I guess be careful with Reddit now, because I haven't up voted anything celebrating anyone's harm or death. I've only upvoted things that bring awareness to how awful certain people are or things in this subreddit. Absolutely wild.
Originally Posted By u/KnobbyDarkling At 2025-09-16 07:29:50 AM | Source
15 Comments
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 26 pts · 328d
It's rare to find a service that's this hostile to its users. Let it die...
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 328d
Is it actually rare? I think the majority of licensed/private digital services are mostly hostile compared to Free Open Source alternatives. By default, most of these services surveil all users and sell the data to brokers, with always online practices, constantly getting telemetry and other metrics from users. Some of these services even install kernel level root kits of various kinds under the pretext of security or anti-cheat. All of which I consider a form of hostility.
Honestly, I think this is the norm. There is a spectrum of hostility that consumers are just either ignoring or are unaware of. And even with the worst offenders, people find excuses to continue to use them.
taco@anarchist.nexus · 4 pts · 328d
Most other services are passively exploitative like you're describing. I can at least see an argument for that being a trade-off: using a "free" service in exchange for profiting from your data.
reddit does this too, but on top of that is also actively threatening to ban users for voting. That's just using the platform as intended.
As you noted, most of these services are hostile in ways that go unnoticed by the userbase. This is markedly more hostile than that, which is I think the point of the comment above. In an internet of services that are shitty toward users, reddit's a bit extra shitty toward theirs.
MoreZombies@piefed.au · 16 pts · 328d
Fuck Spez with a dirt covered pineapple :)
danekrae@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 328d
Let make it itching powder covered.
ohellidk@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 328d
They keep sending more people over here!
BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 328d
I really appreciate how terrible they are because it is what brought me here.
marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 328d
Oh boy, here I go upvoting again
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social · 8 pts · 328d
Reddit, in two years: Hey we used to be making tankerloads of money all off the backs of a bunch of content we didn't even have to create. What happened?
taco@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 328d
Rather than introspection, they'll blame the new digg and revamp the UI again and/or add AI moderation.
BlackJerseyGiant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 328d
Or maybe...get the fuck outta the cesspool?
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 328d
There are a lot of communities on reddit that (effectively) have no equivalent here.
BlackJerseyGiant@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 328d
That is a very good and valid point.
I believe pretty strongly with the line of thought that if you sit at a table with 8 Nazis, there are now 9 Nazis at the table, and I think it applies even more strongly with online communities. If a person is still engaging with a cesspool like the former Twitter at this point, it's tantamount to being a collaborator. I hold that the tolerance of intolerance is suicide for any society.
The creation of those communities at a different "table" is just a click away. Change is hard, but sometimes necessary.
Networkcathode@piefed.social · 3 pts · 328d
Lol, you’re on Reddit?
CannonFodder@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 328d
Yeah they're kinda touchy. I got a full ban just for telling some tankie to 'go suck his brother's dick again'. I guess I hit a bit too close to home.