For example, people on Reddit asking redundant questions and give equally redundant or unhelpful answers.
Whenever every ‘What’s the worst show you’ve seen?’ is asked, you’ll get 10,000 “Kardashians” answers, which is just easy karma farming.
If someone posts in a community that’s geared for something like opinions, but someone elects to just go on a full scale rant instead.
Questions like “When you’re sexing some sexy sex, how many sex do you sex?”
Let’s keep the immature high school/sad old desperate man horniness out of here.
Adding to this, I’d love to never see the phrase “Sexy Time” ever again
Ugh there are so many phrases I cannot stand from reddit. “thanks for the gold kind stranger” makes me want to throw my computer out of the window.
“RIP my inbox”, “How do I delete someone else’s comment”, etc
When does the narwhal bacon?
How can I give you gold to this comment fellow redditor
I wish I could upvote this twice.
(I meant this as a reference to people saying that on reddit)
Jesus, yes. I can’t tell you how many subreddits got swamped with high-school leveled questions about sex.
Especially in TooAfraidToAsk, which is supposed to be about questions that’d normally be about trying to ask taboo things to get a discussion. But no, you’ll come across questions like “if there is no porn to look at, what do you look at instead while jerking off in the shower?”. Like, besides trolls, who the hell comes up with some questions like that? Let’s not forget the abundance of people, showcasing the lack of sexual education, asking if they’d get HPV by doing this or HIV by doing that.
Reddit seems like it is largely made up of two main demographics. It’s either people in their 30’s, 40’s, 50’s who were there since the site’s launch (me) or teenagers to early/mid 20’s. The latter has a big reach on the site right now.
So you’re basically saying reddit is mainly being used by people from 20 to 60 years. What a surprise ;)
Reddit’s target demographic are mostly humans.
My interpretation was it excludes people from 27-30
who the hell comes up with some questions like that?
I mean the obvious answer is of course young teenagers, especially if their family has a uncomfortable relation to sexuality.
I feel bad because clearly these poorly educated teenagers need answers to these questions. But it really drags down the level of discourse.
And not just regarding sex, but any other “oh you’re obviously 14” takes.
Makes you wonder if the loads of stupid sex questions has anything to do with the lack of proper sex education in schools.
Some of them were from perpetually horny adults like myself but we usually self-quarantined at r/askredditafterdark
Ah, yes…I posted on that one for a time.
I don’t know, man.
Teenagers are going to be horny no matter the level of education. I just think it’s exciting for them to have “real” people answering their questions, a distinctly different experience than asking the teacher in sex-ed, more private too.
I saw one today on that Reddit bot instance of Lemmy titled:
“I like the smell of my vagnina after my boyfriend cums in me.”
I’m not sure if it’s bored teenagers, bots or straight up dumb asses that are posting that garbage, nor why.
I hope this was a mistype. :(
Every single time I think about reddit, that picture of a past reddit meet-up appears in my head. 99% were fat, disgenetic, unappealing, unhealthy, weird looking people.
i don’t know… i see a few people using reddit on public transit and they look alright. I find that kind of disingenuous
This stereotype has stemmed from the amount of neckbeard incelish redditors that hate on women more than anything
The different Reddit meetups I had gone to weren’t like that. But after that picture it became nearly impossible to get a meetup going.
I forgot about that pic! Nightmare fuel!
It was a shame because that seemed to kill meetups. I had been to a couple up to that point, they didn’t look like that and were a lot of fun.
Edit: added a word and comma.
Edit 1: wow guys thank you so much.
Edit 2: Rip my inbox.
Edit 3: Ok guys Im going to sleep.
Pointless comment trying to be a contrarian to just add /s at the end.
Shut the fuck up
EDIT: i just commented this, right now.
I appreciate a little footnote to explain what was edited, but yes to all the rest
And if its just a typo? Use strike through, then you can leave your funny typo and correct it
How’s about they stop trying to migrate Reddit subs over to Lemmy as communities? That would be nice. I don’t want a Reddit substitute. I want a new thing that puts Reddit entirely in the past. I want a fresh start, not a Reddit clone. Reddit sucked for a lot of reasons. I could go on and on. Stop replying to comments with “this” as well. But, mostly, I’d like to see people from Reddit moving over to here with zero Reddit nostalgia. Say goodbye to your favorite Reddit subs, stop trying to re-create them over here in the Fediverse. Instead, have some imagination and create new, original communities and kick the whole Reddit vibe to the curb for once and for all.
needlessly hostile “gotcha” type responses that dont take into consideration the end users needs, use cases, or goals.
Im sorry in advance if I ever do that to anyone i need slapped.
Unfunny puns.
I actually liked those, probably because I also do a lot of dad jokes irl. I didn’t know so many people were annoyed by them.
