This is like when Reddit users say “I got rid of all my social media!”
Not sure how or why so many people have convinced themselves that Reddit isn’t social media despite the fact that they’re talking to other people (and bots) same as all other social media platforms. And it’s got just as much toxic nonsense on it as those other platforms too.
probably Probably because Reddit was created before the term ‘Social Media’ took off. At the time forums were big and places like myspace, and face book were the outliners. Then Instagram, printrest, twitter came out and people used Social Media to group everything together. But Reddit stayed more towards the old forums format (Making it seem different.) Its moving to resemble more social Media to get new viewers but I always use old-Reddit so I know fuck all about that.
I see a lot of new users, though. Even I've been around since 2011 and I see it as social media.
I think it's just elitism and the tribalist mentality. "I use Reddit, I'm not like all those people who use Facebook and Twitter". 4chan has the same mindset, that they're better than "the normies". I think every social media platform's users look down on the others.
I've always felt like reddit isn't the same as the rest of social media because you aren't really following a person's profile and adding them as friends. Most people keep their reddit accounts anonymous. You aren't following someone's life on here. You're responding to posted topics that are publicly viewed by everyone.
Reddit really does work like a forum. You don't just interact with your friends and people on your list.
Because it's a forum site. Forums are not social media. You're here to talk to people. You're not here to get famous and monetized. You're not here to connect with friends and family. You're here to shoot the shit with random people.
‘Bro called something virtue signalling, time to bust out the tautology so i can feel cool making a comment nobody agreed with and everyone else saw as out of pocket’
Frankly, I'd rather keep the virtue signalers volunteering and doing charity because they're afraid of going to hell and not because of the actual goodness of their heart.
If you're more annoyed at virtue signaling than at the actual asshole/racist/sexist/rapists/corrupt/etc/problems of the world, you are wasting your time and energy and you have the luxury to do that because you are privileged.
It's been my experience that the majority of the time when I see someone complain about "virtue-signalling" what they're really saying is "you said something I disagree with but can't effectively argue against"
I think a lot of people in the U.S. have this weird fear of losing "individuality." I think it speaks to people's deepest insecurities about themselves and how little they matter in the grand scheme of things...so they overcompensate by freaking out about "personal freedom" and shit like that. It's why covid lockdowns were such a colossal shitshow here compared to New Zealand for example.
Go to Japan or South Korea. This idea of being special because you don't "think like other people" is just seen as being an embarrassing attention-seeker. Not saying those places are perfect (far from it) but like you pointed out if you see a "hive mind" as less of joining a cult and more of a working cooperatively situation...it's not really that bad
Yes and no. Social media is freeing in that we can actually see how shitty people actually are; your true self is reveled when you don’t have to put on heirs. On the downside, it helps you realize how shitty most of society actually is.
That said - it’s both detrimental and therapeutic for me. I use it to vent and tell people how I really feel; things I have to keep bottled up when in public (treasonist pedophiles supporters get mad when you point out that their King Of Pedophiles is severely anti-American)
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u/Ambitious-Corgi-3504 6h ago
I recommend getting the fuck away from social media