I found Reddit about 6 years ago, took a little while to understand what it was about but when I finally got it, I felt like I had found the best place on the internet. Somewhere I could be my true self without being myself. Every time I logged in, I felt free. Like solo roaming the streets of a new city in a foreign country for the first time. Intellectual conversation, assistance on vague problems, sharing life experiences, advice, watching porn you didn’t know existed, and then slipping out the back door when you were done.
As many here already know, those days are gone. The freedom is gone, it feels like a communist regime and it seems that their success is their downfall. The entire personality of Reddit has changed and will never come back, it even shows in the users. The community is broken, unauthentic and the Truth has left the conversation. Freedom is dead over there. What a shame. It’s like my favorite bar burnt down.
But the thing that really gets me is that it didn’t just change, it became the exact opposite. It has become the exact reason why someone built it, in the first place.
I read that it’s attracting the most new users of all the social apps. Best performing app, which means the end is near. Soon it will just be a limb of the pretend society that we used to hide from behind the walls of Reddit. And for some reason, I just want to see it burn.
also reddits going the low hanging fruits of bots/spammers, of fans and link farmers. while doing nothing against propagand abots.
Fuck u/spez
Took away Apollo, so I left
Same but Relay. The writing was on the wall after the API fiasco.
And we arent even allowed to delete our content it stays up forever lol
When I left reddit two or three years ago I used the Chrome extension to delete everything I uploaded to Reddit as best as I could. I’m still using the same username, I use this username everywhere and sometimes I can still find mentions of my old Reddit account.
Forever could online be a few more years for them. And good, l hope they enjoy my tales of 7 day coke benders.
So where is everyone going because it’s not Lemmy. And Reddit still is huge. I don’t understand the “it’s so bad, everyone is getting banned” but also the site keeps growing.
The most vocal does not necessarily represent the majority
I have been off reddit since the api thing so I’m way out of touch with the current content and status.
It just seems odd all these posts about Reddit dying and it makes me think of the people that loved reddit aren’t all here on Lemmy, so did they quit all of it or went somewhere else?
No one I know in person switched away, technical or not, they still use reddit. The whole situation is just not adding up.
most of the people here were part of the ban purges done by reddit, and particular over-agressive purge than normal.
I wasn’t banned. I deleted my comment history with a script during the API fiasco.
Reddit trained us not to post/comment as much with the frequent deletions, especially post, always get removed for no reason so I get anxiety when posting
Rejection sensitive disphoria, however its spelled
also getting reported/banned from subs for a misunderstood comment. or if reported something that the mod doesnt like, and they ban you because you reported about a comment.
So fucking true. Every time I post shit online I’m rereading it over and over and I’m like “people aren’t going to react about X right? Because I did Y to make it clear.” Then I post, and people are still mad about X. It fucking drives me wild.
Reddit and Stack Overflow both drilled this into me and I’ve been off those sites for a while and now they are dying, I couldn’t be happier
Bots. I swear its all bots reposting content from 10 years ago that people might not have seen yet or rewording old posts/comments. Check the account history and posts if something seems suspicious. Usually those people have lived all over the place, are different genders and have lives different time lines… Unless reddit is now all whovians… im calling bots
Twitter had a suspiciously convenient massive uptick in bots that conveniently hid the shrinking user base from investors. I expect Reddit to conveniently have the same “problem”.
yes, when musk bought twitter it was well over half bots already and trending badly-- and traffic in general was going down as well. It cant have gotten better when he gutted the moderation and security teams. Its basically worthless.
Xitter is a given, considered its owned by nazi musk. and REDDIT is owned by a nazi lover, spez who loves musks. and the bots make up half of reddit, im not surprised, if it only increased, and its not the good kind of bots, because reddit has been aggressively banning normal users and non-propaganda bots.
i went to another forum about social media/evasion it was quite interesting insight how they are doing it, and how they have increased thier bans.
prob digg, need paid moderation and more ppl, it looks like a decent reddit clone, will prob have a higher population than lemmy just going off early adopters, reddit just needs competition, once ppl try one alternative theyll be open to trying more like lemmy
Ingot banned for saying Albertans where stupid and if there was an election today the UCP would win. I really have no idea why they got me banned. It was only for a month but just decided to close account.
