What do you miss about Reddit?

submitted by medium_tomato from (self.AskSaidIt)

I keep trying to completely boycott reddit after the purge but I get a bit too bummed out on this site. There isn't enough positive funny content yet so one group dominates too much.

I also miss the old insightful reddit where I learned something new every day, and people actually had decent conversations.

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[–]Edge_Finder 12 insightful - 9 fun12 insightful - 8 fun13 insightful - 9 fun -  (0 children)

i miss my posts being deleted and banned for zero reason because of bots

[–]SeasideLimbs 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I basically agree with you, OP. That's probably the biggest problem for now. The only way to change that is to post more things that aren't just related to topics like free speech or politics. Oftentimes it only takes a few little nudges for an interesting conversation to happen or some activity in a community. More cute cats, interesting art, music, architecture, fandoms, etc would help prevent this site from ghettoizing itself as a perpetual reaction to Reddit and instead turn it into a proper community in its own right.

[–]medium_tomato[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Exactly! That's what I'm slowly trying to do. Can you recommend any existing light subs that can use more cute or funny things? Or generate good discussion?

[–]SeasideLimbs 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

s/music already has some activity but could do with more. This may sound kinda silly, but I think it may actually be best to just look at all the most popular subreddits for inspiration. I don't know if Saidit has any communities at all related to cute animals yet for example, but if somebody made one, I'd sub for sure!

[–]PurpleAmathea 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ooh, my beacon signal.

I think s/aww needs more content

This sub right here, s/asksaidit, would be great with more good, interesting, non political questions.

There's some stuff in s/books, could always add more.

I want s/gardening to take off...

[–]GConly 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The greater number of people. Let's be honest.

[–]medium_tomato[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is so true. At the same time I am finding it more fun and exciting that my posts and comments are actually seen here and I have replies. Sometimes dumb replies but sometimes good. I would get too drowned out on reddit so often didn't bother. This place could use a few extra thousand people though..

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

I miss the old reddit, say pre-2012, like I miss the old internet. People would make funny things, largely conversations were devoid of politics, and people would try to help one another to make things. Sadly I don't have much in the way of any skills or maybe I'd try my hand at memes. But I don't think I'm good at them, and they'd actually have to be relevant to saidit somehow.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Yes, it really was the golden age of memes. I only miss what Reddit was before about 2015. People identified as redditors once, but that hasn't meant anything in a long time.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I don't identify as anything anymore. Just lost.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Yeah I'm feeling pretty "internet homeless" these days. It's weird.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Exercise helped me quite a lot. I wish I could do more things, but adult life sucks. You work all the time, and it never feels like you can really commit to doing anything for yourself. A down side of growing older is if you've tried a lot of things, and realize you suck at all of them. What do you do then? Being a mediocre person and realizing it is horrible, and having nowhere to go to enjoy mediocrity with others is even worse.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I bounced from one thing to another looking for the one thing I'd be good at. Every time it would be easy to learn the basics, then I'd hit a wall and be frustrated with it. The flaw in my thinking was that - if it gets hard at any point, then it's not my thing. What I learned was that the walls can be broken through with patience and persistence. I'm pretty much convinced that everything gets hard at some point, and you just have to grind through it slowly, until you come out the other side. It's hard to push yourself through that. When the learning/discovery grinds to a halt, the fun/motivation really dries up. And in my case a lot of negativity and frustration set in. The only thing that kept me going was being able to make a small amount of money on my hobby... that gave me the motivation to stick to one thing and build on my skills over the course of years.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've lived a very hard life. A very, in my view, unfair one at that. Of course being unable to see it any other way, it's like a rot that sets in. You become very comfortable in it and give up trying to fight it, especially if it's nothing but failures for decades. Then you just grow old. If anything I really wish I had devoted time to some kind of expressive skill, maybe art or music, but I find I have an affinity for neither. I love them, but can't do them, or at least can't seem to. I don't mean I haven't tried, I certainly can draw a bit, but can't stick to it to develop.

Having depression most of my life, and I mean real depression of the "I just spent 6 months kind of staring at a wall" sort of anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure), that problem you outline is impossible for me. I feel everything is pointless and without purpose, because I just cannot feel it worthwhile to do. I think you'd be horrified how many days you find you've spent just kind of staring at a wall in your bed. It's actually worse when you get better, because you see how many years you've lost and how little time you have left, and get caught in a circular cycle that paralyzes you. Especially knowing it comes back, and it'll be pointless.

