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It was gradual. I remember when I was one of the most informed people I knew, by virtue of being a redditor, alone. As time progressed, I started realizing more and more people, in real life, were more informed about things going on than I was. I chalked it up to my busy schedule, and not really having time to "spend looking at news and shit".
I was missing everything. It got frustrating, and even started supplementing my redditing with Digg (!) in order to get access to the current on-goings of the world, about a year or two ago. This should have tipped me off. But I kept using reddit, for roughly eight hours a day, like I normally did (mindless desk job, you see).
But it was only when I found voat that it really slapped me across the face. It was like I stepped back in time, to the days when I first joined reddit. People are actually courteous (even when they disagree), conversations are more than endless streams of dated, recycled jokes; people actually take the time to formulate opinions. And even though there's a certain slant, to the overall "narrative/tone" of ideas expressed on this site, it's not to the megalithic hive-mind levels that have manifested over there.
It wasn't until how engaged I became in the comment sections here on voat, that I remembered this is what I used to do on reddit, all the time. On my last year there... I barely commented on anything. There were no good conversations to be had, no engaging debates. It was pointless. I rarely clicked to see the comments on posts, because it was getting to the point where I could reliably guess what the top ~10 comments would be.
You're abo-so-fucking-lutely correct about the reddit == facebook correlation. It didn't happen overnight, it was gradual and I didn't see it coming. Hell, I didn't even really notice it until I started frequenting around these parts. I have a feeling most (if not all) of the people that still use their site are on this same boat; they have no idea just how much the site has changed over time. And if they were to take the time to check voat out, and really give it a chance, they'd quickly realize how bad they have it over there.
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It was gradual. I remember when I was one of the most informed people I knew, by virtue of being a redditor, alone. As time progressed, I started realizing more and more people, in real life, were more informed about things going on than I was. I chalked it up to my busy schedule, and not really having time to "spend looking at news and shit".
I was missing everything. It got frustrating, and even started supplementing my redditing with Digg (!) in order to get access to the current on-goings of the world, about a year or two ago. This should have tipped me off. But I kept using reddit, for roughly eight hours a day, like I normally did (mindless desk job, you see).
But it was only when I found voat that it really slapped me across the face. It was like I stepped back in time, to the days when I first joined reddit. People are actually courteous (even when they disagree), conversations are more than endless streams of dated, recycled jokes; people actually take the time to formulate opinions. And even though there's a certain slant, to the overall "narrative/tone" of ideas expressed on this site, it's not to the megalithic hive-mind levels that have manifested over there.
It wasn't until how engaged I became in the comment sections here on voat, that I remembered this is what I used to do on reddit, all the time. On my last year there... I barely commented on anything. There were no good conversations to be had, no engaging debates. It was pointless. I rarely clicked to see the comments on posts, because it was getting to the point where I could reliably guess what the top ~10 comments would be.
You're abo-so-fucking-lutely correct about the
reddit == facebookcorrelation. It didn't happen overnight, it was gradual and I didn't see it coming. Hell, I didn't even really notice it until I started frequenting around these parts. I have a feeling most (if not all) of the people that still use their site are on this same boat; they have no idea just how much the site has changed over time. And if they were to take the time to check voat out, and really give it a chance, they'd quickly realize how bad they have it over there.