I was warned for posting threats when I said Smith should stand on her head to get some blood to her brain.
I received a 3 day ban for calling for violence when I said Vance will be President of the US after an arterial blockage takes out Trump.
everything you said is correct, except replace communist regime with christofasism/capatilism. The rich are tired of the poors again.
It was a sign the moment they suppressed Luigi news in December, just one week after CEO"s death
You never lived in a totalitarian communist country, did you?
I just got a three day account ban, for threatening violence, by commenting that I hope someone got charged for running a red light. This is the second time this has happened in two months, all thanks to maniacs on our community subs.
It took me awhile to go back to that shit hole, and I’m getting a good reminder why. I just wish Lemmy would get a bit more active, and I can finally put Reddit to bed.
A handful of lemmy mods are now just as bad as reddit mods. It didnt used to be that way.
Try doing more posts yourself! I do multiple a day they all get interaction, everyone is just sat round waiting for others to post
Yeah, very rarely do I not get replies, if there are no replies, its on like an art post that still gets votes just doesn’t need a discussion (on other accounts, this ones new)
Mainstream social media is ridiculously censored now. I called a bunch of racists a single word: “gross”.
My comment was removed while the overt racism stayed up. the digital world ain’t it.
If you haven’t noticed they have been permabanning accounts after the temp bans expire on users. Their filters automatically flag account as ban evasion regardless if the bans have resolved. Additionally, this might be still going on. If you multiple accounts, getting a temp can trigger site wide ban on all accounts.
That’s what happened to me.
lets not get to the part where currently people are getting shadowbanned soon after creating account, or posting on a sub with arbitrary requirements.
smal niche subs have less moderation, large subs have the most: eg more likely to ban.
and some in the middle have low-traffic but enough moderaiton where the MOds can nitpick.
This scenario basically sums it all up.
Reddit died when they killed 3rd party apps and removed mods who protested, but it has been on the decline for a long time since Spez decided that reddit has to be transformed into something that shits money for him
Edit: Insert obligatory “Fuck Spez” here
Suppressing whitepeopletwitter was pretty much which side Reddit was supporting . That sub is back, but I’m betting itd on thin ice
It died before that. There was a time you would know breaking news hours before traditional media reported it. Then they changed the algorithm and the flow of info crawled to match the speed of advertising and people who want to control the capitol class narrative.
Yuuup. It started when they removed the ability to view downvotes and heavily inflated and skewed upvote counts. That’s when I stopped seeing breaking news at the top of /r/all. The it just got shittier from there. My final straw (as my join date shows) was killing Apollo.
Twitter turning to X had a similar result but it was already on its way there
That’s true, in hindsight. I felt it, but couldn’t really put into words yet what had changed or tgat it even had changed. None of it really hit home until they killed third party apps and started striking down the resulting protests like dystopian authoritarians. That’s when they fully lifted their masks and came out as the nazis they had become.
Yeah, I heard that about the site and official app but having my 3rd party app Joey let me customize my feed and filter a lot of garbage out
It was working great all the way up until they shut it down
The site now is a joke, r/news and r/worldnews used to always be front and center on the frontpage. Now, it’s buried under a wall of noise
It’s the mods that are killing it. Absolute 1 dimensional neckbeard thinking, and the bots. I mean who the fuck in their right mind volunteers to work for a multi billion dollar tech company, right? Absolute neck beard degenerates, that’s who.
