Yikes. Delete all the social media.
I think you probably need some professional help, and also I think the way you look at social media is very different from how others look at social media.
Reddit isn’t Wikipedia or any type of online encyclopedia. It’s social media. It’s Twitter, it’s Facebook, it’s TikTok, etc
I hate that “touch grass” is a common insult for something more people should be doing, which to go out into the world and get a technical detox.
I hope the author does step away. I’m concerned for their mental health.
I‘m autistic and I usually take „touch grass“ at face value and feel like the person wants me to feel better. I know that’s most likely not the case but it’s how my brain works.
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I hope the author does step away. I’m concerned for their mental health.
Thanks for your concern. I’m sure comments like yours will be very helpful for people with poor mental health.
Missed a /s ?
Not at all! I’m sure that people with poor mental health, or people on the cusp of such, would all benefit from being gaslighted by people with ulterior motives.
It’s ok to disagree with you. Just walk away and don’t take criticism or differing opinions as insults. People clearly don’t feel as strongly as you do and that’s ok. Hell, drop the account and get a new one if it will help you leave baggage behind. Best wishes, friend. Make a corner of the internet your own and be open to being changed.
You’re right! People in this thread were simply disagreeing with me and sharing differing opinions. How badly I misinterpreted their comments! I’m so sorry!
I never asked or expected you to apologise to me and your sarcasm is unwarranted. I engaged with you sincerely and in good faith.
You perhaps might want to take an introspective look at yourself because myself and others have seen a fair number of red flags.
Thanks! You and others have made some very insightful comments! The majority of comments and votes in this thread are clearly “organic from intelligent people who fled reddit because it was trash”.
I’m glad there are none from people with a clear agenda who asked GPT chat “how can I insult someone and attack them with ad hominems without breaking lemmy.world’s rules?”.
More and more I’m thinking that social media is just screwed. There is no viable alternative to the old reddit in sight. It’s all bots, special interest groups fighting for influence, and low-intelligence people sucking up mindless fluff content and regurgitating garbage.
I just hope you know people are actually downvoting you for being toxic, not because they’re bots or part of some greater conspiracy.
You’re just giving off big “I’m 17, always told I was gifted, and need to whine online whenever people don’t bow before my awe-inspiring intellect.” vibes.
You might be trolling, but if you’re not, you’re on a dangerous path to extreme loneliness, despair, inadequacy, and blaming everyone else for all your issues.
Ah yes, I’m the one being toxic. Thanks for showing up to gaslight! Another great contribution to this thread.
Dude, hold up. Do you post the same comments multiple times in here? Like exact copies of your comments multiple times through this comment section.
Are you sure YOU aren’t the bot?
Also you are like paranoid as fuck and it’s really messed up. You are being rude just because you aren’t getting what you want and having people tell you how right you are. You remind me of my sister who has a drug addiction problem and schizophrenia. You really should try to seek help if you are able or maybe just actually find a real world hobby to focus on for a while.
They were similar but not exact.
Thanks for showing up to gaslight me! Another great contribution to this thread.
Do you think dozens of strangers are all commenting to gaslight you?
Then why do search engines always point me to Reddit links for information? 😂
Reddit is also listed as a search engine on Firefox. It’s literally considered an equivalent search tool.
Because it’s a site that is very good indexed. Doesn’t mean it’s like Wikipedia but it’s also loads of good content there…
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Because their algorithm has deduced that reddit results will get clicks. That is always the reason for everything engines do.
The more clicks it gets, the higher a result rises. Year, after year, after year. Every click is tracked. Every last one.
I imagine it began with specific questions and answers. Since reddit is the largest internet forum, anyone who has a somewhat obscure question needs a place to ask it. When someone else then punches that question into google, it’ll go to the only place it’s been answered so far, that niche internet forum.
Consider a video game question. “What build in whatever game is best for X?” Someone who wonders will ask in a game forum for that game. Every person after that, who wants that same information, will then be directed to where it now exists online–that post.
Also common with tech questions. “What does this error window mean and how do I fix it? My hardware is such-and-such and I’m running whatever version of the software” type questions.
Humanity needs a viable alternative
The headline said, on a viable alternative to Reddit.
