KF Gossip 🗣️🦻🏼 ways Kiwifarms is like Reddit

[nobodyworthwhile]

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?

 

[nobodyworthwhile]

So I thought of another obvious one, and I gave people a day to see if anyone else wanted to say it first:

WAY #2 - They literally have a version of Karma Farming. Indeed I recall being told by Kiwis that this was implemented specifically to appease people who had come to KF from Reddit.

Anyway, anyone got more?

 

[thepeaguy]

Don't mind checking out Reddit on moderation. Outside of politics, they got a decent amount of goodies I'm interested in.

Far as similarities go, both userbases are composed of insecure neurotics who overestimate the worth of their 'opinions' too much. It's a lil worse with the Greenies cuz they ain't even a pretense of self-control 'n discipline at all with the hundred-or-so factions in Green Reddit.

That and afaik, regular Reddit never had and still ain't got an equivalent of Joshy Nool that...

fall(s) out with everyone you cuddle up to like a little lost fatherless boy looking for a surrogate father figure. Then you rebel against them like an angry teen resentful against daddy. You fall out with dozens of people over and over again but in your head, you're an angel that dindu nuffin. At some point you must realize, whatever flaws they had, you are the problem because everyone falls out with you in the end. Everyone agrees that you suck. It's just a matter of time until they do.

>Hotwheels
You were also friends with Fredrick Brennan (Hotwheels) and he hates you now.
>Jim Watkins
You were in business with Jim Watkins and fell out so badly with him you fled the Philippines, terrified that Jim Watkins was going to murder you and feed you to his pigs.
>Chris-chan
You tried to become friends with Chrischan and dominate his life and finances, even wiring yourself all up into his bank account and control who was allowed to interact with Chrischan. Chrischan hates you now too.
>Viny Zhen
You were friends and business partners with Viny Zhen and LFJ destroyed his life so he hates you now too and you lost that friendship.

Your whole forum is used as power fantasy to make you feel powerful and have control because you lack control in all other areas of your life including food addiction. Your forum is used as blackmail database on online personalities, where people have to grovel to you to make it go away. Like when Onlyfans whores DMCA your site for posting their nude content and you like the small amount of power this gives you holding it over their heads.