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I found Reddit about 6 years ago, took a little while to understand what it was about but when I finally got it, I felt like I had found the best place on the internet. Somewhere I could be my true self without being myself. Every time I logged in, I felt free. Like solo roaming the streets of a new city in a foreign country for the first time. Intellectual conversation, assistance on vague problems, sharing life experiences, advice, watching porn you didn’t know existed, and then slipping out the back door when you were done.

As many here already know, those days are gone. The freedom is gone, it feels like a communist regime and it seems that their success is their downfall. The entire personality of Reddit has changed and will never come back, it even shows in the users. The community is broken, unauthentic and the Truth has left the conversation. Freedom is dead over there. What a shame. It’s like my favorite bar burnt down.

But the thing that really gets me is that it didn’t just change, it became the exact opposite. It has become the exact reason why someone built it, in the first place.

I read that it’s attracting the most new users of all the social apps. Best performing app, which means the end is near. Soon it will just be a limb of the pretend society that we used to hide from behind the walls of Reddit. And for some reason, I just want to see it burn.

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 161 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

Reddit died when they killed 3rd party apps and removed mods who protested, but it has been on the decline for a long time since Spez decided that reddit has to be transformed into something that shits money for him

Edit: Insert obligatory "Fuck Spez" here

[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 72 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It died before that. There was a time you would know breaking news hours before traditional media reported it. Then they changed the algorithm and the flow of info crawled to match the speed of advertising and people who want to control the capitol class narrative.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I heard that about the site and official app but having my 3rd party app Joey let me customize my feed and filter a lot of garbage out

It was working great all the way up until they shut it down

The site now is a joke, r/news and r/worldnews used to always be front and center on the frontpage. Now, it's buried under a wall of noise

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

That's true, in hindsight. I felt it, but couldn't really put into words yet what had changed or tgat it even had changed. None of it really hit home until they killed third party apps and started striking down the resulting protests like dystopian authoritarians. That's when they fully lifted their masks and came out as the nazis they had become.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

I know you didn't likely put too much specifically pointed thought into your phrasing of 'feels like a communist regime', but please do realize you are describing a hypercapitalist, shareholder driven, investment seeking and profligate monetization enacting regime, governance structure, moderation style.

Reddit is now the Pepsi Ad with cops and protesters getting their Pepsis and singing kumbaiyah... and then the after credits scene is the cops finish their Pepsis and beat everyone's heads in.

This is enshittification.

This is the relentless and ultimately brutish and stupid drive to extract as much wealth as possible out of anything, in a way that actually destroys the thing, manifest in an online message board.

Lure in the user base, lock down the market demographic, destroy competition as much as you can, and then squeeze every penny out of em when they have no alternatives.

Fuck Spez, RIP Aaron.

EDIT: Oh also, you are a lemm.ee user, your instance is shutting down at thr end of June, you may want to look at setting up another user account on another instance.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Phrasing like that reminds me of all the "this is the commu-social-marxism the libs want" and it's just a picture of current capitalism.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm being nice because this person is a refugee, the fact that they are here, describing what they've experienced and witnessed, realizing that it is bad and another place could be better... it means they've got a good head on their shoulders trying to escape the hivemind.

Please don't lose them in the pattern buffer, O'Brien =P

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[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (7 children)

to this i'd like to add that when i browse there sometimes i keep seeing people saying things like "this is reddit libs are everywhere" "this is reddit even slight conservatism will make people call for a death sentence" or "this is reddit you can't say anything non-progressive" and those are getting many upvotes, whilst anything said that'd paint you as anywhere left of centre will get you downvoted.

it seems like the conservatives have taken over and yet they still feel like they're surrounded

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Reddit died in June of 2023.

[–] Flemmy@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bot posts, upvotes, comments from 1d accounts quadruppled since I'm very sceptical about the projected stats. It's like the first human users setup a social culture and as time progresses new users see the potentials and become the first "parasites" of a settled community. A bot army is just a tool.

