He truly was the climate change-denying UKIP voter of our hearts.(, Fri 26 Jun 2026, 7:47, archived)
What a belmer. He must come from here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belm
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Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Fri 26 Jun 2026, 7:52,
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Belm, Powe, Icker, Haltern and Vehrteshould be the new Woo Yay Houpla Panowie Dibnah
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I'm going to start using them now, and reply "Belm" to every new post on /board.There's only about one a day now, it won't take up too much of my time.
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Make sure you properly adjust your belmet(
Octo I ruin everything., Fri 26 Jun 2026, 11:30,
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NingHope everyone is having a good day. Today I deleted Reddit from my phone (I'd say the Reddit app, but it was Boost, Frankensteined to keep working). It's like trying to pick flowers in a war zone.
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fross Read your email on, Fri 26 Jun 2026, 8:14,
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Whereas /talk is like trying to pick wars in a flower zone, really makes you think eh(, Fri 26 Jun 2026, 8:22, archived)
Oh yeah? Oh yeah? OH YEAH?Actually yeah.
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fross Read your email on, Fri 26 Jun 2026, 8:33,
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I use Reddit as a content aggregator, and barely read the comments.It’s still pretty good for keeping up with news relating to hobbies, for example. The main subreddits are full of right-wing ghouls, though.
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Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 26 Jun 2026, 9:04,
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Not even that is working for me anymore...I cut down to only being on kebble subs and some specialist subjects under 100k subs, but it's still getting more difficult to use.
I even write my own content aggregating app to bring the fee things I follow on Reddit / fb (called it sitshifter hehe) but still... Yeah the juice isn't worth the squeeze to me anymore.
It's all an experiment. Fun to see how I react when I don't have Reddit on my phone. We'll see how it goes!
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fross Read your email on, Fri 26 Jun 2026, 10:55,
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I've never really used reddit, except when google searches have led me to particular posts.From what you're saying, it doesn't sound like it's healthy to get deep into it.
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Yyyyyyup.I used to use it a lot from basically the beginning, and I modded a couple of very big subs back in the day. I retreated from that because it was a time sink, but even now it is just not worth the effort to engage on there.
They have made it more difficult to prune out the crap. Now, users can hide their post/comment history so it is harder to identify bad actors. Human modding has been decimated, so mostly it is done by ai and somewhere between inconsistent and ignoring all but the most illégal stuff. And as it has appealed to a broader audience, with fewer controls, the quality of content has gone down enormously.
Plus, lots of UI and API changes to reduce the user's choice in the matters (API keys for mods and other clients shut down, promotion of brainrot content in other subs, for instance) which is what lead me to make my own client. But this is all effort, and for what?
There is no cost, social or otherwise, to being an asshole or racist or whatever there, so the behaviour is not disincentived.
It sucks, shame to see another place go the way of others, just because the admin wants to see himself up with meta, Google etc as being big and important. But, hey ho, not my circus, not my monkeys.
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fross Read your email on, Fri 26 Jun 2026, 12:20,
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I was lead mod on a subreddit for years, I think there's a tipping point where after a certain size people start posting because it's popular, rather than because they love the subjectThen it turns into the same thing as everything else on reddit; pointless confrontations and karma farming.
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Fri 26 Jun 2026, 12:30,
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Generally, I only end up there when I post an *extremely* niche work-related question into Google to see what's out there.Sometimes it turns out there's a subreddit dedicated to that subject, but even then the information isn't usually that useful.
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ExactlyPlaces like r/askhistorians have kept a fantastic place going through thorough application of their own rules, and the content shows. But this is th corn kernel in the poop nugget now.
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fross Read your email on, Fri 26 Jun 2026, 12:47,
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agreed, askhistorians is a perfect example of how good clear rules and unrelentingly strict modding can make reddit worthwhile. It's in a tiny minority of subs at this point though. It's a shame, reddit is a good idea.
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Fri 26 Jun 2026, 13:05,
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alright Michael, glad to see you're starting to recover from your traumatic brain injury(, Fri 26 Jun 2026, 8:20, archived)
Likewise bindun b3ta.com/talk/988440
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Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Fri 26 Jun 2026, 14:18,
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