It was a sign the moment they suppressed Luigi news in December, just one week after CEO"s death

Hehe thanks I’m not to clued up on my ‘isms but I know it’s something I don’t like! I am watching the American story with an outsiders perspective and it’s doesn’t look good. I’ve never been deep into data, but I have seldom gone wrong by reading the people. And the people are spelling downfall, I think it’s further down the slope than people realise and the opposition smell blood. Just like Reddit.

Bots. I swear its all bots reposting content from 10 years ago that people might not have seen yet or rewording old posts/comments. Check the account history and posts if something seems suspicious. Usually those people have lived all over the place, are different genders and have lives different time lines... Unless reddit is now all whovians... im calling bots

Twitter had a suspiciously convenient massive uptick in bots that conveniently hid the shrinking user base from investors. I expect Reddit to conveniently have the same "problem".

I have been off reddit since the api thing so I'm way out of touch with the current content and status.

It just seems odd all these posts about Reddit dying and it makes me think of the people that loved reddit aren't all here on Lemmy, so did they quit all of it or went somewhere else?

No one I know in person switched away, technical or not, they still use reddit. The whole situation is just not adding up.

The most vocal does not necessarily represent the majority

They are going back to Reddit. They either A- make a ton of new accounts that all get instabanned (increasing the number of people "signing up" or B- just don't post anymore and simply consume

I was there from day one.

When Spez implemented user registration, I was like the 5th sign up and I ended up mailing him his own source code because he had his server misconfigured to report verbose errors.

All this to say, the site has always sucked. From day one it has sucked. It has never not sucked.

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I feel like Reddit in general is remembered far more fondly than it ever has a right to.

For those that believe Reddit was some bastion of intellectual discourse, it never was! The very first or second conversation I was involved in (remember it didn't even have users or comments at one point) immediately devolved into people calling each other robots and morons.

It just immediately cast my mind back to the BBS days where there was some cool techy people but lots of people that were just... there... And bored... And stupid.

I didn't never really changed from that formula. Reddit grew somewhat in tandem with overall NA society's ability to just get on the Internet. And it was always just a slice of society, never really any special qualifications or commonalities generally speaking. It's very naive and myopic to think that it was a Tech community. It's every dingbat you've ever met in your life and all the cool people as well in a giant heap. Please don't kid yourself.

Politics immediately took over the site. And as most people know, the dialogue surrounding American politics is most dignified by taking place within a monkey house at the zoo.

Politics was immediately quarantined into its own special sub thingy.

Spez being the absolute moron that he was, implemented communities instead of tags which is what the fking site actually needed. It was very obvious he had bananas in his ears at that point, and he did not want to give selective content control to the users. He didn't even want to implement communities, he was that against it.

They refused to show at the outset that giving users the ability to categorize content mattered. They wanted it to be a fire hose of content right from day one.

Later, they did an amazing public relations job of faking community and faking community spirit, while they had secretly embedded social media managers from outside agencies plugging most of the content onto the front page.

I can't remember the first time Reddit lost its virginity or perhaps had its heart broken, maybe first coming of age... when we collectively rooted out that one of the biggest community builders and participants was actually a plant! I might be wrong but somewhere in the back of my mind I remember the username Sahadra(?).

When I left reddit two or three years ago I used the Chrome extension to delete everything I uploaded to Reddit as best as I could. I'm still using the same username, I use this username everywhere and sometimes I can still find mentions of my old Reddit account.

Forever could online be a few more years for them. And good, l hope they enjoy my tales of 7 day coke benders.

Same but Relay. The writing was on the wall after the API fiasco.