Boards is better than Reddit

None of your examples are people celebrating his killing?

There's a difference in not having sympathy and celebrating.

Boards suffered a perfect storm about 15 years ago. Overzealous mods banning for the slightest thing and a crack down on craic and a load of sh1t posters started to dominate. Facebook groups were growing in popularity then and they hoovered up disaffected users who never came back.
As for Reddit, I tried to figure out the interface once or twice and gave up. It was so user unfriendly.
started posting here again after too many people joined bkuesky. It got too crowded over there!

There's a place for both in today's internet world.

Boards is immensely better than Reddit.

With Boards you can have an actual discussion with people or even just one poster. Reddit becomes a complete mess because of the voting system, plus there are mods over there that don't even pretend to be unbiased. FFS, if the rumours are true Ghislaine bloody Maxwell was a mod on a subreddit for years.

Reddit is simply not a place for a good discussion. It is, however, good for questions and answers sometimes, where there's is a definitive answer to a straightforward question to be had. I like it for PC related stuff or technical issues and for gaming questions it can be useful. There's also some good subs for photos too. r/oldcoolschool and r/oldcoolcreepy can be a complete time sinks if you've little else to do.

But for discussion, Boards will always beat it hands down, every single time.

For interesting content Reddit is far better, it really does have all kinds of everything. When it comes to proper discussion though this is where boards is much better.

I made an in length post praising a new Star Trek series (very obscure subject unless one is a nerd) and similar on Reddit

On Reddit it ended up with a lengthy discussion with about 10x the comments, here it was met with hostility and snide remarks, This is in a discussion about a fictional tv series ffs

Similar hostility with a post in infrastructure wondering why other European countries do projects better to the point I had to point at the thread subject wondering what’s its purpose if it can’t be discussed and examined

On Reddit being an asshole without anything constructive to say gets you downvoted into oblivion

I moved from Boards to Reddit a couple of years ago. Never liked how you only really see whats upvoted as opposed to boards thread style. Reddit was a novelty for a couple of months and then you realise it’s the same shite repeated over and over.

Back to boards a bit more now.

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I prefer boards to reddit. I use both. I think reddit has more of an addictive "better check for updates" experience, no doubt on purpose. Reddit is also very USA focused, very divisive, full of bots and only fans models, full of agenda and I suspect being socially engineered by other governments to create discourse and make people generally argue with each other, just a step above twitter.

I don't think the reddit upvote / popular post at the top layout is conductive to longevity (yes i know you can change it). On here there'll be threads running years, over there is blink and you'll miss it, the next shiny thing for people to argue over is there on the frontpage.

People typically praise the smaller subreddits, but in my experience they're frustratingly over-run by folks looking to learn about the subject. Eg guitar subreddit is 90% "is this a good beginners guitar?" posts, it's the same for other subjects I'm interested in. Whereas the dedicated guitar forums I'm member of go into way more detail and have better discussion. Thinking of it another way, i suppose reddit is a broad look at a nearly endless list of topics, but once you scratch the surface you need to dig very deep to find anything of substance. It has it's uses but shouldn't be taken as the final word on anything (despite what the llm's are training themselves on).

It can be very funny though, certainly had it's uses. Like everything on the Internet it's nice to take a break from it every now and again and come back and remember why you liked it in the first place. My negative outlook above probably shows that it's time i logged out of it for a few weeks.

Reddit is useful in someways in that you get international discussions that can be useful. However the Irish sections can be quite iffy. Lots of bot posts aimed at "Karma farming". r/Ireland is very bad for that. Every article from the newspapers gets posted dozens of times. And it is extremely partizan in places. Say the wrong thing and you'll get a pile on and ban especially in the r/Irishpolitics section (yes I was banned there. Because I made a post that I thought was reasonable but was deemed critical of Catherine Connolly's stance on Russia by a mod). So personally I use boards for Irish stuff and reddit for international. And there is some very dodgy porn on there. Laws around things like the sharing of intimate images doesn't seem to apply so I'm not sure where the site is hosted but I would be very very very careful about what I search for on there especially if I was at work.

You got reinstated to the Ireland sub on Reddit? That's very unusual. The mods there are renowned as among the worst on reddit. They kick out anyone who disagrees with their personal and political views and never reinstate them. I don't visit it often because it is so full of karma farming spam and hate (the abuse directed to some celebs is shocking at times). But I do have quite a few connections on Reddit who all got booted out of that sub and got very abusive messages from the mods on the way out. They reported it to Reddit in general but didn't get anywhere as far as I know. I might let them know the mods there may be reinstating people but I don't think they will be too bothered about going back in.