Reddit is dangerous. The admins are out of control. Humanity needs a viable alternative. – Blog covering the Reddit admins retaliating against me

https://lemmy.world/post/4067048

Reddit is dangerous. The admins are out of control. Humanity needs a viable alternative. – Blog covering the Reddit admins retaliating against me - Lemmy.world

Never heard before, what’s that? 🤔

I think you probably need some professional help, and also I think the way you look at social media is very different from how others look at social media.

Reddit isn’t Wikipedia or any type of online encyclopedia. It’s social media. It’s Twitter, it’s Facebook, it’s TikTok, etc

Then why do search engines always point me to Reddit links for information? 😂
Because it’s a site that is very good indexed. Doesn’t mean it’s like Wikipedia but it’s also loads of good content there…
I thought the emoji clearly marked my comment as a joke, but now I can see a laughing emoji wasn’t clear enough 😐

Because their algorithm has deduced that reddit results will get clicks. That is always the reason for everything engines do.

The more clicks it gets, the higher a result rises. Year, after year, after year. Every click is tracked. Every last one.

I imagine it began with specific questions and answers. Since reddit is the largest internet forum, anyone who has a somewhat obscure question needs a place to ask it. When someone else then punches that question into google, it’ll go to the only place it’s been answered so far, that niche internet forum.

Consider a video game question. “What build in whatever game is best for X?” Someone who wonders will ask in a game forum for that game. Every person after that, who wants that same information, will then be directed to where it now exists online–that post.

Also common with tech questions. “What does this error window mean and how do I fix it? My hardware is such-and-such and I’m running whatever version of the software” type questions.

Reddit is also listed as a search engine on Firefox. It’s literally considered an equivalent search tool.

I hate that “touch grass” is a common insult for something more people should be doing, which to go out into the world and get a technical detox.

I hope the author does step away. I’m concerned for their mental health.

I‘m autistic and I usually take „tough grass“ at face value and feel like the person wants me to feel better. I know that’s most likely not the case but it’s how my brain works.

I hope the author does step away. I’m concerned for their mental health.

Thanks for your concern. I’m sure comments like yours will be very helpful for people with poor mental health.

Missed a /s ?
Not at all! I’m sure that people with poor mental health, or people on the cusp of such, would all benefit from being gaslighted by people with ulterior motives.
It’s ok to disagree with you. Just walk away and don’t take criticism or differing opinions as insults. People clearly don’t feel as strongly as you do and that’s ok. Hell, drop the account and get a new one if it will help you leave baggage behind. Best wishes, friend. Make a corner of the internet your own and be open to being changed.
You’re right! People in this thread were simply disagreeing with me and sharing differing opinions. How badly I misinterpreted their comments! I’m so sorry!
I never asked or expected you to apologise to me and your sarcasm is unwarranted. I engaged with you sincerely and in good faith.

Like I would think they were trolling if I didn’t know people like this in real life. It’s that incoherent mass rambling that they are sure is full of vital important information while somehow missing the more important things.

It makes me wonder if it’s more common lately or just it’s easy for these people to be on the Internet, or if just loneliness breaks you like this eventually and a combination of conspiracy, COVID, and other factors have made people that had potential issues escalate in the last couple years to fully unhealthy places.

They will not listen to anyone I guess cause from personal experience that tends to be true. Probably best course of action is to block them, instruct others to do so and let them be lonely and hopefully only self destructive.

Depressing as shit.

Ah, you’re probably right re. blocking, but, as you say, it is depressing. I think it is the loneliness, but it genuinely breaks my heart. There is also an element of “there go i, but for the grace of god”, even though i’m not religious, you know?
You perhaps might want to take an introspective look at yourself because myself and others have seen a fair number of red flags.

Thanks! You and others have made some very insightful comments! The majority of comments and votes in this thread are clearly “organic from intelligent people who fled reddit because it was trash”.

I’m glad there are none from people with a clear agenda who asked GPT chat “how can I insult someone and attack them with ad hominems without breaking lemmy.world’s rules?”.

More and more I’m thinking that social media is just screwed. There is no viable alternative to the old reddit in sight. It’s all bots, special interest groups fighting for influence, and low-intelligence people sucking up mindless fluff content and regurgitating garbage.

Dude, hold up. Do you post the same comments multiple times in here? Like exact copies of your comments multiple times through this comment section.

Are you sure YOU aren’t the bot?

Also you are like paranoid as fuck and it’s really messed up. You are being rude just because you aren’t getting what you want and having people tell you how right you are. You remind me of my sister who has a drug addiction problem and schizophrenia. You really should try to seek help if you are able or maybe just actually find a real world hobby to focus on for a while.

They were similar but not exact.

Thanks for showing up to gaslight me! Another great contribution to this thread.

Do you think dozens of strangers are all commenting to gaslight you?
Oh no, of course not! Thinking like that will end you up in the looney bin! We wouldn’t want to end up there now would we! No no, it was just a very silly mistake on my end. Someone else helped me see that I simply misread the comments and votes in this thread, and that people are merely disagreeing with me and offering their personal opinions. That was very nice of them. What a foolish mistake I made! I’m so so sorry! Let’s all just go back to Reddit and forget the whole thing. We wouldn’t want to make those investors, advertisers, and other people interested in influencing public opinion, angry now would we!
I mean this sincerely, I think logging off of all social media for a while could improve your mental health. You don’t seem to be doing well, nor doing yourself any favors. Good luck, friend.

I just hope you know people are actually downvoting you for being toxic, not because they’re bots or part of some greater conspiracy.

You’re just giving off big “I’m 17, always told I was gifted, and need to whine online whenever people don’t bow before my awe-inspiring intellect.” vibes.

