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[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The mod strikes and closing of all the meme subs ended them more than they wanna admit. There's very few memes on there now especially making it to all. Second part is no one wastes time commenting when even an innocent opinion will get your account banned. Waste of time for consumers and contributors equally.

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[–] DerpDerpingtonIsHere@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (18 children)

I deleted my account 3 weeks ago. Then don't out data is being sold to AI. Now I wish I would have deleted all my data before doing it.

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[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 19 points 8 months ago

Smaller subs still seem to get running pretty well. I'm really only still on reddit for the niche stuff, anything generic or meme related I pretty get my fill in over here

[–] maness300@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Literally every upvoted post is some stupid reference humor.

I expect lemmy to go the same way, but for now we're not there yet.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Where did you find this image? I'm not saying you're trying to pass it off as new, but I do get the impression that you are.

The post is nowhere to be found.

The user has deleted their account.

Whenever this post was made, it certainly wasn't 8 hours before you posted it. I'd be surprised if it was as new as 8 months old.

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[–] WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I noticed this before I left Reddit last summer. Except for a few smaller niche subreddits that had decent discussions, everything else seemed like bots. I also noticed a lot of my comments and replies were deleted for no apparent reason so I quit participating. I do miss Reddit from the time period mentioned but nothing stays the same and it's time to move on.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Because Reddit is SOSDD.

The Front Page used to have a pretty steady turnover of content with lots of interaction. Now I find it stagnating, the same stuff sitting up front for days sometimes. I’ve hit /all sometimes, but that’s a dumpster fire of burning garbage. I get that everyone can do their own thing on Reddit (to some extent), but too much of that content is just a mess. Reposts, scripted, repetitive themed askreddit, and the responses are all the same too. Tired quips and witticisms, there’s far too little conversation, and if someone does respond to something you say it’s far more likely to be someone being pedantic, contradictory, or picking apart your argument with exceptions or manufactured situations.

Yeah, some niche communities are still great and provide good places to share and talk about a subject, but the main subs, all, and the like just suck these days.

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[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago (5 children)

"Social" media is dying, these 2 or so generations will be looked upon partly curious partly estranged in the future, I'd like to believe things regulate themselves through chaos. And I'm curious how and to what it will transform. Too slow, so much is certain. It's all so painfully slow until the celebrity voyeurs and TV substituters get it at last.

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[–] clif@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

Is anyone going to tell them?

[–] RoseRose56@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It was already empty since bots took over! I'm not surprised for what it's happening, the way Reddit treated their users, and what happened afterwards.

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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

lol can’t believe that sub exists

[–] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Honestly, it's the users that are killing it now. What started as a funny place to chill, throw some funny memes and talk about some niche stuff turned into a toxic Tumblr tire fire. Reddit as it is now makes 4chan look like the normal people.

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Oh they killed 3rd party apps, but their own official app sucks. Yea I'm just gonna view Reddit without logging in. Honestly it's been great, it prevents me from ever posting stupid comments and engage in other ways in the site. In a way I get less addicted with Reddit since they started decide that they don't want me to get addicted.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

WOULD YOU LIKE TO OPEN REDDIT IN THE OFFICIAL APP OR IN CHROME?

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[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

Reddit doesn't allow bots to vote.

[–] imposedsensation@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Short short short short

Honestly the executive comp is outrageous for an unprofitable company, and yes, anecdotally it does seem to be shrinking, if not in sheer user activity, certainly in quality.

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[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

I think it was maybe 2017? At one time I was a heavy reddit user, and I think that's about when they did some monkeying with their systems and somehow post exposures just dropped. LIke it was constantly new stuff presented and then suddenly the front page was the same for a day

[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No lie, I got a 3 day ban notice yesterday for a anti China comment and both a pm and email inviting me to buy their stock for their IPO.

Soo, they are pro-chinese communist party and pro money, but we knew that already.

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[–] HjFUN@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

One thing I’ve noticed is that a ton of posts from the top 0.1% subs will get about three to four hours of thousands of updoots and comments and then get nuked by the mods with no reason given, pointing to it being bots. Like a few years ago it seemed like the repost bots were sneaking in and getting posts at the top to then be able to sell the account for someone else to bypass spam filters. Now it feels like the majority of top posts are that, and that anyone engaging in the top content is also grinding out the accounts that will be used to spam them at a lower level.

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