Reddit Migration

I wasn't ever a fan of UnpopularOpinions. It seemed like a license to say horrible shit and then feel good about the upvotes but people just upvoted because the opinion was awful.

Pretty much all of the ironic "oh we're just pretending to be bad people lololol" ironic circlejerk subreddits. Best case scenario, they eventually attract people that don't recognize it's ironic, worst case the mask just falls off. PCM is probably the worst of the bunch. Writing fake tweets to mischaracterize political opinions you don't like is just such a bizarre hobby.

American politics seeping into every damn thing. And to top it off, with a clear bias in one direction. I resent having the feeling like there's an astro-turfing effort going on, even when I agree with whatever stance is being pushed. Reddit is really tainted with that sort of thing.

Hopefully it doesn't take hold here, or at least stays contained so I can decline subbing to magazines that would pertain. I'd rather not have to swim in the "political party A is evil and political party B is angelic" muck in unrelated magazines.

In addition to what others have said: The endless, constant, relentless OnlyFans self promotion. I don't mind NSFW, I don't mind porn. But by god I lost brain cells each time I read

"I AM SUCH A YOUNG SLUT, OH WOE IS ME, WHERE ARE ALL THE OLDER MEN WHO WOULD WANT ME!?!?!?!?!?"
"COMMENT YOUR AGE IF YOU'D HAVE ME <3"

fixing exclusively to find people with money to reel in. Good lord... I get it, we all have to earn a living and darn if I were a pretty woman in this day and age, I might go down that same route. Yet... Can't stand it anymore. Same goes for the people engaging with such posts.

I wouldn't like to see hateful and bigotry speech here of any kind

Not to sound like a prude, but porn.

There's no shortage of it and most places have it in some way.

It'd be awesome to be a classier/more serious version of Reddit.

I know some people enjoy them, but I personally tended to insta-block all the creative writing communities. Things like talesfromyourserver (all the talesfrom subs, to be honest), maliciouscompliance, prorevenge, etc. I find the majority of those types of subs to be toploaded with absolute bullshit. THe kinds of things where people have some kind of conflict they didn't deal well with in real life, and now they had a place to type out their wishful fantasies that make them seem clever and tough and quick witted, but in reality they formulated it all while laying in bed fuming about what actually happened.

I also had a love/hate relationship with AmItheAsshole/devil/jerk etc, and subs like r/relationshipadvice. I've long suspected that there's a loooot of posts on those types of subs that I suspect are not only fake stories, but are outright designed to trigger outrage reactions towards specific (often marginalized) groups. Like stories that are specifically crafted to make a woman look bad/evil/stupid for example. Just dog whistling, and purposely being divisive.

r/PublicFreakout's constant unrestrained 'isms, especially towards trans, women, and African descended. I only was subbed for the occassional interesting post and to call out the bs for those who couldn't see it.

r/JustUnsubbed's (iirc) noticeable political shift towards (i'mma say it; cover your eyes, children!) the Right after the recent situation with the game that shall not be named and she who shall not be named. Also, see above.

People shitting on and lying about subs specifically made for marginalized groups. e.g.: When r/BlackPeopleTwitter was blessed by Black Jesus with his "Country Club Thread" flair, people elsewhere started calling them racist and supported their claims by over exaggerating the filtration system as "only Blacks allowed" when there was a whole-ass stickied post explaining that people just needed to claim to be Black, BIPOC, or an Ally and prove it by whatever means the mods dictated. My Afro-ass asked if I could just get the Ally userflair and was told (privately and kindly) that, and I'm going off memory here, "Just like we don't allow Blackface we don't allow Whiteface." 🤷🏿‍♂️

Could probably go on, but I'm busy. ✌🏿

The idea of a network of related subreddits like EarthPorn,CityPorn,etc. If you want to control a bunch of communities on an instance then you might as well just start your own instance.

Politics... Any politics. I like news to be informed. But those subreddits became echo chambers and spewed hate one direction or another.

bots

I think in many ways the repetition of posts and worse replies. I know there was a bit of a hive mind going on, and in some ways it could be funny and a force for good, but I'm enjoying not reading the same set top comments to things!

Feeling negative/angry after spending 5 minutes on the front page.

Edit: OMG thanks for the gold kind stranger!!! This is my top upvoted post now!!!

Chuds. I know they're inevitable on any platform but my goodness we could do without their vile hatred. Any of the incel subs must stay gone. Also, cryptocurrency.

Powermods automatically banning users based on where they post / comment.

/u/the_donald or any communities that promote hate against any collective.

I hope /r/FemaleDatingStrategy will not find it's way to the Fediverse (or the male equivalent of it).
And for behaviour, I hope people will be more open and have a more open mindset and can understand people live differently in other parts of the world.

Calling a community [x]Porn that's just SFW high-quality photos of something (eg EarthPorn, RoomPorn, etc). Leave that naming convention in the 2010s.

Subs celebrating the number of subscribers. Because too many subscribers will ruin your sub. An audience which is too large will attract the wrong kind of content, just like a position of power will attract primadona.

I remember banning funny, adviceanimals, just because of the numbers alone. Also national subs like France or Italy, because it was the lease interesting content of all.

• Hidden up/down totals

• Hidden up/downvote names (I understand the concern about the info being scraped by advertisers, but it should stay visible at least to the person who left the comment and the magazine moderators)

• Generally high amounts of toxicity

I could do without communities whose primary purpose it is to dump on other groups of people. That means the manosphere and far right subs, but it also means thinks like the various circlejerks and mendrawingwomen. Those kinds of places just serve as echo chambers for rage, and if communities like that start getting popular I'll start a server myself and filter them out for people who don't want to be exposed to it.