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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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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 19 hours ago

also reddits going the low hanging fruits of bots/spammers, of fans and link farmers. while doing nothing against propagand abots.

[–] Vari@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck u/spez

Took away Apollo, so I left

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Same but Relay. The writing was on the wall after the API fiasco.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

And we arent even allowed to delete our content it stays up forever lol

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 4 points 18 hours ago

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.

[–] Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago

Forever could online be a few more years for them. And good, l hope they enjoy my tales of 7 day coke benders.

[–] FoD@startrek.website 13 points 1 day ago (9 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 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

The most vocal does not necessarily represent the majority

[–] FoD@startrek.website 9 points 1 day 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 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours 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

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 20 hours 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.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours 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 19 hours 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 17 hours ago

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

[–] DrSoap@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day 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

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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".

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours 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.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours 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.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 19 hours 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.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours 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

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[–] Buske@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

everything you said is correct, except replace communist regime with christofasism/capatilism. The rich are tired of the poors again.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

It was a sign the moment they suppressed Luigi news in December, just one week after CEO"s death

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[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

A handful of lemmy mods are now just as bad as reddit mods. It didnt used to be that way.

[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Try doing more posts yourself! I do multiple a day they all get interaction, everyone is just sat round waiting for others to post

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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)

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