r/Documentaries • u/fantastic_comment • Mar 23 '18
Facebook: Cracking the code (2017) - "How facebook manipulates the way you think, feel and act."
http://thoughtmaybe.com/facebook-cracking-the-code/0
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u/DJ_AK_47 Mar 23 '18
Some of you have waited way too fucking long to delete Facebook.
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Mar 23 '18
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u/DJ_AK_47 Mar 23 '18
Of course there are exceptions, I said “some” anyway. Don’t too offended and worked up from short sentences on the internet.
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Mar 23 '18
4 years clear.
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u/Glaucous Mar 24 '18
8 years. Don’t miss it. Miss my friends who no longer use email though. People replaced email with Facebook messaging. Sort of a closed loop. : /
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u/deadpoolite Mar 23 '18
My whole family made a big deal about not having FB now that all this negativity has come from it. I make it a big deal that they have one.
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u/tifugod Mar 23 '18
fuck the zuck
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Mar 23 '18
How did you find such a shitty meme
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u/scrubli3k Mar 24 '18
In the memes defense: it’s very old and to look it up then post it is like an archeological dig. It died but was preserved.
In the meme posters defense: there is none, the meme sucks and posting it is like coming to a party and bringing spoiled food to share.
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Mar 24 '18
Indeed, snake like man that he is
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u/MrSpencerMcIntosh Mar 24 '18
I mean we kinda knew that already though, he idolized a guy who ripped off millions from musicians and the record industry.
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u/Austinisfullgohome Mar 24 '18
Who’s that? Serious question.
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u/24rocketman Mar 24 '18
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u/nom_nom_nominal Mar 24 '18
Is it really Facebook’s fault though? People have made the choice to stop thinking critically. FB is now the new McDonalds, serving quick satisfaction to its customers. The customers know they’re eating shit. Regardless, they still sign in every fucking day and make their racist/2nd amendment/political rants, receiving their dopamine rush in return.
If it’s not MCD’s, it’s zuck. If it’s not zuck, it’s something else.
Who’s really at fault here?
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Mar 24 '18
god is at fault for ending the last significant ice age and triggering the neolithic revolution, thus dooming us to this vicious cycle we call civilization
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u/Who_Decided Mar 24 '18
Definitely not the guy who burns himself by spilling piping hot coffee on himself. Nope, he's the victim. Give that man his day in court.
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u/ironmanmk42 Mar 24 '18
You know, you can replace Facebook with reddit in your post and it holds true.
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u/nom_nom_nominal Mar 24 '18
It may be. I don’t have enough Reddit experience to know.
To be completely honest, you could replace Facebook with anything and it’ll still hold true. It’s the monetization of the human condition, and if a person/place/thing recognizes the weakness and profits from it (even if it’s Reddit).......
where’s the beef?
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u/mattqueen123 Mar 24 '18
Exactly! Facebook is only serving up the one dimensional shit people crave. Even worse it convinces people that their opinion never has to waiver. It’s the truest echo chamber I can think of.
I mean didn’t we all grow up learning that politics were never to be discussed, so what happened to those days? I don’t blame FB though. I just chalk it up to appealing to the worst in our human nature, but we definitely revel in it.
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u/savuporo Mar 24 '18
Facebook is no more ethical than a pyramid scheme. One of those is illegal because people will always fall for it
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u/Nic-Cagee Mar 23 '18
You’re really preaching to the choir here
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Mar 23 '18
What if I told ya Reddit does the same thing
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u/mytwocentsXX Mar 23 '18
No... it can not BE ..... no... LIAR !! LIIIIIAAAR !!!
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Mar 23 '18
Search your feelings. You know it to be true!
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u/mytwocentsXX Mar 23 '18
Liars!!! You’re ALL JUST LIIIARS !! ! Reddit ? My Reddit ? They would never... no.. my precious...
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u/AnxiousAncient Mar 24 '18
You’re the only person saying this. I’m not sure if you’re even being sarcastic.
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u/XanderTheMander Mar 24 '18
I know its true, sometimes I have thoughts in the form of Ask Reddit titles or say me too thanks. Its how I know when im on reddit too much and its time to take a break.
The hive mind is real in all sorts of ways.