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[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The freedom is gone, it feels like a communist regime and it seems that their success is their downfall.

Much like the current American hellscape, you're thinking of fascism, not communism.

Fascism and communism both lead to a major loss in freedom.

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[–] Buske@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

everything you said is correct, except replace communist regime with christofasism/capatilism. The rich are tired of the poors again.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world -5 points 6 days ago

You never lived in a totalitarian communist country, did you?

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

It was a sign the moment they suppressed Luigi news in December, just one week after CEO"s death

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

it feels like a fascist regime

Fixed. Pete boy wants to get rid of the progressive content he deems offensive, so that he gets better showing with the other white techbros come shareholder day.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The freedom is gone, it feels like a communist regime and it seems that their success is their downfall.

OP,. you're not thinking of communism. You're thinking of authoritarianism and hierarchy. This is what happens to all hierarchies. Go to almost any for-profit corporation, and the same stifling of freedom will be on display. Marxist-Leninist regimes are hierarchical and authoritarian, which is why they act the same as any corpo, but that's not due to "communism"

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[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I just got a three day account ban, for threatening violence, by commenting that I hope someone got charged for running a red light. This is the second time this has happened in two months, all thanks to maniacs on our community subs.

It took me awhile to go back to that shit hole, and I'm getting a good reminder why. I just wish Lemmy would get a bit more active, and I can finally put Reddit to bed.

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[–] NeonNight@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I’ve been on there for 12 years and it’s been a pretty steady decline since then. It was actually even worse before I joined, like a free range cesspool of edgelords, bigots, and adults wanting to fuck teenagers. There was a period where a lot of the shit was chased off before it started heading towards the corporate direction; that was probably when Reddit was at its best

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

all adults are banned lol, its just a fresh pool of teenagers every year woth just enough karma to start commenting/posting

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I was there from day one.

When Spez implemented user registration, I was like the 5th sign up and I ended up mailing him his own source code because he had his server misconfigured to report verbose errors.

All this to say, the site has always sucked. From day one it has sucked. It has never not sucked.

Edit

I feel like Reddit in general is remembered far more fondly than it ever has a right to.

For those that believe Reddit was some bastion of intellectual discourse, it never was! The very first or second conversation I was involved in (remember it didn't even have users or comments at one point) immediately devolved into people calling each other robots and morons.

It just immediately cast my mind back to the BBS days where there was some cool techy people but lots of people that were just... there... And bored... And stupid.

I didn't never really changed from that formula. Reddit grew somewhat in tandem with overall NA society's ability to just get on the Internet. And it was always just a slice of society, never really any special qualifications or commonalities generally speaking. It's very naive and myopic to think that it was a Tech community. It's every dingbat you've ever met in your life and all the cool people as well in a giant heap. Please don't kid yourself.

Politics immediately took over the site. And as most people know, the dialogue surrounding American politics is most dignified by taking place within a monkey house at the zoo.

Politics was immediately quarantined into its own special sub thingy.

Spez being the absolute moron that he was, implemented communities instead of tags which is what the fking site actually needed. It was very obvious he had bananas in his ears at that point, and he did not want to give selective content control to the users. He didn't even want to implement communities, he was that against it.

They refused to show at the outset that giving users the ability to categorize content mattered. They wanted it to be a fire hose of content right from day one.

Later, they did an amazing public relations job of faking community and faking community spirit, while they had secretly embedded social media managers from outside agencies plugging most of the content onto the front page.

I can't remember the first time Reddit lost its virginity or perhaps had its heart broken, maybe first coming of age... when we collectively rooted out that one of the biggest community builders and participants was actually a plant! I might be wrong but somewhere in the back of my mind I remember the username Sahadra(?).

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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

6 years ago? Shit. You must be a lot younger than me 😂.

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[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Exactly. Not communist though, fascist. Communism is something entirely different.

But its also clear that this happened because to thrive in the capitalfascist system, you need to adhere to the rules:

  • strong hierarchy
  • ideologically homogenous
  • strictly controlled ingress
  • constant fear of being excluded
  • pushing individualism and competition

Its the same everywhere and it is scary.

