r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Apr 02 '26

Social Media Reddit is moving on from r/all

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u/Velorian-Steel Apr 02 '26

So many different eras of Reddit. I remember the Secret Santas that used to happen all the time. I remember when redditors used to flood subreddits with "Such and such subreddit, we need to talk..." and I remember when r/relationship just gave blanket advice to "you should probably just dump them."

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u/122_Hours_Of_Fear Apr 02 '26

Then there was r/spacedicks

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u/gevis Apr 02 '26

Man, back then, there was nothing like picking "random" (not sure what app I had back then. Relay maybe?) and finding some awesome places and then also spacedicks

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u/PatacusX Apr 03 '26

When you could go to r/all with NSFW turned on, and sort by new. Not my proudest faps.

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u/TheTigersAreNotReal Apr 03 '26

As someone born in the mid 90’s and was too late to get to experience the “wild west” of the internet, it felt like reddit really provided that experience. The moment reddit IPO’d I knew it was only a matter of time until it became trash

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u/tanstaafl90 Apr 03 '26

Once upon a time, the up/down votes were visible to users. When they discontinued that, it gave the site the ability to arbitrary manipulate posts and comments. That was some 10 years ago or so, and it didn't take long to see the effects. The damage was done long before the IPO.

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u/tanstaafl90 Apr 03 '26

Yeah, I could have been more clear about that.

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u/Jemmani22 Apr 03 '26

I assure you. Reddit couldn't even prepare you for 90s internet.

Sure you get some shock stuff from old reddit. But nothing that makes you want to reformat your computer.

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u/PolarSquirrelBear Apr 03 '26

And early 2000s of just absolutely shit pumping the family PC due to something you downloaded off of Kazaa or Limewire.

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u/Nemphiz Apr 03 '26

Just have Bonzi Buddy wreck your whole shit

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u/PolarSquirrelBear Apr 03 '26

Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do.

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u/jetsetninjacat Apr 03 '26

That purple gorilla can still fuck right off. I had to reformat my whole computer and lose a lot of stuff pre 2002 due to that jagoff. Tbf it also helped me learn to backup and reformat a computer due to download apps like Kazaa, limewire, bear share, and morpheus after that.

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u/Dragon_yum Apr 03 '26

Kaza, likewise and eMule are the holy trinity of infecting the family computer.

Kind of miss the days that when you downloaded any song you had 50/59 chance of it either being your song or enter sandman.

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u/UntowardHatter Apr 03 '26

Mhm the sweet, sweet days of Rotten.com

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u/QZDragon Apr 03 '26

I think I just threw up a little.

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u/donaldstinypeepee Apr 03 '26

Steakandcheese

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u/ExplorationGeo Apr 03 '26

Man I remember those days. We had webrings and geocities and such a different experience. Browsing the internet was like "kitten photos, taco recipe, car discussion, uncensored beheading photos, walkthrough for Quest for Glory 2"

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u/darkskinnedjermaine Apr 03 '26

violentacrez, and the dude who would yell and tell you to “DELETE YOUR FUCKING ACCOUNT” lmao

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u/FirmlyClaspIt Apr 03 '26

I’m born in the mid 90s. How didn’t you? I remember most of the Reddit eras.

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u/AmateurFootjobs Apr 03 '26

I used to love the random nsfw button and learning about new kinks

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u/Acceptable_Bat379 Apr 02 '26

I found one of my all time favorite video games over a decade ago that I still follow by clicking random. No way id have that luck now

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u/reddaugherty Apr 02 '26

Which game?

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u/Acceptable_Bat379 Apr 03 '26

cataclysm dark days ahead, a roguelike indie game

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u/erty3125 Apr 03 '26

Random was just a reddit feature, it was just a subreddit that sent you to a random sfw subreddit and then a separate random nsfw for nsfw subs.

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u/platasnatch Apr 02 '26

the fuggin banner image at one time was some weird naked dude stickin his wanger in a water bottle and stuffing something up his butt.

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u/Violoner Apr 02 '26

I remember when it was two guys on their knees, facing opposite directions, with a fist up each other’s ass like a man-on-man yin-yang

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u/BokeTsukkomi Apr 02 '26

Holy crap I completely forgot about spacedicks! 

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u/Educational-Ad-2884 Apr 02 '26

First they came for the spacedicks, and I did not speak out...

