I usually browse rdx to stay up to date with my favorite things: games, halloween, steam deck, etc. Today, im going to bitch about the fo76 sub, and the steam deck sub. Im so, SO tired of these posts.
Fo76: so many fucking annoying posts of people jacking themselves off and farming karma. “To the level 14 player whos collectron i pillaged” blah blah blah “i didnt know you were only level 14” blah blah blah “i left you 1000 caps as an apology and im glad you could get them” blah blah fucking blah. We all know you’re just jerking yourself off and farming karma. Shut the FUCK UP and stop clogging the sub reddit for actual good posts.
And steamdeck? This sub can fuck off to the furthest reaches of hell. I want tips, tricks, game performance reports, steam deck news and tech support. I dont want to see 1000 pictures of people holding their steam deck alongside some phoned in bullshit about how they’re LOVING their steam deck! Congrats! You’re using the device as intended! Now shut the fuck up! Fuck off! Although, my disdain for that place is in part because of the garbage, power abusing mods, these fucking posts are just karma whoring mind rot in my opinion.
And yes before you ask, i do in fact feel better now that i got that out.
There’s an unnerving lack of substance over on reddit. Recently I decided to look at reddit for the first time since last June, and every post’s comments had 1k people saying absolutely nothing worth reading. It feels like I’m reading AI-written posts that are in the uncanny valley of almost making sense and almost being on-topic. News articles have people that literally only talk about the exact words that were in the headline. Every single post’s top comments must be lame “jokes” or one-liners, and those must have several replies that riff off the joke in decreasingly-funny ways.
I’ve picked up a strong habit of immediately looking in comment sections for good discussion and TL;DR’s on Lemmy posts and it took me a while to realize that I wasn’t actually reading anything in reddit comment sections. The words pass through my brain and nothing of value is absorbed, over and over. It feels like low-hanging fruit to say “reddit is all bots now” but there’s something seriously wrong about how it feels over there. You only really need ~10-20 top-level replies on a post to get a broad spectrum of answers, and Lemmy comment sections feel solid for the content that’s here. I wish there were more communities here (especially niche ones), but I’m grateful for what we have.
You got me curious since it’s been ages since I uninstalled Reddit and it’s actually crazy how much more invested I am in Lemmy comments. Feels like all the Linux communities are actually helpful and full of real world experience, not to mention the flashlight community. Definitely a good reminder to set up a recurring donation to the smaller instance I use
I haven’t visited more than twice since I left. I only did so bc I needed specific info on a niche hobby. I wish that stuff could move here.
Just about every sub about a new gaming handheld is the same with all the repeated posts of people receiving their new devices and should be banned or at least put into a weekly thread or something.
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Is there a way to subscribe to subreddits inside rdx? I wouldn’t mind having a couple fantasy football subs saved on there so I don’t lose my league. I don’t feel like building a json file just for that.
