I hate to post about Reddit on a non-Reddit platform, but come on! Reddit is super overrated, like they delete and downvote every post and comment I make whereas no one does that here. One time, they told my friend who happens to be autistic, LGBT, and a fictionkin that she “might as well just kill herself”, though that got removed, thankfully, and they call me stupid and delete my post and talk about what a stupid question it is that no one can answer when I, who is autistic, ask a question on why someone acts a certain way or why society has to be a certain way. I’M AUTISTIC. I DON’T GET QUESTIONS THAT COME NATURALLY TO EVERYONE ELSE AND I ASK QUESTIONS THAT NO ONE THINKS OF. MY BRAIN WORKS DIFFERENTLY, MR. REDDITOR!!!
Yeah Reddit is a giant pile of dogshit. Good riddance.
I have to ask, did your friend get told to kill themselves because of being a gay autistic furry or was it for something else?
I think you’re probably implying that is it, but I’ve been told on reddit to kill myself for all kinds of things that are less interesting than that.
I think it was being a gay autistic furry, yeah.
Sucks to be awesome, i guess.
I could not imagine what it would be like to feel so threatened as to be filled with such a hateful sentiment. I should really say it sucks to be whoever that kind of person is.
lol no one here is going to say anything nice about reddit
It’s obvious that Reddit hates disabled people since they killed alt front-ends for the blind community a while back.
It floors me that all these Internet companies that ignore accessibility aren’t getting smacked down by the ADA (and similar laws elsewhere).
Yeah, Reddit is a shithole.
Yeah reddit is a cesspool. I had gotten death threats on there for having a profile pic that looked vaguely furry. The guy who made the death threats got a slap on the wrist.
Meanwhile my account caught a 3 day ban for joking about mosquitoes getting cancer, and then a perm ban for saying that Nazis are losers. Reddit is a fascist supporting platform and the sooner it goes down in flames, the better.
Whoof, yikes, yeah.
Reddit is just chock full of random harassment.
We’ve gotten some here too but it’s not anywhere NEAR as bad. Here we feel relatively safe using ‘we’ and signing our messages. We’ve mostly stopped using ‘we’ on reddit and I get the occasional mocking comments about signing my name.
– Frost
It is, for sure. I’m so sorry you’ve gotten so negative messages. By the way, do you maybe happen to plural?? I am too! So far, we have one other known headmate, he’s Mark! His English is not the best, though, we are natively Spanish.
Yeah!! We’re plural too! Oh that’s awesome. *wags*
We have a lot of people, but most of us only showed up a couple times and just haven’t shown up again much since (they’re all still there though). We’ve got a group of like five or six people who front regularly.
– Frost
Ooo, cool!!! I’m glad I found a plural collective here!
You sure said it. Society in general isn’t too friendly to disabled individuals
You have to fit into a certain fucking mold. I didn’t ask to be here, want to be here, and I’m making plans to fuck off to some mountain, and crossbow anyone who bothers me.
I just needed to be allowed to buy cheap meds that aren’t even narcotic, stimulant, or hallucinogenic, just something to reabsorb Dopamine and Noradrenaline.
They are all crypto fascist trash, pretending to be left-wing.
Reddit should get struck by Iran next.
wendyz Reddit has a real problem with being built around oversized, hyperactive spaces, and sround tyrany of the majority thanks to their up/downvote mechanics. This resulte in a space where being early to a discussion and then dunking on someone or on some unpopular strawman gets you not just attention, but also a metacurrency that grants you access to more “discerning” spaces.
When communities become too big, thy just become voids to scream into, because no one is reading the comments. They’re just trying to get noticed. That turns them into deeply toxiv plates that turn on anyone trying to have an actual discussion about things.
You know how there is this trope of people with little power in their lives abusing service industry workers? I feel like the behavior you describe is kind of like that. People go online and be way ruder than they would be irl, because they can. They can’t empathize with the person on the other side, or they don’t care and are happy to have an outlet without consequences.
I mostly assume replies are not actually to me, they are just people who want to hear themselves talk. Makes it a bit less frustrating.
I left reddit after the reddit blackout happened. Permanently. I didn’t purge my old posts but… I’m gone and not returning until the blind community forgives them. (API changes, lots of non seeing moderators lost their ability to interact with the site. There was a blackout in protest and reddit used it for routine maintenance)
I removed my posts on several occasions and they showed up when not logged in. their process for removing posts just seem to hide your own posts from your login from what I can tell.
I think if you did it quickly when it first became popular, they were actually purged. Later, Reddit implemented countermeasures.
I think it did kinda work at first as I did do it several times but I think they restored from some sort of backup and then went to the just hide it from your logged in user.
Reddit sucks, but also who cares what some bridge troll who lives in a van down by the river thinks?
Is the van near the bridge or do they commute to work?
The van is under the bridge that goes over the river.
the van is in the river
The van is the river
The river is in the van
I feel like a lot of the unkindness and meanness is manufactured on purpose to divide us, I don’t think real people are actually that way all the time like they are on reddit, genuine kindness is rare, it wasn’t always like that at all, Reddit used to be exactly like here.
I feel like a lot of the unkindness and meanness is manufactured on purpose to divide us,
Fuck you, you’re wrong, you loser.
(hopefully the bit I quoted makes it clear I’m being VERY silly and not serious <3 )
WHAT? FUCK YOU MATE!
<3
I get it, by the way. Redshitters, as you said you called them, flamed me for asking how I know if I’m a lesbian or not and they called it a dumb question and removed my post and everyone downvoted it.
for asking how I know if I’m a lesbian or not and they called it a dumb question
1: Are you a girl?
2: Do you get horny for girls?
If the answer to both of those questions is yes, then congrats: you’re a lesbian. (Or maybe bi or pan or whatever.)
Yes to both hehe!!!
That’s the worst part about reddit, and alot of other online forums. People get so mean and toxic, and forget there’s real people behind these usernames too :c It looks like this website is a bit better for that, but only time will tell. I hope you got your answers on your question, and that people treat you with a little bit more respect in the future.
No, I didn’t get an answer but I figured out I am most likely lesbian as I don’t wanna date men
That makes sense. Also remember you never have to put yourself in any “box”, just because people find it “more convenient”. If your feelings change from person to person, or from day to day, then that’s more than okay. No 2 people should live their lives completely the same way. You evolve, and learn to enjoy new things in the future. Don’t stress it as much, just do what feels right for you!
you never have to put yourself in any “box”,
There is a joke in here about lesbians and putting things in “boxes”, but I’m not gonna make it.
:)
reddit will have been going hard since last year, i wouldnt put it as a personal vendetta from reddit. they ban very heavily for random things, especially if even imply certain things that can be misconstrued as something potentiall violating.
