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What was your best and worst experience on Reddit? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Tell the best experience or interaction you had on Reddit, and the worst one.

The best for me would be when r/egg_irl helped me realize I was in fact, not cis. Or when r/aspiememes helped me comprehend that my psychologist at the time was wrong. The worst one would be every single time I had to deal with powertriping mods or when I had to fight the rampant transphobia in the platform.

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[–] edgarallenpwn 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The best ones for me was when I couldn't find firmware for some older devices anywhere on the internet but some members of Data hoarders would upload it for a short time.

Worst would be getting stalked for a few days due to a disagreement in the comments. I can't even remember what it was about but for a few days everytime I would post this ass hat would just reply and try to keep arguing. It went on for a few days until I blocked them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, the stalking happened to me too. I'd made the Unforgivable Mistake of saying forced breeding was a kink I found very uncomfortable because the attraction seemed to stem from control, and even cited a guy's comment saying his attraction to it was control.

With the specific, stressed concession that none of us choose our kinks or I wouldn't have chosen mine either. He's free to it just like I am. But "forced pregnancy is hot" is fucking creepy to say out loud in the current political atmosphere of the US.

Apparently, someone didn't like that, because they spent over a week following me around from post to post and trying to smear me whenever I commented, regardless of context. To little effect other than making me link and rehash my same exact explanatory post, because I wouldn't have said what I didn't believe.

After several days of failed harassment without getting the weeping public apology they were hoping for, they seemed to fizzle out. I think the sloppily attempted gradeschool bullying would have had to be a powerlessness in their real life, so the whole thing was more laughable than upsetting. But I hope they land a good therapist before dating anyone. That kind of stuff seeps into everything.

[–] edgarallenpwn 1 points 2 years ago

Out of all the things to be so upset it with that's a strange one. Why not just move on and fap to your fetish instead of chasing someone around yelling about it. I can get being vigilant about calling out hateful stuff, but to track someone because of the porn you watch is just weird.