For how long this is, it’s very confusing. Some links also didn’t work. This reads like someone who is way overly invested in their reddit account though. Like, I doubt you’ll find any lawyer in the US who will go to bat over you getting banned. Privately owned (as in not government-owned, so regardless of any possible IPOs in the future) companies have freedom of speech which gives them the right to censor whoever and however they want. We don’t need to like it, but it is what it is. I’m personally ok with them being allowed to censor whatever they want because I don’t want to get into the mess of the government defining what speech is or isn’t against the law. I’d be maybe ok with drawing a line on incitement and/or active assistance to violate laws or another’s rights, but that’s about it. But there is no right to have speech or say what you want on someone else’s platform.
Does this make reddit dangerous? Absolutely not.
You did learn a lesson.
Don’t pour yourself into work that someone else owns. You can easily lose it.
It sounds like it was a harsh lesson for you. I sympathize. But I don’t know what else you expect from a for-profit corporation.
You’re on an alternative. They already exist. You’re also preaching to people who already agree alternatives are important.
Edit: added a word for clarity because some people can’t carry context from one sentence to another.
Okay, I totally agree with your argument here but
…I don’t want to get into the mess of the government defining what is or isn’t against the law.
is an objectively funny statement. Who else do you think generally does this?
Defining what speech is against the law. Out of context it’s humorous, but I would have thought it was obvious in context.
I don’t want to get into the mess of the government defining what is or isn’t against the law
What does that even mean
What speech is determined to be against the law.
Jfc people. Context. If I had a nickel for everyone who didn’t get it, I’d have 10 cents, but it’s weird it happened twice.
Does this make reddit dangerous? Absolutely not.
I think your comments are a huge oversimplification of the arguments I made.
You’re on an alternative. They already exist. You’re also preaching to people who already agree alternatives are important.
Indeed. I’m sharing information to keep people informed, and hopefully we can have good discussion (leading to action) on the various pros and cons of reddit alternatives.
Have you tried breaking your computer over your knee like Bane does to Batman? Because that will do about as much to change things at reddit as a fucking blog post. It’s dead. Move on.
You clearly didn’t read the post because “changing reddit” is not at all what it advocates. It’s quite unfortunate that the population here seems to be as bad or worse than reddit’s.
You’re absolutely right that I didn’t read that wall of uninteresting text
Incredible that you have the ability to know that something is uninteresting before reading it!
It’s a real time saver, innit?
Well, I didn’t read your comments, but you should stop eating baby kittens.
The adult ones just don’t taste the same
cat veal for life
Is the OP here gonna turn out to be like that Oliver Markus Malloy guy on Reddit? Dude’s a total loon, but it’s really funny.
It’s been a long time since Reddit has been dangerous.
Funny people on Reddit realize that only when it becomes dangerous about themselves.
Selfishness more.
Well, it ain’t Lemmy. If you think about looking at someone crosseyed, and they complain, whole instance get defederated. Like a temper tantrum.
The admins are the worst but honestly 80% of the reddit mods are absolute trash, too. They may be volunteers working hard for free, but they are addicted to their “power” and will do anything (including humiliate themselves and lick admin boots) to hang on to that “power”. It’s beyond pathetic.
Worse, they have a serious “uber mod” problem, where a small number of moderators lord their “power” over multiple popular subs. The general rule on there is, the more popular a sub is, the worse it will be.
Reddit was once a treasure trove of information…but that once valuable hoard is swarmed over by goblins and trolls.
reddit is garbage and the problem isn’t the lack of alternatives but that reddit culture is moving there with the tourists and migrants from reddit. it’s like a social media human centipede.
It’s interesting that whenever I post about this on any site there’s always at least one person who shows up to post random pro-reddit lies. Such as “you were banned for spreading misinformation” or “you were banned for account sharing because you used the same email across multiple accounts”, along with various other insults of course.
The pro-reddit astroturfing on reddit was quite blatant during the recent API protests, but Reddit’s tentacles are far-reaching to other sites as well.
On the flip side, it could be a Russian troll farm, and Reddit is not even aware of these efforts made on their behalf!?:-P
Certainly possible. There are also many entities that have invested in reddit who have an interest in reddit’s continued growth.
