Reddit has been down for more than an hour

Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by tornadofart on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @04:57PM (#35158458)

Don't know if I can muster up the compassion for a community where feminism and loving cute animals is the default ideology but the pornography threads feature obviously non-consensual acts where women and animals are the victims. Reddit is just horrible.

Edit: probably my criticism should be directed more at the company and not the community. The obvious discrepancy between what is being promoted on the site and what is really being shared by some of its users still stands, I think.

Edit2: Please research on your own instead of implying something about me along the lines of "how do you know about this stuff if you're not looking at it".

Documentaries and press articles about online content moderation and its dark sides are freely available for all on youtube and various newspaper websites.

Edit 3: some seem to think I am criticising feminism. I am not doing so. I do have a problem with sexual violence, though

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by pkulak on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:03PM (#35158551)

Whoa boy. You should spend your time in some different subs. I've carefully curated a list of subs that match my interests, and Reddit is delightful.

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by tornadofart on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:23PM (#35158962)

Sure, it can be. That does not mean the aforementioned content goes away. That's why I don't like reddit.

"You should spend your time in some different subs."

That's not very nice of you to imply that I watch or enjoy this stuff. Ever considered looking up press articles about reddit, or more generally, online content moderation? You would be surprised...

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by kgwxd on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:06PM (#35158627)

> I've carefully curated a list of subs that match my interests

So has tornadofart

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by tornadofart on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:10PM (#35158710)

You know, there is something called journalism. That's where I get my information from. Suggesting I look at this stuff because I am calling it out is disingenuous and a little insulting.

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by Vrondi on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:18PM (#35158875)

If you weren't looking at it, then how would you know it was there? I never ever see that stuff on Reddit, because I never look at those subs.

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by tornadofart on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:26PM (#35159002)

Please research on your own instead of implying something about me. Documentaries and press articles about online content moderation are freely available for all to read.

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by 01100011 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:01PM (#35158519)

I stay for a couple of worthy subreddits. Overall the site is trash.

The subreddits for my local city are slowly turning into a weird BLM/Nextdoor hybrid though. Any mention of cops results in an endless parade of ACAB/bootlicker comments and most of the rest of the content is nitpicky complaints.

I'm not sure where else I can go to stay connected with some local folk though.

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by jasonladuke0311 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:14PM (#35159772)

> The subreddits for my local city are slowly turning into a weird BLM/Nextdoor hybrid though. Any mention of cops results in an endless parade of ACAB/bootlicker comments and most of the rest of the content is nitpicky complaints.

I would ask if we live in the city, but I think this is every city subreddit now.

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by transcriptase on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:56PM (#35160429)

I once engaged with a seemingly deranged and very politically opinionated individual in a Canadian subreddit.

I later found out that person is somehow a moderator on nearly every city/town-specific subreddit across the entire country. Easily 40-50. Spending something like 10 hours a day banning people and deleting threads/comments according to their narrow view of how people should think and what news is worthy of being seen, even though they clearly had no ties to the locals.

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by whstl on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:57PM (#35160457)

Some country subreddits are also starting to go in this direction. Lots of extreme opinions.

But that's nothing. Most hobby subreddits are becoming Instagram feeds thanks to the new design and the mobile app.

And professional subreddits are becoming a weird mix of people wanting to start in the field asking the same basic questions over and over, and people only really answering the basic question while simultaneously complaining about a "lack of depth" in the discussions.

This is why you see so people saying "there are good communities!" but they never tell which ones are good. God forbid more people join them.

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by l33t233372 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:01PM (#35158513)

I’ve never seen the latter 2 on reddit and I’ve been a user for many years.

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by tornadofart on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:05PM (#35158599)

You're also probably a decent human being and not searching for that kind of stuff. That does not mean it does not exist on reddit, sadly. Reddit as a company, however, is doing nothing against it, or not enough

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by Vrondi on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:20PM (#35158904)

You get out of Reddit what you put in or look for most of the time, and well, some people are apparently looking for the scum from the bottom of the Internet, so they find it.

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by circuit10 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:01PM (#35158521)

Obviously those are different people

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by tornadofart on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:13PM (#35158757)

Valid criticism, updated my comment.

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by kgwxd on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:04PM (#35158584)

We are the Reddit. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your tornadofart distinctiveness to our own.

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by ZeKK14 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @04:59PM (#35158495)

Wat ?

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by antibasilisk on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:04PM (#35158581)

i think he's talking about rape 'fantasy' subreddits and women using dogs for sex

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by Avalaxy on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:07PM (#35158661)

Pretty sure they banned both?

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by tornadofart on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:33PM (#35159131)

Sadly no. They banned specific threads / subreddits, not the content.

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Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour by gleetus on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:10PM (#35158700)

They banned most of the proper feminist subreddits and just left the ones that pander to males. No surprise they're hands off on all the porn subreddits that debase women as well.

The only reason they started removing the absolute worst porn subs is that it started getting them negative media attention for hosting "jail bait" and similar. Though they did give the guy who ran those an actual physical award, back in the day. Woman-hating pedophiles, the lot of them.

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