171 was the peak US chart position for the first velvet underground album
only 500 people read the men's rights forum but every one of them etc etc
― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like this thread is going to good for exposed the extent of the reddit/ilx cross-over.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
"for exposting"
a local acquaintance just got divorced and is sliding into men's rights shit on his Facebook and it's like...dude...you gotta just back away from the men's rights community
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
I thought I was into men's rights back when Norwood Fisher was trying to get child custody. I don't know if I heard anything about it until it got brought up in the context of reddit/extreme misogyny.
― how's life, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
In fairness, if we had a men's rights board, I would be totally okay with Gawker clowning us for it.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
xp: just realized that was "father's rights" and so a different thing I guess.
― how's life, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
It's a gateway drug iirc.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
Every time I look at an AmA, the comments are so loathsome that I give up pretty much immediately.
But sometimes the train wreck is just too compelling
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ypb8j/third_world_child_ama_with_translator_via/
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
there's a disconnect between what some notable people (some of whom probably should know better) who end up doing IAMAs think reddit's readership is like and how it actually is, that you get a lot of cool people who aren't joss whedon getting only a few responses to the point where you can ask, say, James Fallows a question and it will probably get answered. It's kind of nice!
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
i'm pretty glad ILX exists or else i'd probably be on reddit or still reading somethingawful forums or whatever
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
Ground zero for GWB image rehabilitation:http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/101a82/good_guy_gw_greets_troops_at_the_airport/
― Dan I., Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
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― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
this is a pretty good site for clearing out the riff raff:http://topiama.com/
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think I 'get' reddit... I've only ever seen a couple of the ask me anything threads and they just kind of seemed like the comments section of the av club or whatever.
I quite like metafilter though. Is it considered equally hateful? Am I accidentally joining fathers4justice by reading it?!
― sktsh, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
avclub comments are the worst, seriously
"GET CANCERAIDS LOL"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
Metafilter is much better than reddit imo, but they both have their uses. With reddit, the key is to register and then only subscribe to the subreddits that have actual interesting content.
― *sad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
iow what call all destroyer already said
rettit is horrible nerds
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
they should just call the site horriblenerds
metafilter is objectionable too, but it's right at the opposite end of the spectrum from reddit's misogyny4u, over at the the po-faced navel-observation end. We're somewhere in the happy middle, I guess?
But ye I spend time on both: Metafilter gives better link than reddit, but for tech stuff I can bear the horrible nerds on the programming reddit more than the "bro, bro, watch me pivot" clan on Hacker News
― stet, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
(The traffic that reddit sends is astounding, btw. We more than doubled our daily average when a link got on reddit, and it wasn't even on the front page, it was buried somewhere with 5 upvotes)
― stet, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
I think there are cooler dudes per capita on metafilter but on average it's about the same as reddit. i'd recommend straightdope over metafilter.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
reddit does insane traffic which is why many people have heard of it and talk about it
― max, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
oh man hacker news, the internet is so awful we should just turn it off
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
there are no good communities on the internet except on ilx and twitter
― max, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
also tumblr, but not really
i think the way tumblr allows you to like something but doesn't really facilitate shitting on something makes it more positive a force, though facebook has the same dynamic and is super shitty so i dunno what the magic formula is.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
best communities imo are those torrent sites
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
Youtube comments imo
― *sad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
tween blogz
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
two weeks ago i was walking across campus w/ a friend and these two fairly fratty looking dudes carrying a heavy wooden palanquin offered us upvotes on reddit to help them carry it
― Lamp, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
ha waht
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://achewood.com/comic.php?date=01172010
― *sad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
lol that is irl currency now?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
Philip Nunez: Max: also tumblr, but not really i think the way tumblr allows you to like something but doesn't really facilitate shitting on something makes it more positive a force, though facebook has the same dynamic and is super shitty so i dunno what the magic formula is.
Max: also tumblr, but not really i think the way tumblr allows you to like something but doesn't really facilitate shitting on something makes it more positive a force, though facebook has the same dynamic and is super shitty so i dunno what the magic formula is.
― stet, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
Reddit upvotes will replace USD
― *sad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
do people have discussions on tumblrs? maybe it keeps things positive by discouraging discussion...
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
tumblr is way fucked up
― goole, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
i had the beginning of an argument from evidence there but fuck it
tumblr is the worst platform ever but i find it fascinating
― max, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
between the pro-anas, the nazis and the porn, i think it's safe to say that tumblr is fucked up, is my point
― goole, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
and yes the interface is ?????!?!????!?!????
― goole, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
i'd suspect that the tenor of nazi ana porn rhetoric on tumblr is much more light and positive than on reddit.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
but also the otherkin and the social-justice radicals and the hundreds of thousands of anime/k-pop gifs
― max, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
w/shallow depth of field xp
― stet, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
all three are very into pretty pictures now that i think of it, if that counts as positive
xp
― goole, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
i'm surprised metafilter is still around, i remember reading it like 10 years ago but hadn't heard anything about it since until this thread
it still looks exactly the same too, hah
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
most tumblrs i cant figure out how the hell people comment on them. but there`ll be like 13 thumbs up or hearts or whatever on a post, then like, one person leaving an almost totally content-free comment.
― how's life, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
metafilter totally looks ten or twelve years ago. that's another thing about reddit, is that I've gone to the site a couple times and it wasn't visually inviting, so I peaced.
