Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI.
Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI.
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I don't miss the dipshits, pun spammers, and smug power mods of reddit at all. I do miss their niche subs and smarter users. Like it or not, they do have some brainy folks peppered among the shit posters.
We have some good folks here, too. Just need more of them.
It's a shame reddit has been dialing up the shit faucet slowly enough that most of their users don't notice how awful it is now. They've grown accustomed to the poor quality of the content and weaponized greed of the owners.
In all honesty, when I joined Reddit right after digg went to shit. It was amazing. Reddit was great, 3rd party apps were welcome, their interface was straightforward, and they had none of those NFT gold shit.
It just went downhill.
At that point, they were also open source which was super cool. I always wanted that profile badge you got for submitting a merged PR.
Reddit really went downhill fast after ~2015. I think Lemmy will get there eventually. I remember reddit being a lot smaller back then as well. It took a while to get to the point where niche communities could thrive and I do believe we'll see that happen here as well (even if it takes a decade or so)
I joined maybe 6 years ago, and there was a bit of shit talking and most posts had a troll answer hitting the most votes for some reason, but it was usually pretty good to scroll straight past and find some really insightful comments. There was a lot of good stuff around reddit, but slowly the absurb number of awards, NFT avatars, reposts, and ads every third post started to corrupt it. It was simple enough to switch to a third party app for quite a while, but the garbage slowly took over.
Even if they hadn't pulled 3rd party apps, it was getting pretty close a point where it wasn't worth scrolling past the bullshit.
smug power mods of reddit at all.
Oh they're here too. They're not causing too much drama because there's not enough going on, but they're here. Some of them are admins of certain instances.
The ones that aren't here yet will eventually find their way here when Lemmy continues to grow. And the most concerning thing about that is how many more tools Lemmy is providing them to fuck with users.
At least on Reddit, mods couldn't see votes. Lemmy actually just made it easier for them.
Yeah that's not good.
I left Reddit. Had over 600k Karma after a few years answering all kinds of questions from Veteran help to complex engineering.
Fuck Reddit. Will never go back. It’s a shell of what it was only a few years ago.
Glad you're here with us!
Going back to /r/all on reddit now just pure trash. It's unbelievable how badly it's declined, very recently.
I wonder how much of it is just bots and karma farmers pretending to talk to each other. It's really awful.