• daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 minutes ago

    I’m actually enjoying the smaller community. I joined reddit back in 2012. It was popular but not at the level it became. It was also mostly millennials back then.

    I met a lot of cool people in meetups. I actually ran local monthly reddit meetups for 5 years until I moved.

    Now reddit is mostly bots. But even before the level it is now, there were a lot of grifters. Rage bait. Thirsty posts. A lot of theft in art communities (not an issue anymore cause AI has stolen everything).

    Fake bot accounts reposting front page stuff 2 months later and getting back on the front page. Trolls were getting out of hand.

    All the companies selling reddit accounts. You could literally buy up votes. Still can.

    Its just been going downhill for a while. And then the 2025 censorship and purge of veteran users.

    All of my accounts are perma banned cause I outted some extreme hostile maga trolls. (And id do it again!)

    You know there was a time when a lot of reddit was actually just being funny in a slightly antagonizing way. Like every one would play along and just ham it up. People do it here and it’s definitely a more comfortable online space to be in.

    Where people asked genuine questions they wanted to know the answer to instead of just asking for people to validate their opinion. Which is most of social media.

    I sound like an old fart and maybe I am. But my gen experienced the Internet for the first time in our youth. And online social spaces were king of magical. I think I still cling to the idea that they can still be places of possibility. Places to connect genuinely with like minded people.

    Back in my day, You could make your own geocities websites. For free. You had chat rooms. Yahoo games where you played with strangers across the country and chatted with them.

    Msn Messenger.

    I’m getting all nostalgic. And off topic.

    Anyway. I like the smaller community in lemmy.

    It’s probably like 90% real people. For now.

    And i don’t think anyone sells up-votes . For now.

    I don’t mind if there is less content. The quality is decent and the comment section is more manageable and easier to be included in.

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 hour ago

    Reddit conveniently didn’t mention that 50% of its traffic is from bots, and most humans get permabanned by power-tripping mods.

    WE DON’T MISS YOU, REDDIT.

    • IonTempted@lemmynsfw.comOP
      3·
      1 hour ago

      I keep repeating the story of how I got banned on Reddit but I’ll keep doing so cause it’s funny, basically I uploaded an NSFW meme with nudity IN a NSFW meme community that allowed nudity, I don’t know what the bots saw maybe because the image was more in low res anyways basically the second I uploaded the meme it said “Your Post has been removed by Reddit’s filters” and I thought okay, not the first time. I refresh and got a permanent ban and I thought…

      Why?

      • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 hour ago

        I got banned for making a joke about a porn star that died in r/entertainment. I tried muting the community and hiding it but since it’s a general community it was always on my feed so when I was on my porn account I kept commenting their without realizing and I was banned for ban evasion. Here’s my joke: 1 like = 1 wank

    • IonTempted@lemmynsfw.comOP
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Jokes aside at least the good thing about reddit is that there were a lot of people that I became friends with and liked talking to on AskRedditAfterDark for example. Men and Women alike, so yeah women exist, shocker more news at 10

  • BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    3 hours ago

    I tend not to upvote or downvote on shitpost, cause some make me chuckle and some I dont get in the least, all of which I think is what a shit post is.

    But this I agree with, so upvote ? But this is shit post, it shouldnt be so … easily agreeable and understandable…

    Anywhoots yea fuck shittit .