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I left Reddit with a good conscience. I'm toying with idea of leaving here. But where would I go? Shit's fuckup up yo.
I’m toying with idea of leaving here
I'm not, but I have noticed that some of the not-so-good things that made me leave reddit are being replicated here on the Fedi/Lemmiverse.
what are you seeing?
Soulless PowerPosters
like all the reddit bot links that come in 20 at a time?
that’s been annoying the shit out of me and i haven’t found an effective block keyword for voyager yet.
i’ve just been manually blocking the communities as they come up.
le downvotte
What I learned after 12 years on reddit: the admins are Nazi sympathizers, pedo protectors, and propaganda enablers.
Looking at that place now, it's crazy that people are still putting up with the bullshit. Everyone is getting censored/banned, comments removed, threads the admins don't like (especially anti Trump/Elon or pro-Palestine) get locked almost immediately. Reddit is literally bottom of the porta potty enshittified.
I saw a few comments on the Stephen King AMA asking about his waffling support of Trump seemingly evaporate after an hour or so.
Shit's compromised, yo.
When did Stephen King ever support Trump? Or was that the problem with the AMA, that they asked him nonsense questions?
When he thought it was convenient, like the rest of these rich pieces of shit.
No really. I've only ever heard Stephen King be against Trump. Your response doesn't help.
When did Stephen King find it convenient?
See I'm not any closer to an actual answer.
Agree on all accounts. I got perma-banned for making fun of the conceptual average Reddit user. Now I’m here. That website is a hollow shell of what it once was.
As predicted, their stock going public INSTANTLY made the website 10x shittier. Bots, propaganda, karma-farming, tyrant power-tripping mods/admins, misinfo, and algorithmic front page is just too much.
Well, all the better mods left when they shut down the API. It's a self-selected group of shitheads now.
I was looking up a review of a mediocre tech gadget the other day. It turned out it sucked, in research Google took me to Reddit and every third post about it was a glowing "I use blah every day and it works perfectly for my needs and I'm glad I bought it." The negative posts were obviously real with details about annoying quirks and the very positive posts were obviously AI/sponsored. And it reminded me why I left and how normal this has become.
That form of advertising is actually illegal even in USA.
It's only illegal if you can prove it~~
...and the penalties are enforced.
They recently permanently banned my account for saying some CEO is a lazy pos that should be fired because if i have to do his job for him then he shouldn't have it and this was a call for violence, so i write this in my appeal "you banned my account for calling someone out for exploitation? ok, i have alternatives, goodbye." exact words, they restored the comment but my account is still banned, so yeah it's definitely time for them to go.
Reddit was absolutely not an image board to begin with. To begin with there wasn't even a convenient way you could even post images! Which is why imgur was created 4 years later!. Reddit 2005, Imgur 2009.
Reddit was originally 100% text based. Reddit was originally a general discussion forum, and the structure and dry text only format attracted mostly (to some degree) nerds and intellectuals, so the knowledge of users was generally above average, and so reddit became an amazing information hub too.
Unfortunately more "user friendly" design and the increasing popularity and the end of Digg resulted in more noise from users that detracted more than they contributed. When I left I estimate more than 90% of users weren't even familiar with rediquette, which laid down excellent principles for how to behave. Like don't downvote because you disagree, only downvote if a post doesn't contribute to the discussion. It was almost never mentioned, and it was clearly not followed by the vast majority.
So being a debate forum with many knowledgeable people, slowly went out the windows, so more than a decade ago it was over IMO, and the quality of posts and discussions had dropped so dramatically at that point, it was no longer worth it.
To me all the shenanigans after that point are basically irrelevant, reddit hasn't been worth it for more than a decade IMO.
Apart from that he has some good points, especially the centralized and AI parts.
I feel the youtuber is getting a few more things wrong. E.g., he doesn't point out that forums (which he makes out to be inherently Good or at least better than reddit) are just as centralized. And not just forums, essentially that applies to all sites.
Good point.
Guys if you have still a Reddit account do some advertisement for the fediverse.
It certainly helped me to transition! I think it was r/redditalternatives
When it dies, some of the normies who inhabited it looking for advice on DIY home repairs and cooking and TV shows will come here, take one look at the pissposting freaks they’d be trapped with and run for the safety of Facebook and its AI boomer slop with their tails between their legs.
Randomly got an email from reddit about a password reset request recently.
Wonder if it's someone trying it out or just an automated reddit attempt at drawing me back in.
I got one of those too, on an account I had only ever used for testing some Automoderator code years ago. Very suspicious.