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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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[–] jessicablaze@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I remember when I first used Reddit feeling much the same way. However there has always been boatloads of toxic users and posts there. The only redeeming communities had dedicated volunteer admins because general content moderation was awful.

However once they pushed the toxic coontent to the forefront and made the site much more walled off, a lot of those admins left. The result is the site as it is today.

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

Now their filters are so aggressive they will either remove your comment without a thought, or remove it and the reddit site wide filter bans you anyways.

[–] jessicablaze@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was shadow banned at one point without any notification. I got it reversed once I knew it happened. The filters are completely opaque too. I had no idea why I matched the filter.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago

if you have mutliple accounts pretty much forget it, because you wouldnt know which one was hit to trigger them all.

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

it kinda started when trump won his 1st term, noticed the massive uptick politics after that, never slowed down. RU was intent on keeping trump related news going to prop him up since 2016., pretty much got worst during the pandemic.

[–] Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It feels like it’s all just Ai and bots in control… the human feeling is gone. There must have been a huge issue with terrible content, because unfortunately amongst us humans live monsters. I did however enjoy letting my darkness out a bit on Reddit. Just enough to learn a bit about myself. I miss it

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

thier AI bots went overdrive in "moderation"

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Yeah, most "reddit sucks now" people don't even remember the days when Reddit worshipped Rand Paul and r/jailbait, r/fat peoplehate, and r/spacedicks were around

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

The narwal bacons at midnight.

[–] alaphic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Clop clop motherfuckerssss

There was so much fucking awful content there for so long

I laugh when people say that it's "leftist", because it sure as fuck wasn't, and isn't now either

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

I feel like this is comparing (bad) apples with (bad) oranges. Yes, Reddit has always sucked, but the way in which it sucked has changed.

They got rid of the bad apples, but then they carried through with that momentum and managed to turn everything else bad in an entirely new way.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't forget coontown in that mix either.

As much as I hate what reddit has become, it's kind of an amazing example of media coverage manipulation and PR.

All that heinous shit on it and they still had the kind of celebrity AMAs they did.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Thank Ellen Pao. She made Reddit what it is and got shafted for it with no credit