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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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[–] FoD@startrek.website 13 points 2 days ago (8 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.

[–] BingoBongo1942@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day 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

[–] popjam@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours 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.

[–] DrSoap@lemmy.world 19 points 2 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

[–] FoD@startrek.website 9 points 2 days ago (2 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.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 day 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.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

most of the people here were part of the ban purges done by reddit, and particular over-agressive purge than normal.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I wasn't banned. I deleted my comment history with a script during the API fiasco.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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".

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day 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.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The most vocal does not necessarily represent the majority

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

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.