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[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] 50_centavos@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

"This" used get downvoted into oblivion back in the day on Reddit.

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[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Edit: Thanks for the upvotes!

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

[–] 50_centavos@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Edit: omg my first gold and it's about buttholes smh

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Edit: you'll never know why I got these upvotes (more on YT, but I think it applies here also)

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Karma-farming. Please lets just be our genuine, authentic, awful selves.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It helps that we have no karma. Also, some instances bouncing downvotes helps a bit.

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[–] NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 week ago

Those god awful ads that disguise themselves as posts.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Charging developers for API access after they go out of their way to make products that greatly improve the experience.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Thats already here.

edit: don't know why I was downvoted, its literally a lemmy feature.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

don’t know why I was downvoted

I'm convinced there are people out there that just downvote everything. They get some kind of chemical release in their brains when they hit the downvote button. You could say "being happy feels good" and someone out there will downvote it.

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[–] CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

All the tired puns or jokes about Nazis/Hitler. "Anne Frankly, I did Nazi that coming!" "You gotta hand it to Hitler, at least he killed Hitler." Etc.

It's the kind of thing you might chuckle at once, but so many comment threads end up piled with the same brain rot nonsense as people trip over themselves to parrot their quirky internet catchphrases.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those are like pronoun and vegan "jokes"; maybe the first or second one is funny, but they get unfunny FAST.

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[–] parmesan@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Every single comment thread on anything that reaches r/all quickly devolving into the most unfunny and unoriginal jokes and/or references. Regardless of how grim/serious the original post was.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 7 points 1 week ago

I dunno I kinda liked that. Something something broken arms

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Novelty/troll accounts. I've seen a lot of them pop up on Reddit over the years. The most infamous one I remember was one called Gradual_****** (yes, the n-word) that would type out ordinary replies that would gradually switch to ebonics.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Just commenting 'this' to show an agreement.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Should have known........

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Anti-emoji.

I'm not gonna bomb the place with them, but, occasionally if it fits, I'm throwing it in.

Cheers! 🍻

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (7 children)

You've got 3 emojis in your name.... I think you might use them more than most by a decent margin haha.

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[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

“My dad spent 10 years molesting me, my mom said to invite him to my wedding, AITA for saying no?”

[–] Oberyn@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)
  • Peops being unnecessarily confrontational towards each other till entire screen just lines
  • Stupid stock phrases (man of culture|cake day|kind stranger|calling up votes "updꝏts"|.*)
  • Crappy bots with no real utility replying to random comments
  • Rudeness to light mode users , r/chargeyourphone
  • Ableist subs like ⦅system|fakedisorder)cringe|illnessfakers|raisedbyn●●●●●●●●●s|BPDlovedones|.*)
  • Rage bait posts like that one cake AITA post (no way it's real)
  • Karma requirements for subs like r/assistance . Dear god fckin HOPE karma dœsn't get added to lemmy …

Already answered similar thread to this one 2 yrs ago , but threadiverse changed somewhat since then . Had different answers some of them already made their way here since , so gave different answers this time

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Did you just give a regex as an example of the subreddit names?

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

I could do without all the fascism.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just one. JUST. ONE.

Communities almost wholly moderated by an automod bot, that is extremely strict about nonsense, and where 99% of posts are strictly forbidden.

"ALL QUESTIONS SHOULD BE IN THE MEGATHREAD!!!!!!!!1111111111one" and then you peep the megathread, it's months-full of unanswered questions because no actual community member READS the fucking megathread, and then the excuse is "BECAUZ WE WANT QUALITY CONTENT!!!!!!" and you check the sub itself and the "quality content" is one post every 3 months by the powermod that has the power to override the bot.

This was the most annoying thing about Reddit and made getting conversations going nearly impossible. PLEASE do not bring that over.

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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Being a jerk and the hive mind

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The hive mind might already be here, depending on who you ask. I was already left/progressive, though, so it just feels like hanging out with like-minded people.

Jerks I can do without, but they’re unavoidable. Simply not engaging with them seems to work best.

[–] Parsizzle@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I feel like to a point it might be, but to a point in today's age and internet - everything is an echo chamber so it's turned into a "pick ypur poison" kind of thing.

That being said, open discourse and actual conversation seems more prevalent and easier to come by here then on reddit which is very nice.

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[–] vvilld@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm not a fan of 'starter packs'

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[–] chronotron@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

complaining about a hivemind

[–] qnvx@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

US defaultism, eurocentrism, assuming everyone is male. But I think they are already here.

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[–] BroiledShit@reddthat.com 10 points 1 week ago

All that wholesome keanu chungus shit, wholesome 100.

[–] scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 week ago

I was today years old when i was reminded again of this godawful expression.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 week ago

Suppression of discussion through mega/weekly/monthly threads.

Post requirements that result in posting anything nearly impossible.

Fucking stupid rules for mods to abuse with their dork ass internet powarz.

Clear corporate astroturfing.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Leopard-face” replies masquerading as a substantive comment that adds something to the discussion.

It’s really no better than: “This”

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The constant chasing of low hanging fruit. Doesn’t matter if it’s seeking the upvotes for a cheap quip on a serious subject or reposting the same old shit trying to get upvotes.

Reposts. We don’t need a constant churn of popularity seekers.

The hive mind. Really bad in big subs on reddit. Probably inevitable in any large online group, but reddit can be unreasonably bad.

Bots.

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