It hasn’t been for at least 10 years. the_donald was some how memoryholed. The chuds broke r/all 10 years ago.
Nobody remembers. Maybe anybody who knows has already washed themselves of the reddit mess a long time ago. All that’s left are the chuds acting in bad faith who lie their ass off to craft their alt-reality.
I’m pretty sure the “unused RAM is wasted RAM” thing has caused its share of damage from shit developers who took it to mean use memory with reckless abandon.
There’s another level of skullduggery that few people know about. Mods have some sort of other trick up their sleeve to shadowban you.
It’s not any of reddit’s usual filters like VPN or alt account detection. It’s some trick that mods exploit that immediately auto hides your posts/comments. I have no clue how it works though. Cause you know, nobody else seems know or talk about it ever.
I’ve seen it used when they really don’t like what someone is saying. In other words when they want to control the narrative. Such as not liking whatever thing about medication side effects that you wanted to post.
I’m pretty sure even posting about this has gotten that account of mine on their secret shadowban list. One time a mod was even downvoting my comments even though my posts were immediately being autohidden on their sub. Nobody else can see hidden comments except mods so it could only be them. So petty.
What I’m getting at is that reddit is fucked beyond fuckery. I know the lot of us we were all super attached to the idea of a big messageboard but that idea died a long time ago. We’re habituated to posting on there and going bakc there to read posts on here.
Maybe say whatever you got to say on the fedeverse. Even if it seems like nobody is looking, just post it. The internet was originally made by people posting into the void. Little by little more people came looking.
What is the point of this reply but to publicly announce your smugness. Down voted for low content.
That’s about it for me then. I exclusively use r/all. Without being signed too.
I don’t care if I see content I don’t like nor care about. The point is to not be spoon fed some “algorithm”. And it lets me see the state of the platform as a whole.
Reddit is quite literally Facebook these days. I really think most of the userbase right now is the people who started using the Facebook app on their phone thinking that’s what the internet is. Finally after much inertia they’ve ventured over to the reddit app to explore another part of this “internet” thing.
So many users call subreddits “groups” because that’s the colloquialism they brought over from Facebook. They don’t know what to call subreddits. So they fumble around different phrasing. They say things like “this group”, “this reddit”, “this r”. Yet never seem to come around to understanding it’s called subreddit. It’s a sign of how the long standing tradition of new users adopting local culture is no longer a thing. New users come in and ignore everything while doing whatever the fuck. God forbid they start getting mod power after some exodus cause then the subreddit is definitely done for.
Quite frankly it’s full of idiots. Not the usual reddit idiot of past years. Reddit’s current userbase is a whole other beast right now. So many users seemingly never used technology in their life before. They can’t even reply to correct comments. People are posting top level comments instead of replying to the proper one. A concerning amount of people think it’s a flat, time sorted message board. They can’t wrap their head around the technical mechanics of a comment section.
Worst of all they have zero internet literacy. Zero idea of internet lore. It’s like talking to my grandparents about technology. They have no idea about anything.
Nobody can speak or understand when I reference internet history either. Pretty rare to find anyone anymore that can reply knowing what I’m talking about when making historical internet references that any adult should be able to know about.
A concerning trend I’ve noticed is that often it will be a right wing troll that comes in to lie whenever mentioning their sordid history of right wing hate and violence on the internet. Must be one of the troll farms that actively flood the zone with shit. For some reason people are so eager to believe the lies. This rant is kind of going off topic now anyways.
Oh yeah and seemingly a lot of people are dictating their reddit replies. That’s just bizarre to me but okay. I guess it makes sense why internet posting has changed so much. In particular, walls of text (such as this) aren’t common anymore. Nobody does brain dumps anymore. Because to them, this reply would be said out loud into my phone like some lunatic instead of typing out a string of thoughts real quick.
Your mental block will never allow you to understand this but reddit is a right wing pedo shithole.
I lost all my accounts by attrition. I had dozens. Maybe even few dozen.
In spite of trying the rate of replacement was basically zero. As you described it’s impossible to make and maintain new accounts.
Take this is an opportunity to wean yourself off reddit. It’s worthless anyways.
Idle power on my laptop.
KDE Wayland: 10 watts
KDE X11: 6 watts
It was this way when I checked years ago. Still this way as of a few weeks ago.
This is a generalized problem. It’s not only programming. The world faces a critical collapse of expertise if we defer to AI.
I think it’s the original generation of reddit libertarian conservatives using the sub as controlled oppositon. That place used to be a Ron Paul circle jerk. They don’t necessarily like all of Trumpism but they recognize they’re more aligned than with liberals. At most they’re establishment Democrats but I think they’re no farther left than center right.
Never forget Eglin Air Force base. Reddit is and always has been a State Department apparatus.
Standard US tech industry. Copy and steal in a mad dash to monopolize the market. Sue everyone else into oblivion. Crown yourself the inventor and the winner.