To be honest, so many posts from r/AITA came off as fake after a while, I was already beginning to lose interest. People would do anything for upvotes. Maybe this time we can have less liars, but I'm not so naive as to actually hope for that.

[–] Emerald_Earth@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really don't care if stories designed for entertainment on the internet are real. Nobody goes to AITA to get educated about stuff. They go for fun stories. Therefore as long as you aren't spreading misinformation, I couldn't really care.

[–] 0U714W@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

That's a great point, actually.

[–] toadmode@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

a lot of obviously made up posts on aita are more ragebait than just entertainment, so it might kind of drift into misinformation

[–] sensibilidades@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that's how I felt about all the /r/entitled_X subs, since so many of those were so unbelievably one-sided that most of them felt made up for rage.

[–] 0U714W@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It starts getting that way with any page that gets popular. Regular front-page subs become targets for clout chasers... even in the comments - with so many fake names. Reddit's been dead - Spez only defiled a corpse.

[–] Frz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I also agree the front page subs were mostly filled with shallow fiction, but there was definitely good stuff going for Reddit before Spez f’d it up. I’d say the magic was in the small and niche hobby/fandom subs, the communities in a lot of them were truly unique and vibrant.