Even in this thread, the majority of comments and votes are clearly not “organic from intelligent people who fled reddit because it was trash”.
A bunch of the comments in this thread seem to be from people with an agenda who asked GPT chat “how can I insult someone and attack them with ad hominems without breaking lemmy.world’s rules?”.
More and more I’m thinking that social media is just screwed. There is no viable alternative to the old reddit in sight. It’s all bots, special interest groups fighting for influence, and low-intelligence people sucking up mindless fluff content and regurgitating garbage.
You are not the only one to think these thoughts. Check out the article linked here if you want a fascinating read - I could not put it down! Except I had to, for breakfast then work, but doing so really bugged me!:-P It was just so PERFECTLY aligned with what I had been thinking myself also, which the Reddit protests had spawned in me: in short, Reddit’s actions were evil, but it may have done us a lot of good actually… if we pay attention and learn from it all. i.e., the problem was never Reddit, but inside of us all along. Okay so Reddit is also a problem - or a whole series of them actually:-P - but also it is our natural inclination to go that “easy” route, which for-profit corporations are very much looking to exploit, but also there are free ways to reach that same end (which is not a good end).
Thanks! Yes, I’ve read that one, it’s good. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like Lemmy is the answer. The vast majority of comments in this thread are worse than what you find on reddit.
It probably depends on the magazine… but yeah, people are still people:-).
A lot of the contributors to Reddit refuse to move to Lemmy/Kbin, and at this point I do not blame them - e.g. my notifications have not been working for over a week now, plus ~80% of the time whenever I try to upvote or boost something, it forgets who I am and I have to login again (actually it’s not a probability thing: it seems if I do something within seconds of visiting a page it always works, while after a threshold is passed then it never works). Plus on kbin.social at least I believe there are no moderation tools at all. Given how hard I’m being trolled on Reddit (b/c I did not kowtow to a hardcore cadre of power aboosers), I could only imagine how horrible the experience would be if even mods could not remove things? (or… something? easily? at all? I do not know the details) This technology just was never ready for deployment at this stage, and especially kbin.social still seems to be in the alpha software stage. Ofc, even so I am still enjoying it more than Reddit, whenever I do get to speak with an intelligent person, like now:-).
Yep, I moved my communities to a forum instead of Lemmy https://lemmy.world/post/3490614 due to Lemmy being in such an early stage of development. The only “mod tool” is the “delete” button as far as I know.
I think Reddit is dysfunctional because people are dysfunctional. My hope is to be able to address that by improving people’s health & function via the gut microbiome.
Umm… what?
A hint that this whole thing is nothing but a giant “shit”post.
You guys certainly made it into one. I’m sure Reddit Inc. is very grateful!
Dude wants to trade poops.
Fecal transplant from someone who clearly just eats tendies and pop tarts all day.
He seeks the spice melange. Perhaps he is the one.
If he were to control the spice he would control the galaxy
did they ever say which spice they were trading? it seems a little silly to wage war over black pepper
Now, cardamom is a whole other ball game…
They constantly compare it to cinnamon. So it’s probably that. Tbf, cinnamon is very good
) )<>( ( back and forth, forever
The human itnec-pede?
So glad someone made this reference
Umm… what?
There’s a link included to more information. Feel free to click on it and learn something new.
No one wants your poop buddy
A very mature and intelligent response. Thanks for helping make Lemmy a high-quality site.
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I’m sorry, obviously I need to shove someone else’s poop up my but and then I’ll be smart enough to agree with you…
That or I’m a member of the huge conspiracy to stop you from telling people that one simple trick to fixing my life
You do realize that just makes you look, like, actually insane, right?
Like, that in combination with everything else you wrote just makes it seem like mad ramblings and sort of discounts anything you have to say since you’re leading an angry rant with “put someone else’s poop in your butt”.
And then when you say you’ve been banned from multiple sites and it’s all a grand conspiracy from Reddit to be out to get you, people are just going to think “this guy opened the article by suggesting you shove someone else’s poop in your butt.”
I know there are studies blah blah blah. But you understand how this looks, right?
Another highly intelligent and well-informed comment. Thanks for helping make Lemmy a high-quality site!
