Metaphysics is a slippery topic to pin down. The linked article to Stanford's Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a fantastic breakdown of the fields of study and research that goes into the existing body of work.

I however am interested in having a conversation on what makes something META enough to be self-referential (specifically in regards to this subreddit).

I posit that simply referencing a conversation, or commenting on a field of study is not intrinsically self-referential. Rather, my fundamental metric to gauge 'meta' is a) consideration of impact, b) reasoning, and c) directionality.

A) For me to define something as meta, it must be evaluating and considering the breadth of the existing conversation and discussion - and avoid defining terms and analysis in a single perspective. A proper evaluation considers that concepts can have many perspectives arriving at different stances, and that defining any single facet with an overly broad brush (not to be confused with a precise definition that intentionally acknowledges and excludes facets) loses the detail being discussed.

B) Under my posited metric, reasoning is the employment of perceiving and considering the different perspectives, and the consideration of what the new addition will be adding to the whole. In multiplayer videogame terms, a meta is the builds/characters/balance currently dominating high-level play. A skilled buildcrafter can take this meta, and build off it - designing targeted counters, new patterns to aim for blind-spots, and the like.

C) Directionality, synonymous with intent, is a way of evaluating how the new addition will add to the larger whole - and how the self-referential addition builds to provide a larger conversation then the previous one. If the intent is to simply add noise, I don't consider that 'Meta' - rather slop is a more accurate term.

What do you feel. Is this an overly limiting benchmark? Do you have a better one? Discuss!

Posts are being deleted left and right, people are being banned left and right, subreddit communities are becoming toxic within the stench of their own phunk.

EG:

r/dontdeadopeninside a subreddit about a walking dead joke "dont dead open side" bans posts about such a direct joke, it has to be a similar joke.

r/interdimensionalNHI a subreddit about non human intelligence that are interdimensional.... bans posts about a joke, stating that maybe ETs are sending warning message to humanity.

r/formuladank a subreddit about f1 memes bans AI posts even though the race cars are being automatically tracked, the f1 teams using AI to improve simulation models, and so on. Yet one cannot use AI to make fun of this self awareness.

Reddit is pushing an anti AI propaganda even though most of the traffic are bots.

Reddit is dying.

Hi Y'all,

I'm Wizard, one of the (new) mods on this subreddit.

For me, Meta is the field relationships, connections, and analysis of those.

In my everyday life, I volunteer and produce interactive art that helps people recognize their relationship with the networks and material reality around themselves.

I would love to hear from other people, what are the projects and ways you conceptualize 'meta' in your life?

If you search “buy reddit accounts” on google you’ll find marketplaces like g2g and accsmarket.com with tons of active listings for high karma or “aged” accounts, bulk aged accounts, upvotes, and more; each with hundreds or thousands of sales. That’s only what’s happening openly on these marketplaces. These accounts are being used by all sorts of actors: advertisers, governments, organizations — to push narratives, bypass the karma system to enter conversations and form false consensus.

I hope the keywords and phrases in this post don’t get it auto-removed. My intent here is to get these marketplaces shut down and shine a light on this for Reddit to take action.

Какой самый странный или неожиданный случай произошёл с вами в интернете?

...or is Big AI trying to throw us off the scent..

Highlighter and Leo not original obvs

Hello all,

I am a postdoctoral researcher at University College Dublin investigating subscription services on social media. My research aims to gain insights from paying social media users and content creators.

If anyone is interested in documenting their experience as a paying member here is a link to the survey https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/JKV8HH5 .

I am also looking to interview paying users and content creators. If anyone would be interested in being interviewed about their experience with subscription services as a content creator, feel free to drop me a DM, and I can supply you an information sheet about the project and the interview process.

Thanks :)

Reddit discussing itself.

Or is that, 'Reddit disgusting itself'? Hmm.

I guess since 9/11 happened 'literally ancient history ago' for Gen Z, like the Titanic or Holocaust, and of course, they can't be shown or reminded or told of anything bad happening, like being "k***ed" or "m*rdered," even if it means honoring, saluting, showing props to those who 'd*ed.'

When I first started Reddit, positive content was abundant. Now it's all freaking politics.

Grand unified theory of everything

The universe is infinite in data amount and data variety. Within the universe there are infinite simultaneous realities which are all wholly integrated yet can be partitioned and seemingly distinct. What type of data your Consciousness allows you to perceive dictates the level of reality that you exist in. Within a given reality there will be things that are inexplicable because your Consciousness is only aware or capable of being aware of specific data types. You will notice that there are phenomenon in your reality which cannot be explained just by the data type that's available to your consciousness. Because your data type interacts with other data types but you lack awareness of the other data types there will be seemingly inexplicable reasons for why things in your reality happen. With this understanding of the universe you can understand that everything is happening all at the same time every single conceivable thing ever is happening all at the same time but what you are aware of and subjective experience is dependent on what your consciousness is allowing you to experience. This answers a lot of questions about reality and a lot of interesting things people think about life such as are there aliens is God real etc etc what it like are there multiverses is time travel possible you know the answer to all the questions in a serious sense not just a hypothetical or imagined sense. But in a serious insincere sense. What might be fiction to one reality is an actuality in another reality. Every story you've ever told every thought you've ever had every Wonder every dream every hope every scary thing every horrible thing every bad thing every hopeless thing every impossible thing that you've ever thought can and is being experienced by some consciousness in this very moment. This is not metaphor. I am saying that everything is happening always. This is sincere. My claim is that everything is happening always. However, individual Consciousness only permits you to experience at a time specific reality.

