Likely because the vast majority of reddit users in 2025 are bots. It’s just a bunch of bots talking to each other, with a few incels sprinkled in here and there.

AI is the 2020s version of Tulip Mania. It’s just fancy Google that elaborates, but you can’t trust the results it gives you, because it lies worse than my five year old on his way back from a late night trip to the cookie jar. It makes funny pictures of Mario committing 9/11 and all sorts of useless funny stuff that has kids smoking cigarettes at McDonalds with hot dogs for fingers. Which is great and all, but I can’t figure the last time I actually needed a picture of kids smoking cigarettes at McDonalds…

And it sucks and you can always tell when something’s AI because it’s crap. Boomers can’t, but they also can’t do most other things, so I mean that’s not really a reliable metric of its actual success either.

Boomer fuel is all it is. The new paperless society. It’s going to take my job, except my job will be on my doorstep a month later begging me to come back.

As a pirate, I refuse to read.

Just wanted to say arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, though.

Shiver me timbers!

*rubbing hands together" Oh this is going to be good.

That said, people are fucking stupid, especially when it comes to money.

If I learned anything during our time of Covid, it’s how friggin stupid the vast majority of people truly are.

I’m sure the people of Richmound, SK have a few ideas.

It’s amazing how much the bald eagle population recovered. As a child and then an adult growing up in SW Ontario, I never even saw a bald eagle. It wasn’t until I was in my 30s, and after we moved out west that I saw my first one, in 2013. I saw two that year. Then two or three the next year. Then even more the year after, and got nice and close to a juvenile on a golf course at our company tournament.

Fast forward to today, and I know of about 5 nests in the the park near our house, and I always see at least one when I’m near that area. I go for bike rides in the summer evenings, and it’s rare that I don’t see at least one near the river.

Even back home, there’s two nesting down at the river in the field behind my parents house. I saw the mother of all bald eagles on a drive near my parents place last year too. It’s crazy (and super awesome) how that’s changed over even the last decade.

Oh man are reddit users in for it when they have to answer to the market and public shareholders. Who really will just be a bunch of evil boomers holding institutional blocks.

It’s going to be a dumpster fire. I think any savvy investor can see straight through it. Institutional investors are fucking sick of these trainwreck, unprofitable tech companies. The only people lining up for these IPO shares are going to be a few FOMO folks, the CNBC crowd, and other uneducated idiots that want in at the beginning plus (lol) all their power mods. All of whom are going to be left holding the bag following the first earnings call.

I did too. My life is all the better for it. The fediverse is much more positive overall, and even if you don’t like something, just find a different instance then. You don’t lose the ability to peacefully use the product. Unlike Reddit…

I don’t know if I agree with you. Your idea of following a topic over all communities is a solid one, for sure. Not sure I would agree with a comment being posted across all. Maybe an option for cross-posting, should one wish? How would you deal with the replies though, like certainly that all couldn’t be cross posted, could it?. I just think it would get too complicated in a hurry, that’s all. I like your ingenuity, anyways.

You and 90% of the rest of society.

Man you better watch out if they do that to me, there’s going to be vomit everywhere.

I got a 73% raise for jumping ship after just under four years at my old job, back in 2021 2022. I was getting nothing but gaslighted when I pointed out that my salary was becoming a bit under the indicated going rate. Which to me quickly indicated that they saw me as disposable, as they refused to respond to clear and well laid out backup. Then the phone rang, so I mean that was that. I did what disposable people do, and jumped out the window.

I’ve since gotten one promotion and about another 30% increase from my starting rate, which means I’m making more than double what I was just two years ago. But I’m not resting on that. I’m always watching and thinking about what’s next. It’s a competition for my labour, and I will more often than not side with the highest bidder. I don’t give a shit about tenure, or my potential growth, or my so-called future within your company. Unless you show me the path, a well laid out timeline with mutually defined goals that you clearly will stick to, and the money. Then I might care. But even then, I’m always a bit weary, and it’s almost always more rewarding to chase external opportunities and promotions. That said, I’ve also never had an employer that’s truly believed in me and actually been legitimately concerned with my growth before. It’s always been take take take, false promises and failures to actually deliver on insinuated opportunities when the chips fell. Ones mileage may vary though.

I think the answer to this is actually fairly simple. When the bossman tells me something’s in my best interest, I’m just immediately suspicious. Like I know in your example it maybe is, you’ve laid out your logic and all of that. But you have to realize that for every good boss, there’s probably 15 bad ones. Western economic, labour systems and power structures have been so lopsided for generations, that it’s literally hard coded in us to be suspicious. Whenever someone comes at me from work with a big smile and excitement, my flags FLY to red alert. Because I’m statistically far more likely to be on the raw side of the deal.

I look at it differently. It’s my job to invest in, and create an environment that people don’t want to ever leave. It’s a two way street. If people are only hanging around for a year, something is up, and it probably ain’t their fault.

Pierre will only allow this, if you show him your pee-pee. You know, like all those other conservatives.

It’s only a matter of time.

I’ve noticed a few more the past couple of months myself, but at some point the floodgates are going to open. And it’s going to suck. But until then, I’m enjoying the fediverse experience. It’s been a great break, reminds me of what reddit used to be like.

I honestly just don’t fucking care about them. This fediverse thing is the real deal, and it’s been kind of peaceful over here avoiding all the toxic shit a regular user of reddit was subjected to. I’m sure it’s on its way here shortly, but for now, enjoy the solitude.

Fishing for coverage for the people who pump and dump their shares after IPO day. Anyone internal with big holdings is going to just unload at first opportunity. This is their desperate attempt to provide coverage for it.

Hope some of the mods I ran into over the years are amongst the schmucks holding the bag with these shares for their first earnings report. It ain’t gonna be good.

Fucking reddit, good riddance. Toxic shit hole needs to die, but now this is a golden opportunity for your grandma and her pension fund to be amongst its victims too.