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HN has a hivemind too believe it or not. Edit: would the hivemind care to stop upvoting this so I could make my point here?
definitely, but I like to think most people here are more self-aware or are less extreme about shouting down others. the heavy-hivemind topics always have a couple of good "woah there..." meta comments, and unlike reddit, they don't get buried and disappeared for the most part.
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The funny thing is, there was a time I thought reddit was "much better" than the likes of youtube and twitter for "serious topics" but over the past few years I've realized its the same thing, just being drawn out several paragraphs, lol.
Just an absolute sea of “onion on my belt” stories.
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#74> No Tracking And yet, loads 5 domains straight up: cloudflare, fotawesome, hwcdn, jquery
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#76Wow haven't been to reddit in ages, surprised it's so (subjectively) bad. Has it gotten worse or was I a fool before? It's cringeworthy
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#77PH stands for?
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If it could integrate a blocklist like what Reddit Enhancement Suite uses, then I'd definitely consider it. I've filtered about 200 subreddits. That sounds like a lot, but there are a ton of duplicate terrible meme/armchair politics/lazy content subreddits worth hiding.
Is it possible for you to export your list so we can import it?
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Can your post also be used as an allegory for a different context?
It's basically the difference between a village and a city. Reddit used to be like a bunch of villages, now it's like apartment buildings in the same city. Everyone is always a stranger in a city, people are always coming and going. You can walk down the same street the same time every day and see new faces every time. That is exactly the same dynamic as is present on most of Reddit. Almost everyone you see is a stra…