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.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The most vocal does not necessarily represent the majority
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
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.
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also reddits going the low hanging fruits of bots/spammers, of fans and link farmers. while doing nothing against propagand abots.
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.
Fuck u/spez
Took away Apollo, so I left
Same but Relay. The writing was on the wall after the API fiasco.
Agreed.
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