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I admit to spending too much time on Reddit during my work day as a distraction. It's a problem. What's worse is that Reddit has become so full of uninteresting content that I spend most of my time downvoting things that aren't at all relevant to the sub they're posted in. And with a lot of the front page subs being offline, the experience is dreadfully worse.

Reddit is barely any different from any other social media platform now. People just want to argue for the sake of arguing and getting hive mind support without any interest in the relevance or context of the original post (ie., no one reads the articles). Reddit has an algorithm just like any other social media platform to push engaging content to the top so they can get more ad revenue. I've been saying it for years now, Reddit is trash. But damn is it addictive.

I'm thankful for Lemmy and KBin and Mastodon (and my RSS reader) for providing interesting, relevant, chronologically posted content with a minimal amount of dilution. I don't spend as much time here but it serves the purpose of informing and entertaining me for a five minute work break without the frustration of "being social media".

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (13 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (9 children)

He said both and you're 3. He obviously wasn't talking to you!!!!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can’t even read usernames?! SMH

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

OK this is giving me flashbacks now. Can we stop please?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] IverCoder 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] d4rknusw1ld 1 points 1 year ago

Bumhole to bumhole.

[–] IverCoder 1 points 1 year ago

I swear your word choice is reminding me of a comment I made a few days ago

[–] Zirconium 6 points 1 year ago

Who are you to complain? You're not a part of this!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was kidding obviously, but I actually did think it was a third person. Liftoff has a weird bug that prematurely cuts off the name, so I read it as two different names.

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