― how's life, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
*upvote, respond, post a comment, expand a comment thread, "show more replies," or do basically anything other than look at the OP and the top two or three responses.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:27 (ten months ago) link
i thought Reddit CEO Steve Huffman came off bad in his interview with The Verge this new one with NBC News is disqualifyingReddit's unpopular changes were inspired by Elon Musk's layoffs & cost-cutting (like not paying bills) at Twitter. insane. https://t.co/xE4aqxVkl1 pic.twitter.com/opBU6gD2Bk— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) June 16, 2023
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 16 June 2023 20:27 (ten months ago) link
considering reddit's role in building up the cult of musk there would be a symmetry to the platform getting totally muskified
which would presumably mean the return of explicit nazism among other things
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Friday, 16 June 2023 20:36 (ten months ago) link
"So Twitter lost 70% of its revenue and I said HELL YEAH GIMME SOME OF THAT"
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 June 2023 20:38 (ten months ago) link
Had a feeling that this would turn out to be the case.
― peace, man, Monday, 19 June 2023 00:43 (ten months ago) link
Rough couple of weeks for these guys.
Reddit’s month may be going from bad to worse.Hackers from the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, are threatening to leak 80 gigabytes of confidential data from Reddit that they claim to have stolen during a February breach, according to a post from the group on the dark web, which was reviewed by CNN and an independent cybersecurity expert.In their post, the hackers claim they first demanded a $4.5 million payout “for the deletion of the data and our silence” in April. After receiving no response, the group said it followed up on Friday with an additional demand: Reddit should withdraw a controversial new pricing policy that has sparked a protest from some of the platform’s most influential users.
Hackers from the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, are threatening to leak 80 gigabytes of confidential data from Reddit that they claim to have stolen during a February breach, according to a post from the group on the dark web, which was reviewed by CNN and an independent cybersecurity expert.
In their post, the hackers claim they first demanded a $4.5 million payout “for the deletion of the data and our silence” in April. After receiving no response, the group said it followed up on Friday with an additional demand: Reddit should withdraw a controversial new pricing policy that has sparked a protest from some of the platform’s most influential users.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 18:40 (ten months ago) link
Some subs are now allowing NSFW posts in protest as Reddit has a policy of not allowing ads on NSFW subs. Check out /r/interestingasfuck as one of these.
Also to avoid the ugly desktop UI try old.reddit.com. As long as that's still around I'll still use Reddit at least on desktop. Reddit Enhancement Suite still works with it, fortunately.
Spez's recent comments are only going to embolden protests, trolling and backlash. I wouldn't be surprised if a clone successfully pops up by the end of the year and Reddit experiences the very kind of exodus that helped buoy their success back in 2005.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 19:17 (ten months ago) link
100% old Reddit is the way to go
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 04:13 (ten months ago) link
I dont mind the look of nu-reddit? But I guess its all I ever knew having come in late.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 06:07 (ten months ago) link
This chart from SubredditStats show the daily comments and posts for 5 major subreddits: r/news, r/facepalm, r/mademesmile, r/oddlysatisfying, r/mildlyinfuriating.And that’s how we've now ended up with a Reddit full of r/MadeMeSmile. And, just in case you're curious about what that looks like — four of the top five Reddit posts were reposted TikToks.
And that’s how we've now ended up with a Reddit full of r/MadeMeSmile. And, just in case you're curious about what that looks like — four of the top five Reddit posts were reposted TikToks.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe543d86b-53c1-417d-8b01-807f48a205c6_1317x273.png?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 19:08 (eight months ago) link
from https://www.garbageday.email/p/were-all-living-on-rmademesmiles
Too bad they didn't come to ilx!
― fajita seas, Thursday, 14 September 2023 00:45 (eight months ago) link
Turns out Reddit talks about us just as much as we talk about reddit
https://reddit.com/r/PeeKitchen/s/x6KPaHdnNZ
― H.P, Thursday, 14 September 2023 01:14 (eight months ago) link
Dare we ask why you were on a sub called PeeKitchen? :/
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 14 September 2023 03:25 (eight months ago) link
It would have to be a sub rly
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 14 September 2023 10:57 (eight months ago) link
lmao
https://i.imgur.com/XgAoN4h.png
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-soldier-indicted-attempting-pass-national-defense-information-peoples-republic-china
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 October 2023 22:36 (seven months ago) link
how to not get caught selling state secrets site:reddit.com
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 6 October 2023 23:24 (seven months ago) link
i just visited reddit for the first time since... idk, july?
why did i waste so much time there?
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Friday, 8 December 2023 02:41 (five months ago) link
Reddit reportedly signed a multi-million content licensing deal with an AI companyhttps://www.engadget.com/reddit-reportedly-signed-a-multi-million-content-licensing-deal-with-an-ai-company-124516009.html?guccounter=1
As the moderator of my town's subreddit, I suppose I should have some sort of doomed-to-fail opinion about data privacy. If it wasn't opvious already, only "AI" buzzword compliant b.s. is getting funding - all of it spent to monetize the shit out of everyone and everything.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 18 February 2024 08:25 (two months ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/f94j0y/oc_how_much_of_reddit_is_pornographic/
can't imagine how this could go wrong
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 18 February 2024 08:41 (two months ago) link
Reddit's IPO plans are the stupidest thing I've heard in a while
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 24 February 2024 18:30 (two months ago) link
(specifically this plan: https://apnews.com/article/google-reddit-ai-partnership-a7f131c7cb4225307134ef21d3c6a708) which IMO just means most people who care will stop using reddit
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 24 February 2024 18:31 (two months ago) link