Modding probably sucks ass, don’t get me wrong, but expel your efforts on modding something like a Lemmy instance, where it’s for good and not just efforts that go to buying another yacht for some billionaire laughing all the way to the bank
I think its naive to think they dont take money for shilling, they could just discuss it off platform, links in the sidebar, referrals everywhere, ppl shilling their companeis in every post but some ppl get banned for it some dont
Reddit also power mods, and power hungry mods that love gatekeep. Remember the antiwork mod fiasco
A lot of those neckbeard mods had been there from the start and are responsible for building the Reddit community from the beginning
It’s no longer a community, it’s just trash
The freedom is gone, it feels like a communist regime and it seems that their success is their downfall.
Much like the current American hellscape, you’re thinking of fascism, not communism.
Fascism and communism both lead to a major loss in freedom.
Hehe thanks I’m not to clued up on my ‘isms but I know it’s something I don’t like! I am watching the American story with an outsiders perspective and it’s doesn’t look good. I’ve never been deep into data, but I have seldom gone wrong by reading the people. And the people are spelling downfall, I think it’s further down the slope than people realise and the opposition smell blood. Just like Reddit.
Hehe thanks I’m not to clued up on my ‘isms but I know it’s something I don’t like!
What an incredibly moronic and dangerous way to go about life
Words driven by fear. Learn all the words in the world, my bet is you freeze in the face of opportunity. I wish you, happiness and sorry that they took if from you.
Go back to reddit please.
I’ve been on there for 12 years and it’s been a pretty steady decline since then. It was actually even worse before I joined, like a free range cesspool of edgelords, bigots, and adults wanting to fuck teenagers. There was a period where a lot of the shit was chased off before it started heading towards the corporate direction; that was probably when Reddit was at its best
all adults are banned lol, its just a fresh pool of teenagers every year woth just enough karma to start commenting/posting
I was there from day one.
When Spez implemented user registration, I was like the 5th sign up and I ended up mailing him his own source code because he had his server misconfigured to report verbose errors.
All this to say, the site has always sucked. From day one it has sucked. It has never not sucked.
Edit
I feel like Reddit in general is remembered far more fondly than it ever has a right to.
For those that believe Reddit was some bastion of intellectual discourse, it never was! The very first or second conversation I was involved in (remember it didn’t even have users or comments at one point) immediately devolved into people calling each other robots and morons.
It just immediately cast my mind back to the BBS days where there was some cool techy people but lots of people that were just… there… And bored… And stupid.
I didn’t never really changed from that formula. Reddit grew somewhat in tandem with overall NA society’s ability to just get on the Internet. And it was always just a slice of society, never really any special qualifications or commonalities generally speaking. It’s very naive and myopic to think that it was a Tech community. It’s every dingbat you’ve ever met in your life and all the cool people as well in a giant heap. Please don’t kid yourself.
Politics immediately took over the site. And as most people know, the dialogue surrounding American politics is most dignified by taking place within a monkey house at the zoo.
Politics was immediately quarantined into its own special sub thingy.
Spez being the absolute moron that he was, implemented communities instead of tags which is what the fking site actually needed. It was very obvious he had bananas in his ears at that point, and he did not want to give selective content control to the users. He didn’t even want to implement communities, he was that against it.
They refused to show at the outset that giving users the ability to categorize content mattered. They wanted it to be a fire hose of content right from day one.
Later, they did an amazing public relations job of faking community and faking community spirit, while they had secretly embedded social media managers from outside agencies plugging most of the content onto the front page.
I can’t remember the first time Reddit lost its virginity or perhaps had its heart broken, maybe first coming of age… when we collectively rooted out that one of the biggest community builders and participants was actually a plant! I might be wrong but somewhere in the back of my mind I remember the username Sahadra(?).
It was a bad sign when they started purging subreddits in '17 of certain questionable topics.
I don’t know dude, they’ve been boiling the frog, so to speak, on us users since day one.
It’s been such a gradual contortion from what it started to what it’s become. But it’s finally come to what Spez wanted it to be in the first place. Aaron would want no part of this piece of shit.
I made my first account which I forgot like 11 years ago. I only realized it was there, when I received multiple ban messages out of the blue on my emails. This when I first realized they were massively purging accts early this year, after visiting a completely non lemmy forum about evading reddit bansm
Ive been around long enough to know its an inevitable cycle, hopefully federation saves lemmy from the same fate.