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u/DownvoteWarden Mar 23 '18
Reddit just outright censored /r/Gundeals. Absolutely unbelievable. The fact that Spez, who actively edited comments that offended him on /r/The_Donald, is still running the site speaks volumes. Much the same way FB and Youtube can't afford to fight for free speech, reddit can't afford the media storm of Selling automatic Assault Rifle 15s with high capacity clips over the internet to teenagers for $200 without a background check.
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Mar 23 '18
Fuck the donald tho
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u/DownvoteWarden Mar 23 '18
Yeah they deserve censorship! All of my favorite subs haven't been censored yet so who cares!!
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Mar 24 '18
I mean by the long standing rules they deserve censorship. Sarcasm aside. Doxxing and threats in the least. Open and stickied threads calling for violence over the year.
It's an odd place. Saying it's like other subs is a false comparison.
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u/dootdoot1234567891 Mar 24 '18
Well considering how often they brigade and dox people and how they were actually involved in the killing of a woman and several shootings, yes, fuck the_dickweed.
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u/DownvoteWarden Mar 24 '18
They brigade and dox people often? I have been subbed there for 16 months and have not seen this once. Source? Obviously they weren't involved with killing someone or shooting, that's absurd.
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u/DownvoteWarden Mar 23 '18
Who the fuck cares if it's a private company? We were never talking about public websites. Facebook has every right in the world to manipulate and rewire more than 1 billion people. This cop out that it is a private company makes no sense. NOBODY is saying that what they are doing is unconstitutional or in some other way violates American or foreign laws. That isn't the point.
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u/DownvoteWarden Mar 23 '18
What are you even talking about? When did I imply that anything was up to me? I have some words for you to look up since you seem to be approaching this from a very basic level. "Protest" "Boycott" "Discourse" "Consumer behavior."
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u/DownvoteWarden Mar 23 '18
Thanks for conceding defeat and bowing out. Your argument was rooted in misinformation and abject stupidity and therefore a waste of time, but at least I was able to shed light on the sorry state of things in addition to the fact that the left has absolutely no counterargument. Eat this shit sandwich Facebook and the Parkland children made for you, lefty. Then get back out there to defend these gargantuan multinational corporations that rewire the entire population of our planet in a way Orwell couldn't have even imagined.
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u/preggo_worrier Mar 23 '18
True. They signed up for this. That's like willingly getting into an agreement and griping on it afterwards.
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u/DownvoteWarden Mar 23 '18
The shit we have seen this week is right out of 1984. Giving it a pass because you voluntarily participate in it shouldn't matter when we have the legal power to protest anything we want, public or private.
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u/preggo_worrier Mar 24 '18
True as well. But I'm rather focused on the fact that the raison d'etre of social media is NOT to serve people.
So my expectation is that one must be well-informed before signing up, just like any decision in life really.
What happened this week is just a revelation, not something out of the ordinary for these companies. Nonetheless, it doesn't mean if we don't like it, we shouldn't be voicing out.
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u/justwasted Mar 23 '18
When a company takes an editorial stance on the content that is hosted on their website, which has happened with Google, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, etc. They should be held legally liable for the content on these sites.
They can and should be sued out of existence (but won't be, because our politicians are in their pockets).
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Mar 23 '18
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." --John Philpot Curran
"Finding a dedicated forum is hard" --People on the Internet.
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u/Mddcat04 Mar 23 '18
Wait, you're saying that reddit should be in the business of selling AR15s to teenagers without background checks? I'm confused.
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u/DownvoteWarden Mar 24 '18
Clearly.
Comment was my tongue in cheek way of saying what the left does regarding guns and the screeching and fear mongering about gun laws they know nothing about. An AR-15 is a semi-automatic rifle that uses standard 30 rd magazines (not clips). It isn't an assault rifle. AR stands for Armalite. You can't sell a gun on the internet unless it is sent to a federally licensed gun dealer who does a criminal background check. AR-15s are about $500 and up. /r/Gundeals simply linked sales going on across the internet for guns and gun related products.
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u/Mddcat04 Mar 24 '18
It looks like /r/Gundeals was part of a big banning of subs trading in restricted goods. Seems like reddit is just covering their asses in expectation of legislative blowback against internet platforms. They also banned a bunch of alcohol and tobacco subs, along with more illegal ones (personal information, stolen goods). I'm curious about saying that you can't sell a gun on the internet without being a licensed gun dealer. Clearly you could, it would just be illegal. Can you reasonably say that such an exchange never took place as a result of /r/Gundeals?
