big for any one person to follow then it will get bought out or taken over and the control freaks will kill the golden goose.

[–]Dzonatan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The instant ban is something that really blows me away as an old shit.

In the olden times, early 00s when phpBB forums were still a thing, the process usually involved getting a warning that displayed next to your avatar and a mod PM. Usually when someone had a big ugly red sign next to their pretty avatar image it would serve as a warning to others and a mark of shame for the offender. A month or so would need to past before it would wear off, If you were being an ass again you would get a second warning and if the behaviour was still there than you'd get a ban that maybe lasted 3 months to let you simmer down and recollect yourself.

Nowadays? Small breach, perma BLAM!, Like WH40k commissar except they forgot the irony.

I recently watched this video and one detail clicked with me: low testosterone.

These people really have no skin.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Doubt it, entirely too many people spewing their "Rowling is TERF, she's trying to kill us all" crap that when unchecked and upvoted. But anything resembling sanity was downvoted into the center of the Earth.

Plus, the top mod comment is to OP directly, and calls out the usual blather about harmful content, blah, blah, blah.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've noticed that. At the very least, there's growing awareness of the censorious nature of Reddit. Hell, they just banned r/star_trek. for wrongthink.

My home town's Reddit page has become increasingly politicized, and the Reddit mods will ban anyone who 'misgenders'. They even posted a warning about how it's not OK to not support drag storytimes. Of course, you won't see much disagreement publicly, since you'll just get banned, but it's become impossible for people to ignore.

I really want Elon Musk to take over Reddit.