Reddit

As mentioned in the podcast Endless Thread, the internet is one big dumpster fire. You can find anything on the internet from important news articles to memes and gifs. However, the idea of dumpster fires on the internet are all over the place, especially on Reddit. Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Before listening to this podcast, I was unfamiliar with Reddit which is why I read an article by John Michael Bond with the Daily Dot to give myself a basic understanding of the site. After listening to the podcast I found it interesting how there are trolls that are fighting dumpster fires on the internet and using their powers for good. I can only imagine the bad internet hackers trying to be funny and making a very inappropriate pages on Reddit. Then, people like Brad who was interviewed in the podcast tells the stories of how he makes these bad Reddit pages back into good ones and brings humor into them. Check out this one Reddit page called r/faggots, which is actually a page dedicated to cigarettes and even features a funny cartoon from the Simpsons. The internet can be a very scary place, people like Brad are really making a great change for the internet. With the amount of hate our World experiences, its unnecessary to bring it to the internet as well. Reddit is like many other sites out there, can be used for good or bad. It's up to you to decide how you are going to interact with the site yourself. The internet is free speech but it's a moral decision to choose whether or not you're going to create your own dumpster fire for users to fall into-- and I suggest you don't.

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