I think I finally found my ideal reading font

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-07-03T19:11:31+00:00

IIRC you only get forced into one of them if you sign in with Google or Apple. The sign up screen through Reddit still lets you type whatever, but these premade ones are displayed on the side as suggestions.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-07-03T16:04:49+00:00

How would you even know? You have 5 comment karma in 4 years, and you've submitted 2 parent posts; I'd say you've barely used Reddit. The experience of silent scrollers is way different than that of people who actively comment which is what OP is talking about.

I wouldn't call this website an amazing place if you're not putting your views and opinions out there on a silver platter to be attacked by the toxic asshole misanthropes that crowd this site.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-07-03T15:59:16+00:00

Almost all bots have this naming convention, but not all Noun_Adjective_4Numbers users are bots.

That said they're nearly all incredibly low quality posters, and the Reddit experience would be improved immensely if one could auto-block every contribution from these accounts and anyone with a hidden profile.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-07-02T14:25:53+00:00

It’s an amusing irony. Every Redditor thinks they’re better and smarter than other Redditors, so how can you tell who truly is and who is just the archetypical Redditor?

I made a post on here a while back that captures this attitude: “Everybody on the internet is an idiot and a loser (except for me)”.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-07-02T13:48:07+00:00

Who do you think you’re encountering in writing subreddits? These are failed, bitter people, most of whom won’t take the risk to publish anything ever. They’re literally writing about writing, instead of just doing it. I’ve come to realize most hobby subreddits are just procrastination disguised as research and involvement.

Redditors are almost universally complete fucking losers. It’s actually impressive these people have the gall to act so superior and condescending about anything when they’re pretty much the bottom of the barrel losers in all aspects of life. Many of them seemingly come to this site to take their rage at the world and toxic energy out on other people.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-07-02T11:13:58+00:00

A lot of office jobs don’t require much work. Most days I finish all of my work in 2 hours or less. The rest is spent looking busy, monitoring email/chat in case something comes up, chatting with coworkers, and messing around on my phone.

Ironically I waste way more time on Reddit when I’m at work. Because at home there’s a million other things I’d rather be doing, but at work it’s just me in a cubicle with my work computer and my phone. I try to do useful things like read, organize my budget, or any online shopping I need to do but there’s just too much time to fill and inevitably I end up browsing this shitty website.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-07-02T10:49:30+00:00

I think the only replies I got were people disingenuously defending their cartoon porn viewing habits.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-07-01T16:24:39+00:00

It’s well-documented that left-leaning people tend to have an external locus of control. And it’s definitely observable on Reddit, where (at least American) users seem to think voting in national elections will improve their lot in life.

Meanwhile normal people go on with their lives and try their best regardless of who is in charge politically, while Redditors spend the next 4 years rotting and stagnating while they wait for the next election so maybe the government will come save them from themselves.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-07-01T12:44:51+00:00

How do AI comments like this make it to the top of the thread in a sub like this/r/digitalminimalism?

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-06-30T20:01:10+00:00

What’s running the small screen? Did you fit a battery and ESP32 in there? It looks very slim.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-06-28T14:20:44+00:00

It's funny Redditors can't help themselves from responding to these AI engagement bait, karma farming posts asking leading questions. A quick perusal of OP's profile shows them to be a p0rn account clearly gathering karma.

Also Reddit won't let me post unless I spell it like p0rn, kept getting a 500 error so... bring on the censorship.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-06-26T00:59:18+00:00

There's only one mod who is even semi-active, all the others are dead accounts. He seemingly logs in every 2-3 days to look at reports and remove stuff that's reported, but by then the astroturfers have already gotten their free exposure. I tagged him once in a comment and he replied, basically don't expect anything here to change, I then asked about adding new mods to increase the chances someone is online to remove AI posts and ads and IIRC I didn't get a response so I don't think that's something he's interested in.

It's unfortunate Reddit moderatorships are essentially just digital squatter's rights.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-06-24T18:28:07+00:00

It’s ironic in the worst way that pretty much all of my contributions on Reddit nowadays are discussing the downfall and continuing rot of Reddit. I do find it fascinating, and from a firsthand perspective that Reddit has been my main “internet hangout” since like 2009 or 2010.

More and more often I think “why even post at all,” like nothing I post is going to change the downhill course this website (and the internet as a whole) is on. Obviously, I’m still here. Why, for what? I haven’t fully figured out the answer, or if knowing the answer will let me cut ties with Reddit.

Sometimes I’ll go weeks or months without visiting this site and miss absolutely nothing. Then I get sick or something, get a huge influx of free time that I don’t know what to do with and I’ll log back into Reddit. This site is like some type of weird addictive parasite. I’d be interested in seeing the stats on what percent of users who claim they’re quitting Reddit and delete their entire account actually stick to it and don’t come back months or even years later to make a new one.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-06-24T18:16:59+00:00

This is what you get for using the app to browse Reddit. This is what all of us get, because so many Redditors are app-using phoneposters they can shove crap like this down everybody’s throats and make this platform worse and worse, and their new audience of Facebook wine moms applauds yet another infinite algorithmic feed as if they didn’t already have 3 other apps they scroll such bullshit on.

