this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
59 points (100.0% liked)

Reddit Migration

21 readers
2 users here now

### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

founded 1 year ago
59
What was the subreddit that represented to you the best example of downspiral of quality? To me it was /r/dataisbeautiful (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by PabloDiscobar@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
121 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Proko@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a data junkie I loved r/dataisbeautiful at first, but it definitely became painful. It got to the point I couldn’t looks at the charts and graphs.

[–] bedbeard@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I remember seeing a literally default excel chart as one of the top posts. And it wasn't upvoted in an ironic way.