It was much worse in 2019, a post hitting over 100-200 was unusual and the comment sections were beyond dead. Most comment sections these days are still filled with hope, in 2019 suicide hotline threads were a weekly occurrence or more.
We’ll see anyway, the BTC halving has led to a run 3 times in a row so far, just like clockwork. Barring another recession I just see the same pattern forming.
Oh there’s a ton of interest but just kept to shitcoiners for now - the subreddits are nothing like they were during the bear market around 2019, back then it was a ghost town even with a subscriber count of 800k but now they’re still very active due to an influx of millions of users (6m subs on the main shitcoin sub).
It’ll all likely swing back up in the next two years and become a media and scam frenzy again, then another crash, rinse, repeat.
Reddit shilling decentralisation and ownership knowing how they’ve acted the last few months is hilarious though, they’ve been prideful of saying “nope you don’t own shit,now fuck off somewhere else” and spez bootlickers have been parroting it endlessly too. Seems odd that they’re the people Reddit are going to have to advertise this… Fauxnership to.
They’ve updated their preview feature TOS as recently as last month to push forward with avatars and community points, I reckon they’re just biding time to sync it with the next bull run to maximise value and heighten chance of seeming like they have genius cutting edge foresight.
The bottom of that’s also funny because it makes it clear their smart contract is permissioned and if they don’t like what you do with your virtual goods they can remove them from you. Very immutable, wow, such ownership.
I know in your example you’re trying to give the right answer or explanation as you see it, but this is also very closely related to Cunningham’s Law:
The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.
So you’re still providing a service even if it feels bad to have an expert steamroll whatever perception you had. Chances are tons of people had the same vague notion as you and your misguided logic eventually led to the correct path.
Almost 11 years with this username, a few years before that with another account that was linked to IRL stuff so decided to dedoxify myself.
I’m glad tbh - Reddit’s been tailspinning as an experience since 2016 at least, it’s just become much more aggressive about hating it’s userbase and free labour recently.
Your timeline would almost certainly be a little less stupid if you did that with gusto, but people who’ve disagreed with you can also post things beneficial to you or post insights you hadn’t thought of or post advice you’d find useful. I was a heavy RES tagger on reddit and I’d often come across well-meaning or useful posts and comments from people who’d been marked for saying jawdroppingly stupid shit about some other subject.