If you ever needed a sign to stop using reddit, this is it.
As bots and sponsored content crowd the internet, Reddit is often seen as a more reliable source of information, and its popularity has exploded in the past couple of years.
Lmfao reading articles like this makes me feel like I’m living in the upside down. The entire site is bots posting content for bots to updoot and comment. Yet here they are getting glazed as “the last site for authentic connection”. Give me a fucking break.
They’re about a decade and a half out of date.
It’s INSANE. The bot flooding started to become notably - and noticeably - bad around the time the API exodus happened. And it’s only accelerated. And most people seem to just be pretending it’s not even happening.
The most prolific posters left and/or came here.
I used to comment 20+ times a day and was always looking for the best time to post my OC to get the most traction.
13 year account. Gone.
Couldn’t give 2 shits, Lemmy is way better.
In the same article posted on Reddit one of the top posts is “BuT WhEn ReDdiT aLtErNaTiVe”? Who gonna tell them?
Anyway Reddit was cool up to 5 years ago. Now it’s either bots, AI slop, Trump stuff or furries/hentai stuff.
Reddit’s dead.
I noticed that r/technology bans some keywords, like if your comment says “PieFed” and you try to open it Incognito/Private then it won’t show up, I have to say “Pie-Fed (without the hyphen)”
I think they also ban some mentions of Lemmy instances but I forget which ones, maybe lemmy.world
This is always the cycle.
Reddit was like Lemmy at one point, a little gem of a website that you only knew about if you participated in online culture (which, before smartphones was not a lot of people). Then the masses learn about it and it gets destroyed because the system that made it good can’t scale to hundreds of millions of people.
So, now people ‘in the know’ move to the niche alternative. As the Fediverse continues to develop and gain users it will eventually undergo a similar phase transition when the population gets too high. You can already see it in popular communities on large instances, it’s nearly indistinguishable from Reddit’s comment section.
I think the Fediverse has the ability to branch out and grow in a more healthy way, but it’s yet to be seen
Just left Reddit. Ain’t going back.
The former mod of r/jailbait must be proud of himself
Just a reminder if someone gave you $10,000 a day, youd be very rich and happy. Most certainly set for life.
And with that money alone it’d take 274 years to become a billionaire.
Nobody needs that.
Christ! This is a better description than the ‘million seconds vs. billion seconds’ one.
There is no justice. Aaron Schwarz is six feet underground while this pestilent boil of a man becomes a billionaire on the back of his achievements.
I speculate it’s mostly Ouroboros style funding and phony metrics. Bots selling “engagement” to other bots is pretty profitable, I guess. At least for now. The only person I know who still openly uses reddit is an obnoxious drunk white woman in her 60s.
I wish more people converted over, but the user experience for the fediverse is very strange for many people, tech inclined folks I know included.
The lack of active niche communities is frustrating.
Fair, but I did try for a while. Lemmy has a lot of “snipers” who don’t contribute anything more than condescending AKSHUALLY “corrections” or pure snark. You go into their history and that is 90% of what you see. I have blocked several. I think it’s leftover baggage and trauma from reddit. (I don’t consider your meme reply to be a snipe, hopefully that was not implied.)