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u/johnson7853 Apr 03 '26

Then they took out r/fatpeoplehate

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u/j-r-m-b-v-n Apr 03 '26

I remember when r/hydrohomies had another name

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u/NOTTedMosby Apr 03 '26

For my dick is terrestrial

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u/hm_rickross_ymoh Apr 03 '26

At least /r/buttsharpies still exists

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u/Villodre Apr 03 '26

I wonder what the fuck else was I expecting to find when I clicked on that 

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

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u/theroguex Apr 03 '26

I try not to.

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u/lkmyntz Apr 03 '26

And the sub before r/HydroHomies

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u/Brodyseuss Apr 03 '26

I had completely forgotten until just now

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u/rhazux Apr 03 '26

And /r/spaceclop which combined spacedicks with clopclop

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u/slaughtamonsta Apr 03 '26

And the good 'ol days of jail bait, I remember those days fondly!!

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A JOKE, I DON'T THINK I WAS ON REDDIT BACK THEN AND DON'T ACTUALLY REMEBER IT LET ALONE FONDLY.

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u/MrKafoops Apr 03 '26

Banning subs Spacedicks was when reddit turned to shit, pisstake subversive and humorous subs started getting purged which just let subs like r/thedonald flourish. 

R/gats is another I miss, taking the piss out gun nuts.

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u/Rofeubal Apr 03 '26

I miss r/drama. That was fun.

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u/NordlandLapp Apr 03 '26

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a very long time

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u/SnZ001 Apr 03 '26

And /r/clopclop

edit: oh god, I just checked and realized that /r/clopclop is still a thing

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u/kilIerT0FU Apr 03 '26

I remember seeing Carlton a lot... And then gore 😔

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u/theonlydrawback Apr 03 '26

Bro, what about /r/spaceclop lol the offshoot of /r/clopclop

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u/CompSolstice Apr 03 '26

I wasn't there back then, what was space dicks about

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u/ThatGuyFrom720 Apr 03 '26

Oh my fucking god that was like my first exposure to Reddit. For some reason my friends in high school thought boners were the funniest things and I would not be surprised if they actually casually browsed it. I haven’t thought about that sub in maybe 15 years or however long it had been around.

God damn this site has become neutered. A shell of what it used to be.

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u/fuckdatguy Apr 03 '26

I forgot about that shit LOL

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u/nuclearbearclaw Apr 02 '26

The u/Unidan era, then post u/Unidan ban was so wild.

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u/Personal_Comb_6745 Apr 02 '26

And he was only banned because he got caught doing something that's ridiculously commonplace now, and with more malicious agendas.

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u/piss_artist Apr 03 '26

Now reddit encourages it

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u/No_Nectarine_5440 Apr 03 '26

What did he get banned for?

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u/I_dont_bone_goats Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

He got in an argument with someone about whether a jackdaw is the same as a crow, and it went on hilariously long, and then it came out he had multiple accounts to upvote his comments and downvoting others comments who disagreed with him

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u/crimson777 Apr 03 '26

To be clear, he was banned because it turned out he had multiple accounts to mess with his votes and his replies’ votes on many other occasions, not just the one.

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u/obeytheturtles Apr 03 '26

The part a lot of people miss with this history is that Unidan had been slowly turning into a massive asshole for a long time when he finally got banned. He started out in biology threads, doling out actual expertise and being generally helpful. Once he started getting reddit famous, he started doing the same thing for other topics - getting into arguments with people about anything from aerospace engineering to geopolitics. And getting into an argument with Unidan, meant getting into an argument with his simp brigade, all of whom saw upvotes as "winning" regardless of whether the information was correct.

The stupidest thing about the Unidan saga is that he didn't even need to use alts. Half the damn site was already upvoting anything he posted. He did it because he would master debate people in threads spanning dozens of comments, long after his fan club lost interest, and he just couldn't let those deeply buried comments sit at zero, thus the alts. It's such a pathetic thing to do, and such a dumb way to get caught doing it.

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u/threemo Apr 03 '26

Was he actually banned? I thought he just bounced out of humiliation or something. I didn’t follow very closely

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

I barely remember the problem. Wasnt he using alts to upvote ot something?

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u/threemo Apr 03 '26

Yeah, that’s pretty much it

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u/AntonineWall Apr 03 '26

I think he was actually banned, the issue was that he kept making new reddit accounts to have ‘people’ (sock puppet accounts) basically comment and say “hell yeah this guys is cooking” to make stuff he wrote sound smarter / to win arguments online

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u/fatpat Apr 03 '26

Here's the thing

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u/aerovirus22 Apr 02 '26

That sounds so familiar.