I can't count how many times I picked back up something, only to be unable to stick to it again, then next year I try again. Over, and over, and over. The futility is torture. That's what'll drive me to tears. Just being flatly unable to keep doing it consistently, and being unable to find some way to fix that, and tortured with some days being better enough that it fools you into thinking now will be different. Then it comes back anyway, and you just can't finish the last drawing you started. Or start new ones. And then you go back to bed.

I don't really have anyone to talk to about it. Or expect there to be some magical line of reasoning or wisdom to fix it. I've already tried that, among many other things. Just how it is for me. I don't get to be lucky enough to really enjoy life.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That sucks. I've less-severe depression, which I go in and out of. When the episode runs its course, I realize I've been doing nothing but playing World of Warcraft 14 hours a day, every day for the past 3 months, and I'm basically sitting in filth.

Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is the 1% improvements added up, and I didn't notice how much progress I'd made until I looked back... it didn't feel like I was improving at the time, but one day I noticed it and shocked me. I don't know what it's like for drawing, but for me there were small specific things I could work on, and I made it only about that thing. Maybe for drawing it's just drilling light & shade on different primitive shapes... I don't really know drawing, but breaking it up into tiny projects and limiting the scope of things can take a lot of the pressure off. But those smaller projects can inform the bigger ones.

[–]Papitas 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think one of the most precious things one loses as an adult is the capacity to not giving a shit.

Who cares if you are bad at things you enjoy?

[–]Genderbender 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Certain subs.

[–]medium_tomato[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

If you could be more specific it would really love up this sub and thread.

[–]Raavan 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Coomer

Consumeproduct

Wojak

Bruhfunny

Averageredditor

[–]dissent 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Why not start them?

[–]Raavan 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I've started s/wojak on my older account. Consumeproduct and coomer exist already. Averageredditor exists on reddit and bruhfunny only had any meaning on reddit.

[–]dissent 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

nice. I had not heard of it. I like the idea. sub'd

[–]Raavan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you haha. I don't know how to run a sub though, I post to it to learn basic image editing in gimp so unless there's someone else over there the sub is pretty much dead

[–]Genderbender 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

r/GCdebatesQT.

[–]Catbug 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Being banned for liking posts that contained wrongthink, and an obsessive need amongst the users to defend pornhub not removing filmed rapes and teenage girls.

What’s to miss?

[–]medium_tomato[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I mean yes but you did start going there for a reason. I miss older reddit. People used to talk about the reddit hivemind in 2010 but it was so much more bearable.

[–]Catbug 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

True. I enjoyed the unresolved mysteries sub. Entertaining as hell. Most of the creative writing subs like ask reddit and relationships were good fun to read too. Gonna miss the ridiculous stories.

[–]medium_tomato[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think you nailed it when you said stories. One thing I loved about AskReddit is all the crazy stories people would post that come from a simple question. Now it's "what's your this thing story?". Not quite the same.

[–]Catbug 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah it was so fun seeing the crazy stories coming out of something like ‘what happened last time you saw the dentist?’or whatever banal thing.

Definitely don’t miss all the “reddit what is your sexiest sex story about sex” posts though.

[–]Edge_Finder 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

i also miss all the pedo subs and porn subs that are pretty offensive, but you talk about trump... that is bad

[–]Zednix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

All the hobby subs.

[–]dissent 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Start making them here

[–]Zednix 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I have made /s/hockey

I dont want to create to many on my own because I don't want to be responsible or a powermodfag like the ones on rEDdIT

[–]dissent 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Get them up and running, contribute until they are away, then pass them over. Have to build it first.

[–]dissent 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I missed it so I made it here. /s/mechanicalgifs Be the change you want to see! ;-)

[–]medium_tomato[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I love this kind of content! Never knew how much I needed this in my life. Subbed.

[–]reddugee 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Having a laugh or an insight without getting creepy replies from cranky nut-jobs telling me to go back to reddit

[–]Killjoy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

All the Redditards.

Account getting suspension for sarcastic comments.

Huge banwaves.

Cesspool of libtard fuckbags.

Women worshiping white knights.

Zero humour.

The Red Pill, asktrp & seduction subreddit.

[–]Lad 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The fact almost every topic was accessible in a sub. My earliest memories of Reddit was going to r/gore and seeing a post of a dead girl over the dashboard of her car saying "crashed my new car, dad's going to kill me!!!" It was fucking hilarious in a sick way. Now everything is banned... you can't have an opinion on Reddit without 10 fools kicking up a fuss because they don't agree with you.