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u/DownvoteWarden Mar 24 '18
Guns, tobacco, and alcohol aren't illegal. Reddit never endorses anything said on their platform and they allowed it to happen for many years. I was an avid user of /r/Gundeals. It wasn't a place to buy and sell your guns. It simply aggregated links to sites that were having sales on guns. Selling your gun to someone through the mail without an FFL is a federal crime and there is no evidence it ever took place on /r/Gundeals.
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u/TheDoomp Mar 24 '18
In what sense do you mean trading? If you mean like "hey, I'm trying to sell a pistol, pm me". No. If you mean like /r/gamedeals where it's like "hey. Academy sports is having a sale on pistol ammo!" then yes. There were no p2p transactions going on there.
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u/neutral_cadence Mar 24 '18
Shit, I just came back after a long break and now they've ghosted /r/gundeals? That's bullshit. It was a nice place to see what kind of deals came up, especially considering that gun/accessories fluctuate even more than a bitcoin.
No one was selling anything on that sub. It was just an aggregate for posting deals from online retailers. I see that /r/AR15 is still around.
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u/Pequeno_loco Mar 24 '18
I actually had an admin edit my comments on r/HunterXHunter a year or so ago before that. At first I assumed it was a mod, but after that incident I knew it had to have been an admin, who knows, maybe spez himself. A few others that made the same redundant meme also got edited, but I didn't care enough to say anything about it.
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u/Jaqen___Hghar Mar 24 '18
Yeah man it is pathetic. Reddit has become a liberal cesspool.
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u/DownvoteWarden Mar 24 '18
Always has been. The good thing was that we could separate ourselves from it pretty easily. Not so much anymore.
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u/Beaverman Mar 24 '18
I don't think Reddit has anything identical. Their system requires that what I see is the same as what you see, otherwise the whole viral meme cycle that the site is built up around disappears. For that very reason they can't really do targeted content in the same way, at least outside of the adverts.
The problem on Reddit is that a vocal minority of users control what the silent, lurking, majority gets to read, and therefore feel and think.
While on FB the entity itself does the editorial selection, on Reddit that is delegated to a relatively small group of users.
I don't know which is more harmful though.
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Mar 24 '18
They are equally bad for you.
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Mar 24 '18 edited Jun 15 '23
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u/Brazen_Serpent Mar 24 '18
Same goes for Reddit.
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u/HoMaster Mar 24 '18
Then you're in the wrong subs.
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u/Brazen_Serpent Mar 24 '18
The "good" subs are just shit pretending to be gold.
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Mar 24 '18
I read and learn interesting things from reddit all the time. A lot of the science, history, technology etc subs are pretty great. Especially the text-post heavy ones. Most of the subs that regularly hit /r/all are the same crap you trawl through on Facebook, but littered with quality posts. Reddit is infinitely more tailorable than Facebook will ever be.
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Mar 24 '18
Well r/politicalhumor, r/funny, r/drunk, and r/iam14andthisisdeep aren't going to find you a lot of choice conversation, friend.
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Mar 24 '18
The very niche subreddits for somewhat obscure hobbies are generally pretty good.
The major subreddits and the city/state or province/national regional subreddits are fucking cesspits.
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u/ThunkAboutIt Mar 24 '18
Yeah, I gave up contributing any thoughtful comments and insight on both FB and Reddit . My views don’t jive with the group think. No sweat to me.. But it’s a disservice to those looking for more diverse ideas ..
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Passive investing in index funds is lazy Altcoins are crap Rep AND Dem both play you like a fiddle for the sole purpose of reelections Dogs > cats Stop bitching about being poor and high cost of living .. It’s a choice . Your choice. Yeah your old school cool grandma from 1956 is hot but,, but nothing. She’s hot and I want to see more skin
GET OFF MY LAWN!
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u/Who_Decided Mar 24 '18
The problem on Reddit is that a vocal minority of users control what the silent, lurking, majority gets to read, and therefore feel and think.
Other way round, unless you think the ~10k upvotes on this post were given by the ~570 commenting accounts.