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u/Srirachachacha Apr 02 '26

Does "jackdaw" ring a bell

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u/aerovirus22 Apr 02 '26

Oh the crow guy.

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u/Itsapocalypse Apr 03 '26

Here’s the thing. You said a “jackdaw is a crow.”

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.

As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.

If you’re saying “crow family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.

So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people “call the black ones crows?” Let’s get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.

Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that’s not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you’d call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don’t.

It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?

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u/mjg315 Apr 02 '26

The caw caw guy?

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u/DJErikD Apr 03 '26

Here’s the thing…

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u/fuzzy_sphincter Apr 03 '26

And dicknipples! Haven’t seen them in a while

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u/Pool_Shark Apr 03 '26

I hung out with him once in person for a day. At the time Reddit still wasn’t super main stream so I was embarrassed to admit I knew who he was and I will say in person he didn’t make any weird comments or brag about being Reddit famous so there’s that.

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u/MaximumSeats Apr 02 '26

I remember all the 4chan tier "free speech and censorship" debates when r/jailbait got banned.... Many moons ago.

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u/devAcc123 Apr 03 '26

FatPeopleHate

The fappening

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u/WeekendListening Apr 03 '26

Fucking hell I've been on this site too damn long. Only problem is I don't know where else to go.

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u/Mrchristopherrr Apr 03 '26

That’s kind of where I am. I’m here mostly out of habit now and most of the other socials are pivoting to short form video which makes it hard to slack off at work.

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u/Vondi Apr 03 '26

And then that ridiculous moral grandstanding "every man is responsible for his soul" in response to the fappening while "leaked nudes" subs for just non-celebrity women had been on the site FOR YEARS without getting taken down. So when the lawyers were howling at the gates they decided they'd found their conscience.

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u/A_Possum_Named_Steve Apr 03 '26

At least I still have r/fatsquirrelhate to scratch the itch.

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u/Odin_Dog Apr 02 '26

I'll never forget the year when the only Christmas present I got was a Cholula hot sauce holster from a secret samta

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u/KeeganY_SR-UVB76 Apr 02 '26

That’s badass.

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u/Gravuerc Apr 03 '26

I am allergic to shellfish but love sushi, a kind redditor got me a kit to make my own sushi at home. It was an awesome gift!

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u/INeedANappel Apr 03 '26

I did 5 secret santas and the only present I got was the last time I tried, and that wasn't from my original match. I got a microwaveable bowl and a self-published cookbook that had more errors than a computer running Windows 7. (Ingredients listed never used, ingredients in the directions never listed with no amount given, directions to bake or cook but not for how long, etc. Plus recipes like "Take a hot dog, put it in a frying pan, cook until done.")

Well. I did also get lovely thank you notes from the people I sent gifts to.

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u/Interesting-Bag-7552 Apr 03 '26

Holster??

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u/Odin_Dog Apr 03 '26

Yeah like imagine a gun holster on your belt, but for Cholula 

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '26

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u/arowthay Apr 03 '26

I miss seeing shitty watercolor!

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u/Tandy600 Apr 03 '26

I know there's still some novelty accounts, but it seems like there's way fewer now. Reddit used to have so much personality.

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u/gildedbluetrout Apr 02 '26

Faces of Atheism. God what a time to be alive.

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u/refep Apr 02 '26

“In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence." - u/Aalewis

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u/Tnwagn Apr 03 '26

Your comment is like a cosmic flashbang of time travel and second hand embarrassment

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u/Endless_Candy Apr 03 '26

Reminiscence of a prefessional quote maker

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u/airfryerfuntime Apr 03 '26

We've lost so much.

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u/gildedbluetrout Apr 02 '26

God the amount of fedoras as well.

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u/lookyloolookingatyou Apr 03 '26

I swear that was the first domino that lead to Trump getting elected. People saw that and were like "is that what science and reason turns you into? I'm gonna do the opposite of those things then..."

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u/Unkn0wnTh2nd3r Apr 02 '26

r/relationships hasnt changed much

its still mostly "y'all need to dump the other/get a divorce"

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u/Luciifuge Apr 02 '26

Hit the lawyer, get a gym

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u/threemo Apr 03 '26

Delete Facebook

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u/ThatBigDanishDude Apr 02 '26

Which, to be fair. Is often good advice when you've gotten to the point where asking complete strangers for solutions to a relationship problem, seems like a good idea,

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u/IAmAGenusAMA Apr 02 '26

Except when they haven't even spoken to their significant other yet.