I have come to this conclusion after meta-analyzing everything I've ever thought about before including thought including reality including perspective including fiction including video games including religion including truth including morality including YouTube poop including the ridiculous nature of things including bigotry including good and evil including the pie that I ate including the fart that I sniff on a Wednesday including every single piece of everything that I've ever experienced and thinking about it. Incorporating every single thought and experience that I had into some sort of amalgamation has led me to this conclusion. I understand that this seems ridiculous. But I'm not really trying to make you change your views or anything like that I am just doing this because I want I suppose or whatever way you would like to think about it.

Personally I think that's my narrative and explanation are quite defensible and profound but I completely understand how it seems and I also understand the presentation of what I'm saying here isn't very pretty which makes the ideas hard to appreciate possibly.

It's like covering a diamond in complete dog s\*\*\* and handling it to someone and saying "look it's pretty good ain't it."

I don't post at least 50% of the ideas and questions I would like to, because every time, I first think, are the mods just going to not allow it to be posted, after I write it all up, or if it is posted, cancel it?

The mods just make up "quality" or other random rules, and it just creates subreddits where no unpopular ideas are aired, and no non-mainstream questions or takes, because the echo chamber amplifies itself amongst what members thrive there and what tendencies are encouraged in them.

It would have been better if Reddit had set a couple rules, which it seems to have done anyway, and then forced all mods of subs to have open discussion boards, especially since there can only (especially when speaking practically) board for each theme, and one subdomain, which people often search their subject just by typing r/whatever.

Remember when Fishbowl was actually useful and fun?

It used to be the *one* place where you could jump into a bowl, drop honest salary numbers, talk trash about toxic leadership, and figure out if a PIP was coming down the pipe - all while feeling reasonably safe that HR wasn’t watching.

Fast forward to now, and the app has turned into a total disaster zone for two main reasons:

(1) You literally can't post anything spicy anymore without a mod slapping you with a violation or deleting your thread.

* Vent about bad partner management or 80-hour workweeks? "Unprofessional behavior." * ~~Name a specific client or well-known director who is universally hated? "Harassment."~~ * Post a genuine question about layoffs or severance packages? Removed for violating "community standards."

It feels like the moderation team is either full of HR plants or corporate brown-nosers who burst into tears the moment someone speaks the truth without corporate jargon. Every single thread now reads like a sanitized, fake-polite LinkedIn post. If I wanted to see people kissing corporate ass, I’d just open LinkedIn.

(2) Ever since Glassdoor / Recruit Holdings took over, the whole background architecture has gone shady.

They’ve been quietly trying to sync accounts, push identity verification, and harvest user data under the guise of "improving network trust."

* We know Glassdoor has been tying real names to user accounts on the back end. * You think that data isn't sitting on a corporate server waiting to be subpoenaed or leaked in a breach? * Your work email is verified, your phone number is verified, and now a massive HR-tech parent company owns the keys to the kingdom.

If you post something critical about your company on Fishbowl today, you’re basically trusting a giant corporate overlord - whose entire business model is selling employer branding and recruiting data to the very companies you're complaining about - not to hand over your identity. Conflict of interest much?

TL;DR:

Fishbowl died the moment it got bought out. The moderators are censoring anything remotely interesting, and the corporate parent company makes "anonymous posting" feel like playing Russian roulette with your career.

Delete your account or stop posting actual sensitive stuff on there. It’s over.

Imagine putting water into an indestructible glass container and crushing it with an unbreakable presser,what could really happen?. I was looking at this question for very long but today i got the answer and i wanted to shear it with u guys. Because the equipment cannot break, the water is forced through extreme phase changes. First, it turns into hot ice because immense pressure locks molecules into a rigid grid. Pushing harder creates superionic water, where hydrogen atoms flow through an oxygen crystal lattice because the pressure overpowers normal atomic bonds.

​Next, extreme force strips electrons away, turning the water into plasma. Pushing further forces electrons and protons together into pure neutron matter. When all this mass is crushed into zero space, it forms a black hole because gravity becomes so strong that light cannot escape.

​Even though it is a black hole, the indestructible presser keeps moving forward. This physical work adds raw energy directly into the singularity, making the black hole expand while the unbreakable glass safely contains the gravity inside.

​Then, you teleport inside wearing an indestructible suit. Extreme gravity creates tidal forces that normally tear matter apart, but the suit blocks this physical damage while letting light pass to your visor.

​Finally, you activate multi-dimensional vision. Spacetime curvature near a singularity turns time from a passing sequence into a physical spatial direction. Because of this, you see the past, present, and future all at once as a single shape, while the singularity unfolds into a web of energy. Your suit and container act as stable anchors, letting you safely observe the hidden structure of space and time.

If their is any mistake in my answer please let me know

And thanku for ur attension

chat buttons are gone. new reddit just pushes ads and clutter. i may still mod a few places but i think i'm about done with this mess.

I just started over with a new Reddit account and the default subs I'm getting in the mobile app are absolutely infuriating.

Every day I click "show less like this" on a dozen or more subs, and it seems like more extremely random subs get pushed back into my feed to replace them.

I didn't even know there were so many professional wrestling subs, and I don't even want to know why they're defaults.

Is there ANY way to start with a clean slate and only join the subs I want to see? This is madness