That's the cute part about enforcing civility rules...
They are only cute when they do it to "Nazis"....
But when "Nazi" do it to you.... It is fascism
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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Reddit is fucking dead. It's like 40% Russian psyops trolls, 25% bots, 25% Nazi trolls, 5% users, and 5% admins looking for shit to ban people for
Remember back in 2022 when Russia disconnected from the global Internet? Reddit was great that day. The amount of trolls and devisive posts plummeted and discussions were much more civil. That was when I first started thinking about looking for a different place to hang out (I had been a pretty prolific reddit commenter). Then the stuff in spring 2023 happened and I found my way here, leaving Reddit for good. No regrets for sure.
Oh that was a golden day indeed. You were able to have a civil discussion with someone who disagreed with you and both of you had a pretty good time. Not only on Reddit but also on fucking YouTube!
Shows you how much Russia turnes anything it touches into pure shit.
Apart from the 5% users, don't the rest all overlap entirely?
Yes, but they make sure they have a separate account for each category, so the math works out.
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I had a 13 year old account I simply stopped using in 2023 when compact.reddit.com was killed and the API changes fees were introduced. Lemmy was "good enough" get to get what I was getting from reddit. I stopped using reddit and haven't posted since.
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I'd say the most recent major influences were the IPO and the emergence of LLMs.
Reddit becoming a publicly traded company and the preparation to do so certainly initiated a major shift in its priorities.
Ai and large language models make it easier than ever to create shiny, but low quality content.
And the rest is just reddit becoming more mainstream leading to an overall shift towards banal rather than niche topics.
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I got a 3 day site wide ban for saying that without due process, these ICE guys are just racking up hundreds of kidnapping and trafficking charges in a sane world. The ban said I was threatening violence. I'm done with Reddit.
I figure they have AI chatbots making the decisions and it can’t ~~term~~ tell the difference between talking about violence and advocating for violence
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They want to be "Corporate Friendly."
Criticize corporations, or Musk and Trump for a week, enjoy your permanent ban.
We'll be here for you.
Most of reddit is now a gross loop of ChatGPT shitting into its own mouth.
Like well obver 50% of the accounts are not real people anymore, moderation is also now handled by AI.
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I got permabanned just for participating in /r/enoughmuskspam. We figured out Musk frequented the sub, and as an active member who mocked him daily, I had a feeling it was coming. I'm fairly sure he flagged me and other users for permabans.
Their excuse was that I said (((Soros))) to a Nazi MAGA claiming Soros was funding all the protests, which wasn't at all true. Why is that a bannable offense? Never seen censorship like that on the net in my life
My suspicion is that it's happening a lot and that they want to turn Reddit red like they did with Twitter. Musk and Reddit's CEO are pals.
That was a honeypot to ban anyone critical of Musk, and corporations in general.
I fell for it, too.
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musk monitors reddit , since hes on xitter all the time. he has the time, because hes high on cocaine or adderall to give him that energy.
Reddit got threatened by a billionaire Nazi. Reddit caved to said billionaire Nazi.
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Yep, also told off Nazis. Then, perm banned. I've been on that site for 15 years, moved over to Lemmy. Fuck Reddit.
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Got banned for saying that "Israeli people should be upset enough with Netanyahu to have his head on a pike" for "advocating violence". Even non-native English speakers are familiar with this expression which does not literally mean heads on pikes unless you somehow travel back in time to medieval Europe.
I've been on reddit since it's inception and while I didn't go there that often now that Lemmy exists the ban kinda seals the Reddit brand for me.
Another turning point was the April fools mini game this year which was universally hated. This has never happened on Reddit before. I think Reddit is beyond redemption at this point unfortunately and Reddit itself thinks that so they'll get their bags while they can.
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Reddit only wants plain vanilla, perfectly non-offensive content. Nothing controversial, nothing. As to why they've changed, we can kick that idea around all night long, but that's where they're at, what they want.
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Me, too. 12 year account, 900K+ Karma. I was looking forward to crossing the million mark this year.
At first I was concerned about having fewer people on Lemmy, but for things like Politics, the quality of discourse is far higher than Reddit. Every Reddit post is filled with puns, idiots, trolls, Russian propaganda farmers, etc., all of which are far smaller or non-existent on Lemmy.
I still miss Reddit's active guitar subs, though.
Loved r/huskers the one here on Lemmy exists but it's pretty dead
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Not to mention the reposts.
The number of old pics and videos that keep reposting is through the roof.
r/AskReddit has dropped in quality. It used to keep me busy and entertained for ages.
The only reason I use Reddit now are for old niche posts that answer specific questions. Other than that, I find my selfing going to lemmy first these days.
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Welcome to the reality! I saw reddit changing in a bad way 2 years ago and came to lemmy.
It started getting shitty but pretty much when they killed 3rd party apps it just went in freefall.
Loads of old accounts are now just getting perma banned site wide.
I had an accot that hadn't been used for commenting (just the every now and then looking for something) that got perma banned about a month ago. Reason? None given.
I'm guessing they want to rid the site of users that still remember how great it once was
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I'm just there for the porn, these days. Any sort of meaningful interaction with people happens elsewhere.
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The only reason I log in there now is to slowly erase my comment history.
Literal brownshirt-wannabes are not worth engaging on social media, and "don't feed the troll" has been an Internet aphorism since last century now
Just in case you didn't know this, here is a program that lets you mass edit and delete all your comments on Reddit:
https://redact.dev/services/reddit
The free version only edits all your comments with random words, but for me was good enough just to delete my main account asap.
I've seen the randomized replacement text results here and there. Right now I'm getting some entertainment value from rereading my footprints before I scrub them, but I might look into that service.