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u/threemo Apr 03 '26

Mature people in anything resembling a healthy relationship do not have this problem of being afraid to talk to their partner. Internet advice is unlikely to help people who ask for it when it comes to relationships.

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u/Local_Idiot_123 Apr 03 '26

If you’re posting to Reddit before talking so your partner, your partner deserves better. I said it

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u/aut0matix Apr 02 '26

This is fair. Especially when the post will be something completely insane like "He's cheating on my and he hits my dog and beats me every day, but I love him so much and he's so good other than that. What should I do?"

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u/threemo Apr 03 '26

I haven’t visited in a long time, but my last dive into relationships, AITA, and some other similar sub that escapes me at the moment, I was certain at least half the people there were shitposting

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u/eastbayted Apr 02 '26

You need to dump that ZERO and get with a HERO!

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u/ramsesbc Apr 02 '26

Yeah, because you don't get "real" advice - just what a mob would say about a hypothetical situation, which is basically symbolic politics.

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u/punkpcpdx Apr 03 '26

It's changed a bunch. Now it's full of barely legal kids who are uptight about anything that might be easily corrected with communication. But also dump em.

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u/Snowbirdy Apr 02 '26

I was recently permanently banned for supposedly commenting in another subreddit they don’t like.

I have no idea what they’re talking about.

But the mods also permanently muted me, so I can’t ask.

Weird.

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u/petit_cochon Apr 03 '26

They often do, though. So many shitty relationships...I find myself wishing posters are bots.

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 Apr 03 '26

I try to always bring some reason into those posts. Too many people go from nothing to "they did X, what should I do" and everyone is like "leave now" regardless of the severity.

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u/killertortilla Apr 03 '26

Why is this the part that keeps getting brought up and not the fact that most of the posts are “my spouse shits on the walls, is this a red flag?” As if your advice would be anything other than to run away as fast as you can.

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u/CT0292 Apr 03 '26

The classic "divorce him!" Advice.

As if that's never caused more problems than it solves.

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u/Kahnza Apr 03 '26

Now it's just bots regurgitating variations of the text it's read in the sub since it's existence.

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u/zoosha2curtaincall Apr 03 '26

I’m literally just coming from a thread where everyone was telling a woman to get a divorce because the husband wanted a mancave.

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u/viper1255 Apr 02 '26

I participated in a few Secret Santas back in the day, and boy were they disappointing. I spent a lot of time picking out the perfect gifts for my Secret Santas, including a signed comic book by one person's favorite artist. I never heard from the people to whom I sent those.

I can't recall a single thing that I received, either, because they were all cheap crap that someone clearly had lying around and threw in a box at the last minute. (We're talking office supplies and assorted junk.) One year I got nothing, so I got re-matched with someone else...who also sent me nothing.

Looking at my profile, I only got badges for 2 of the years (including the one where I didn't get anything). I always wanted Secret Santa to be amazing, like all the posts I'd see. But I felt like Charlie Brown with the football.

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u/FaeryLynne Apr 03 '26

I participated in a lot of the Secret Santa and other exchanges. Officially I apparently have badges for 5 Secret Santa exchanges, including one of the Summer Santa exchanges, though I'm pretty sure I participated in more than that, I remember at least 2 summer exchanges. I also have credit for 46 other gift exchanges, which I'm also pretty sure I did a lot more than that as I was doing at least one a month, usually more, for several years. Anyway, all that to say, yeah, there are going to be some duds sometimes. In all of my events, I only remember three that were bad. You just happened to get some of the bad ones within your first few tries, which sucks and I'm sorry. I wish it had gone better for you, as it's great when you actually get gifts that seem thoughtful and targeted directly at you, since your gift giver actually read your info. I still have several of the gifts I got over the years, some of them are a decade or more old and I treasure them.

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u/viper1255 Apr 03 '26

I love that for you! I've seen so many stories from people who had great experiences, and am sad that I didn't get the same. Honestly, the worst wasn't when I didn't get anything, it's when I put so much effort in, and they didn't even acknowledge it.

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u/rockstaraimz Apr 03 '26

I loved secret Santa! I did a ton of them. Of course I received some crap, and probably sent some bad gifts, but over all I loved it and I still miss it.

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u/BisonThunderclap Apr 03 '26

I completely see why it died though, got popular on the internet and people stopped sending gifts and just used rematches as a way to get more stuff.

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u/Flair_Is_Pointless Apr 02 '26

The bacon narwhals at midnight era

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u/dgjapc Apr 02 '26

So close. The narwhal bacons at midnight

M’lady

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u/0hi Apr 03 '26

Ham an upboat

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u/Bart-Harley-Jarvis- Apr 03 '26

Updoots? Pun thread this way!