You may be right. It may just be a bunch of immature teenagers in here who can’t stop giggling and concentrate on anything after someone alluded to the topic of “poop”.
How unfortunate that this is what the internet has become.
Though based on the gaslighting, systematic downvotes, and insults, it doesn’t seem likely that the activity in this thread is organic at all; even from immature teenagers.
Uh no it’s people that found your post on all because Lemmy doesn’t have that much going on still and is struggling to point out to the person that is having a mental breakdown the extent of their disconnect with reality.
Some people have patched onto that but you are showing no sign of being willing or able to take criticism and you are making false logical jumps that everyone that disagrees with you must be some shit headed teenager because you have no grasp of a reality outside your own.
You have seriously disconnected.
Seriously I have the same conversations with my sister who suffers pretty badly from schizophrenia. When she’s off her medication she does the same things and talk about how the internet is full of kids trying to hurt her while she refuses to go to the doctor because she thinks they are FBI agents trying to steal her other kidney.It’s a complete disconnect that you think everyone is specifically after you. I just care cause I see this in family I can’t help and probably none of us can help you either but seek help.
No one in here really cares enough to brigade you and no one cares a fuck who you are. I just dislike seeing this kind of mental delusions because of personal reasons. Best of luck to you and hope you get better.
As much as I hate to agree about anything with this ridiculous person, they’re not completely wrong. There’s well documented evidence that the microbial flora in your gut can affect the way you think. Can it suddenly make you happy after a lifetime of misery? I sincerely doubt it. Here’s a better example. Let’s say your favorite food are strawberry poptarts and you eat a box or two a day. Your gut is probably full microbes that love to break down everything about strawberry pop-tarts. If you start to eat broccoli and cheddar baked potatoes instead pop-tarts, your microbes that like pop-tarts will begin to starve and start sending signals to their cousins in your brain. Suddenly you have desperate cravings for strawberry pop-tarts. This will continue until you eat pop-tarts or until the pop-tarts loving population is reduced through starvation and replaced with other microbes that love potatoes broccoli and cheese.
I remember loving the taste of certain artificially sweetened things like a Wendy’s Frosty. Now, when I try them, I do not get any pleasure from it and I can clearly taste his the sweetness is chemical and gross. That’s because I no longer have trillions of microbes yelling at my brain that artificial flavoring is the best thing ever. It’s weird as fuck.
All that said, there’s a gap the size of the Grand Canyon between craving control and mental health manipulation. OP be out there with a hand glider trying to make that leap.
As much as I hate to agree about anything with this ridiculous person
Why are you accusing me of being a ridiculous person?
All that said, there’s a gap the size of the Grand Canyon between craving control and mental health manipulation. OP be out there with a hand glider trying to make that leap.
This is simply ignorance on your end. As I mentioned in a previous comment, there’s a link included to more information. Feel free to click on it and learn something new. It’s pretty disappointing to see Lemmy users exhibiting many of the worst behaviors of people on reddit – i.e. overconfident willful ignorance.
“overconfident willful ignorance”
Well if that isn’t projection.
I’m the one that linked to a plethora of scientific evidence to support my statements/stance.
DARVOing too I see.
Oh, nice. I see you do this for a living. Congrats. You’re making the world a much better place.
Oh and now you combined DARVO and projection.
will you make a post on your blog complaining that no one on lemmy want your poop, and then post it on reddit?
will you make a post on your blog complaining that no one on lemmy want your poop, and then post it on reddit?
Given that nothing about this post or the blog had anything to do with “offering people my poop”, I’m more likely to make a post complaining that Lemmy is full of astroturfing and/or extremely unintelligent people. Certainly in no way an improvement over reddit.
At least if you leave Lemmy it’ll have one less unintelligent person.
Mental illness is a terrible thing.
I mean there are studies linking various brain stuff with gut microbiome. It’s actually a thing backed by actual science. I didn’t read the blog though so I don’t know what they said in context and…well I kind of don’t care.
It’s a lot of incoherent misrepresenting of facts and tangential connections that seem really indicative of disorganized speech/thinking.
At least from the bit I skimmed…
There’s a part on the source linked that suggests the poop swap can effect/help autism. Who knew that is all I needed in the end?
Never heard before, what’s that? 🤔
