Oh darn this site has gone downhill rapidly in the last month. All top posts are literally unfunny jannies and power-users jerking themselves off over meta-"drama". Round of applause 👏

Hi! Thanks for posting your second “I hate it here and I’m leaving because it sucks >:((((“ thread! Since you’ve chosen to repost your old content, I will in turn repost some of mine. This time it’s from everyone’s favorite platform: Groomercord 🥰

There’s still a great deal of dramaposts though. But the thing is, this isn't r/drama. We're not on Reddit. We don't have that surrounding ecosystem of tens of millions of subreddits with several hundred million users wherein people can go post about other things elsewhere with their same account and find engagement on a variety of topics while still visiting the dedicated drama subreddit for dramaposts and culture.

We have the culture and the people, but it's a standalone platform. If it were just a drama aggregator, there'd be no real reason to use it at all when you can just set up an SRD RSS feed. SRD finds tons of drama and cites the shit out of it. It's not interesting or fun though, because it's not our ecosystem and culture. The transition to a standalone platform raises interesting possibilities, and rather than being a sideshow community on an exponentially larger website, it's now an independent platform. A much more developed community grew, and is growing, out of it, with in-jokes, its own culture, references, memes, "art" and whatever else. It fits well in the same feed as everything else because those cultural touchstones are all interconnected, and the overwhelming majority of the userbase (~95%+) enjoys the intermingling of being able to see a Marsey post above a major Reddit slapfight above some vapid local shitpost and on and on.

What I am trying to articulate here is that I understand the (vanishingly few) complaints, but actioning them would be undesirable to a supermajority of the userbase and be an actively regressive course. What we have is what everyone has made happen and likes.

tl;dr nonstop dramaposts are tedious and gay and joyless but we helpfully include a link on every page to r/subredditdrama so any lost srdines like yourself can easily access their dream platform with just a single click. Most semi-functional folx on the spectrum do not want to just see an aggregation of links to people typing angry words at each other day in and day out. This is evidenced by, well, the fact that a variety of content gets upvoted and engaged with at a considerably higher rate than that aggregate model. The posts here are what people want to see, given that they’re the posts people make and engage with.

Here are cute uwu foxes.