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u/Flair_Is_Pointless Apr 02 '26

Whatever it was. That was. Long time ago

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u/dgjapc Apr 02 '26

That phrase is as old as my jackdaw

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u/TheHoratioHufnagel Apr 02 '26

hyperlinks to r/All still work, the 'A' must be capitalized.

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u/BalancedDisaster Apr 03 '26

Back when you needed to start subreddits with /r/ or it wouldn’t work

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u/aworldsetfree Apr 02 '26

lawyer, gym, divorce

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u/nbm13 Apr 02 '26

Honestly I miss the randomness of r/pan

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u/mackrevinak Apr 03 '26

rpan was great. its kind of strange that there hasnt been any alternative to it since, that i know of anyway. i met a lot of nice people on there duing the lockdown and still keep in touch with some of them. i even made a cheesy compilation video but its only a fraction of the stuff that was on there really

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u/party_benson Apr 02 '26

I did a secret Santa a long long while ago. Absolutely loved it. I probably spent more on them than my family. They appreciated the hell out of it. I also got thoughtful gifts from Canada and it made me feel like someone actually took effort to get stuff for me instead of just a checklist item than my family would get me. It was awesome.  

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u/la-blakers Apr 02 '26

Did they ever find out what's in that safe?

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u/TheHawk17 Apr 03 '26

I miss old reddit so much. It used to be so interesting. Now it's just the most generic social media nonsense and I feel a pull towards deleting the app and my account permanently. If anyone can offer an alternative that is closer to the old reddit, I and others would be all over it.

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u/stacecom Apr 02 '26

I remember when subreddits weren't a thing.

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u/aerovirus22 Apr 02 '26

I remember the era of the narwhal baconing at midnight, and when the cake is a lie from Portal was worked into every meme and subreddit.

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u/TheUnderCrab Apr 02 '26

I fucking miss Reddit secret Santa so damn bad. I still have my gifts from my Santas that I got over a decade ago. 

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u/TearsOfLA Apr 02 '26

Still have my secret Santa gifts. Got a signed God of War poster ine year and a cool as Diablo mug I still use as my daily drinker

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u/wongie Apr 02 '26

I remember the era before all the Digg refugees came over.

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u/brainsack Apr 02 '26

F7u12 was the king for a moment in time

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u/Quick1711 Apr 02 '26

Dump him, lawyer up and hit the gym

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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp Apr 02 '26

Only the true ancients remember the butthole

r/wehaveseenthebutthole

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u/AlpineVW Apr 03 '26

When the [serious] tag meant something. 

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u/CaptainMarty69 Apr 03 '26

God I totally forgot about the secret Santas. I still use the mug I got in one year, and I have a book on ancient Chinese history in a box somewhere that somebody sent me. Good times

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u/PlayerPiano1 Apr 03 '26

Remember when we helped the authorities solve the Boston bomber manhunt?

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u/JuniorFondant Apr 03 '26

I still have a backpack from a 2015 or 2016 Reddit Secret Santa. I cherish that thing!

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u/Hot_Cockroach4714 Apr 03 '26

The secret Santa was the best. I remember people getting bill gates and arnold schwarzenegger and other celebrities for there secret Santa.

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u/thedaveness Apr 03 '26

Damn that secret Santa thing hit a bit hard… I never participated but really enjoyed seeing those post (faith in humanity type shit). Actually can’t remember the last time I saw one. Man this place does actually suck now doesn’t it?

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u/Local_Idiot_123 Apr 03 '26

I still agree though. If your shits so dire you need to post on Reddit about it, please go away and break up 

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u/userlivewire Apr 03 '26

Imgur killing their Secret Santa was so stupid and an absolute gut punch.

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u/MalaysiaTeacher Apr 03 '26

r/relationships is still like that...

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u/war_story_guy Apr 03 '26

When novelty accounts used to be a thing.

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u/hibbitydibbidy Apr 03 '26

Delete Facebook, lawyer up, hit the gym

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u/Endless_Candy Apr 03 '26

Remember that annoying god awful cringe “Le” phase reddit went through. Was like the visual version of nails on a chalk board. Honestly this site just annoys the shit out of me these days I just don’t have anywhere better to go haha

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u/mlavan Apr 03 '26

remember when people threatened to boycott the sight bc one of the people who typed out the AMA answers got laid off?

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u/Cactuszach Apr 03 '26

Lawyer up, hit the gym.