[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Exactly. Not communist though, fascist.

Was going to say this, lol.

Completely agree otherwise with the op.

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[–] Kurious84@lemmings.world 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Eff reddit. They ban me anytime I say shit about trump or musk.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

God forbid you dislike h1b visas, my parents are literally immigrants, no one likes the ppl that come here exclusively to work and send money back home, taking jobs away while not investing any money back into the economy, actively talking shit constantly and claiming that they dont put effort into their work for whatever reason. This is just ppl speaking in hindi using english alphabet in the reddit communtiies.

Its just a way to pay our tech employees less and hire less americans who have the power to quit and go elsewhere without being deported if they dont find a job in 2 months, plus they ofc get better pay than back home so theyll put up with worse conditions than we would making things worse for everyone, why are we even looking to hire outside our country like we dont have ppl here struggling to find jobs in the same field. I had a mild rant and then a one week ban, got perma banned later for alleged subreddit ban evasion, but I think they just wanted an excuse. Outsource excess work not work that we don't have, and they wanna get rid if all the immigrants doing the labor no one wants to do, pulling up on farms.

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[–] FoD@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago (16 children)

So where is everyone going because it's not Lemmy. And Reddit still is huge. I don't understand the "it's so bad, everyone is getting banned" but also the site keeps growing.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

i went to another forum about social media/evasion it was quite interesting insight how they are doing it, and how they have increased thier bans.

[–] DrSoap@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Bots. I swear its all bots reposting content from 10 years ago that people might not have seen yet or rewording old posts/comments. Check the account history and posts if something seems suspicious. Usually those people have lived all over the place, are different genders and have lives different time lines... Unless reddit is now all whovians... im calling bots

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Twitter had a suspiciously convenient massive uptick in bots that conveniently hid the shrinking user base from investors. I expect Reddit to conveniently have the same "problem".

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I read that it’s attracting the most new users of all the social apps

Most of those are not real users and never have been.

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[–] Meltdown@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By 2015 it was already a hollow shell of what it had once been, and by 2020 it was spiritually completely dead. Now it's just shocking how far it's continued to decline, far past what I'd come to think of as rock bottom

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I really feel like it peaked in 2012 or 2013. Hot on the heels of the "rally to restore the sanity" (which proved the true power of Reddit, but was co-opted and defanged)

Lots of big AMAs but they could be very chaotic.

Allowed content wasn't quite as wild as two years previous but it was still possible to find some real taboo/NSFL/disturbing/subversive communities of all sorts.

The userbase was large but still most of your friends would make fun of you for going there, and your parents didn't even know it existed.

The admin team was still pretty small and they even would make a point to hire users who understood the culture and spirit of the site.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

it peaked right before ellen pao was used as a scapegoat

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

vividly remember ppl dickriding spez

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[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Ive been around long enough to know its an inevitable cycle, hopefully federation saves lemmy from the same fate.

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[–] jessicablaze@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 week ago (13 children)

I remember when I first used Reddit feeling much the same way. However there has always been boatloads of toxic users and posts there. The only redeeming communities had dedicated volunteer admins because general content moderation was awful.

However once they pushed the toxic coontent to the forefront and made the site much more walled off, a lot of those admins left. The result is the site as it is today.

[–] Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It feels like it’s all just Ai and bots in control… the human feeling is gone. There must have been a huge issue with terrible content, because unfortunately amongst us humans live monsters. I did however enjoy letting my darkness out a bit on Reddit. Just enough to learn a bit about myself. I miss it

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And for some reason, I just want to see it burn.

Technology under capitalism will be used first and foremost for the violent enforcement of capitalism. While extreme censorship is a relatively mild form of "enforcement", it's still a fundamental tool. The hegemonic narrative must be defended at all costs. Just look at the media, politicians, corporations, etc. It's all the same tales.

[–] redditistrash@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

This post feels like something I wanted to write. I agree 100% I want to see that shithole burn

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