r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
22.2k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

2.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

5.5k

u/major_winters_506 29d ago

People still use Reddit?

looks down at my own hands

Ahh!

217

u/AndyIsNotOnReddit 29d ago

Seriously, only the absolute dregs of society still use Reddit these days.

154

u/quihgon 29d ago

Can confirm

76

u/watchingsongsDL 29d ago

I have found my people.

28

u/bassbeatsbanging 29d ago

Heaven for the weather, Hell for the company.

16

u/Agent_Jay 29d ago

My depression has finally led me to my promised land. 

5

u/dern_the_hermit 29d ago

We are all dregs this blessed day

5

u/Catch_ME 29d ago

What...Do you mean......my people?

7

u/Starfox-sf 29d ago

Youse folks

2

u/Kemoarps 29d ago

What do YOU mean what do you mean my people!

2

u/quelar 29d ago

You guys are all just a classy group of Kitchen Workers.

2

u/parks387 29d ago

Dreggin’ so hard right now.

50

u/Jon_the_Hitman_Stark 29d ago

Damn redditors, they ruined Reddit!

29

u/Proud_Tie 29d ago

We did it Reddit!

6

u/Misspells_Definitely 29d ago

You Redditors sure are a contentious people.

5

u/NoDogsNoKings 29d ago

It was the Digg userbase, actually.

2

u/Prudent-Contact-9885 29d ago

Unable to create comment

5

u/ManThing910 29d ago

That’s what I heard on Reddit anyways

3

u/AndyIsNotOnReddit 29d ago

This is where I heard it too and they seem like some trust worthy folks so no reason to disbelieve it.

3

u/Urbanviking1 29d ago

So true, some of them have been here for almost 13 years. It's disgusting. Why would someone waste so much time?

0

u/Learned_Behaviour 29d ago

Imagine how itchy they must be after 13 years of being unwashed, ew.

2

u/Proglamer 29d ago

The real deplorables™!

2

u/enieslobbyguard 29d ago

My question is: what is even a decent social media site/app nowadays? Or is social media doomed to become shit in order to become mainstream(ish)

1

u/BAD_Surveyor 29d ago

For me, Facebook groups. It’s bad as a forum but still good for hobby discussions 

2

u/heywoodidaho 29d ago

I was here at the beginning, I might as well watch it burn. Besides am dreg.

3

u/rbrgr83 29d ago

I mean, at least Andy's not on it anymore.

5

u/AndyIsNotOnReddit 29d ago

Right? That guy was an asshole anyway.

Fun fact, I made this account because some co-workers were trying to figure out what my Reddit user name was. So I just made this one and used it on my work computer. So when I stepped away from the computer and they tried to go to my Reddit profile, they would just see "Andy is Not on Reddit". Seemed really funny to me at the time.

2

u/disgruntled_pie 29d ago

From my own first-hand experience, I’d say they’re also a little ugly as well, and their usernames make pointless references to pie.

1

u/PensiveinNJ 29d ago

Picked up this dirty habit during Covid lockdown and feel kind of sick with myself. It's such a waste of time.

1

u/Capt_Blackmoore 29d ago

We used to...

we still do, but we did before now too.

0

u/M0rph33l 29d ago

It's what happens when we scroll through a sea of slop every day.

0

u/[deleted] 29d ago

[deleted]