Who would have thought that driving away the power users that posted and interacted with the content the most would ruin Reddit ? π
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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I only use Reddit now for a couple of very niche forums (like /samsungwatchfaces) but I never post there anymore.
Yeah same.
I only use it to follow r/ukraine, and I don't comment or vote.
Lemmy is not perfect but it scratches my itch to see what random strangers think about random topics so I don't really miss it.
Ha ha that is the perfect way to put it! Scratches the itch to see what random strangers think about random topics, that's hilarious! XD
I think there was one-way bridge with reddit that allowed to follow subs from Lemmy.
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It would help if they didn't ban people. I got permabanned for nothing. I posted some timing not permitted on World News, and then made a new account to ask a personal question and accidentally posted something on World News with this new account and was banned for deliberately trying to evade a ban.
Just stupid. I guess they don't need people on reddit.
I see a lot less men over there than before
Where did you find this image? I'm not saying you're trying to pass it off as new, but I do get the impression that you are.
The post is nowhere to be found.
The user has deleted their account.
Whenever this post was made, it certainly wasn't 8 hours before you posted it. I'd be surprised if it was as new as 8 months old.
I was able to see the post following that first link you posted, it was the first post that popped up though yeah the user did delete their account, it was originally posted 6 months ago
This post is already a day old, and the imaged was at least 8h before that.
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Oh they killed 3rd party apps, but their own official app sucks. Yea I'm just gonna view Reddit without logging in. Honestly it's been great, it prevents me from ever posting stupid comments and engage in other ways in the site. In a way I get less addicted with Reddit since they started decide that they don't want me to get addicted.
Cough... revanced.... cough... infinity (Android)
But yeah, I don't miss it
I couldn't be bothered to tinker with it. I actually used RedReader which allows me to log in. But I got used to not log in.
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I noticed this before I left Reddit last summer. Except for a few smaller niche subreddits that had decent discussions, everything else seemed like bots. I also noticed a lot of my comments and replies were deleted for no apparent reason so I quit participating. I do miss Reddit from the time period mentioned but nothing stays the same and it's time to move on.
Small niche subs are the only reason I'm still using reddit. Not the main subs, again bots are the problem, but small niches are unfortunately slow to migrate to an entirely new platform because it's not guaranteed that the community comes with it (unlike large generic subs like memes, which has a very general audience)
I think the bot uptick is a direct result of the mod strike and API changes. A lot of mods left, and a lot of the auto-mod tools they were using from third-party developers got nuked, so there are less people moderating with worse tools.
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The mod strikes and closing of all the meme subs ended them more than they wanna admit. There's very few memes on there now especially making it to all. Second part is no one wastes time commenting when even an innocent opinion will get your account banned. Waste of time for consumers and contributors equally.
I said (in a relevant thread) that Turkish people in Europe have many more kids as European natives... Now I'm a nazi and my 12yo account got banned, no warning.
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Has everything been done
As if originality was a requirement
I've seen some great new discussions on reposts plenty of times over. And sometimes the repost just happens to be timed perfectly to blow up and be orders of magnitude more popular than the original post. I'm...kinda okay with reposts I guess?
I kinda wish reposts were an actual mechanic, where it's linked to the original like a crossost. Meme variant chains would be cool too, seeing the evolution from the first post.
I don't mind reposts either, but of course seeing the original is always better