Or the fediverse in general.

I wanted to ask everyone their personal least favorite communities on reddit.

Whic subreddits do you absolutely not (personally of course) want to see recreated as magazines here on kbin, or as fediverse communities in general?

My pet peeve is CMV. I always felt while the idea seemed doable on the surface, the implementation within that particular subreddit with the delta system, the requirement for the top level comments to oppose the OP even if the “view” is an established expert consensus on something like climate change made it impossible to have meaningful conversations.

I haven’t checked if we have a CMV magazine here, but as soon as I see one, I know I’m blocking it.

What is your “instant block” community?

  • soratoyuki@kbin.social
    74·
    1 year ago

    Pretty much all of the ironic “oh we’re just pretending to be bad people lololol” ironic circlejerk subreddits. Best case scenario, they eventually attract people that don’t recognize it’s ironic, worst case the mask just falls off. PCM is probably the worst of the bunch. Writing fake tweets to mischaracterize political opinions you don’t like is just such a bizarre hobby.

        • 00@kbin.social
          9·
          1 year ago

          No worries! It stands for PoliticalCompassMemes. The political compass is a simple (but wrong, if we deep dive into it) model of representing political positions in the current political sphere in mostly US/western politics. People started a meme subreddit about it and it quickly turned rather right wing with memes that devolved to “Ugly woman is left-wing and bad, Chad man is right-wing and good” lol

          • QuestioningEspecialy@kbin.social
            2·
            1 year ago

            Unless I’m thinking of a different sub, I never noticed that about it. Granted, I’ve only seen a handful of posts on the front page and browsed it a few times recently.

          • blubberman@kbin.social
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yep have to agree PCM can be pretty funny and most of the people there understand that many of the worst takes and straw mans are jokes

    • meldroc@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Also, “ironic” use of fascist and Nazi tropes, like naming a subreddit “r/pcmasterrace”. Yeeeeaaaaah, no.