Discussion Damn, back on Reddit

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

There are OTer's on the 'Dit!!

r/atot

r/atot: A fun place to hang out when Anandtech Forums is down. It happens from time to time. This place is not endorsed or moderated by Anandtech …

www.reddit.com

 

[sdifox]

There are OTer's on the 'Dit!!

r/atot

r/atot: A fun place to hang out when Anandtech Forums is down. It happens from time to time. This place is not endorsed or moderated by Anandtech …

www.reddit.com

I am not installing the effing app just to read reddit

 

[FelixDeCat]

You forgot Digg!

Cyrus can Digg it!

 

[Chaotic42]

I am not installing the effing app just to read reddit

You should just be able to use your browser

 

[GodisanAtheist]

You should just be able to use your browser

Not that reddit will let you forget about the official app ever as you navigate page to page...

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Not that reddit will let you forget about the official app ever as you navigate page to page...

Have you made a throwaway email and used a VPN to create a new shit poster account yet?

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Have you made a throwaway email and used a VPN to create a new shit poster account yet?

No you assholes are stuck with me for the time being

 

[DAPUNISHER]

No you assholes are stuck with me for the time being

Would not have it any other way

 

[sdifox]

You should just be able to use your browser

ATOT has not been reviewed, please use app is what I got.

 

[mikeymikec]

I occasionally use reddit, I've never been hooked on it. The Amiga reddit is almost saturated with game reviews that I'm not interested in, the Ghost in the Shell reddit is almost exclusively thirsty Major pics...

What is reddit meant to be, a discussion forum? Like others I think its format is what lets it down, but maybe I don't understand it's intended purpose.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

There is also:

Alt_AnandTech - Index

Alt_AnandTech - Index

altlit.central-us.net

Nobody there yet though.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I occasionally use reddit, I've never been hooked on it. The Amiga reddit is almost saturated with game reviews that I'm not interested in,

I loved my Amigas back in the day. Seeing youtubers preserve it made me consider jumping back in these decades later. but nostalgia for tech never works out for me. I used to chide my kid for playing pixel art games like Terraria as I grew up when -

the Ghost in the Shell reddit is almost exclusively thirsty Major pics...

I can't even

What is reddit meant to be, a discussion forum? Like others I think its format is what lets it down, but maybe I don't understand it's intended purpose.

The purpose is to make money, at which it has succeeded. Some call it the internet's front page, I call it the Menagerie.

 

[mikeymikec]

I loved my Amigas back in the day. Seeing youtubers preserve it made me consider jumping back in these decades later. but nostalgia for tech never works out for me.

Yup, my expanded Amiga 1200 is in a weird zone where it's vastly overpowered (and occasionally incompatible) with A1200/A500 era games, and vastly underpowered for general apps usage (CPU: 68040 40MHz + FPU), that's aside from the outdated software. Now that I've replaced the ailing hard drive with a MicroSD adapter I'm happier to try and sell it as functional, though my wife and I are enjoying the occasional plough through 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis' (SCUMM engine game). Otherwise many of the old "three lives" format action games don't really do it for me any more. I'm worried about selling a piece of my childhood though (technically the dead A500 in my loft is a piece of my childhood, but the A1200 is close enough).

The purpose is to make money, at which it has succeeded. Some call it the internet's front page, I call it the Menagerie.

Yes, but if it sucks in its purpose to draw users in, then it won't make money. Those who call it the Internet front page, did they come to the Internet after the heyday of discussion forums?

 

[lxskllr]

What makes it cool is anyone can setup a "forum". You don't need hosting, a domain, software; nothing... All you need is an internet connection to make any forum you want, no matter how niche. Everyone can access a wide range of topic from one url.

What makes it suck is it's shitty forum software. It's the most baseline, stripped down forum you can have. Remove any part, and the whole thing fails. It's like a highschool coding project. Impressive for a 17yr old's school project, lame for professional software.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I occasionally use reddit, I've never been hooked on it. The Amiga reddit is almost saturated with game reviews that I'm not interested in, the Ghost in the Shell reddit is almost exclusively thirsty Major pics...

What is reddit meant to be, a discussion forum? Like others I think its format is what lets it down, but maybe I don't understand it's intended purpose.

-As @DAPUNISHER pointed out previously, the point is most shitposting, like 95% is to make comments like "This" or some meme or some Pun.

A lot of the major reddits seem infested with bots/AI trainers now. A lot of the topics boil down to "what do you think of [well liked, non-controvertial topic among the community]".

However, if you're into a specific hobby or niche and you just cannot find your people anywhere else... you will find them on Reddit and if the community is nice enough (aka not gaming) then you'll generally find well intentioned and intelligent people. That's the true gold of Reddit.

