The worst thing is ppl talking about it on lemmy, teeheehee.
But fr, I left 2 yrs ago, still will use it if a search brings me there, but dont really log-on, and haven’t scrolled it 2 yrs.
Kinda weird how popular it is now too.

Reddit is pretty much read-only for me now. Looks like many of you are the same because I don’t save or share to my browser very many anymore. Peeps ain’t writing stuff (of interest to me) on Reddit anymore.

Bro who cares? Thanks for this post to remind me to unsub this dumb com

• Bot posts
• Karma Farmers
• No organic interaction in comments

Total bans for upvoting anti-nazi posts.

• effective API shutdown for everyone but themselves to force users onto their objectively worse own app that is filled with ads and telemetry.
• shadowbanning and even real banning for flimsy reasons. Banning whole communities because they think it pleases shareholders.
• AI agents that pollute and distort the discourse. Like posts with 10k upbotes and 5 comments.

That and essentially all the additional things that come with an IPO. All corporate owned social media has gone to shit sooner or later. Most platforms didn’t even make it that far.

Censorship — So many subs have extremely odd restrictions on posts and comments; special rules to be able to comment; a list of words or phrases that shadow-remove your comments, etc. This sometimes doesn’t matter with day-to-day stuff. It inhibits the capacity to explore controversial topics or have hard conversations. “Can’t meta-refer to another thread or sub,” “We want good content, but don’t post lengthy sourced write-ups!,” You find after dissecting why your comment was shadow-removed that “genocide” or “apartheid” trigger removal. No Ellipsis use on one sub, lol. I have a list of censored words by sub. Can’t explore tough issues without legitimate adherence to free speech. It’s one thing not to enable bigotry and incivility, but we need to be comfortable with being uncomfortable sometimes in order to yield breakthrough progress across echo-chambers.

Power-tripping mods — It has become worse in recent years. Subs that used to have respectable mods and a true appeals process just comes down to them blindly reaffirming whatever judgement there is absent of reason or ethics. Ultimately they aren’t arbiters of civil discourse but more often than not blatantly attempt to shape discourse relative to their own agenda; r/news and r/worldnews are notorious for this, particularly.

Blocking — The hit-and-run of users throwing out weak arguments then running away by blocking is itself disappointing; but that when a user blocks it nukes the rest of the thread, disallowing you to respond to anyone else who independently replies to you makes ZERO sense.

(Bonus: bots, but that’s a given).

In the end I’ll go wherever the people are. I’ll use reddit, lemmy, and I’m hopeful that the new old Digg returning with Kevin Rose and Ohanian will work out.

Shadowbans

Bans

Ads fucking everywhere even in the comments

Shadowbans by, what looks like, AI automation

admins
mods
users

I don’t really think about reddit anymore.