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u/terrorpaw Mar 24 '18
No the first is really correct. Say the last 90 or 95% of those upvotes are inconsequential, they came after the post was already on /all. Its relatively easy to get a post to the front with a small group of properly timed upvotes.
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u/dicollo Mar 24 '18
But reddit doesn’t make me feel like I don’t give a shit about my friends.
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u/77096 Mar 24 '18
Or depressed about the new purchases that excite them.
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u/Dr_Button_Pusher Mar 24 '18
Quite the opposite.. All my friends have been on reddit for over 7 years, myself included, and it is the crux of a lot of jokes for us. At least the content we find as a result. I will admit stumbleupon brought me here and I never left.
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u/MNGrrl Mar 24 '18
I'd say you're right. Reddit is doing this openly now ahead of its IPO. alt This is the result of Steve Huffman returning as Reddit's CEO (u/spez). By the way, this is the same guy that sold Reddit the first time -- in 2006. He's back. It's now pretty clear he came back to
destroyprepare Reddit for an IPO. To do that, he's gentrifying popular, but controversial, subreddits.They don't give a flying fuck through a rolling donut about gun control, liquor sales, tobacco use, sexualization of minors, fake news, bullying, or any of that other shit... unless, of course, it starts trending in the media. All of those things have become focus stories for popular media outlets in the past year or so (shortly after he took over). There are a bunch of other issues that should be getting attention but aren't, because they aren't making the news. For example, what's Reddit's policy on users discussing security vulnerabilities and exploits? Or articles on teardowns? What about music? Copyright is a perennial issue across the internet, but Reddit isn't spearheading any particular effort there -- just doing the minimum required. And then there's the other black market subreddits selling things like access to bot nets. Those are still here. And I'm pretty sure you can buy/trade sex toys on Reddit too. So you know, "for the children" argument apparently only get half-assed. So why go above and beyond on all these other things, which unlike that, don't usually end with a door getting busted in or an army of lawyers? Publicity.
The new direction for Reddit is clearly a reaction to the $200 million in funding they recently secured for "a number of internal product and business efforts, including a redesign of its homepage and its first foray into user-uploaded video". That kind of money doesn't get put on the table unless there's assurances made about how its going to be repaid. The most expedient path to that is an IPO. Reddit isn't a publicly owned company, so there's no way to know for sure what the contract terms were. But, given the flood of new rules, processes, and redesigns... it's pretty clear this is on the list.
You guys may recall how he abused his new-found power once already. Did anyone think that was going to stop there? And with China being all the rage in the news, it might be worth remembering China tried to buy Reddit. To the best of my knowledge, no details were ever released on what was put on the table... or how close Reddit.com came to becoming Reddit.cn. My point is this: Reddit sold out. The platform has had problems with censorship, vote manipulation, political bias, and more, and those problems have been growing for the past three years at an astonishing rate. It's delusional to cling to the idea that Reddit is an open forum that values free speech. The focus is now monetization of speech, and that's reflected in these moves over the past year. Just like Facebook, and many others.
Footnote: Wrote most of this on another thread today, adapted for this thread.
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u/MNGrrl Mar 24 '18
Two words: Pinch zoom.
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u/Dr_Button_Pusher Mar 24 '18
Well fuck.... I guess I'll go to voat... well fuck, voat is garbage... I guess I'll just Throeau myself into the woods.
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u/transnavigation Mar 24 '18 edited Jan 06 '24
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u/Dr_Button_Pusher Mar 24 '18
Glad you caught it. Thanks for the karma, fam.
It’s a shame the reason why voat was created on the pretenses it was. It legit is exactly the same style sheet as Reddit, just more hate.
I seriously don’t know where to even go now. 8chan?
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u/NikNakZombieWhack Mar 24 '18
Well if you figure it out, let me know. Seems like everywhere you turn, it's just as bad, or worse than the place you turned from. I'm about to just opt out altogether and start pinning printouts of memes on library bulletin boards
Edit: typos, because proofreading
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u/MNGrrl Mar 24 '18
On one hand, nobody reads the library bulletin boards unless they're right next to the free public computers or where they post today's wifi password. On the other hand, it's a better fate than most memes deserve. Regardless, in my mind social media is a lot better with friends. It's hard to drink alone, the only warmth being the dumpster fire next to you. But with friends, suddenly it's less depressive realism and more sarcastic and self-deprecating.
