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submitted 1 week ago by Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee to c/reddit@lemmy.world

I found Reddit about 6 years ago, took a little while to understand what it was about but when I finally got it, I felt like I had found the best place on the internet. Somewhere I could be my true self without being myself. Every time I logged in, I felt free. Like solo roaming the streets of a new city in a foreign country for the first time. Intellectual conversation, assistance on vague problems, sharing life experiences, advice, watching porn you didn’t know existed, and then slipping out the back door when you were done.

As many here already know, those days are gone. The freedom is gone, it feels like a communist regime and it seems that their success is their downfall. The entire personality of Reddit has changed and will never come back, it even shows in the users. The community is broken, unauthentic and the Truth has left the conversation. Freedom is dead over there. What a shame. It’s like my favorite bar burnt down.

But the thing that really gets me is that it didn’t just change, it became the exact opposite. It has become the exact reason why someone built it, in the first place.

I read that it’s attracting the most new users of all the social apps. Best performing app, which means the end is near. Soon it will just be a limb of the pretend society that we used to hide from behind the walls of Reddit. And for some reason, I just want to see it burn.

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[-] U@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

By now, predicting the end of reddit is akin to putting a date to the end of the world.

And who cares? This is not a competition, these are not teams, and there's more internet than some famous url.

[-] Buske@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago

everything you said is correct, except replace communist regime with christofasism/capatilism. The rich are tired of the poors again.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 points 6 days ago

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

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[-] spooky2092 35 points 6 days ago

The freedom is gone, it feels like a communist regime and it seems that their success is their downfall.

Much like the current American hellscape, you're thinking of fascism, not communism.

[-] Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] Makhno@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Hehe thanks I’m not to clued up on my ‘isms but I know it’s something I don’t like!

What an incredibly moronic and dangerous way to go about life

[-] Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

Words driven by fear. Learn all the words in the world, my bet is you freeze in the face of opportunity. I wish you, happiness and sorry that they took if from you.

[-] chloroken@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

Go back to reddit please.

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[-] FoD@startrek.website 13 points 6 days ago

So where is everyone going because it's not Lemmy. And Reddit still is huge. I don't understand the "it's so bad, everyone is getting banned" but also the site keeps growing.

[-] DrSoap@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago

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

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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".

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

yes, when musk bought twitter it was well over half bots already and trending badly-- and traffic in general was going down as well. It cant have gotten better when he gutted the moderation and security teams. Its basically worthless.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Xitter is a given, considered its owned by nazi musk. and REDDIT is owned by a nazi lover, spez who loves musks. and the bots make up half of reddit, im not surprised, if it only increased, and its not the good kind of bots, because reddit has been aggressively banning normal users and non-propaganda bots.

[-] FoD@startrek.website 10 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] dil@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Reddit trained us not to post/comment as much with the frequent deletions, especially post, always get removed for no reason so I get anxiety when posting

Rejection sensitive disphoria, however its spelled

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

also getting reported/banned from subs for a misunderstood comment. or if reported something that the mod doesnt like, and they ban you because you reported about a comment.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

So fucking true. Every time I post shit online I'm rereading it over and over and I'm like "people aren't going to react about X right? Because I did Y to make it clear." Then I post, and people are still mad about X. It fucking drives me wild.

[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Reddit and Stack Overflow both drilled this into me and I've been off those sites for a while and now they are dying, I couldn't be happier

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

most of the people here were part of the ban purges done by reddit, and particular over-agressive purge than normal.

[-] Triasha@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I wasn't banned. I deleted my comment history with a script during the API fiasco.

[-] Trollception@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

The most vocal does not necessarily represent the majority

[-] BingoBongo1942@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

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

[-] popjam@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Eh, give it time. Lots more people came here after Elon went after Reddit, and given the situation in the U.S it'll probably only get more censored.

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[-] NeonNight@lemm.ee 19 points 6 days ago

I’ve been on there for 12 years and it’s been a pretty steady decline since then. It was actually even worse before I joined, like a free range cesspool of edgelords, bigots, and adults wanting to fuck teenagers. There was a period where a lot of the shit was chased off before it started heading towards the corporate direction; that was probably when Reddit was at its best

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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(?).

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[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

also reddits going the low hanging fruits of bots/spammers, of fans and link farmers. while doing nothing against propagand abots.

[-] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Ive been around long enough to know its an inevitable cycle, hopefully federation saves lemmy from the same fate.

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[-] dil@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

And we arent even allowed to delete our content it stays up forever lol

[-] danhab99@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

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

[-] Vari@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Fuck u/spez

Took away Apollo, so I left

[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

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

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

And for some reason, I just want to see it burn.

Technology under capitalism will be used first and foremost for the violent enforcement of capitalism. While extreme censorship is a relatively mild form of "enforcement", it's still a fundamental tool. The hegemonic narrative must be defended at all costs. Just look at the media, politicians, corporations, etc. It's all the same tales.

[-] redditistrash@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

This post feels like something I wanted to write. I agree 100% I want to see that shithole burn

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