Honestly, I was tired of googling questions and searching for the reddit discussions so I downloaded it. Funny thing Is I still google the questions and still don’t use the app for those discussion searches.
I’d gone meta-free after they started supported orange hitler, had already deleted xitter, and tiktok’s just the worst so I didn’t have many places left!
I wanted to find some information, and decided to ask here. I didn’t get an answer and forgott all about it for a couple of years. I only returned in 2021.
Was about 2010 and I decided I should join something to pass some time . People that knew me said I didn’t suit facebook I was more a reddit kind of mentality and they are not wrong
I heard it was a cool place full of smart and witty people who shared lots of interesting and useful information and were pretty good conversationalists. That was 11 years ago.
Some of those people are still here, but they are slowly disappearing into a sea of bots, Karma farmers, and people who treat this place like it’s fucking Facebook.
My cousin kept showing me memes from here so I joined. The users and mods are mostly terrible and I keep getting politics shoved in my face even though I have zero interest in it.
Funny, it kind of just made me an account when I tried looking up a roleplay thing I was looking for from Google at one point. I started to look around and decided I liked it here and it really just took off from there.
I was trying to find some good tv shows, movies and podcast recommendations. Google led me here. Ended up joining politics and news subs, and a few others less intense.
I can’t remember why I originally joined – my original account was crazy cause it was active during the time everyone was forced to watch Reddit lives. I went on there with my guitar doing improv to drum tracks and made front page /top screen 3 times which blew my mind.
Ended up putting PayPal stuff up there and people actually tipped* me made decent $ and I couldn’t believe it ha.
I met my ex on Reddit too :/ we moved way too fast and I moved 6hrs to live with her- 1.5 years later it’s all gone to crap
it was glorious and romantic until it wasn’t.
Now that I’m basically a hermit and out of my recent relationship- it’s been an outlet and source of resonation of reading others stories going through similar stuff.
I’m also into a ton of very obscure shit to put it lightly and Reddit is the only place I can find to talk to people about certain things.
Also, although I’m an artist and do put myself out there – I also love the anonymity- I don’t know who I’m talking to most of the time and that’s just fine.
It’s currently the only social I have I haven’t had insta (my only other one) in like a year and a half or so.
But I will get it again and others when I get my music going – but it’s going to be music centric – nothing else. I hate all the other social media honestly so Reddit is my jam.
My family told me it would be fun and interesting, and it is. I marvel at good responses and shake my head at being downvoted for some really benign stuff. There are so many great groups.
There are mild frustrations with some things like the same question in the same groups being asked a dozen times a day, but, scroll on!
Cultivating subreddits makes the site a thousand times better. /R/atheism and /r/advice animals were default subs and just getting those off of my feed was worth it. And I’m not religious but those atheism threads were like people who all agree sitting there yelling at each other because it’s not like anyone was going in there to even play devils advocate.
Comments
Boredom
reddit > work
I don’t go out drinking anymore so I had some more free time
Someone suggested it on twitter for me to rejoin Reddit since I have used it before
Lonliness
Mostly the desire to socialize in a convenient/pleasant way.
So many different subreddits with varying topics of conversation and lots and lots of different people here are a massive draw for me.
I delete Twitter. Needed some place to go for news and crazy conspiracy theories
I kept getting videos with voiceovers of crazy Reddit threads, so I got curious and had to check out what’s going on here
AITA Thread
Instagram was shit. Just wanted to try but reddit was much much better
no idea bc you cant do shit if you dont meet certain criterias and its stupid asf. and everybody on this app is mean asf too.
To talk about video games. Now I realize that was a big mistake.
Hook ups at Wendy’s wc lmao
I enjoy engaging in discussion and sometimes debate, and was sick of doing it on FB where I couldn’t be anonymous.
Just to kill time in boring situations, for example, waiting for an appointment or the bus.
porn
Honestly, I was tired of googling questions and searching for the reddit discussions so I downloaded it. Funny thing Is I still google the questions and still don’t use the app for those discussion searches.
To tell my life story since no one listens to me around me
I’d gone meta-free after they started supported orange hitler, had already deleted xitter, and tiktok’s just the worst so I didn’t have many places left!
Trying to find a solution for my problem. Haven’t found it yet.
Crappy algorithms on Twitter and FB drove me to boredom. Like any good addiction I went and found something I could tailor to my dopamine
Learning how frogs migrate in the sky.
To read people’s minds
Because I want to read. Some novels can find here free and completed chapters
People are not as stupid as on other social media ;-).
Saw many videos talking about reddit user this, reddit user that and mainstream media also picked up the “a reddit user” line.
Titties
I’m a Digg refuge.
Memes
I deleted all my socials and got on reddit lol it was a life saver
I wanted to start getting absolutely berated and ridiculed for having harmless opinions 😄
Boredom and curiosity of my interests.
It kept coming up in searches for tech issues I was working on…
TTRPG subs.
Hobbies!
I was like “why not, let’s give it a try”
I just wanted to enteract with people more and maybe find some friends and reddit looked like a good option for that.
I’m a Digg refugee.
Elizabeth Holmes’s trial
Sounded like a laugh. Still is
Everyone else was doing it. I just wanted to be popular.
I was bored on the toilet at work.