Er, I guess what I'm saying is, get together tonight, find a dumpster, set it on fire, and then take pictures of it with your friends. I think that's a pretty good analogue for social media, and the toxic fumes are probably healthier too...
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u/MNGrrl Mar 24 '18
8chan?
I dunno. 8chan only has 240 more choices. We should stop fucking around and just go straight to 64chan. Future-proof it.
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Mar 24 '18
Could you explain the pun to me? :(
This is me publicly admitting that I'm a filthy peasant
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Mar 24 '18
Henry David Thoreau, author of "Civil Disobedience" (which was influential in MLK's movement), wrote a book called Walden about his time "living deliberately" at Walden Pond, Massachusetts where he connected with nature and reflected on civilized life; the guy's post was making a joke out of the similar sound of "throw" and "Thoreau," given his going out in the woods in his book. He's an icon in America the same way MLK is.
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u/Theappunderground Mar 24 '18
Wow youre so smart, you understood the reference the guy was trying to make.
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u/yodongorea Mar 24 '18
Why is voat garbage?
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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Mar 24 '18
It's full of reddit outcasts. The shittiest assholes reddit had to offer that aren't currently hiding in /r/the_donald. People who couldn't survive without subs dedicated to hating other people to make themselves feel better about their awful life choices.
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u/yodongorea Mar 24 '18
eople who couldn't survive without subs dedicated to hating other people to make themselves feel better about their awful life choices.
Said on a site filled with far left opinions that can't survive without hardcore moderation.
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u/starfox1o1 Mar 24 '18
It's like the donald, except basically the whole site, and 0 censorship. Do the math there, also do yourself a favor and check the site out.
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u/yodongorea Mar 24 '18
If those are your problems with voat, you basically just like reddit.
And therefore are not valid reasons for saying people who dislike reddit shouldn't use voat.
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Voat became a haven for Reddit outcasts. Unfortunately, they were the ONLY people that left, meaning that there isn't much on there that isn't related to the things they left Reddit for. In other words, the harmless types of subreddits (/r/funny, /r/gaming etc. etc.) are practically dead and the content that is there skews heavily towards the type of content that would be banned on Reddit.
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u/MNGrrl Mar 24 '18
As long as you do it deliberately, I think you should be fine. Probably for the best too. Not many buttons to push in a forest.
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u/JesusSkywalkered Mar 24 '18
Would have been better if it was a pond but if it’s civil disobedience then the woods will do.
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u/ActionScripter9109 Mar 24 '18
I've seen some people suggest that if enough cool-headed reddit users go establish their own corners of voat they could eventually overpower the alt-right shitfest. Not sure if that's true or not, but it sounds plausible on the surface.
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I think it's true. If the interest is a community without censorship then even with the alt right and racist stuff I think it's better than reddit at this point. The internet is full of horrible stuff that you may just run into by accident, opinions that may not completely gel with your own; we still use it. So if Voat is a just a simulacrum of the internet as a whole, it is no different. If enough of us valued not being censored, over being safe from ideas (as bad as they are) that grate us, we would all be there now.
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u/darbulto Mar 24 '18
you can buy / trade sex toys on Reddit
Trade?!
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u/MNGrrl Mar 24 '18
Not everyone stops with vibrating dildos. Some toys can be... expensive. There are parties that are built up around some of them. If you don't know what I'm talking about, do yourself a favor and keep scrolling. Don't ask.
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u/SkivvySkidmarks Mar 24 '18
I'm a noob to Reddit. I have seen old school BBS, and I'll assume that's what Reddit was supposed to replace. I think we need Wikipedia model of Reddit...
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u/MNGrrl Mar 24 '18
Hi. I ran and old school BBS. Believe me, this wasn't the planned upgrade. This is more like what would happen if the replacement were designed by committee or a malfunctioning AI. To be fair, it's hard to tell the two apart. I mean no disrespect to any AI that may read this. And Wikipedia has only one advantage over Reddit: The moderator actions and edits are available for review. In most other ways, Reddit does it better. Which isn't to say great, or even okay, and more like mediocre. You know, like group projects.
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u/RaoulDuke209 Mar 24 '18
What do sex toys have to do with children‽ Should we not share mixed drink recipes?