Guilty of this - both the dad jokes and some of my all-time upvoted comments being puns.
It’s mainly cos they end up being the top 3-upvoted comments on a thread asling a serious question like “[SEERIOUS] How do I not die of cancer”
Cue: Top 3 answers being puns on death or cancer. It gets irritating after a while. :/
Probs won’t be a big deal on Lemmy since the comments are default-sorted by New instead of Top.
You make it sound like the real issue is people being flippant at seirous descussion, all I van say is learn to know when to nest comments and dont joke at the dieing
You can always collapse the shitty joke threads, over and over, because they never end on reddit.
No, it’s not just that. That was just an extreme example.
It’s more the fact evweryone seems to be training to be a stand up comedian with the lowest form of wit known to man - the pun.
Cute cat falls over - “Floof floofed”.
Horse bites person - “That animal ain’t horsing around”
Can we just have normal comments without everyone trying so fuckign hard to be funny? The only purpose of those try-hards is they want karma.
Notice the puns don’t seem to be a thing on Lemmy? Cos karma isn’t a thing!
I was a 16yr ‘veteran’ on Reddit. I know how the site worked and works. I can collapse comments fine and was perfectly able and knew I’d have to skip past the top 3-4 comments of a post.
The only sin bigger than the puns is the poor variety of people commenting on the ways they “spit out their coffee” at how FUNNEH said pun was. It gets tiresome. Really, really fuckign tiresome.
If you knew someone in real life who made the same jokes every 5mins, every single day - you’d probably cut them out of your life because you found them dull to be around.
That’s how Reddit felt.
I feel like before 2015 reddit was way more free speech focused. Now it seems like every sub will ban you because they don’t like you politically or you violated rule 15b paragraph 2.
Basically every sub is run by tiny elons with a power trip.
Yeah if you have a politically different opinion you get banned for “Trolling” as if it’s impossible for someone to genuinely believe something they disagree with. This is already happening on lemmy unfortunately
I think part of the problem is that people don’t tend to read the comments on anything before they comment themselves. So you get the same old jokes repeated over and over and people thinking their opinions are really niche and groundbreaking when the exact same opinions are all over that same comment section.
Puns
Puns are the highest form of comedy. I will die on this hill if I must.
They’re, the problem is that most redditors don’t actually know how to use good and funny puns
I also choose this guy’s wife who’s dying of cancer
They’re, the problem is that most redditors don’t actually know how to use good and funny puns
You used “They’re” correctly, but in the most unconventional way. Thanks, I hate it 😅
Lol, sorry
Very true. Puns are one of the hardest forms of comedy to pull off.
Well it’s about to be hamburger hill lol.
That can be arranged.
highest form of comedy.
… because it’s on the hill?
Aw but come up, can’t we have a few puns? I really think they’re punny, and brighten my day
Only if you’re British.
We need the punniverse
Probably the biggest one would be needlessly hostile or mocking responses.
The arrogance. Already see a lot of it here, unfortunately.
I had to talk shit 2 days in on Lemmy because someone who created their account 3 days before mine thought he was an expert.
Especially people who double down on their stupidity/arrogance/trolling. They get downvoted but keep arguing.
Exactly. As someone who is modest I hate this. Prolly the most modest. More modest than 99% of the people here.
I read this in Donald Trump’s voice
Being arrogant was my only flaw, but I overcame it, and now I’m perfect.
Im soooooo modest that I know your lying to me. Thats how modest I am! oh, lemmy, wheres my keys to my jet? I swear I left them on the seat of the lambo and there not there! DID YOU TAKE THEM?! /s
EDIT: Oh… I sound like a smartass, sorry buddy, i was playing the role of the “humble” not arracking you
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We need a new unit of measurement to replace the banana.
I have mixed feelings about this one… I’m willing to try on other things for size but no promises
Can we do 1 no-poop day is 3 days real time
I like this idea
Nah, the banana has transcended from reddit
*Imgur
Did it start on Imgur?
Looks like it “started” long before that even, but first became a “meme” amongst Imgur users.
Shutting down questions with any variation “just Google it” It always irks me when someone goes “bro you know Google exists right” like if I wanted to Google it I wouldn’t be asking it here
Asking why they’re being downvoted when they clearly have more upvotes. Also, starting a comment with “I’m going to get downvoted for this but”.
With the first one, there are bots that will try to control the conversation by downvoting one side before people with a brain read the comments.
Usually, the person asking about the downvotes don’t change their comments after the initial barrage.
I hope the stupid koala/sunfish/panda copypastas burn with reddit. It was kind of funny at first, but then it started actually convincing people that a bunch of species legitimately deserve to go extinct for… taking up an ecological niche?
Reminds me of how people used to laugh about blobfish. Then they realized that the deep sea fish - adapted to incredible pressure - doesn’t take rapid decompression well.
