It does suck I'm presently suspended at the moment for abusing the report feature by reporting a Nazi supporting targeting Georgia grand jurors. Not only do they frequently not remove Nazis you can get suspended for reporting Nazis. I'm done with reddit for good. It's a cesspool like Twitter.
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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Spez is a Nazi. Welcome to the resistance
I hadn't heard of that idea as yet. He's not generally well liked, given his position and personal role and the enshittification process of Reddit and generally entitled attitude possessed of many similarly wealthy people. I mean put more simply he certainly seems to be a dick, but I hadn't heard he was in some way associated with Nazism. What did he do?
He is a Trump supporter at the very least.
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I feel the whole point of this and Twitters bullshit was to get the lefties off of the last major social media left so everything can be Fox book ahead of the elections.
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You're doing God's work. Never stop reporting fascists wherever you see them.
I reported extremely obvious spam repost bots and also got a permaban for "abusing reports". Fuck em, they want rhe garbage content to overrun their site, they're gonna get it.
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The "home feed" shows subs I never subscribed to.
Facebook started doing this awhile ago too and made the site completely unusable for its original purpose of keeping up with friends and family. There is zero reason to browse Facebook anymore.
They say that Facebook spies on us and knows everything about us, but all I see on my feed is memes. I don't like them. Here on Lemmy I block every meme community I see!
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Interesting to hear your experience. It took me 3.5 months to fully remove myself from Reddit. (March to July):
- I started just poking around Lemmy while using Reddit
- to occasional commenting and posting on Lemmy
- to using them about equal time
- then making a final few posts and comments in the protest weeks and helping people migrate
- then I was only upvoting
- then I made a final goodbye post on my Reddit page
- then I stopped voting but still looking around Reddit and the playplace.
- then when that was over, I uninstalled my favourite RedReader app and stopped using it altogether
I'm not one who likes to go cold turkey, but when once I commit to boycotting something I stick to it until my condition is met. In those final days I came across many Reddit users who were like "if you hate Reddit that much why are you still using iiiiiit?", that was annoying but that's behind me now and there is no condition for me to go back to it.
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Long before the big fiasco I had already taken up the habit of nuking my own Reddit account after ~6 months or ~20K karma, whichever came first. I had noticed that an attachment to such accounts creates inner turmoil. Like when you get unfairly banned by some powertripping mod. I simply didn't like the fact that someone else had any kind of emotional power over me, no matter how slight, so I taught myself to kill my accounts without attachment.
So when the shit hit the fan before summer it was trivial to just delete my latest account and not make a new one. Been a happy Lemming ever since, not planning on going back. Sometimes the urge to lurk creeps in but so far I've been perfectly able to ignore it.
I honestly feel happier than before. I already don't use any news apps and limit my exposure to actuality, and Reddit was pretty much the last "toxic" thing to hammer into my mind 24/7.
I'd say I miss it, but I really don't. The hours of doomscrolling I spent on there were not only wasted, but 100% counterproductive to my happiness as a human being.
I spent over a full year /played in Wow loooong ago, and that time at least wasn't wasted because I enjoyed most of it. Can't say the same for Reddit.
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I just got permabanned for calling Clarence Thomas a cunt because “the c word is sexist hate speech.” You have got to be fucking kidding me, reddit has become such a piece of shit I’m done with it for good.
meanwhile they haven't banned clarence thomas for being an actual cunt.
That's been a standard for banning in r/politics for quite some time. "Cunt" is the mod banhammer trigger word there. Clearly they have never heard of Australia.
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Ads every few posts. Ads inside comments. Ads ads ads.
Personally I still use Reddit for niche things (like arguing with people about whatever video game I’m playing at the time) But fediverse here for generic scrolling
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as a former sync for reddit user, we were living in a delusion in the end. We fixed it for ourselves but the tides of change were inevitable
Not to mention the official reddit app is janky as hell. So many smooth scrolling 3rd party apps for lemmy.
Memmy user poking my head up.
They've been pushing that fucking app for ten years now, and have tried almost everything to get people to use it. Everything except for spending any time making it good. It shows the rot at the core of Reddit leadership that they'd rather get into a huge fight with their community, and break their mobile site, than just build a decent app.
Standard “wHy Do YoU cArE?” Post, ignoring this is the Reddit community.
But in all seriousness, not surprised. It’s likely only gonna get worse until it dies as a platform.
I poked my head in yesterday and was scared away pretty quickly by the overwhelming shitty attitudes. I got the feeling that right-wingers are taking over.
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I deleted my account as part of the Great Reddit Exodus of 2023 but have periodically visited the site since without an account.
Many of the posts I see now seem really sensationalist and almost like they were created by bots. Of course, maybe Reddit was always that way and it just some time being away for me to realize that.
Thanks for taking the hit, soldier. I haven’t checked it since June 1, and was curious.
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The “home feed” shows subs I never subscribed to
I made a new account and was immediately bombarded with posts from subs on the account I deleted months ago, suggesting them because Reddit knew I visited them in the past.
No, that’s not creepy at all. /s
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I'm not using Reddit since the whole API stuff got closed. However I posted something to get some tech help on a specific service online. Despite being nothing wrong with my post it was getting down voted. The mod perked up and said it's just Reddit and just get used to it. No thanks.
I miss the amount of content that would make me laugh but I don't miss the utter dickheads that reside there. I'm sticking with Lemmy.
A lot of people here still using Reddit. Such a shame.
The world would be a better place if people were willing to put their money where their mouth is. You're no better than the people that hate Elon Musk but refuse to leave X.
Jesus, chill out dude. It's okay to use Reddit for some things, because, like it or not, it's the only viable option for a lot of things
Sysadmin, certain IT related subs, and my local city sub, are all still 'useful' subs in some way or another just due to sheer population still over there, at least until we have a larger mass adoption over here.
Based on your shared view, why would you even sub to this LW community? Just cut the cord fully if that's your preference.
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Yeah I gave up that shit. I'll only go there if a search result takes me there for information I was looking for.
Sad to say, there is still a lot of niche info on there. Aside from finding stuff via Google, I don't bother anymore.
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You should delete your account at r/redditseppuku
I ran shreddit to delete rest of my comments off the GDPR files that power delete suite missed. And it's really fun seeing everything be deleted as the script is run.
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One of the default subs in Canada seems entirely dedicated to xenophobia.
What happened to the first r/CanadianHousing🤔
r/Canada has been rather xenophobic and far right for years.
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All I know is there's several face rating subs now. The AskReddit and AITA type subs are trying to catch up.
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The app is also so slow and laggy af
Reddit is now only useful for finding answers, not for browsing
A subreddit I used to mod which shut down in protest when the third party apps controversy happened has completely vanished from Google search.
I find that most of those issues are nonexistent the way I am on reddit - just use old.reddit everywhere. Yes, even on mobile. I'm special, and not in a good way, but it works.
I fear the day old.reddit gets shut down, considering the amount of communities that don't have an (alive) analog on Lemmy, so for now I use both...
I fear the day old.reddit gets shut down
On that day there will be a new flood of refugees here. Looking forward to it.
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I noticed when signed out, there is a lot more fight videos, rate me, am I ugly, kinda clickbait stuff that's wasn't there before the API change. It's gross, like being on youtube while signed out.
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