It was inevitable that reddit would fall victim to enshittification once they went public. Now the line must go up forever so they'll just copy paste every shitty addictive feature from every other garbage platform.
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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As for an actual answer: The company itself? Yes, absolutely! Them trying to become advertiser friendly at any cost combined with some of the dumbest and user unfriendly decisions drive the site more and more into the dirt. The very fact that we are continuously growing with each wave following some fuck up on their site is proof enough. The users are trying to resurrect motherfucking Digg for crying out loud! They rather commit cyber necromancy than putting up with Reddits shit!
Anyway, welcome. Feel free to shitpost.
Since logging in, shitposting was the main goal HAHA. Thanks for welcoming me
Yup, been on Reddit for 14 years and it's now unusable. I deleted my account and won't go back again. I know the population here isn't even close to reddit, but I see reddit refugees coming over eventually. If I can't share my thoughts on a platform what is the point of using it?
Totally agree with you! What’s the point of a forum type of app if you will bombarded by filters and bans.
Welcome. If you mean reddit as in the company, yes. They've been trying to make the site more attractive to advertisers in the past couple of years.
I see. Feels stupid to be walking on egg shells HAHA
Reddit has been a corporation-enshittified garbage fire for a few years now. I officially pegged the beginning of the end at when they ended secret santa.
On that note, someone should really make a Lemmy secret santa community if they haven't already.
I first saw the writing on the wall when they started blocking API access for 3rd party apps. Rif was such an awesome app for mobile. I stomached it because the community was the main draw, but not anymore. Banning folks for updoots is way way way too aggressive.
100% this. Not only did it kill 3rd party apps it killed moderators custom tools. I use to get notified that my post was removed and the reason why it was removed. Now everyone is forced to use reddit's own tools and I don't even get notified that my post was removed. It is super annoying when going to a new subreddit and posting for help/support just to go and see that the post was removed silently.
Omg!! I love that idea. !Help_Others@lemmy.blahaj.zone would be the perfect community to host that they just got set up @EnthusiasticNature94@lemmy.blahaj.zone could you do that? `
They what!?
How can they end such a nice initiative? What was the problem with secret santa?
Yeah, they did that a few years back. Presumably the problem for them was that it didn't make line go up.
One thing I wish that Lemmy had, and which may be relevant to you, is the ability to follow users. I guess the workaround is to create a community with your name on it.
You can follow users with Mbin.
what did you just call me
Scrotum.
Welcome!
Im sure you will find people here that appreciate your art. Welcome to the cool and free, but sometimes clunky, side of the internet.
Thanks! It is kinda hard to navigate but slowly getting there
Its hard to imagine, but back when the first major reddit exodus happened, it was even more clunky. Now everything is mostly stable, federation works properly, image and text formatting is pretty user friendly in the web UI, etc
The only stuff that will always stay unintuitive is linking to communities and posts and users and stuff.
For example when i open this community from my instance, the URL in my browser is https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/reddit@lemmy.world
But the proper way to link it, so it will always open in the instance of the user that clicks it is !reddit@lemmy.world
With posts, comments and users there is no syntax like this i think sadly.
Yes and it lacks a simple explanation. "Insta is pictures and reels" "Twitter is short sentences or images". "Ah well lemmy is a selection of instances that etc etc etc" puts people off
Lemmy is a link aggregator. Thats also what reddit is. Just a bunch of communities with link and image posts that have comment sections. After picking a server the average passive user on a lemmy mobile app will never really be confronted with the federated nature of lemmy again. Its only once you start posting and enganging with communities that you notice they all have weird different urls.
"Lemmy is independent Reddit" has worked well for me
Growing up on the late '90s - '00s internet, I loved the rough edges of it. There is charm in jank.
As a former Reddit moderator one thing that was a real pain was the necessity for various spam filters. Hopefully with accounts needing to be applied for on Lemmy that's much less of an issue.
I have noticed a dumb case where I posted something in one sub and then immediately posted the same thing in another sub which got auto removed and I had stupid amounts of karma and history so I'm surprised about that
What's moderating like on reddit?
Probably depends on the community. Being able to see removed comments and posts can be mucked up. Mostly obvious removals and/or bans but working out what crosses the line is always awkward.
I spent most of my moderation removing obviously bad people but it's a role that forces you to think what's just about acceptable and that's really complicated
Yep and it's discretionary. You can't win as a mod you'll never make everyone happy... it's a lot of work for zero pay or thanks
Experienced the same thing. I usually post my drawings on different subs and did not have any problems for years. Out of nowhere I was suddenly flagged for spam then eventually got permabanned