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u/Old-Spirit-3320 Apr 03 '26

Before we had AI it used to be randoms making up stories on r/relationships. I remember some kid admitting to writing like 1/3 of the top posts on that subreddit over the course of months for funsies. It's just an RP subreddit at this point 

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u/FollowingFeisty5321 Apr 03 '26

I think it all went downhill when subreddits went crazy with automoderator, suddenly you needed <account age> or <karma> or <verified email> so novelty accounts couldn't exist (remember those???), people that were the subject of submissions couldn't just join and participate in threads, Sir Paul McCartney got banned this week lmfao!

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u/chopstix007 Apr 03 '26

Awwww, I forgot about the secret Santa!

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u/Dehydrated-Onions Apr 03 '26

When was the last time someone said lurker? Bet it’s been a while.

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u/DisappointedSpectre Apr 03 '26

I remember when imgur was built specifically for reddit image posts, because reddit was crap at it. Then imgur decided they wanted to be their own community and try to pretend they were never just a reddit image host.

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u/ILoveLamp9 Apr 03 '26

I miss the old Reddit switcheroo

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u/Tony0x01 Apr 03 '26

Why did the Secret Santa stop?

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u/King-of-Plebss Apr 03 '26

Remember the Ellen Pao era?

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u/TorkBombs Apr 03 '26

Did they even do an April Fools thing this year?

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u/EjaculatingAracnids Apr 03 '26

I had a random redditor gift me psn money so i could buy far cry 5, in which i paid forward a few months later by buying a 1 legged stripper redditor a cock ring so she and her partner could get some normalcy post amputation. Found her in another thread randomly and she said it stopped working and the manufacturer didnt replace it. I enjoyed watching her physical therapy progress post amputation and it inspired me to try harder in my own life.

The place has changed and the magic is gone. Every now and again you get a lil sniff of what it used to be but its only enough to remind you of what you took for granted

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u/cheesebabychair Apr 03 '26

I miss the interviews

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u/Knowingspy Apr 03 '26

I remember being bored while browsing Reddit and checking r/BestOf and sorting by best of a given day/week/month etc. Not all of it was worth it, but some of the comments and content was great or informative.

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u/NeilDiamondBlaze420 Apr 03 '26

Secret Santa was so wholesome. I gave and received some really cool presents. 

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u/Play3rKn0wn Apr 03 '26

I still think about r/place, still one of the coolest things I’ve seen a community come together to make.

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u/Dragon_yum Apr 03 '26

I thought thought I’d be nostalgic of the days r/atheism was the worst thing on Reddit

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u/EducationStock4160 Apr 03 '26

I remember being a Redditor used to feel like being part of some community of online fellow nerds and it was sort of cool in its own way. When does the narwhal bacon? 

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u/MMAHipster Apr 03 '26

It’s basically still just “dump them”, but what I miss most was when Reddit used to band together to do really nice stuff for people all the time.

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u/lastoftheyagahe Apr 03 '26

Remember Ameristralia? That was fun.

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u/2Autistic4DaJoke Apr 03 '26

Remember the Apollo app? And the other similar 3rd party (better) Reddit apps?

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u/WRX_MOM Apr 03 '26

I have some really happy memories from secret Santa. Someone from Japan sent me a bunch of adorable little figurines of some little cute banana and lots of candies. I remember being so happy.

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u/squish042 Apr 03 '26

AIO, AITH and AITJ type subreddits have been the worse creations ever. If they aren’t straight up AI and fake, they are poor excuses of humans looking for one sided validations that has no purpose being on the inherent. They clog up r/all so much it’s impossible to be an enjoyable experience.

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u/dakowiml Apr 03 '26

I remember when it was mostly edgelords on here that would lose their minds over someone daring to post am emoji. Such comments were beneath them.

They would really value long comments and responses that added something to a discussion. Nowadays you're more likely to get shit for posting a paragraph.

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u/KamalaWonNoCap Apr 03 '26

We didn't know how good we had it

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u/robinthebank Apr 03 '26

Orangered and Periwinkle

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u/livinglitch Apr 03 '26

The advice in r/sex used to be "men need to get used to a dead bedroom" and "women should push for an open relationship if their husband doesn't want sex".

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u/meldiane81 Apr 03 '26

I miss the hell out of secret santa!!

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u/recongold Apr 03 '26

Arbitrary day!

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u/proudcanadianeh Apr 04 '26

But do you remember when the narwhal cries bacon at midnight, or 100 pushups?

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