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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

i can't stand megathreads -- no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

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[-] mamaMiata@lemmy.world 463 points 1 year ago

This may be an unpopular option since I've already seen it across lemmy, but the ____porn communities. I'd like to browse pictures of nice landscapes or exotic cars without worry about someone around me noticing "PORN" on my screen.

At this point it seems very old internet, something that made sense when those communities were established, but now is unnecessary gratuitous and not socially acceptable.

[-] DrMango@lemmy.world 146 points 1 year ago

I saw a post about a community created here called "pixel passport" which I thought was a hell of a lot better that "earth porn."

[-] ImOnLemmyWow@lemmy.world 111 points 1 year ago

EarthPixels. CarPixels. PornPixels. HistoryPixels. This could work.

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[-] Skiv@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

Damn, I had forgotten how obnoxious that was on Reddit. Blocked all of those years ago because it was just unnecessary and a gross way to qualify otherwise unremarkable photos.

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[-] Countess425@lemmy.world 415 points 1 year ago

When people turn a popular post into an Oscars Acceptance Speech

ETA: wow thanks for the upvotes!

ETA2: omg my first gold award?? I couldn't have made it without my mom and Jesus through whom all things are possible

[-] ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca 205 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This.

ETA: thanks for one upvote!😃

ETA2: thanks for two upvotes!😀😀

ETA3: woah?! 3?!?!?! thanks for three upvotes!😁😁😁

ETA4: this is more upvotes than I have money in my bank account! thanks for four upvotes!💵💵💵

ETA5: INASANE!!! thanks for five upvotes!😍😍😍

ETA6: I’ve never had more than SIX!!! thanks for six upvotes! 😱😱😱😱😱

ETA7: thanks for seven upvotes! I want to thank my mom, my brother, Jesus, Scott, Bill Gates, and my cat!!!🤗🤗

ETA8: What? Why y’all downvoting me now? Bring it back to seven!😤😤😤

ETA9: Unbelievable. -400 upvotes now. I lost my house, my car, and my job because of this! 😔😔😣😖😖😖😭😭

/s

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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 309 points 1 year ago

Moderators who coddle bigots.

Bigots.

[-] pizza_rolls@kbin.social 102 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is my #1 also. So many people "just asking questions"

I also hate the circlejerk of people going "I cannot possibly comprehend being gay/trans/disabled/whatever but I let them do what they want!" They're not aliens, you can listen to them explain what they are going through and have empathy. It's not very complicated.

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[-] ugh@lemm.ee 219 points 1 year ago

Creative writing presented as truth

[-] PetrichorBias@lemmy.one 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh man, this is something I definitely hope to never see again. I'm so tired of the unbelievable TIFUs, AITAs, and/or OffMyChests with thousands of upvotes that had obviously-fake stories.

The worst one (in recent history) was that TIFU with the student who slept with their professor's daughter.

Part 1: https://libreddit.de/r/tifu/comments/1379pge/tifu_by_hooking_up_with_professors_daughter/

Part 2: https://libreddit.de/r/tifu/comments/137u9bk/tifupdate_by_hooking_up_with_professors_daughter/

Part 3: https://libreddit.de/r/tifu/comments/1391lmj/tifupdate_i_cuckolded_my_professor/

I hope this kind of bullshit never happens here.

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[-] Smooth@lemmy.world 216 points 1 year ago

Can we stop talking about Reddit? Let it go.

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[-] Moshpotatoes91@lemmy.world 211 points 1 year ago

"Thanks for the gold kind stranger"

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[-] zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml 185 points 1 year ago

All I want is that top comments under posts are something insightful and related to the post, and not just the same one liner boring jokes that keep getting upvoted for some reason.

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[-] buycurious@lemmy.world 179 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The “hivemind” ignoring the correct information or even worse, encouraging the wrong information.

Does anyone else remember the whole Boston Bomber fiasco (i.e. We did it, Reddit)?

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[-] throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world 162 points 1 year ago

Karma-whoring. It's already started with the stupid "upote my can of beans" posts... Dude nobody cares about your internet points, either activity participate or fuck off to Instagram.

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[-] Marvin42@feddit.nl 151 points 1 year ago

I absolutely hate the love for revenge violence. Stuff like celebration people running over protestors in their cars because they were forced to stop on the road. Or bleeding out after someone got shot when they robbed a store.

This includes that fact that you can basically guarantee every thread contains at least one comment claiming "play stupid games, win stupid prizes"

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[-] Zozano@lemmy.world 143 points 1 year ago

Please don't let /c/asklemmy become like /r/askreddit, which had half of the front-page posts being the same sex related questions every month.

"Women of reddit, what non sexual thing that guys so makes you horny?"

"What is the sexiest thing you regret doing?"

"How many cocks have you sucked while your cat judges you while waiting for you to feed it?"

It was bullshit.

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[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 141 points 1 year ago

r/the_donald or anything like it. Kindly fuck off with all of that shit.

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[-] matricaria@feddit.de 141 points 1 year ago

Comments like:

„This!“

Use the upvote button and shut up.

