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Being a Tankie is when you go so far left you end up coming back right and supporting Fascism still.

True communism never existed, supporting anything the Soviet Union did is fascist.

When millions of people unironically say this shit every day, sarcasm isn’t really viable

I reddit a LOT at work so I was probably spending roughly 3-4 hours a day with reddit at least in the background and I haven’t actually intentionally visited the site for two weeks.

Honestly, my mental health is improving. Reddit is a shitty outrage machine that’s astroturfed by corporations and fascists.

What’s more disgusting is the army of bots they used to slander their volunteers. Every subreddit I was actually active in was painfully obvious to see hundreds of accounts that never posted there suddenly showing up and being violently anti-moderator.

Yeah imo the real problem with reddit was that

A: they started fudging the votes so they didn’t really matter and they could shadowban accounts from even being able to upovte/downvote

B: stupid fucking awards could keep posts at the top even if they had like -2000

c: fascists were gaming the system with bots anyway to push their content.

It definitely felt like land of the shills before I stopped going. Just hundreds of random new accounts posting in every community that went dark.

I recently ran into the problem where I signed up on a different federation or whatever and had to jump through a few hoops to get subscribed to the community I wanted.

I get that that’s part of the allure of Lemmy but it’s also a stumbling block. I can’t just go to any community and sign up at the click of a button. Hopefully there’s a workaround for this soon or I imagine a lot of lazy users like myself will just look elsewehere.

The complexity of “servers” (don’t get me wrong, federation is the way to go IMHO, but it is confusing to non-technical users)

I’ll admit the technical stuff is probably the most off-putting. Most major social media got where it is by being idiot proof. The whole set-up will need to be much more streamlined if they want to really dip into Reddits user base.

I used to go to the /r/nfl free talk threads and the day after it opened HUNDREDS of new accounts were posting talking about how the mods were pussies and blah blah.

It felt fucking surreal like 2016 Russian bot astroturfing all over again.