I guess be careful with Reddit now, because I haven’t up voted anything celebrating anyone’s harm or death. I’ve only upvoted things that bring awareness to how awful certain people are or things in this subreddit. Absolutely wild.
Originally Posted By u/KnobbyDarkling At 2025-09-16 07:29:50 AM | Source
It’s rare to find a service that’s this hostile to its users. Let it die…
Is it actually rare? I think the majority of licensed/private digital services are mostly hostile compared to Free Open Source alternatives. By default, most of these services surveil all users and sell the data to brokers, with always online practices, constantly getting telemetry and other metrics from users. Some of these services even install kernel level root kits of various kinds under the pretext of security or anti-cheat. All of which I consider a form of hostility.
Honestly, I think this is the norm. There is a spectrum of hostility that consumers are just either ignoring or are unaware of. And even with the worst offenders, people find excuses to continue to use them.
Most other services are passively exploitative like you’re describing. I can at least see an argument for that being a trade-off: using a “free” service in exchange for profiting from your data.
reddit does this too, but on top of that is also actively threatening to ban users for voting. That’s just using the platform as intended.
As you noted, most of these services are hostile in ways that go unnoticed by the userbase. This is markedly more hostile than that, which is I think the point of the comment above. In an internet of services that are shitty toward users, reddit’s a bit extra shitty toward theirs.
Fuck Spez with a dirt covered pineapple :)
Let make it itching powder covered.
They keep sending more people over here!
I really appreciate how terrible they are because it is what brought me here.
Reddit, in two years: Hey we used to be making tankerloads of money all off the backs of a bunch of content we didn’t even have to create. What happened?
Rather than introspection, they’ll blame the new digg and revamp the UI again and/or add AI moderation.
Oh boy, here I go upvoting again
Lol, you’re on Reddit?
Yeah they’re kinda touchy. I got a full ban just for telling some tankie to ‘go suck his brother’s dick again’. I guess I hit a bit too close to home.
Or maybe…get the fuck outta the cesspool?
There are a lot of communities on reddit that (effectively) have no equivalent here.
That is a very good and valid point.
I believe pretty strongly with the line of thought that if you sit at a table with 8 Nazis, there are now 9 Nazis at the table, and I think it applies even more strongly with online communities. If a person is still engaging with a cesspool like the former Twitter at this point, it’s tantamount to being a collaborator. I hold that the tolerance of intolerance is suicide for any society.
The creation of those communities at a different “table” is just a click away. Change is hard, but sometimes necessary.
