My beef with Reddit is that when I look at it I see a toolset for sharing funny cat videos and putting those funny cat videos in order based on popularity. And then people have taken that tool and formed communities and use it as a conversation platform, which it's not suited at all.
Basically when I look at Reddit, I see lots of people hitting nails with saws, and that confuses me.
You haven't looked very closely at reddit. There's a big fat layer of stupidity over it all on the front page, but underneath that there's some actual conversation, debate, and even sometimes progress going on. There's innovative products being introduced, new games/novels/handicrafts/etc being shown off. There's people learning about why they're homophobic and why that's bad. On and on.
On Tumblr, you really haven't got much of that. You've got massive reblog pyramids like Jack said.
That and more. It was basically the worst, retch inducing stuff from /b/ plus I think worse. The kind of stuff I don't ever want to see, even once. I made the mistake of looking through out of curiosity once.
Crime scene level stuff. Like, crimes still in progress level stuff. Not good.
I've yet to ever find a statistics package that I felt was truly effective at screening out bot-hits. I have blogs that seem to get hammered with hundreds of hits a day, but I'd be surprised if more than a half dozen were actual human visitors.
Of course, over a certain threshold that probably isn't relevant anymore.
I use Tumblr for art, since DeviantArt takes too many clicks. Reddit for me is just a place where I get news on more niche topics that my RSS reader misses. Straight up forums will always be my preferred form of online communication, and even then I don't have enough time in my day to take part in forums as of late.
Tumblr is primarily for Architecture, industrial design, and funny pictures with snarky quotes. Reddit is where I get my amatuer porn, Steven Universe and MLP stuff, and funny stories from Tech Support. I get my news from VOX, Digg, Quartz, and Google News.
Stupid bullshit gparted just fucked up my giant ntfs partition of all of my shit (keep it there because I dual boot) and now I lost basically everything from the last week and some other random files. All I was trying to do was move the partition
Stupid bullshit gparted just fucked up my giant ntfs partition of all of my shit (keep it there because I dual boot) and now I lost basically everything from the last week and some other random files. All I was trying to do was move the partition
Dual boot with Linux is like walking around with a hand grenade in your computer all the time.
The key for me to enjoying Tumblr and Reddit is to not engage them as communities. My mom was talking about how she quit Tumblr because of the flamewars and craziness in the activism communities, and I was like "My feed is bunnies, and concept art, and webcomics, and pictures of cute boys, so I see mostly none of that." Reddit for me is basically just r/hockey. Sometimes bunnies. I think passive engagement on platforms meant mostly for passive engagement is the best. I just post my art and click the like button and things are cool.
Yeah basically the only subreddit I go to is /r/GameDeals just because occasionally something will show up on there. I was going to the 3DS one a bit last week but that was only to see if someone happened to post something about MM 3DS going on sale again somewhere after my Target order got cancelled. I've dabbled a little in a couple others but I just don't really find them interesting. Beyond that I've pretty much blocked anyone on Facebook that could possibly annoy me with stuff they post so its mostly gaming news, Pusheen, and funny pictures.
The only social network I engage on is FB and even on there I only engage rarely. Most of my feed is kittens and hot womenz because that is what I comment on. I almost never see anything more political than a debate between STEM and liberal arts degrees.
The game is also very similar to one of mine that was published a few years back except in my game the exploding kitten card means you win rather than being eliminated from the game.
Well, sheltering yourself from mainstream debate isn't healthy, speaking in terms of society at large, anyway. I understand not wanting to start from 0 every time you have a social or political argument, but isolating and avoiding the issues sure fixes nothing.
Stupid bullshit gparted just fucked up my giant ntfs partition of all of my shit (keep it there because I dual boot) and now I lost basically everything from the last week and some other random files. All I was trying to do was move the partition
Dual boot with Linux is like walking around with a hand grenade in your computer all the time.
Installing something like Ubuntu into Windows is also pretty sketch, but I guess you can at least "uninstall" it with pretty much no repercussions on the Windows side.
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Basically when I look at Reddit, I see lots of people hitting nails with saws, and that confuses me.
On Tumblr, you really haven't got much of that. You've got massive reblog pyramids like Jack said.
Crime scene level stuff. Like, crimes still in progress level stuff. Not good.
I also want clarification on the Hitler/socks thing.
Of course, over a certain threshold that probably isn't relevant anymore.
My mom was talking about how she quit Tumblr because of the flamewars and craziness in the activism communities, and I was like "My feed is bunnies, and concept art, and webcomics, and pictures of cute boys, so I see mostly none of that."
Reddit for me is basically just r/hockey. Sometimes bunnies.
I think passive engagement on platforms meant mostly for passive engagement is the best. I just post my art and click the like button and things are cool.
EDIT: And it just blew past 8, fuck everything.
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/19001/tech-support