That was my next question… is it inevitable? Like the fall of every major power in human history. At some point they break.
Expect some (additonal) really nice privately owned Federated instances to launch after Reddit finally dies. (Embrace - Twitter and Mastodon are far enough along that Bluesky exists, already.)
They will have all the usual features, but also a few surprisingly nice additonal (closed source, added by corporate sponsors) features. It will cost some mild annoyance when visiting from an open source truly free federated instance. (Extend)
Eventually the new features will result in lost compatibility with the rest of the fediverse. Users on the new platform can enjoy the rest of the fediverse, but other fediverse users cannot reach any content contributed by users of the new platform. So everyone needs an account on the new platform, to enjoy it. (Extinguish)
Then the new platform enshitifies. (Enshitify)
This prediction is primarily based on how Google managed “Google Talk” when it joined XMPP. Many feel XMPP did not survive it. I still use XMPP, but many folks I talked to on XMPP do not.
The recipe is: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, Enshitify.
I’m not sure about this, but does defederation or blocking work both ways? I.e can an instance stop federating their own content to another instance? I would think so. It seems like corporate instances be pretty effectively boycotted like that.
I’m not sure about this, but does defederation or blocking work both ways?
I think it’s by choice in each direction? I’m not sure.
I.e can an instance stop federating their own content to another instance? I would think so.
Yes. And I think that’s our best defense against what happened to XMPP. Opinions vary, of course. I guess it’ll be up to each instance owner how they handle it.
It seems like corporate instances be pretty effectively boycotted like that.
I hope so. I worry because they say “history usually rhymes”.
At the very least, the fediverse was designed with knowledge of lessons learned from XMPP. And I’m certainly, myself, less naive than I was when I fell for Google Talk. Hopefully others are too.
Almost certainly yes, once lemmy gets big enough and people in power actually give a shit about it.
The nature of the internet is something has to be hosted somewhere, no matter how obscure eventually there’s a source and assholes can apply pressure on the source / host.
Most people running an instance don’t have the money nor will to fight governments and mega corps when they uncorck their bullshit attacks
I know you didn’t likely put too much specifically pointed thought into your phrasing of ‘feels like a communist regime’, but please do realize you are describing a hypercapitalist, shareholder driven, investment seeking and profligate monetization enacting regime, governance structure, moderation style.
Reddit is now the Pepsi Ad with cops and protesters getting their Pepsis and singing kumbaiyah… and then the after credits scene is the cops finish their Pepsis and beat everyone’s heads in.
This is enshittification.
This is the relentless and ultimately brutish and stupid drive to extract as much wealth as possible out of anything, in a way that actually destroys the thing, manifest in an online message board.
Lure in the user base, lock down the market demographic, destroy competition as much as you can, and then squeeze every penny out of em when they have no alternatives.
Fuck Spez, RIP Aaron.
EDIT: Oh also, you are a lemm.ee user, your instance is shutting down at thr end of June, you may want to look at setting up another user account on another instance.
Yes listen, I got it wrong, I took art instead of history and my knowledge of politics and such terms is limited. I generally get my ideas across with emotion and action, but I can’t help admire those who can articulate themselves through words. I also sense the passion in your response, you care about these things, and I’m sure you’ve destroyed a few opponents in a debate.
I like that we both exist, and you shared something that is useful to me. Thank you.
Second part: any suggestions for an alternative to lemme.ee thanks for letting me know. Will I lose all my data?
I like seeing comments like this, godforbid you dont double down on reddit lol
I can only be what I am.
Saying you’re wrong, learning, growing and moving on already puts you ahead of 90% of the human race
Being wrong at some point is inevitable, if tried to pretend that I believed I was right I would have been destroyed by the people who actually know the subject. And made myself look like an ass. I also found it funny when reading how many people corrected me.
Hey friend, no problem!
