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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

By now, predicting the end of reddit is akin to putting a date to the end of the world.

And who cares? This is not a competition, these are not teams, and there's more internet than some famous url.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago (2 children)

everything you said is correct, except replace communist regime with christofasism/capatilism. The rich are tired of the poors again.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

It was a sign the moment they suppressed Luigi news in December, just one week after CEO"s death

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[–] GrindingGears 23 points 6 days ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Try doing more posts yourself! I do multiple a day they all get interaction, everyone is just sat round waiting for others to post

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] GrindingGears 1 points 2 days ago

It is. It's also melted all our brains though, like some people need to be parented, but I mean the absolute garbage shit. That's morphed from people cleaning that up and the spam, to mods trying to enforce a whole bunch of unwritten rules and arbitrarily deciding what people can post or comment based on their own opinions. Those people are mostly neckbeards too, so that don't help.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They are going back to Reddit. They either A- make a ton of new accounts that all get instabanned (increasing the number of people "signing up" or B- just don't post anymore and simply consume

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Eh, give it time. Lots more people came here after Elon went after Reddit, and given the situation in the U.S it'll probably only get more censored.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

The most vocal does not necessarily represent the majority

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

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.

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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(?).

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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"

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

also reddits going the low hanging fruits of bots/spammers, of fans and link farmers. while doing nothing against propagand abots.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

And we arent even allowed to delete our content it stays up forever lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Ive been around long enough to know its an inevitable cycle, hopefully federation saves lemmy from the same fate.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Fuck u/spez

Took away Apollo, so I left

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