[HN Gopher] Reddit 'antiwork' forum booms as millions of America...
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Reddit 'antiwork' forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs
Author : mandelken
Score : 26 points
Date : 2022-01-09 21:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| jsiaajdsdaa wrote:
| I for one am looking forward to our robot overlords making me
| pizza and printing my photos.
|
| My current success rate with the above two things on this day
| within a 30 mile radius is 0%
| xqcgrek2 wrote:
| Reddit needs some kind of effective geo-lock. Bots and
| russia/china agent provocateurs otherwise will rule the front
| page on current issues.
| phoronixrly wrote:
| I've come accross many posts from this subreddit that hit the
| front page. Let's just say I hope reddit is keeping an eye on
| foreign and domestic troll farms as many of the most popular
| posts seem suspiciously like fiction to me...
| throwntoday wrote:
| I'm still convinced reddit's userbase is heavily composed of
| GPT-3 bots. There was a poster here that identified a large
| amount of accounts as bots by sending them a DM with a link and
| seeing how fast they opened it.
|
| Reddit opinions/posts tend to be predictable enough and most
| users don't notice the repetitive comments, or just don't care.
| badrabbit wrote:
| You are not exactly the first person to say this on this
| thread. How do I know you yourself are not part of a
| discredition campaign? Can you substantiate your speculation by
| pointing out inauthentic popular posts or accounts at least?
| pydry wrote:
| Most of the more "out there" posts line up with /r/legaladvice,
| which is my bellwether for the kind of shit that goes down in
| the low-end American workplace (spoiler : goddamn awful,).
| likpok wrote:
| Legaladvice is also a place people _love_ to put creative
| writing, so I'm not sure how much you can take from that.
| acheron wrote:
| All personal stories on Reddit should be assumed to be
| lies. I can't believe there are people out there taking
| anything on it seriously.
| scotty79 wrote:
| Wow, so many literary creative individuals doing unpaid
| work for fun is way more plausible explanation that are
| just fed up with their lives and wanna vent.
| BoboDupla wrote:
| Some posts in that subreddit are genuine and I support them, but
| some others and mainly the comments, man, that is basically an
| edgy teen's communist era playground. One of the mods even said,
| that the subreddit is for socialists and communists and everybody
| else is just conservative.
| koheripbal wrote:
| It's hard not to see that sub run by bot farms.
| pbw wrote:
| https://archive.is/yZSyv
| tjs8rj wrote:
| That sub has changed so much in the last year. Used to be more
| light-hearted, rallying around crappy bosses and laughing at the
| gall of an employer.
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| Now it's been taken over by more radical takes, going from "screw
| my boss", "we should get more vacation time" to straightforward
| Marxist talking points and desires to abolish work. There's a
| place for those discussions and they're interesting to have, but
| it's ruined the sub
| diob wrote:
| I can't really blame them, I think after a while folks realized
| they all had the same experiences. Long hours, promised
| promotions, and eventually they have all cracked a bit.
|
| The generation after millenials has seen how the millenial hard
| work essentially ruined their health (some of us got out lucky,
| like myself), with 0 reward besides deference to some boomers.
| So I think we're going to see quite a revolution in our
| lifetime, the new generation doesn't feel like fealty and
| recognizes that capitalism is really just crony capitalism. The
| explosion of information on the internet makes it easy to see
| how corruption and nepotism is 90% of everything, with 10%
| getting lucky + hardworking.
|
| Who knows what will happen, I just hope we end up with
| healthier lives for all.
| version_five wrote:
| It shouldn't be completely dismissed, but I think the forum is
| more about how an unhappy (or angry) minority have found each
| other, and the people that like to read their stories. I don't
| think that r/antiwork should be taken as representative of
| anything, including a broader movement. It's the same with
| twitter, there is a committed vocal and angry group, but it's not
| real life
| koheripbal wrote:
| Frankly, I would not be surprised if millions of Russian bot
| accounts are behind this sub.
| badrabbit wrote:
| You can say that about any popular sub, what would their
| motivation be? And is anything inauthentic about popular
| posts in that sub?
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