Yes, I am passionate about these things… got one degree in econ, another in poli sci, and a good deal of work experience in the tech sector… fun how all these things are increasingly intermingled and also unavoidable these days, eh?
A lot of people who spend waaaaay more time online that normal people (I’m counting myself in that group)… often forget that most people have not spent the last decade or two having online political arguments… we get used to the idea of people using terms somewhat incorrectly as being a sign that they are doing so intentionally, as a rhetorical tactic to confuse a topic or argue in bad faith… as opposed to the possibility that someone just isn’t as well versed in the topic at hand and is more or less using terms very colloquially.
But some of us can be friendly and at least pretend to be normal, lol!
As for an instance recommendation?
I’d go with .zip, my old, now inactive account is still sitting there, good admin and mod team, decently sized, and they’re federated with basically every other lemmy instance… which i think is good for a newbie to lemmy, as that way you can learn for yourself if there are communities or other instances you want to avoid or block, instead of having your instance have already done that for you preemptively.
As for… losing your data, like your account data?
Yeah I think that will end up happening. Though it may be theoretically possible to migrate a user account to another instance… I don’t think anyone ever actually does this?
Basically, just make a new account on a new instance, and re subscribe to your favorite communities from your lemm.ee account, and/or block ones you don’t like, while your lemm.ee account still exists.
Hopefully this won’t be too difficult as your account is fairly new.
There… may also be some kind of thread addressing these concerns on lemm.ee somewhere?
I’d think that if an instance is shutting down, the prudent thing for the mods to do would be to set up some kind of sticky or megathread to give general advice and answers to these kinds of questions?
You are appreciated
=D
Also, I forgor.
Welcome to lemmy, have some beans:
A fire gift
Phrasing like that reminds me of all the “this is the commu-social-marxism the libs want” and it’s just a picture of current capitalism.
I’m being nice because this person is a refugee, the fact that they are here, describing what they’ve experienced and witnessed, realizing that it is bad and another place could be better… it means they’ve got a good head on their shoulders trying to escape the hivemind.
Please don’t lose them in the pattern buffer, O’Brien =P
this person is a refugee - are you referring to me? The analogy is perfect if you were.
Yes, I am referring to you, as a refugee, I am glad you find it an apt description :D
I hope you do manage to poke around a few other instances on lemmy and find another one to migrate to again, rather bad luck that the one you recently joined is abruptly shutting down soon.
Its probably worth saying that… that doesn’t happen too often (ever?) a fairly large lemmy instance just shutting down permanently… that’s anomalous, not a thing you’re probably going going to encounter often.
Everyonce in a while an instance will have some downtime during an upgrade, or due to accidentally misconfiguring something, but even that is becoming rarer.
Also, when you do quotes…
its based on line breaks
So you can’t end them with a dash, you’ve got to hit enter, make a new line, and that new line will be non-quoted. :D
to this i’d like to add that when i browse there sometimes i keep seeing people saying things like “this is reddit libs are everywhere” “this is reddit even slight conservatism will make people call for a death sentence” or “this is reddit you can’t say anything non-progressive” and those are getting many upvotes, whilst anything said that’d paint you as anywhere left of centre will get you downvoted.
it seems like the conservatives have taken over and yet they still feel like they’re surrounded
I miss when making fun of libs on reddit came exclusively from leftists
The issue is we roast our extremists while they hype theres up or act like they arent so bad lol
sorry, when you say ‘when i browse there’… do you mean… .world? or reddit?
Its 3am and I think my language parsing skills have given out, lol
oop sorry, seems like i’m from the opposite side of the world and my phrasing after waking up could also have used some work
by “there” i meant reddit in that comment
Ah, all good, no problem!
Given that clarification, yes, I completely agree.
Conservatives tend to be the masters of projection, of seeing themselves as victims when they objectively are not…
…well, small caveat to that, as lately in the US they’ve become victims of the party and policies they voted for, but claim they didn’t vote for, because they are too ignorant to understand how anything actually works, as well as too devoted to their orange cultic god to see any of his insane hypocrtitical nonsense as such.