You might be trolling, but if you’re not, you’re on a dangerous path to extreme loneliness, despair, inadequacy, and blaming everyone else for all your issues.

Ah yes, I’m the one being toxic. Thanks for showing up to gaslight! Another great contribution to this thread.

I think Reddit is dysfunctional because people are dysfunctional. My hope is to be able to address that by improving people’s health & function via the gut microbiome.

Umm… what?

Dude wants to trade poops.
Fecal transplant from someone who clearly just eats tendies and pop tarts all day.
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So glad someone made this reference
The human itnec-pede?
He seeks the spice melange. Perhaps he is the one.
If he were to control the side he would control the galaxy
did they ever say which spice they were trading? it seems a little silly to wage war over black pepper
Now, cardamom is a whole other ball game…
They constantly compare it to cinnamon. So it’s probably that. Tbf, cinnamon is very good

Umm… what?

There’s a link included to more information. Feel free to click on it and learn something new.

No one wants your poop buddy
A very mature and intelligent response. Thanks for helping make Lemmy a high-quality site.
No one wants your poop buddy

I’m sorry, obviously I need to shove someone else’s poop up my but and then I’ll be smart enough to agree with you…

That or I’m a member of the huge conspiracy to stop you from telling people that one simple trick to fixing my life

You do realize that just makes you look, like, actually insane, right?

Like, that in combination with everything else you wrote just makes it seem like mad ramblings and sort of discounts anything you have to say since you're leading an angry rant with "put someone else's poop in your butt".

And then when you say you've been banned from multiple sites and it's all a grand conspiracy from Reddit to be out to get you, people are just going to think "this guy opened the article by suggesting you shove someone else's poop in your butt."

I know there are studies blah blah blah. But you understand how this looks, right?

Another highly intelligent and well-informed comment. Thanks for helping make Lemmy a high-quality site!

You may be right. It may just be a bunch of immature teenagers in here who can’t stop giggling and concentrate on anything after someone alluded to the topic of “poop”.

How unfortunate that this is what the internet has become.

Uh no it’s people that found your post on all because Lemmy doesn’t have that much going on still and is struggling to point out to the person that is having a mental breakdown the extent of their disconnect with reality.

Some people have patched onto that but you are showing no sign of being willing or able to take criticism and you are making false logical jumps that everyone that disagrees with you must be some shit headed teenager because you have no grasp of a reality outside your own.

You have seriously disconnected.
Seriously I have the same conversations with my sister who suffers pretty badly from schizophrenia. When she’s off her medication she does the same things and talk about how the internet is full of kids trying to hurt her while she refuses to go to the doctor because she thinks they are FBI agents trying to steal her other kidney.

It’s a complete disconnect that you think everyone is specifically after you. I just care cause I see this in family I can’t help and probably none of us can help you either but seek help.

No one in here really cares enough to brigade you and no one cares a fuck who you are. I just dislike seeing this kind of mental delusions because of personal reasons. Best of luck to you and hope you get better.

That’s a very valid connection you made to your sister. OP is arguably exhibiting signs of delusional thinking, perhaps persecutory or grandiose, which we often see most often in people suffering from psychotic disorders like schizophrenia. I hope your sister is doing well!

As much as I hate to agree about anything with this ridiculous person, they’re not completely wrong. There’s well documented evidence that the microbial flora in your gut can affect the way you think. Can it suddenly make you happy after a lifetime of misery? I sincerely doubt it. Here’s a better example. Let’s say your favorite food are strawberry poptarts and you eat a box or two a day. Your gut is probably full microbes that love to break down everything about strawberry pop-tarts. If you start to eat broccoli and cheddar baked potatoes instead pop-tarts, your microbes that like pop-tarts will begin to starve and start sending signals to their cousins in your brain. Suddenly you have desperate cravings for strawberry pop-tarts. This will continue until you eat pop-tarts or until the pop-tarts loving population is reduced through starvation and replaced with other microbes that love potatoes broccoli and cheese.

I remember loving the taste of certain artificially sweetened things like a Wendy’s Frosty. Now, when I try them, I do not get any pleasure from it and I can clearly taste his the sweetness is chemical and gross. That’s because I no longer have trillions of microbes yelling at my brain that artificial flavoring is the best thing ever. It’s weird as fuck.

All that said, there’s a gap the size of the Grand Canyon between craving control and mental health manipulation. OP be out there with a hand glider trying to make that leap.

As much as I hate to agree about anything with this ridiculous person

Why are you accusing me of being a ridiculous person?

All that said, there’s a gap the size of the Grand Canyon between craving control and mental health manipulation. OP be out there with a hand glider trying to make that leap.

This is simply ignorance on your end. As I mentioned in a previous comment, there’s a link included to more information. Feel free to click on it and learn something new. It’s pretty disappointing to see Lemmy users exhibiting many of the worst behaviors of people on reddit – i.e. overconfident willful ignorance.

will you make a post on your blog complaining that no one on lemmy want your poop?

will you make a post on your blog complaining that no one on lemmy want your poop, and then post it on reddit?

Given that nothing about this post or the blog had anything to do with “offering people my poop”, I’m more likely to make a post complaining that Lemmy is full of astroturfing and/or extremely unintelligent people. Certainly in no way an improvement over reddit.

At least if you leave Lemmy it’ll have one less unintelligent person.

“overconfident willful ignorance”

Well if that isn’t projection.

I’m the one that linked to a plethora of scientific evidence to support my statements/stance.
DARVOing too I see.
Oh, nice. I see you do this for a living. Congrats. You’re making the world a much better place.
Oh and now you combined DARVO and projection.
Thanks, that’s great! You’re on a roll!
Mental illness is a terrible thing.