Randall365
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Yep - probably check it daily since deleting my Twitter account.
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Does anyone here browse reddit occasionally
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Mortisfacio
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I browse sometimes, but mostly just gaming, tech and sports related. It's a pretty politically compromised platform so I try to avoid political subreddits, but during election season it bleeds into all non related subreddits which is annoying. Even on the Miami Dolphins subreddit (and other sports subreddits like /r/nfl as a whole) they banned x.com links, but so many of the posts are just screenshots of x.com posts. It's so dumb. Feels like a much more active version of the purple forum at times.
One thing I do find useful about it is Microsoft outages. Often times M365 and Azure outages are reported on reddit before they appear in Microsofts service health.
One thing I do find useful about it is Microsoft outages. Often times M365 and Azure outages are reported on reddit before they appear in Microsofts service health.
Trilobit
Absolutely Cozy
I think it has a very good format, much better thank X. Invites many parallel discussions in the same thread/post. And like you said, the niche subs means that you can get superdetailed topics in them. I wish Musk would buy it up too and do something about the moderation. I think X is great today, especially compared to its woke days.
Insane Metal
Member
Nope, never.
uncreativename
Member
Not so much. Their entire model is AIDS, as I'm reminded every time I have to click a thousand icons to try to find the thing I actually googled for. And there's no point replying to anything, ever, on there.
The only things I check even semi-regularly are: the Style Savvy reddit because where else am I gonna find people talking about those games, Kotakuinaction in spite of the fact that a lot of it's people overreacting to fake news with nothing to even support it, but they talk about things that the games journalists totally ignore, so it's still a valuable source sometimes, and lastly EnoughJKRowling because it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen, people who are completely detached from reality, obsessed with firmly believing that JK Rowling and Harry Potter will completely die off any day now :] .
The only things I check even semi-regularly are: the Style Savvy reddit because where else am I gonna find people talking about those games, Kotakuinaction in spite of the fact that a lot of it's people overreacting to fake news with nothing to even support it, but they talk about things that the games journalists totally ignore, so it's still a valuable source sometimes, and lastly EnoughJKRowling because it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen, people who are completely detached from reality, obsessed with firmly believing that JK Rowling and Harry Potter will completely die off any day now :] .
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Robot Carnival
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yes. r/fortyfivefiftyfive is a great place to visit from time to time.
uncreativename
Member
Just in general, it's almost as bad as regular social media for people just firing off bullshit they heard as facts, with no sources. And unlike forums like this you can't call people on it because they close everything almost instantly and they don't bump threads. Reddit sucks so bad 
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ForAcademicPurposes
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It's Rotten Tomatoes with a comments section sprinkled with current happenings in the world. You get dumber the more time you spend on it.
wondermega
Member
Yeah, Reddit is pretty cool. I was reluctant to look at the site for many years because I detested the format - I concede that it still has problems, but overall I think it is a pretty great resource for a lot of things. Really useful and lots of great info/weird, fascinating shit on there.
I'd actually been pretty addicted to it for quite some time, I had to finally uninstall the app from my phone as it was just becoming far too much of a time sink for me. I don't look at very often as much anymore as a result, but that's a good thing.
I do have to say that I don't like the juvenile and dismissive attitude gaf has about such things "blah, Reddit is an echo chamber, it's all woke, blah blah" that attitude is pretty lame. I love gaf and have been here for many many years, and of course I appreciate it for what it is. But this forum is very specialized and between gaming and OT the discussion can be (necessarily) very narrow sometimes. True you'll get a much more personalized experience here, which I love, but if I want to discuss something kind of esoteric outside of its normal range, I either have to spend a lot of time trying to find a very particular community or do the same broadly and find some other forum with its own whole culture to penetrate. I'm not doing that, sometimes I want to talk in depth about any manner of retro gaming particularities, or CRT mechanic workings, or VR development or very specific unreal or C# stuff that I just need to get quick eyeballs on, or local things to the city I live in. Reddit puts all of that immediately at arm's length and it's so easy to get in and out of, it's been invaluable. Yeah if you want to go haywire with politics over there it can be quite a headache, but not everybody is into doing that. Anyway, that's my take.
I'd actually been pretty addicted to it for quite some time, I had to finally uninstall the app from my phone as it was just becoming far too much of a time sink for me. I don't look at very often as much anymore as a result, but that's a good thing.
I do have to say that I don't like the juvenile and dismissive attitude gaf has about such things "blah, Reddit is an echo chamber, it's all woke, blah blah" that attitude is pretty lame. I love gaf and have been here for many many years, and of course I appreciate it for what it is. But this forum is very specialized and between gaming and OT the discussion can be (necessarily) very narrow sometimes. True you'll get a much more personalized experience here, which I love, but if I want to discuss something kind of esoteric outside of its normal range, I either have to spend a lot of time trying to find a very particular community or do the same broadly and find some other forum with its own whole culture to penetrate. I'm not doing that, sometimes I want to talk in depth about any manner of retro gaming particularities, or CRT mechanic workings, or VR development or very specific unreal or C# stuff that I just need to get quick eyeballs on, or local things to the city I live in. Reddit puts all of that immediately at arm's length and it's so easy to get in and out of, it's been invaluable. Yeah if you want to go haywire with politics over there it can be quite a headache, but not everybody is into doing that. Anyway, that's my take.
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uncreativename
Member
It is useful because it has those specialised groups of people that you can't find anywhere else, but wouldn't it be better if you could talk to those same groups of people on forums where you can actually engage in long-term discussions and not have to click icons to open sub-threads? The way that Reddit is, it actively discourages discussion unless if you're prepared to check a certain subreddit every day and be part of that exclusive group.
Now, I get why Reddit is the way it is, it's because all these choices are cost-efficient, but that doesn't mean we as users have to like it, when there are better alternatives that predate Reddit.
wondermega
Member
I see your point, but I am not really interested in long-term discussion on reddit. Maybe that's me being an old guy though, haha. I like short bursts and maybe some limited follow-up conversations, I am not really interested in cultivating deeper online relationships. I don't really have time or interest in it, and barely have time for that stuff in real life, between work and life. But again, that's just me..
uncreativename
Member
That's fair enough. Gotta go with what works for you.
