also reddits going the low hanging fruits of bots/spammers, of fans and link farmers. while doing nothing against propagand abots.
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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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
The most vocal does not necessarily represent the majority
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
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Fuck u/spez
Took away Apollo, so I left
Same but Relay. The writing was on the wall after the API fiasco.
Agreed.
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.
everything you said is correct, except replace communist regime with christofasism/capatilism. The rich are tired of the poors again.
It was a sign the moment they suppressed Luigi news in December, just one week after CEO"s death
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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.
Try doing more posts yourself! I do multiple a day they all get interaction, everyone is just sat round waiting for others to post
Yeah, very rarely do I not get replies, if there are no replies, its on like an art post that still gets votes just doesn't need a discussion (on other accounts, this ones new)
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.
A handful of lemmy mods are now just as bad as reddit mods. It didnt used to be that way.
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Reddit died when they killed 3rd party apps and removed mods who protested, but it has been on the decline for a long time since Spez decided that reddit has to be transformed into something that shits money for him
Edit: Insert obligatory "Fuck Spez" here
It died before that. There was a time you would know breaking news hours before traditional media reported it. Then they changed the algorithm and the flow of info crawled to match the speed of advertising and people who want to control the capitol class narrative.
Yuuup. It started when they removed the ability to view downvotes and heavily inflated and skewed upvote counts. That’s when I stopped seeing breaking news at the top of /r/all. The it just got shittier from there. My final straw (as my join date shows) was killing Apollo.
Twitter turning to X had a similar result but it was already on its way there
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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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I know you didn't likely put too much specifically pointed thought into your phrasing of 'feels like a communist regime', but please do realize you are describing a hypercapitalist, shareholder driven, investment seeking and profligate monetization enacting regime, governance structure, moderation style.
Reddit is now the Pepsi Ad with cops and protesters getting their Pepsis and singing kumbaiyah... and then the after credits scene is the cops finish their Pepsis and beat everyone's heads in.
This is enshittification.
This is the relentless and ultimately brutish and stupid drive to extract as much wealth as possible out of anything, in a way that actually destroys the thing, manifest in an online message board.
Lure in the user base, lock down the market demographic, destroy competition as much as you can, and then squeeze every penny out of em when they have no alternatives.
Fuck Spez, RIP Aaron.
EDIT: Oh also, you are a lemm.ee user, your instance is shutting down at thr end of June, you may want to look at setting up another user account on another instance.
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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
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