But anyway yeah back to reddit: yep, the platform has gone fully corporate, anyone aware of … what that means for a social media tech company bailed the hell out as soon as news of that broke, now the easily predictable enshittification has begun, and the less well informed but still generally capable of objectively assesing the world crowd is now also starting to stream out… and the people who are left are the asocial or antisocial conservative dullards who continue to gaslight themselves and refuse to acknowledge or understand what has happened…
… because for an insecure conservative, admitting you were ever wrong or uninformed about something is seen as a damnable sign of weakness and personal failure… instead of the learning and growing opportunity it could be with just a bit of a mindset shift.
I know this because I was raised that way, in that kind of a household, and was fortunately able to un-brainwash myself and realize that its ok to be wrong about things, to learn and grow.
Reddit is driving a lot right wing topics to site in order to drum up conservative users, because they love drama and conflic and are more likely to be exposed to ads
Morons are easier to scam with microtransactions, so market to morons.
The freedom is gone, it feels like a communist regime and it seems that their success is their downfall.
OP,. you’re not thinking of communism. You’re thinking of authoritarianism and hierarchy. This is what happens to all hierarchies. Go to almost any for-profit corporation, and the same stifling of freedom will be on display. Marxist-Leninist regimes are hierarchical and authoritarian, which is why they act the same as any corpo, but that’s not due to “communism”
Please scroll up to read my acceptance of failure to correctly identify the name of the crappy thing that Reddit is doing. Thanks for the correction, and I’m glad you could still figure out what I meant dispite my use of correct terminology 🤝 I’m really good at other things though haha
Exactly. Not communist though, fascist. Communism is something entirely different.
But its also clear that this happened because to thrive in the capitalfascist system, you need to adhere to the rules:
- strong hierarchy
- ideologically homogenous
- strictly controlled ingress
- constant fear of being excluded
- pushing individualism and competition
Its the same everywhere and it is scary.
Exactly. Not communist though, fascist.
Was going to say this, lol.
Completely agree otherwise with the op.
Hahaha I should have listened more in history class. I’m being corrected all over the place, but you can be sure I will go read about it and accept my shame and embarrassment for about an hour or so. It’s the “something entirely different “ that is spotlight on my miseducation 🤣 but you know what I meant though!
I don’t think anyone is going to survive Reddit, at some point the rules will get you, regardless of your contributions, age on the platform or any other credibility you have gained. It’s gonna eat itself.
Well, actually that is pretty much what you learn in history class. Its just not true. If you read anything about communism that is not western education, you get an accurate picture. Marx for example.
The idea of communism (and anarchism btw) is to have a classless, stateless society. Both are left wing extremists and incredibly dangerous in their constant, violent fight for human rights, equality and against discrimination. (/s)
Jokes aside. Especially german government owned media and state documentation portrays both as dangerous which is hilarious.
Reddit died in June of 2023.
it died the moment trump got 1st elected.
Bot posts, upvotes, comments from 1d accounts quadruppled since I’m very sceptical about the projected stats. It’s like the first human users setup a social culture and as time progresses new users see the potentials and become the first “parasites” of a settled community. A bot army is just a tool.
It’s like the first human users setup a social culture and as time progresses new users see the potentials and become the first “parasites” of a settled community.
We did.
I was one of them.
I had a reddit account before I had a facebook account, back when digg still actually existed, and reddit was basically just trying to be a better version of digg.
It was good for a while, and now its run its course, corrupted by … so many different things, insane mods, insane political movements, and of course, money money money.
The internet utopia dreamed of in the 90s has crashed and burned and warped into a dystopian panopticon of hate, misery, greed and lies that a younger and more optimistic me was convinced could only happen in cyberpunk fiction…
’ I had dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone from me. ’
it feels like a fascist regime
Fixed. Pete boy wants to get rid of the progressive content he deems offensive, so that he gets better showing with the other white techbros come shareholder day.
Spez loves musk, that tells you what reddit is.
