I have been using Reddit for the last couple of years. It feels like it got worse ever since u/spez banned 3rd party clients which requires me to use revanced reddit now. Now the latest saga involves subreddits now banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad. This is just pure censorship at this point. And you want to know the best part Reddit has done NOTHING to stop this issue.
If you want to avoid censorship you picked the wrong lemmy instance to join lol
Subreddits have banned people for activities that users do in other subreddits since long before the API changes. Reddit was bad, long before the API changes. The writing was on the wall when they first changed how votes were displayed, its what started the mass trend up karma farming. There used to be a lot of novelty accounts going around, the small user base kept things grounded and on topic. Then users like gallowboob took over, flooded the site with repost after repost, farming karma, other users began doing the same and now its nothing more than karma hell.
Comment threads are rarely helpful, usually full of trolling, or pun threads, or jokes, or other useless unhelpful crap.
Once a community, any community, becames large enough, the quality of the output drops. If you have 10000 users in a sub/community, and only a couple hundred that actually like the topic, the trolls and the off topic karma whores will take over. Low effort, low skill, low floor, low ceiling. Enshitification isn’t just a word, and it didn’t just happen over night. It’s been happening for a while. The internet will never be as good as it used to be, sure we can do more, watch more, send more, download more, play more, etc. But the smaller close-knit communities that helped cause the internet to thrive in the first place are never coming back.
Enshitification and dead internet theory have made sure of that.
i’m surprised I quit reddit cold turkey and never looked back, i was fairly addicted to that place. reddit was getting bad before 2023, when i left, but at that point was getting clear that wasn’t getting any better
Lemmy really helped scratch the Reddit itch. I was lucky enough that my app of choice (boost) was also available for Lemmy, so the transition was pretty seamless (actually, more seamless than it would’ve been sticking with Reddit, since I left over the API shit, which would’ve forced me over to their half-baked app).
The only thing I really miss is the sheer volume of users, especially in more niche communities, but the posts on Lemmy imo tend to be more quality over quantity than Reddit, so that helps.
posts on Lemmy imo tend to be more quality over quantity
I mean all y’all are generally less likely to be expressing your anal glands on the internet here. I like it.
yea im a ton of niche subs, that isnt on lemmy unforunately,.
Create the niche subs and fill with some content. Then hopefully other users will join.
Always remember Alien Blue. That was a great app until spaz and co bought it.
Same same Boost bro :)
I only use it for reviews of products or answers to questions about Linux. But the Linux community is getting stronger here on Lemmy
Lots of activity over at programming.dev
It feels like actual people too. Thats nice.
I totally know what you mean, but it is kinda funny to say you quit cold turkey on a structurally identical platform lol
Tepid pheasant?
frigid poultry.
too icy bird
Getting rid of Apollo support was my final straw.
i have the perfect solution, but it might be a tad extreme: don’t use reddit. BAM. there it is.
To be fair, the mass majority of things have gotten worse.
I quoted “a banned comment” with quotation marks and asked if it was the reason that Redditor was banned.
Next thing I knew, I was banned.
That’s stupid. I am done with Reddit
They are arbitrarily nuking peops to replace with bots. My wife got banned for laughing at a ratty pic near a whole wheat wrap and saying yum. Reddit said it was inciting violence. 2 days ago there was an actual picture of a rat in a wrap and no one was nuked. I also was nuked a month or so ago.
and it doesnt even slow down any bots, the propaganda bots they arnt touching. plus the bots that people use to earn money, they are just barely keeping them at bay. instead they go after the non-bot users.
im in a forum where people are using hundreds to thousands of accounts at a time to evade bans.
what they are really doing is just want botting, and data to scrape for AI purposes, plus a read only site for advertisement exposure. they seem to already require some kind ID for nsfw for UK users, underaged. only matter of time before they resemble FB.
Last couple of years? You mean in the last decade.
Truly man, nothing will recapture 15 years ago reddit for me. Every thread was fresher than any thread now. There ws still the awful lyrics chains but peoples comments were real and just hilarious.
Even the sluts were real sluts now they are only in it for the OF exposure.
I remember the lamp comments and slam dancing dildos the most, great stories.
Now the latest saga involves subreddits now banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad.
This isn’t new, and a significant reason that I segmented my alts was so that I didn’t comment in “opposing” subs.
[…] please delete all of your participation in the subreddit in question (regardless of if it is positive or negative) […]
So it’s guilt by association.
This also exists on Lemmy
True, but at least on Lemmy you can switch instances. Or switch to PieFed, or use any other media that supports activitypub.
Reddit is reddit. You can’t just go on another platform and “connect” to a subreddit.
I am outright abrasive and hostile to .ml mods for their tankie lies and .world mods for their Nazi bootlicking, and despite having many posts and comments removed I have not been banned from a single community as far as I can tell.
I’ve been banned from communities on completely different instances for things I’ve said that clearly personally offended some powermod or another.
Haven’t seen what you’re talking about for .world, if anything I still think it’s too leftist
but the amount of moderations and filters is much more oppressive on reddit. politics is usually the ones that get people banned on both platforms
At least on Lemmy it’s mostly one part of it, and honestly being banned from that part is probably a good thing
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Yo dawg I heard you like gatekeeping and purity tests, so I got the algorithm here to Pimp Ur App!
which requires me to use revanced reddit now
Actually it doesn’t require you to do shit. You can just not use Reddit.
As a pedant myself, that’s some top notch pedantism.
cheers
Thanks, it’s why I’m here
That’s some good pedantry, cryptids. Bake em away, toys.
I like that you used the “bake em away, toys” callback on a thread with usernames of Watermelon Albert, Ramen Shaman, and Lousy Corn Muffin.
It sounds like y’all are preparing a potluck.
DON’T PUT MY TOYS IN THEY OVEN!!!
I used boost for a solid year and a half after the 3rd party app ban. Now I use Boost for Lemmy.
banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad.
This happens on Lemmy too. Power Tripping Mods aren’t exclusive to Reddit.
Sure, but the community would immediately make a new NintendoHelp community on another instance. We have a low tolerance for that kind of BS.
People made alternative subs on Reddit for that very reason, too. They just were more likely to be buried by the other, bigger subs.
Some people might do that, but then you have two communities with even less users.
On the other hand, it is impossible to be banned from all of Lemmy. Power tripping admins do not exist here.
I wouldn’t be so sure. I could point to .ml and BlahajZone. Both have some questionable admins.
.ml is alot worst, because you only need to interact with someone from that instance you get a typical response. i never had a negative interaction on the trans instance.
My issue with the trans instance is that they expect you to behave a certain way in a control freak sort of way, which left a bad aftertaste. They wanted me to sincerely apologize for a fucking light-hearted comment. And I say that as a gay man who knows damn well where the boundaries are.
i try to avoid instances like that eventhough i support lgbtq+ i just had a bad experience on reddit where they mistakingly banned me for saying something they MISCONSTRUED, BUT THEY QUICKLY unbanned because they recognized it wasnt a violaiton lol.
It’s been a thing for years, way before api shitshow
Yep joined lemmy around API controversy. It’s been like 2 years on lemmy for me. Loving it
