>>330742 (OP)
If anything, I'd argue that Reddit right now, is a giant contender for "The Real Internet Hate Machine,". OG 4ch used to be the internet hate machine because that's what it spewed forth regularly with abandon towards anyone it deemed fucking annoying. Reddit on the other hand, creates hate, it teaches others to hate, and if you don't follow their church of hatred and stolen morals, then you become a target.
The only reason It's not truely the internet hate machine, is because Tiktok is exactly the above, but worse. Reddit rewards hate with a useless number and a chance to be put on a pedestal (the front page), nobody but the admins, astroturfers, bribed moderators and ad spammers make money on reddit. Tiktok rewards you with real money for creating hate and making people hateful.
>>330748
>>330773
Reddit is only useful for extremely niche communities, tech support usually doesn't shit it up... unless the fucking jannies and powermods take it over, then you're fucked.
>>330828
The funny thing is? The stereotype of "The Redditor" is more-applicable to reddit's jannies than it's users. Why? Simple. The enviroment of a forum is a product of it's leaders and managers. if those leaders and managers are petty, vindictive, dogmatic, narcissistic, and nepotistic manchildren seeking validation and social connection at the expense of the community they lead, then no wonder it ends up devolving into a fucking cult of angry retards.
But really, Reddit as a platform is also designed to cultivate this mentality through upvotes and karma. upvotes being a meaningless but not-so-meaningless number that lowers and raises your front-page relevents, while "karma" is basically a "reddit street credit score".
And to top it all off: Reddit has more indian users than any single other demographic, what does that tell you?
>>330810
If anything, It's the search engines turning to shit that was a problem. Back in the 90s & 00's, every single search engine had trash and spam websites that shat up the search results, the difference was, if you spent time and went through more than 10 pages of results in the search engine, eventually you could find something that wasn't trash. The difference between now and then, is that nowadays they start looping results instead of giving full pages. Hell, they even started fucking invalidating "-shit_I_Dont_want" tags because god forbid you don't fucking click on the ad that pays the most.
What's "Funny", is that fucking Big Tech and ALL of their biggest moneymakers aren't even their flagship products. Google? Their money is fiber, not the search engine or ads. Amazon? A fucking bookstore turned online-box-store that somehow gets 90% of it's money from server farming- and sugardaddying the government with Military contracts. FaceMeta? Nope, not even close, their moneymaker is instagram. Microslop? Their investments and companies they own is all over the fucking place while windows continues to fester into a cancer on human rights and privacy. And now that they're actually losing the OS war, they're fucking ruining it for the rest of us because "FUCK YOU WE WOULD RATHER BURN THE MARKET DOWN THAN PUT IN EFFORT TO MAKE A GOOD PRODUCT!!"