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Reddit died imo when they limited API calls for app developers who made incredible 3rd party apps for the platform. Maybe theyve since fixed it, I wouldnt know since I felt cheated having supported baconreader and boost for their hard work in making the reddit exerience feel so premium. I tried the official reddit app and It was buggy garbage at the time. So IMO they pushed away a good chunk of their userbase even before the whole politicapocolypse, bann waves, community removals, etc.

While lemmy is not a perfect replacement in terms of numbers. I feel that every upvote and comment has more meaning here. People here are generally more productive and insightful. It makes me wonder how much bot traffic reddit had prior to the changes. Selfishly I kind of hope lemmy stays where it is in terms of popularity. You all seem generally really cool and It would be hard to find the real ones In the sea of reddit-esque nonsense.

You forgot the "woah there partner" vpn block page

All my favorite niches have gone to Discord.

Freaking Discord. A black hole where anything useful is buried under mountains of folks shooting the breeze. Oh, and with a useless search function.

Every. Single. Niche. Even self-hosting ones like localllama.

Reddit may be dead and enshittified, but at least it was accessible to search engines :(

Hardly matters though, as they just randomly shadowban me anyway...

Man, Lemmy on Reddit is like having to listen to someone who constantly brings up their ex in conversation whilst constantly telling you how little they care.

Adding NFT? In 2025? They really are desperate..

It's run by a fucking dickhead worshipping Musk.

Yeah, and Reddit will permaban anyone talking about "political violence", ideas like punching Nazis and harassing MAGAts, all the while giving the bastards a free ticket to do shit they want over there like destroying LGBTQ symbols.

How it feels to browse any reddit community bigger than 10k members:

Now Reddit is adding AI and streaks

The users have plenty of streaks in their underwear.

What is the 99.99 stuff? NFT ? Avatar?

Lol are people still using that shithole?

The auto-moderation is terrible and bans you for the dumbest stuff. Reddit has continually gone downhill the last couple years. Ad's are out of control, and they love to promote religious ads and that should be illegal.

I was permanently banned for saying Trump's health was poor and he may be dead before 2028 and wont be able to run for a third term. Banned for inciting violence...

I guess reddit really just wants a site full of bots and 50 people who post the same stuff everyday.

"Reddit Pro"? 🤢

Before the API thing there was only one “am I the asshole” subreddit.

The worst part is the Contributor Quality Score, which is the subjective version of karma.

If you're not a bot, then you have to spend a lot of real time producing acceptable content to get to do anything YOU want to do. You literally have to grind Reddit to be able to post in some subs, even if your account is older than the hills and has positive karma.

i noticed the unmoderated communities banned a while ago and didn't realize that was a recent change. The ones I noticed were pretty obscure. I'm using old.reddit.com while it still works so haven't seen much issue with AI and NFT's, at least so far. (I don't post but I still lurk). Most annoying recent change was they shut down the PM system in favor of their shitty chat system.

Reddit is run by evil and ill-intentioned people but it is fairly well executed in terms of keeping user engagement. Lemmy by comparison is, at least for now, nowhere near as lively. Lemmy has much better intentions but I think its execution made mistakes. If I were king of Lemmy, I'd reorganize its software and protocols in the hope of helping it run at bigger scale. But, it's still early days.

Reddit has been on a slow, steady downward trajectory for over a decade. However, it was the rampant engagement bots nagging me with inane questions that drove me away. That, and overzealous moderation deleting comments and dishing out temporary bans for the lamest reasons. Reddit used to be the place where smart and funny people hung out and shared. Now it's just another bland social media site trying to wring the greatest profit out the unwashed masses.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

I just wish Lemmy had the same subreddit communities on it, the real benefit of Reddit was that you can add it to your search in Google for niche things and it would find threads about that thing, Lemmy on the other hand has either not been indexed as much or just doesn't have those communities and the organic discussion among them. I think one of the issues with Lemmy is there is some friction to joining it, you need to figure out what an instance is and which one you wanna join and then figure out an app to access Lemmy and then find the communities that interest you etc. Compare that with something like BlueSky for Twitter replacement, it's easy to sign up and follow peoplw and they gave a official app

Reddit died long ago, we are just flies tipping on it’s rotting corpse

After being there for 12 years, I was banned for no reason I know of. Appealed it a bunch of times and finally gave up. Done with reddit. Maybe I'll grab content from there for here.

Is that what reddit looks like now??? Gross.