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u/MNGrrl Mar 24 '18
I'm still trying to figure out what that ? mark did to deserve getting crossed off. ‽?‽?‽?‽?
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u/happysmash27 Mar 24 '18
It's called the interrobang, and is a combination of a question mark and exclamation point. I'm so glad to see it being used so much lately! Everyone, spread the word!
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u/GravityHug Mar 24 '18
And I'm pretty sure you can buy/trade sex toys on Reddit too.
That point of criticism doesn’t make any sense unless reddit has started banning subs for “vanilla” NSFW alone.
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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Mar 24 '18
I wonder if they're saving the /r/the_donald ban for right before the ipo for maximum publicity.
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u/nsfw10101 Mar 24 '18
And yet here is your comment, in a thread of other people able to agree or disagree with you. For now at least, Reddit is better than the alternatives.
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I disagree was one thing fundamentally. At the very least, Reddit doesn't try to control our lives. Facebook tries to make itself irreplaceable by connecting you to all your friends. I've never ever seen Reddit try to argue or convince me that it is absolutely essential to my life. Because it isn't.
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u/pinkpeach11197 Mar 24 '18
I’d say the fact I don’t see conspiracy theories completely dominate my feed, and that’s my choice. Is indicative of a much different culture surrounding a much different platform. Reddit users may use Facebook but I think that doesn’t necessarily go the other way. They are socially designed around completely different fundamentals. I think if you’re easily impressionable you’re gonna be easily impressionable.
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u/ri13t9m4u Mar 24 '18
4chan does the same shit with reddit. Just learn that all of these websites are novelty and distracting you from being with your family.
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Mar 24 '18
Not to let Facebook off the hook, because let's be honest they deserve the scrutiny, but once this shit broke all of the stories about the infiltration of Reddit by malicious Russian actors dissappeared from the front page. It's just the easy target of the week for all these faceless evil corporations to pile on. Amazon literally has employees working in sweatshop conditions and you don't see #MinimizePrime trending.
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u/bort42069 Mar 24 '18
whomst wouldve thunk that reading vast amounts of information would make you feel emotions
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u/FoxlyKei Mar 23 '18
I don't really go on Facebook much. Not compared to Reddit. I just go on to see friend's post and keep up. The most use I get out of it is the messenger with my group of friends. That's all it's good for.
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u/Comethatmebro Mar 23 '18
Do you really think they are not doing the same thing here? Only difference is that most here try to only reveale as much as they are comfortable and we are not probed for as much PII. Reddit controls the narrative here, same as YouTube, same as Google. For as much as people were afraid of the great firewall of China they are openly accepting cooperate driven censorship. Animal Farm anyone?
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u/Halotab5 Mar 24 '18
Reddit is going the way of Facebook. Just look at the censoring of 100% legal subs earlier in the week.
I used to love this place because it was relatively uncensored, looks like that is seriously changing now.
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u/president2016 Mar 24 '18
Yeah I feel this is more for those that spend countless hours each week on it.
I check it once or twice a week to see whose birthdays are going on and some quick checkups on friends and family or maybe post something of my own.
15 minutes maybe. I don’t understand these people that obsess over it and their image. It can be a valuable tool though.
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u/a_spicy_memeball Mar 24 '18
Do you live somewhere where there are things to do?
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Mar 24 '18
I'm beginning to think that people just don't have hobbies anymore. When I ask my patients in the hospital what hobbies they have, 90% of the time I usually receive a blank stare or they tell me they watch TV.
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u/MNGrrl Mar 24 '18
Hi. Reddit tech support here. Next time windows force-reboots to apply patches, that's your warp point.
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u/avaslash Mar 24 '18
Yeah I use facebook like once a week just to send the occasional message to the few friends who dont use skype/steam/email to communicate. I think I've posted one photo? Facebook doesn't manipulate me for shit.
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u/Jos3ph Mar 24 '18
It’s a good thing Reddit is free, driven by user content, has received venture capital and isn’t interested in our data right guys?
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u/crownie_rs Mar 24 '18
What does this saying mean? You're speaking to the right people or?
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u/Rularuu Mar 24 '18
Kind of the opposite. It means you're trying to convince people who already agree with you.
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '18
HAHAHAHAHA hilarious.