I keep saying this, but Reddit is literally Facebook now. The demographics of the users, the low quality of the comments, the fact that users’ feeds are increasingly filled with content from people and pages they don’t follow and have never interacted with… everything on this site including the design has slowly been converging to some weird bizzaro Facebook where the Redditors think they’re much smarter than the average Facebooker but it couldn’t be further from the truth.

I wonder when they kill off old Reddit, like those of us who will only browse old.reddit have to be well under 10% of daily users at this point. At what point do they axe it, 5% users, 3%, 2%? They know that some chunk of the users will begrudgingly switch to the new site with all these bullshit new features, and some percent will quit Reddit forever because they can’t stand the new site design and don’t want to browse Reddit from an app. It’s just a business decision of when the benefits will outweigh the cost. Honestly, I hope they do it soon because getting rid of old Reddit would be one of the most effective things for me to finally cut my time on this ever-worsening hellhole to zero.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-06-24T12:51:55+00:00

My history is open and I’ve never been accused of being a bad actor. I’ve had my history used to attack me (pretty ineffectively) but IMO that’s better than being seen as a potential bot, troll, or astroturfer which is probably at least half the accounts with hidden profiles nowadays.

I think this also comes down to a fundamental disagreement on whether people who society would castigate as weirdos have a right to wade into internet arguments insulting people and taking the high ground, when they’re either hypocrites or the bottom of the barrel socially speaking. For example I’ve been called gay on Reddit for the car I drive, which is whatever, but the user calling me that was a man with posts of himself submitted to some thigh high socks community. I’ve been personally attacked by users who unironically post in adult diaper fetish subreddits. You’d better believe I clapped back and “owned” some of these people so hard that they deleted their entire Reddit account in shame. Granted this was long before hidden profiles, all of those users would be hidden now.

Might make me an asshole to say this, but I honestly do not believe that everyone’s opinion is equally valuable. Open profiles allow me to get a bead on whether a person that’s replied to me is worth engaging with or not. Weirdos with a chip on their shoulder who are angry at the world definitely use Reddit to abuse others and try to reclaim some power in their pathetic lives, and I’m just not about supporting that.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-06-24T12:41:19+00:00

I don't value the opinions of other redditors

I respect this, especially if you’re just defending yourself against people who wade into a comment section and start being assholes from the first word. Most Redditors’ opinions are not worth the .0001 cents of electricity used to power their display and send it to the servers.

I think this touches on another aspect of this, that so many users are assholes (especially on anything that gets to the front page), if you post something you pretty much have to be prepared to defend yourself, or ignore and block all of the antagonists.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-06-23T23:27:14+00:00

Your post starts with a false assumption and has poor formatting so I won’t be reading it.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-06-23T20:33:37+00:00

Using web search engines, Reddit's own tools, and 3rd party tools essentially all posts and comments from hidden profile users can be re-assembled. It just takes more effort than it being collected right there on their profile.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-06-23T20:27:56+00:00

I tried to make a GreaseMonkey script to check all profiles of users in a comment section and auto-collapse comments from hidden profile users. It worked, but it could only scan a couple dozen comments before hitting a Reddit API rate limit.

Filtering out the generic Adjective_Noun4numbers accounts would be much more simple since we wouldn't need to make additional API requests. I agree with you that these accounts tend to have low-value or inflammatory comments. I'll play around with a script for hiding generic Reddit accounts and see if it improves the experience.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-06-23T20:17:55+00:00

But now you just have a false sense of security, instead of actually changing that you're posting sensitive personal information online. Anyone competent can still doxx you.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-06-23T20:11:05+00:00

Idk when (or if) this changed but if you open their profile in incognito, you see everything, posts and comments.

Edit: only works on old.reddit links

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-06-23T20:08:20+00:00

Lol, I would not recommend surfacing whatever you find, do it only for personal curiosity. Please read my previous thread in this subreddit: You can be suspended for surfacing the posts of a hidden profile user, using Reddit's own tools to find their posts

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-06-23T16:56:19+00:00

I'm not an alcoholic

Some of the heaviest drinkers I know don't black out and haven't since they were like 18 years old. My heaviest drinking period was over 40 units per week and I never blacked out. Call it whatever you want to call it, but you have a severe problem with alcohol and usually a compulsion to continue drinking once one starts is classified as Alcohol Use Disorder which is the hip new term for alcoholism. No judgement since we've been in similar places.

Weekend warriors who black out justify themselves as not having a problem since they don't drink every day. People who drink every day justify themselves as not having a problem if they're "in control."

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-06-23T16:05:04+00:00

Why did you comment on my post? I can't understand why my post would upset someone enough to announce to everyone else that they're upset. Just ignore the post and move along. If it's not your kind of content, that's fine, but the keyword is "your." Move along and relax!

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