It’s one of, if not the only media platform where the poster is not the main attraction, the content is. I think that is how it should be.
To read AITAH posts. They keep me entertained, get me frustrated on behalf of the OP, and feel a sense of closure when the OP comes out on top.
I don’t even remember, probably to get tips for some game I was playing at the time.
Reddit is far more interesting than any other social app I’ve used in my life. The fact that you can learn a lot from it is another advantage
Digg made bad decisions.
Boredom
It felt like Facebook without the drama and scam news feeds. I’ve only used Facebook for selling stuff since
Work in radio. Was told it’s good show prep. (i.e. finding shit to talk about on the air.)
Because there’s easy access to any fan base or community you want to interact with
I wanted to find some information, and decided to ask here. I didn’t get an answer and forgott all about it for a couple of years. I only returned in 2021.
When my friends would talk about things, it usually included the line: “Yeah, I saw it on Reddit.”
Idk now …. maybe it was a mistake
FB sucks but I still wanted some kind of social media.
Twitter is a sewer. Couldn’t take it no more.
Because I couldn’t find an alternative to socialize with others.
I don’t know
Was about 2010 and I decided I should join something to pass some time . People that knew me said I didn’t suit facebook I was more a reddit kind of mentality and they are not wrong
I heard it was a cool place full of smart and witty people who shared lots of interesting and useful information and were pretty good conversationalists. That was 11 years ago.
Some of those people are still here, but they are slowly disappearing into a sea of bots, Karma farmers, and people who treat this place like it’s fucking Facebook.
The enshittification of the internet and the increasingly unreliable capacity to research information online.
My cousin kept showing me memes from here so I joined. The users and mods are mostly terrible and I keep getting politics shoved in my face even though I have zero interest in it.
Funny, it kind of just made me an account when I tried looking up a roleplay thing I was looking for from Google at one point. I started to look around and decided I liked it here and it really just took off from there.
I was heartbroken from a cruel break up. I needed distraction and entertainment. It really helped and comforted me. Thank you, reddit!
I was trying to find some good tv shows, movies and podcast recommendations. Google led me here. Ended up joining politics and news subs, and a few others less intense.
boredom
I wanted to learn how to write better. 10 years ago I didn’t use the internet much. But now… oh boy. I’m always on reddit. I’m 31.
It was often mentioned on @ Midnight so I decided to check it out.
Boredom
Fugir das mesmices das redes sociais da Meta.
I got into it by looking up stuff on google and ending up in subs
To look for random answers to questions that nobody else would ask anywhere else.
Depression:to escape my reality and to gain attention from other humans.
Skyrim subreddit. Also, a friend has been on it for years.
Scape from the reality
To socialize and understand what others go through and what are the solutions to variety of problems coexisting in our lives
I can’t remember why I originally joined – my original account was crazy cause it was active during the time everyone was forced to watch Reddit lives. I went on there with my guitar doing improv to drum tracks and made front page /top screen 3 times which blew my mind.
Ended up putting PayPal stuff up there and people actually tipped* me made decent $ and I couldn’t believe it ha.
I met my ex on Reddit too :/ we moved way too fast and I moved 6hrs to live with her- 1.5 years later it’s all gone to crap
it was glorious and romantic until it wasn’t.
Now that I’m basically a hermit and out of my recent relationship- it’s been an outlet and source of resonation of reading others stories going through similar stuff.
I’m also into a ton of very obscure shit to put it lightly and Reddit is the only place I can find to talk to people about certain things.
Also, although I’m an artist and do put myself out there – I also love the anonymity- I don’t know who I’m talking to most of the time and that’s just fine.
It’s currently the only social I have I haven’t had insta (my only other one) in like a year and a half or so.
But I will get it again and others when I get my music going – but it’s going to be music centric – nothing else. I hate all the other social media honestly so Reddit is my jam.
Made a temp account for occasional queries , found it fun place , decided to join it for good
It was the end point of most of my Google searches for over a decade. Making an account seemed a natural progression
Boredom
Gave me an easy way to stay up-to-date on my hobbies while connecting with people with similar interests.
I started learning freelancing. My teacher said I need to open account on Reddit, Medium, Quora etc. So….
Questions get quick responses, and I can engage with others anonymously.
Because imdb forums closed down. That used to be my go to spot .
My family told me it would be fun and interesting, and it is. I marvel at good responses and shake my head at being downvoted for some really benign stuff. There are so many great groups.
There are mild frustrations with some things like the same question in the same groups being asked a dozen times a day, but, scroll on!
I came for the memes but I have no idea why I’m still here. At this point I think it’s just a habit.
My friend told me there were pictures of cats.
I stumbled across r/leopardsatemyface around 2020. The rest is history…
It’s 13 years ago… I don’t remember really.
fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu
Cultivating subreddits makes the site a thousand times better. /R/atheism and /r/advice animals were default subs and just getting those off of my feed was worth it. And I’m not religious but those atheism threads were like people who all agree sitting there yelling at each other because it’s not like anyone was going in there to even play devils advocate.
I didn’t….but I couldn’t look at some of the posts I wanted unless I signed up….i actually hate this liberal cesspool of a forum
Talk shit.
Look at puppies.
Porn
After using reddit for a few years, the reason for actually making an account was to sign up for ‘reddit gifts for teachers’
Pornography!!