I love that comment sections here are like, y’know, discussions and stuff. Not just the same jokes and parroted phrases over and over and over.

  • @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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    571 year ago

    Seems an unpopular opinion here, but I honestly miss this. The whole “using subreddits as hashtags” thing is how I found a number of interesting subs I would have never otherwise even thought to search for. Yeah, some were very big and well known ones like /holup that got repetitive, but others were some niche thing that fit that specific post in a way that I at least found somewhat funny.

    • TheSpookiestUser
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      1 year ago

      It was good when it linked to actually interesting new communities, it was bad when it linked to meta-communities just collecting reddit posts - rimjobsteve, foundthemobileuser, holup half the time, cursedcomments, redditmoment, etc.

      • Rikudou_SageA
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        1 year ago

        I actually liked those as well. I usually skip usernames so when someone linked rimjob steve I at least checked the username.

      • Dandroid
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        I just didn’t like when people would use them to make fun of each other. Like commenting “r/wooosh” for someone just asking for clarification on something. Using it to say “this comment or post would be appropriate for this subreddit” is fine imo. I just don’t like when people try to put others down to make themselves feel better than other people.

        • @DudePluto@lemmy.world
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          61 year ago

          I could tolerate almost every redditism if it weren’t for the belittling, argumentative, and self-righteous tones that permeated every front page discussion