Reddit

I never even heard of Blorp.

That's what makes this piece of the internet so cool.

Welcome to the Fediverse

They still have 3rd party Reddit apps? And they fucked them on API use again? lol

Reddit is quite literally Facebook these days. I really think most of the userbase right now is the people who started using the Facebook app on their phone thinking that's what the internet is. Finally after much inertia they've ventured over to the reddit app to explore another part of this "internet" thing.

So many users call subreddits "groups" because that's the colloquialism they brought over from Facebook. They don't know what to call subreddits. So they fumble around different phrasing. They say things like "this group", "this reddit", "this r". Yet never seem to come around to understanding it's called subreddit. It's a sign of how the long standing tradition of new users adopting local culture is no longer a thing. New users come in and ignore everything while doing whatever the fuck. God forbid they start getting mod power after some exodus cause then the subreddit is definitely done for.

Quite frankly it's full of idiots. Not the usual reddit idiot of past years. Reddit's current userbase is a whole other beast right now. So many users seemingly never used technology in their life before. They can't even reply to correct comments. People are posting top level comments instead of replying to the proper one. A concerning amount of people think it's a flat, time sorted message board. They can't wrap their head around the technical mechanics of a comment section.

Worst of all they have zero internet literacy. Zero idea of internet lore. It's like talking to my grandparents about technology. They have no idea about anything.

Nobody can speak or understand when I reference internet history either. Pretty rare to find anyone anymore that can reply knowing what I'm talking about when making historical internet references that any adult should be able to know about.

A concerning trend I've noticed is that often it will be a right wing troll that comes in to lie whenever mentioning their sordid history of right wing hate and violence on the internet. Must be one of the troll farms that actively flood the zone with shit. For some reason people are so eager to believe the lies. This rant is kind of going off topic now anyways.

Oh yeah and seemingly a lot of people are dictating their reddit replies. That's just bizarre to me but okay. I guess it makes sense why internet posting has changed so much. In particular, walls of text (such as this) aren't common anymore. Nobody does brain dumps anymore. Because to them, this reply would be said out loud into my phone like some lunatic instead of typing out a string of thoughts real quick.

In this day and age, raplace the crossbow with a large steel fly swatter.

I like your thinking. Also slingshots and ball bearings. One of those to the face will slow you down. David and Goliath time.

And don't forget your videogame lessons. Pick up any loot your victims drop. Lots of good guns, ammo, and body armor.

Stay in the shadows, brother.

Oh yeah that’s true, and also that’s why we should move away from lemmy.world. It’s great to welcome newcomers but it shouldn’t be where most users are.

They're here, they're just on shifts and are approximately 7-30 accounts, depending on time. Hopefully, it stays around that.

lol yeah I know. I don't post anything I wouldn't want read in a court