 

[JujuFish]

Let's say you view a thread with 120 comments, and you read every post, but are interested in more info. You close it, and come back to find there's now 124 comments. Where's the four comments? Who the fuck knows?!

If you're browsing from a computer, Reddit Enhancement Suite will help with that.

 

[pmv]

Only just discovered Reddit. Purely because it was the only place I could find any discussion related to my (rare) health issues. The forums I'd previously found supposedly related to them were even deader than this place - with like 2 posts in the last twenty years, both of them asking for information and getting no replies.

What I find weird about Reddit is that there seem to be multiple sub-reddits devoted to more-or-less the same topic, but with slightly-different names.

 

[nakedfrog]

I occasionally use reddit, I've never been hooked on it. The Amiga reddit is almost saturated with game reviews that I'm not interested in, the Ghost in the Shell reddit is almost exclusively thirsty Major pics...

What is reddit meant to be, a discussion forum? Like others I think its format is what lets it down, but maybe I don't understand it's intended purpose.

Often times people will create a spin-off of things like those subs with a slightly different name so people who want to talk about Ghost in the Shell instead of fap about it can do so. Or other weird things, where the sub you'd think would be the main one for a topic is dead and there's a differently named version that's active (an example is r/DungeonCrawlClassics, about an old-school style tabletop RPG, the one that's active is r/dccrpg).

 

[nakedfrog]

Only just discovered Reddit. Purely because it was the only place I could find any discussion related to my (rare) health issues. The forums I'd previously found supposedly related to them were even deader than this place - with like 2 posts in the last twenty years, both of them asking for information and getting no replies.

What I find weird about Reddit is that there seem to be multiple sub-reddits devoted to more-or-less the same topic, but with slightly-different names.

Sometimes that happens because of a difference of opinion in moderation, sometimes someone just doesn't check if there's already one when they create a subreddit (pretty much anyone can create a subreddit AFAIK).

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Sometimes that happens because of a difference of opinion in moderation, sometimes someone just doesn't check if there's already one when they create a subreddit (pretty much anyone can create a subreddit AFAIK).

- Also, as I have experienced, mods can get really ban happy in SUB A, so SUB B (usually a low sodium/free [insert main sub here]) gets created, which then also gets ban happy, so then Sub C is created so on so forth.

 

[AMCRambler]

It's where I went when ATOT banned all the fun people. This place is like a graveyard these days. They still talking about shutting it down?

 

[GodisanAtheist]

It's where I went when ATOT banned all the fun people. This place is like a graveyard these days. They still talking about shutting it down?

Always

 

[GodisanAtheist]

For fucks sake a 3 day ban on Reddit for... I dunno I think maybe because I said "ICE" and that promotes hate or something?

This is after a warning where I said caneing would be a fairer form of punitive justice than fines because it wouldn't be based on wealth.

Fuck, I wish there was another place on the internet that had the same breadth of communities as Reddit without the ridiculous auto-mod bullshit.

I thought Trump, greatest president ever, he who brought the DOW above 50,000, ended this deplatforming shit and returned free speech to its glory.

 

[lxskllr]

For fucks sake a 3 day ban on Reddit for... I dunno I think maybe because I said "ICE" and that promotes hate or something?

This is after a warning where I said caneing would be a fairer form of punitive justice than fines because it wouldn't be based on wealth.

Fuck, I wish there was another place on the internet that had the same breadth of communities as Reddit without the ridiculous auto-mod bullshit.

I thought Trump, greatest president ever, he who brought the DOW above 50,000, ended this deplatforming shit and returned free speech to its glory.

I see stuff like this float through my web travels, and it does nothing to make me want to sign back up. It's AllTheProblemsIAlreadyHadWithIt++. I'm pretty much done with corporate media. My stance is hardening into 'For profit? Then fuck off'. I'm here, and I actually pay ars to be over there because the journalism is great, but that's about it. Everything else is *federated, using libre software.

Still going with my lemmy suggestion. It has most of the problems of reddit, and a tiny fraction of the communities, but it doesn't have a grand overseer. If your instance/community sucks, find/make a new one. It won't get better or fully fleshed til people use it. I only browse there cause I really hate the reddit format. If I really want to make a comment, I can do it from my mastodon account.

*Not fake federated like bluesky. Still waiting to use my surprise pikachu gif when it all turns to twitter2.0 to the complete surprise of people that *really* suck at history.

 

[RossMAN]

I ran the OP through my turn of the century ATOT translator -

"I'm an attention whore. Back to working a much busier corner"

👍

I can't believe I missed this, if we still had a wiki that would have never happened.

Anyway here are the correct ATOTAW rankings:

1) Mosh
2) RossMAN
3) anyone else who is qualified to be bestowed this honor.