nobodyworthwhile
Remarkable Onion
Yeah, I'm making another "listing similarities between KF and this other oft-criticized thing" topic.
It might be an unfair comparison. Most of the time you hear about Reddit sucking, its specifically the more political subs that people are talking about. With Kiwifarms on the other hand, the whole forum is a political sub (and Null wants very much to be a political dom, and he forgot to tell you the safeword).
I just find this a funny topic because Kiwifarms will use Reddit as a by-line for "everything wrong with people on the internet" and yet they behave the exact same way as redditors most times.
...... Anyway, at the moment, the biggest similarity I see between Kiwi and political reddit subs I've been on (mostly TrueUnpopularOpinion) is a tendency to not understand topics. Back when I was on Kiwi, it seemed like no matter how clearly I worded a topic, I would get people being all like "I thought this topic was about X." It's not just me either, people like this guy had the same issue and wound up having to add an edit to the OP clarifying what he was asking because Kiwis are retards.
Part of the problem is that Kiwis have two other Redditor-like attributes: first, a tendency to read titles but not the opening post--to comment without knowing what they're responding to.
Second, the same contradiction I often see on Reddit where they bitch and moan if a post is "too long," but then if you shorten a post, suddenly you "weren't clear enough" so its your own fault if you were misunderstood. The idea that maybe they should develop better attention spans (especially as they're the ones constantly bitching about how Tiktok has brainrotted everyone) seems to be an alien concept.
Gonna throw in another here:
In intelligent circles, someone pointing out something you're doing wrong or stupid would be an impetus for change. In reddit culture though, this instead causes people to double down and keep doing the dumb thing, and in fact try to justify it. I guarantee you that if any Kiwis happen to read this topic, they will respond exactly the same way--justify the stupid behavior and keep on doing it, rather than try to actively combat it.
That's the main thing I got. Anyone got more?
It might be an unfair comparison. Most of the time you hear about Reddit sucking, its specifically the more political subs that people are talking about. With Kiwifarms on the other hand, the whole forum is a political sub (and Null wants very much to be a political dom, and he forgot to tell you the safeword).
I just find this a funny topic because Kiwifarms will use Reddit as a by-line for "everything wrong with people on the internet" and yet they behave the exact same way as redditors most times.
...... Anyway, at the moment, the biggest similarity I see between Kiwi and political reddit subs I've been on (mostly TrueUnpopularOpinion) is a tendency to not understand topics. Back when I was on Kiwi, it seemed like no matter how clearly I worded a topic, I would get people being all like "I thought this topic was about X." It's not just me either, people like this guy had the same issue and wound up having to add an edit to the OP clarifying what he was asking because Kiwis are retards.
Part of the problem is that Kiwis have two other Redditor-like attributes: first, a tendency to read titles but not the opening post--to comment without knowing what they're responding to.
Second, the same contradiction I often see on Reddit where they bitch and moan if a post is "too long," but then if you shorten a post, suddenly you "weren't clear enough" so its your own fault if you were misunderstood. The idea that maybe they should develop better attention spans (especially as they're the ones constantly bitching about how Tiktok has brainrotted everyone) seems to be an alien concept.
Gonna throw in another here:
In intelligent circles, someone pointing out something you're doing wrong or stupid would be an impetus for change. In reddit culture though, this instead causes people to double down and keep doing the dumb thing, and in fact try to justify it. I guarantee you that if any Kiwis happen to read this topic, they will respond exactly the same way--justify the stupid behavior and keep on doing it, rather than try to actively combat it.
That's the main thing I got. Anyone got more?
