Saitama

It’s a pretty smart film in the context of when it was made and the political situation in the U.S. I remember when it was released a lot of people were pissed at it, it performed pretty poorly.

Saw Asteroid City last night. Liked it a lot but it’s not my favorite Wes Anderson movie. It is, thought, the most Wes Anderson movie imaginable.

Yeah it’s insane how many people immediately jump to call you a liar when you post things like that. I guess the environment’s been poisoned by all the people making up stuff for karma. The karma concept sounds great in theory but becomes toxic quickly.

Don’t really know what the “best” experience was. I can’t say there was anything life changing for me. It was nice to have access to so much stuff in a very well designed app (Apollo) that let me share that content super easily with friends and family via Whatsapp or Telegram.

Worst interactions? There were many…the groupthink can be real bad. There are a lot of people who take karma very seriously. There was one sub, dedicated to a podcast, and it was clear there was a person that had six or seven alts because of the language they used and the debate style, and they would get so upset and downvote any disagreeing comment. Other subs had plenty of trolling, transphobia, shitty moderators, etc. Other subs became basically unusable because of how large they got and how many people posted “hey, look at me!” low effort content. You know, “art I did of X character” with 2,600 upvotes for what was a 10th grader type drawing done on a notebook. That kind of kills the visibility of posts with the potential for deeper or more meaningful conversation that don’t get as many upvotes.

In the end I think the main issue with Reddit is that it got too big. It attracted too many people on a superficial level, too many trolls, and most subs worth visiting at this point are dedicated to niche subjects and have smallish communities.

Yeah, I guess eventually things will get consolidated into single communities or you may have a few rival communities similar in size but hopefully fragmentation shouldn’t be too much of an issue. Should be fun though.

Would there ever be a way to synchronize content between communities on different servers? What I see as the problem here is that there may be, let’s say, several Zelda communities on different servers, all with different content, so it would become difficult to follow all. Or is there any mechanism in place to prevent communities from being replicated?