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I was on Reddit for 10 years, and I have absolutely no clue why I was banned. I just moved, so maybe it was because my new ISP dealt me a bad IP?

Anyway, Reddit:

  1. Has no email, and doesn't respond to e-mails.
  2. Doesn't respond to mod mail, doesn't tell you why you were banned.
  3. Doesn't respond to appeal.
  4. Autobans any user I create.
  5. Seemingly doesn't give a shit about it's long-term users.

I guess from here on out I'm a... Lemming? Lemmyzen? Lemmy user?

Anyway thanks for having me! Reddit was shit anyway. I've been without it for a week now, and my life has definitely improved lol

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Reddit is dead.

It's mostly bots now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Lemmy will be infested of bots at some point as well. That’s sad but inevitable

If you stay out of big communities, Reddit is nice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

its always been bots, but reddit hasnt done this excessive banning ever,.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

they probably think they're purging the underperforming bots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

i noticed reddit recently changed the sub to "besT" it showed only old post, its partially dead at this point. politics/ and news related subs are usually the only super-active subs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

This is a silly/ridiculous narrative that simply isn't true.

I'm on both places, and have been doing my best to grow things on the Lemmy side for ~2yrs now, but Reddit is still invaluable to me for plenty of fresh and authentic talk across a number of subjects. Yes, botting may be a problem here and there, and power-tripping mods exist (at both places, actually), but overall Reddit is still a robust, useful site.

Now, do I like forward to the Fediverse growing and attracting more users over time to more and more niche communities? ABS-SO-LUTELY.

But I think we have to make that happen by producing quality comments, posts and communities, not by declaring false victories, nor by making completely disingenuous comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Ignore the above poster, it is mostly bots now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Bullshit.

I've been on Reddit for 9yrs, and have seen loads of recycled post content, which is definitely a thing. Even for the karma-farmers, though, there's at least a usefulness in bringing interesting content to new users who hadn't seen it before. And yeah, sometimes bots will replicate comments in such threads from years earlier. This is also a thing.

But across my ~dozen curated streams I see about 10% of that stuff, and 90% actual fresh content, including actual commenters that one can interact with if one merely tries. (have you?)

So part of my point is this-- if you're browsing vanilla Reddit and complaining about the experience, then you're telling me that you haven't made any significant attempt to set up your Reddit acct properly, up to and including failing to set up RES properly.

And if so, what you're telling me in short here is that you don't know what you're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Most of the posters are bots recycling content from years ago, same post title, image, and everything.

Most commenters are definitely chatbots these days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

i heard on several subs, many complained about bots. like aww, pics,damthatsinteresting , interestingasfuck.