I used to love Reddit. Back in the day, it was awesome, you had customizable commands for niche communities and you had enough control over the feed so as to not see bs all the time. My only prior experiences with social media had been Facebook and Twitter so the bar was really low, yet I loved it. Now it’s just a horrible site to navigate. I have like 3 communities that make up 80% of my main feeds and for the life of me I can’t seem to find a single human. Like all accounts are generic names with the same pattern: quirky writing style, posts and comments like crazy in maybe 3 communities, and is like less than 4 years old. Why? Why does this make sense to them? Who are they serving ads to?
They’ve been purging all the real users over the last year or two. All that’s left are bots and paid trolls. I got perma-banned for talking shit about Elon Musk, right after he paid to have all criticism of him, “regulated”. They sold out to the highest bidder. It’s all astroturf now.
Can confirm. I had an account since 2012 but when I started flagging bots on there (and I got really good at it) over the last 3 years, I started getting frequently banned for really superficial stuff.
Last year, my account was finally permbanned because I said that Hans Kristian Graebner (aka Neo-Nazi Stonetoss) should be named and shamed. Reddit admins protect Nazis.
LOL I’ve been on super niche blockchain based socials with dozens of active users … and still had advertising spam for penis pills and random mattress stores.
As for Reddit, browse it read only to save your sanity via a libreddit instance
I didn’t know about libreddit, will definitely be checking it out!
Just a heads up: libreddit rebranded as redlib, you’ll save a few clicks if you search for that one instead
I used to love Reddit.
I was never invested in it, but then Facebook was overrun by right-wing nutcases so forcing me to take refuge.
Even before I got banned for criticizing spez’ idols, already the country sub where I once hanged around was getting filled with doomers, supposedly smart young people but being assholes to anyone lower than them.
Why? Why does this make sense to them? Who are they serving ads to?
The major subreddits – the ones frequently visible on r/all – are filled with bots now powered by the same AI which the techbros are throwing money into, and then use all that information to simulate online human behavior and content. Already Xitter is also plagued by this AI morass, many of them with Arabic or Indian names.
Matter of time before they start reinstating previously banned political subreddits, and let the fucking Kluxers march in.
I’m from Argentina and my country’s sub is both the feed that takes up most of my best and hot feed and the one where I will see an odd comment, click on the user, and find this pattern of posting all the fucking time. Like stories of people getting imposible jobs from nothing, then I go to the user and has same story but 6 months prior and with different facts. Like I seriously don’t understand the point of this shit.
