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Now i get random ban, even if i have legitimate use.
I just comment around, nice word. Reddit AI decided that i am spamming.
Trip the spam filter once in 2 day.
I think that I started using Reddit around 2014~5 or so. For me the cultural shift shows two things:
I miss it. I came over right after Digg died, almost half a decade before 2010. Thought it was the ugliest site I had ever seen and found it super confusing.
People did largely speak their minds though, lots of controversial posts and uncensored humor, yeah it was nice, but the change in Reddit really mirrors general cultural changes too, it was more driven by Gen X and older millennials, more tech driven, and more what people would call edgy.
It was the wild west not so much because Reddit specifically was, but because that's what broad tech bro Internet culture was. We also had relatively unmoderated Xbox Live and online gaming and other things that are hard to explain to folks now.
What we would call social media existed, Digg called it Social Bookmarking for a Digg / Reddit / Slashdot model. Myspace was just giving away to Facebook, Twitter was getting off the ground, and chat rooms, like Yahoo chatrooms and Geocities were so unhinged back then.
2005 is around the time that Yahoo started looking major ground to Google when just a few years prior it was the undisputed default search engine.
Neat to think about all this again.
Yeah, then the litany of litigiousness took hold and the world has never been the same
I was on here and called out a billionaire that fucked over me and my company because they didn't want to pay what they owed. I named, I shamed, and assholes on here defended the billionaire.
I came to Lemmy to get away from Reddit, not to reminisce about how good it used to be.
Then block the community literally called c/reddit and move on with your life.
Excellent idea! Done and done!
Yeah, I remember... But I also remember nearly a decade of shills and astroturfing. Fuck Reddit.
nearly a decade
It was the god damn 2016 election, wasn't it? That's the period when I noticed the rapid decline.
I think it was before that.
Reddit is commercials disguised as content. Political parties use ads/commercials to spread their message. 2016 I think was annoying and helped people to see it for what it is.
Like that one video of the girl jumping onto a trampoline. She drops down on it, comes up and when she comes up there's an energy drink in the bottom corner facing the camera. Looks like a natural video but it's a paid commercial that also didn't pay reddit and therefore we all watched many commercials for free without the company paying for any server time, bug fixes or
Bug fixes or… what Melvin? Bug fixes or what?!
foozeball tables.
For me, it became undeniable after the gamestop fiasco. I used to sub to wallstreetbets way back before all that. It was one of the last genuinely funny places on the internet. I'm lucky, i got in on those shares at £45 and sold at roughly somewhere round about £420.69.
After the day the price shot up to that, the place was just flooded with bots trying to get anyone to spend their money in any place but gamestop. You even had some mugs trying to short silver which, for anyone not in the know, you'd need about all the money in the world to do that.
But yeah, now, everything going on there is going to be ultra analysed by every fund in the world. Oh, they also fired all the admins and replaced them just before the flood gates opened.
I think its then that people saw the potential for flooding reddit with bots and shills.
I remember there was an alt right leaning silver collecting sub shortly after. They were convinced it was going to shoot up a billion times in value. Like Gamestop was supposed.
I think you're right. Sadly, none of them have any idea how ultra manipulated the price of things like gold and silver are.
I mean, it has appreciated in value since then but if you caught it wrong, with a load of futures, expecting it to "shoot to the moon", you'll lose everything which was the plan. It was literally firms and funds trying to cover the losses they made on gamestop.
Well, I missed Reddit until the mid 2000 teens, but I remember when the entire internet around 2000 was The Wild West. And I miss it, very much.
It was great before the dot com bubble burst. Even obscure fan websites had paid advertising. Even for a while after, is was great and still usable mostly because corporations hadn't yet figured out how to completely monetize the internet.
Message boards and forums were the extent of online engagement. I miss it.
You must be thinking of a different for com bubble, like OG was like 1995 to 2002. 2002 including the bubble bursting. Gems include the amazing sale of broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5 billion! Like 10k per user of broadcast.com! In 2002 even companies like Cisco lost well over half their stock value and a ton of online seller website disappeared.
I can't stand people who use Discord as a support platform... Absolutely nothing comes up in internet searches, and then you have to try to find an old discussion, or ask the same question as 50 other people. It's dumb.
The internet was so much better before the advertisement industry jerkoffs figured out how to access it. May they all drown in a cesspool of their own waste for eternity.
May they all fall asleep sunbathing on their yachts... and wake up redder than a traffic light.
may the last thing they ever smell be chloroform
PUBLIC SHAMING WORKS ON BULLIES