I, much like basically everyone here, have been avoiding Reddit when possible, and the content here just doesn’t hit the same. My fried dopamine receptors were certainly screaming for stimulation early on but now I feel an urge to touch grass and breathe fresh air. What is this? Am I dying? I still hate the angry lightbulb in the sky.
In all seriousness though, I’ll admit that I was kind of addicted to Reddit and now I don’t want to go near it. Maybe this will turn a new leaf for me. If not here, I’ll probably find some other way to satiate my dopamine receptors through more productive means.
I’ve been on Reddit long enough to get permabanned from favorite subreddits for weird reasons, and kicked off Reddit completely for a whole week (I was permabanned for an alleged bad misinterpretation of a comment, and it took a week for them to review and reverse the ban.) So I’ve had sore spots.
There are communities I miss, and so far I haven’t found equivalent ones here, but my experience here feels a bit like when I was starting Reddit. I’m still learning how to fit in.
Once on Reddit, I was accused of being a tankie (and had to look up what the heck tankies were. I think having mixed opinions regarding specifics of the Soviet Union is controversial) and I was banhammered from a left-wing ideology sub for Atlantism which I still don’t fully understand what that means. (Approving of or not being sufficiently critical of NATO activity, maybe?)
So, having been the recipient of injustice by Reddit and its moderators, my attachment to it was already reserved.
what is Atlantism?
I still don’t know. It may have had to do with saying something nice about NATO but I’m not sure. One of the problems I generally have is discussing things descriptively rather than prescriptively (I’m often looking at political situations well beyond my pay grade), usually to say this is a problem. I don’t know how we’re going to fix it but it’s bad and is likely to get worse.