What do you NOT want to see replicated on kbin?

Or the fediverse in general.

I wanted to ask everyone their personal least favorite communities on reddit.

Whic subreddits do you absolutely not (personally of course) want to see recreated as magazines here on kbin, or as fediverse communities in general?

My pet peeve is CMV. I always felt while the idea seemed doable on the surface, the implementation within that particular subreddit with the delta system, the requirement for the top level comments to oppose the OP even if the "view" is an established expert consensus on something like climate change made it impossible to have meaningful conversations.

I haven't checked if we have a CMV magazine here, but as soon as I see one, I know I'm blocking it.

What is your "instant block" community?

octofloofy,

@CynAq mainly the gore subs. I wish i would have never seen some of this stuff but clicked on it out of curiosity after it got mentioned somewhere...

killick,
killick avatar

I don't want to see ad-supported instances. If you like using an instance (pixelfed, mastodon, bookwyrm, kbin, lemmy etc.), chip in. Keep the fediverse free from ads.

hydra,
@hydra@lemmy.world avatar

Well, I'm a Lemmy visitor but still it applies to both of us:

  • Corporation sponsored instances
  • Bot nests and bots talking to each other
  • Unfunny circlejerk subreddits
  • Karma whoring and the same 5 unfunny jokes repeated endlessly
  • Ad backed instances
  • Defederation walled garden rugpulls
Sabata11792,
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I hate ads and aggressively block them, but I think eventually there going to start showing up.

I don't think any large business will touch this with a 10 foot pole but could be great for smaller businesses if they can respect the community.

lifeishard,

Sinophobia and racism against Chinese people. Yeah I know sinophobia means exactly that, but I wanted to mention it again because I feel like it.

Every single thread about China(non-political) turns into “China bad” and it’s so freaking annoying to see.

RyanHakurei,
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Huh I wonder why the general opinion on China would be negative.... /s

lifeishard,

Sorry, I don’t know what you want to imply here.

sincle354,

It's hard for an outsider to separate Chinese people from the Chinese government. I got to see both in my third world country. The people who immigrated were mostly just hard working and didn't deserve whatever racism was being thrown about. But knowing that your country is almost selling out to the CCP is infuriating. Knowing that your country is nothing more than a political pawn in the Belt and Road initiative is infuriating. But the people? They do nothing wrong.

RyanHakurei,
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It's hard for an outsider to separate Chinese people from the Chinese government.

Uhhh no? You would be hard pressed to find someone who legitimately conflates every Chinese citizen with the CCP.

sincle354,

I'm making this assumption from an Americans's perspective and after reading Cold War era history about jingoism. I believe I had read a problematic conflation between the two? I could only assume that those feelings haven't gone away, that in hushed tones after Sunday Mass the gossip mill turns about and questions the loyalty of the new family in town.

However, I suspect this is an old fashioned take. Perhaps it's reverted to good old racism after the rise of "Capitalism with Chinese characteristics". I'm sorry to not have kept up with current reactionary trends.

lifeishard, (edited )

@sincle354

Oh, absolutely! I'm from an authoritarian third-world country and have personally experienced racism. I am well aware of the actions and ongoing activities of the CCP. I'm perfectly fine with people roasting the CCP or discussing China's politics in relevant threads. However, racism is where I take issue.

On Reddit, every thread about the things happening in China (or outside of China but related to Chinese people) turns into Sinophobia. Even a thread about floating road over water turns into sinophobia(I'm not sure if I'm using the word correctly lol). Ridiculous don't you think?

So, I'm just saying that it would be nice if we don't have that here but that’s highly unlikely since the whole world is against China and Russia right now. And like you said, an average person is pretty racist and cannot separate between CCP and the Chinese people (even the ones who are born outside of China).

I just want to see to see less racism in the world.

Sorry if my thoughts are all over. I find it challenging to express myself clearly, and it's not something I'm accustomed to. English being my second language doesn't help.

embecile,

I thought you expressed yourself very clearly, and your English was perfect.

lifeishard,

Haha thank you. I actually used GPT’s help for improving some part of my comment.

fiofiofio,
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Calling a community [x]Porn that's just SFW high-quality photos of something (eg EarthPorn, RoomPorn, etc). Leave that naming convention in the 2010s.

mpldr,

EarthPorn was a great place, but BeautifulPlaces really would've been the better name.

T156,

It did get rather silly though, especially when you started getting things like "HumanPorn".

pory,
@pory@lemmy.world avatar

Did artistically shot and designed pornography ever get an /r/pornporn?

wetszn,

I’d really appreciate not having to see any of the shitposting/edgy humor communities. The majority of the content posted is mostly misogynistic (see women ☕️ “meme”) or dismissive of the LGBTQ+ community. I think there’s already a self titled “shitposting” community on here and from the little I’ve seen of it, it seems ok. Only time will tell if that community becomes rife with the same dumb & edgy content from the subreddit equivalent. Also, no more FDS/Incel or just generally hateful communities.

MrComradeTaco,

Furry porn.

niktemadur,
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A constant stream of memes romanticizing and/or normalizing depression, alienation, hopelessness, or any other of those dark states of mind. Often after switching from Home to All, I'd scroll and just keep bumping into these damned things.

It's the volume that I find corrosive and even suspicious, to the point that sometimes I've suspected that the prevalence of these memes may be a deliberate, artificially inflated thing, just one more bot tool in the box for bad-faith actors to nudge as many people as possible to a passive, apathetic, unengaged state of mind.

UsernameLost,

That is the best way I've seen this written and mirrors how I've felt about Reddit for a while now. Everyone is terminally despondent, and the sheer volume of posts like that seem either intentional or like people are trying to fit in by being as depressed or more so than everyone else.

Phoeniqz,
@Phoeniqz@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Also I think that many creators of those memes didn't/don't understand correctly what depression even means in comparison to sadness.

virtualCPU,

Anything that's full of zero-effort memes, snarky one-liners, or puns that were played out twenty years ago. All of that I am very happy to leave behind on Reddit, hopefully at least.

I instantly block/ignore any of the communities whose only purpose is ragebait and focusing on drama, like /r/AITA, /r/unpopularopinions and their ilk.
Already did that "back there" but I have much less patience for any of that lowest possible common denominator content now.

dan,
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What is "CMV"?

CynAq,
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a subreddit called Change My View.

You post some opinion on something with as much detail as possible as to why you have that opinion and the commenters try to change your view in some way.

The rules are; the OP has to demonstrate they are open to changing their view in some way, the top level comments must be aimed at challenging the OP's view so you can't say you agree with it, and the overall discussion must be civil. The partial or complete view changes have to be certified with a delta, a kind of award unique to that subreddit. The OP or other users are required to reply to the comment which changed their view with a description of how their view changed and the command !delta, which awards a delta to the user who posted the parent comment.

pory, (edited )
@pory@lemmy.world avatar

Not a community, but I never want to see those garbage spam bots again. You know the ones: "every word in your post is in alphabetical order" or "you used should of instead of should have" or "our dictionary bot recognizes your post has having 17 syllables so here's a bastard haiku". "hi, enjoying Reddit, I'm dad!" "reply good bot or bad bot to vote on the bot", "are you sure because i'm 98% certain that actual tag to the person's username that gives them a notification isn't a bot", none of that fucking garbage.

I appreciate that my Lemmy settings allow me to not "show bot accounts" but what I really want is the ability to completely block those accounts from responding to (and ideally even reading) my posts.

Chaos,

Wallstreetbets is a cancer that only promotes an aristocrastic world.

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