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[-] riotrick@lemmy.world 122 points 1 year ago
[-] magnetosphere@lemmy.world 121 points 1 year ago

People who don’t know/acknowledge the difference between “free speech” and “hate speech”

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[-] May@kbin.social 117 points 1 year ago

When someone would ask a good question that you also wanna know the answer to, but then all the "answers" were just jokes bc everyone wanna get upvotes. I dont really mind jokes but those times it was a bit sad, then sometimes no one would answer for real bc i guess they see 10 replies and assume surely one of them is real already.

Also repost bots.

And apple vs samsung feuds.

And sometimes looked like whenever some people try to organize action or protests, comments just spamming that "protests do nothing" or "voting does nothing," or "what is this gonna do," not suggesting any other solution either, almost like trying to encourage apathy? Or discourage action. Sometimes i wondered if those were bots.

Also the r/wooosh when someone didn't understand a joke. .-.

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[-] answersplease77@lemmy.world 110 points 1 year ago

Cringe horny sexual questions on the main page every day: Reddit, what sound do you like to hear when you do the sex with your female partner? (and the post has 999999 upvotes and 99999 comments)

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[-] UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zone 105 points 1 year ago

/r/MadeMeSmile portrayed toxic positivity which felt out of touch with reality.

"I made my bed today. First time in 14 years 🙂"

  • 45 thousand likes and 2 thousand comments.
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[-] Sinister_Grape@lemmy.world 100 points 1 year ago

The ragebait fake text message screenshots that plague subs like antiwork.

Wow, your dickhead boss is stupid enough to put all of that in writing and has the exact same style of writing, spelling and grammar as you do? Isn’t that a coincidence!

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[-] alvaniss@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago
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[-] Rengoku@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago
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[-] lagomorphlecture@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago

My cat didn't get any love over on insert community name here. I hope you guys updoot me more than they did.

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[-] tylenol3@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago

“Women of Reddit: what’s the sexiest sex you ever sexed (and why)?”

[-] EyesInTheBoat@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago

Karma. I feel like that will push Lemmy in a way that isn't healthy.

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[-] meisme@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago

"Sir, you have just won the internet" "Thanks for the gold kind stranger" "I too choose this guy's [placeholder]" And the other corny overused reddit lines

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[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 82 points 1 year ago

DAE

Banana for scale

5/7 with rice

Generic ask Reddit threads

All that shit can go to hell.

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[-] hairinmybellybutt@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago

Communities with videos of violence and assault, justice porn etc. I hate those, this is honey for conservatives and fascists, they love it and it disgusts me.

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[-] metic@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ragebait like noahgettheboat, idiotsincars, publicfreakout. It’s the Jerry Springer of the 2020’s.

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[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago

"Came here to say this"

Also, while I will tolerate it, I hope we tone down the doggo speak

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[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sponsored posts, banner ads, algorithms, and other advertising-industry fuckery.

A reply that's just "r/(some subreddit name)."

A robot trying to sell stolen fan art printed onto t-shirts.

People childishly self-censoring non-sweary words. "Sex" isn't a bad word, but writing "s*x" suggests you probably shouldn't be allowed on social media at your stage of development.

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[-] meldroc@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Safe spaces for fascism. Spez let The_Donald and its imitators fester for years, thus turning Reddit into a de facto Nazi Bar. Thus years of harassing non-fascists & minorities, brigading, spouting bigotry, disinformation and toxicity while the admins yawned.

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[-] Pumpkinbot@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago
[-] Alperto@lemmy.ml 69 points 1 year ago
[-] flagellum@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago

Pun threads. They're not clever. They're the same, old, recycled jokes, and they just get progressively worse with every reply.

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[-] Sinister_Grape@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

Photos of people’s wives or girlfriends - often taken without their wife or girlfriend’s consent - playing video games, with vaguely condescending titles about it “only being the Sims / Animal Crossing” and half the replies being absolutely vile. As a Woman Who Plays Video Games, it was awfully annoying.

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[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 64 points 1 year ago

Just general karma whoring...

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[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago

I hope that the mod-user relationship will be healthier here. (Bias, I was a reddit moderator.)

Some reddit mods were crap, this is true. Powermods and sub collectors were real. They did shit up a few communities.

But these people were a very small proportion of all moderators. Most moderators I met were chill, and just wanted to chip in to their respective communities to give back, in a way. Volunteering for internet janitor duty, because no matter how much people use the term as an insult it turns out public spaces need janitors - or they get filled with shit, trash, graffiti (and not the cool kind either, mostly badly drawn swastikas). It's not a position that should be glorified, or anything, because that's weird, but I hope that some semblance of basic respect can be maintained here on Lemmy - both ways, meaning no powermods but also no defaulting to assuming mods suck.

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[-] off_apparition@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the gold kind stranger

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[-] LollyActionGinger@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

Other Redditors. Can we just be on Lemmy and move the fuck on?

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[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 59 points 1 year ago

The smug, smarmy attitude Redditors are known for even when they're obviously wrong.

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[-] 0Empty0@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

I love megathreads for when I have to sleep through an event and I want a detailed recap

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[-] Scrumpletin@lemmy.fmhy.ml 57 points 1 year ago

Political compass meme was a breeding ground for fascists. Who would have thought a sub about reductionist political thought would attract bad actors.

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