They've been purging all the real users over the last year or two. All that's left are bots and paid trolls. I got perma-banned for talking shit about Elon Musk, right after he paid to have all criticism of him, "regulated". They sold out to the highest bidder. It's all astroturf now.
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Can confirm. I had an account since 2012 but when I started flagging bots on there (and I got really good at it) over the last 3 years, I started getting frequently banned for really superficial stuff.
Last year, my account was finally permbanned because I said that Hans Kristian Graebner (aka Neo-Nazi Stonetoss) should be named and shamed. Reddit admins protect Nazis.
LOL I've been on super niche blockchain based socials with dozens of active users ... and still had advertising spam for penis pills and random mattress stores.
As for Reddit, browse it read only to save your sanity via a libreddit instance
I didn't know about libreddit, will definitely be checking it out!
Just a heads up: libreddit rebranded as redlib, you'll save a few clicks if you search for that one instead
How is using it read—only any better?
It's technically not, but it's what redlib can do.
Personally, I simply decided to contribute as little as possible to Reddit, and I only go there for a single niche subreddit that I don't see making it into the fediverse anytime soon (they already tried on Lemmy); I pray that scraped old.reddit.com requests have a negligible impact on engagement metrics.
The Android app lags a crap ton, too...
All for me to go to r/ProgrammerHumor for boring "memes" and experience Redditor Supreme™ pretentiousness with no meaning.
Over here on Lemmy, people thank you for pointing out typos. And even teach you things alongside it.
I actually rarely see people point out typos on lemmy, and when I do they are often downvoted unless the typo changes the entire context.
I frequently point out typos, usually in a humorous manner, and am met with an overwhelmingly positive response.
There are a few assholes around, but by and large I've found the majority of people here are acting in good faith.
It depends entirely on how you do it. If you're just being a dick about it and it had no effect on the thing they were saying and you simply do the
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FTFY
you'll probably get downvoted. If you're nice about it people are usually appreciative of it.
This place isn't quite an angelic grove of Disney animals singing kumbaya, but it's a far cry from that old place. Can't believe I spent so long there.
I deleted my R Account. Too much Donny news.
It is the main stream now
I used to love Reddit.
I was never invested in it, but then Facebook was overrun by right-wing nutcases so forcing me to take refuge.
Even before I got banned for criticizing spez' idols, already the country sub where I once hanged around was getting filled with doomers, supposedly smart young people but being assholes to anyone lower than them.
Why? Why does this make sense to them? Who are they serving ads to?
The major subreddits -- the ones frequently visible on r/all -- are filled with bots now powered by the same AI which the techbros are throwing money into, and then use all that information to simulate online human behavior and content. Already Xitter is also plagued by this AI morass, many of them with Arabic or Indian names.
Matter of time before they start reinstating previously banned political subreddits, and let the fucking Kluxers march in.
I'm from Argentina and my country's sub is both the feed that takes up most of my best and hot feed and the one where I will see an odd comment, click on the user, and find this pattern of posting all the fucking time. Like stories of people getting imposible jobs from nothing, then I go to the user and has same story but 6 months prior and with different facts. Like I seriously don't understand the point of this shit.