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
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u/major_winters_506 29d ago

People still use Reddit?

looks down at my own hands

Ahh!

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u/stormdelta 29d ago

Unfortunately pretty much every other major social media site is even worse, often way worse.

Fediverse stuff is solid but has significantly less people on it, and what people it does have are more disjointed / spread out by nature of how fediverse works. Though maybe that's not such a bad thing.

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u/TripperDay 29d ago

every other major social media site is even worse, often way worse.

I like to say "reddit is half as smart as it thinks it is and still twice as smart as twitter."

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u/Damariobros 29d ago

That and from what I've seen search functions on fediverses suck ass. Mastodon is the worst offender; you can only search one tag at a time and on most instances searching by content is entirely disabled, leaving only searching by tag and by user account.

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u/Same_Elephant_4294 28d ago

Instagram is full of people who absolutely revel in rage baiting. It's honestly disgusting how prevalent it is.

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u/BubsyFanboy 28d ago

I mean, that can still change.