r/mildlyinteresting • u/aaariiieeeeellllll • Apr 01 '24

Noticed that my girlfriend's dad's arm looks it belongs to her Quality Post

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u/Rtem8 Apr 01 '24

r/confusing_perspective

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u/SayerofNothing Apr 01 '24 edited Apr 01 '24

Damn, that sub hasn't seen traffic in a while. Used to be really popular.

Edit: I can see there's two subs with the same name, both r/confusing_perspective and r/confusingperspective have fewer interactions, though.

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u/lance- Apr 01 '24

Chalk it up there with the rest of the enshitification.

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u/-reTurn2huMan- Apr 01 '24

It seems like only a couple dozen subs get traffic anymore. So many formerly popular and active subs are basically dead.

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u/Exasperated_Sigh Apr 01 '24

And it's all cross posted shit. Reddit has shrunk significantly since the nuking of 3rd party APIs. It's all basically r/pics and lame creative writing rage bait r/amitheasshole and its clones

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u/BeauDoGg101 Apr 01 '24

Am I right in thinking a lot of ‘amitheasshole’ stories seem fake? There’s always some bullshit sounding story that’s upvoted close to the top or reddit.

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u/Dolphin_King21 Apr 01 '24

AITAH if I glassed my ex wife's city and purge the survivors and destroy their crops after??

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u/PinkFl0werPrincess Apr 01 '24

Info needed: is it my city?

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '24

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u/NinjaDefenestrator Apr 01 '24

Not just mad. People who call out shitposts get banned, no matter how obvious the bait is. It’s frustrating.

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u/-Thick_Solid_Tight- Apr 01 '24

99% of them are fake.

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u/Exasperated_Sigh Apr 01 '24

Definitely. It's always some ridiculous bait with a title like "amita for divorcing my pregnant wife" then the post is like "my wife was making gangbang-exclusive porn twice a day for 5 years without telling me and she sexually assaulted our dog and the kid turned out to be a half-dog abmonination then she stole all our money for drugs. I'm a saint who's never done anything wrong and gave her 40 chances to change and now all my family says I'm wrong for leaving her. amita?"

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u/AbbeyRoadMoonwalk Apr 01 '24

They’re all about opening up their marriage and regretting it.

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u/-ANGRYjigglypuff Apr 01 '24

i'm subbed to r/aww and half the time when i see a cute pic and share it with friends, by the time they see it the post has been removed

idk if the decisions of the stupid mods have to do with enshittification but i just needed to vent :'(

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u/gallenstein87 Apr 01 '24

stupid mods

Most likely that the removed post was made by a bot, which after a day or two switches to OF/T-Shirt scam/... spam. There is a significant amount more than people realize, especially in the animal subs.

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u/NoPossibility4178 Apr 01 '24

I was migrating my account sub to another and yes, I'm subbed to 100+ but only see posts from a dozen of them and you barely see anyone mention new interesting subs like people used to years ago.

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u/TARANTULA_TIDDIES Apr 01 '24

There's a journalist who wrote a book on "the enshittification of the internet". I've not read his book but heard an episode if the underworld podcast where he was interviewed. It wound being mostly monologue but I didn't mind because the dude was on fire and saying all the things I hadn't quite been able to put into words.