I’ve never been sentimental about a social media site but it’s sad for me to see reddit so clearly killing itself. Pushshift is already banned and Apollo is soon to follow. Reddit will either pivot fully to a mainstream audience or die out. It’s just sad for me to see it doing it to itself.
Not really. Reddit has been an addiction for me at best, and a thorn in my side at worst.
What ruined Reddit for me was the community moderation. Not gonna name specific users but some of them are real assholes who will ban you because you violated some hidden rule not advertised on their subreddit, because you participated in another subreddit they don’t like, or because they just had a bad day and felt like screwing with you.
Reddit has become this partisan mess where the right view you as a Commie if your beliefs are anywhere further left than Donald Trump, and where the left view you as a Nazi if your beliefs are further right than Bernie Sanders. Participate in the wrong community and you end up having a bot ban you from dozens of other subs. This goes entirely against the ethos that Reddit was originally founded on.
The worst part is that I cannot even use words like ‘trump’, ‘incel’, ‘cuck’, ‘snowflake’ etc on Reddit because most of the moderators have shadowbanned people from using such terminology.
I’ve been a Reddit user since 2010, shortly before the Digg-exodus, and I have never seen the website in such a bad state before. Only wish there was an alternative that wasn’t a right-wing cesspool. Lemmy may be it.
Boy, are you in for a surprise on Lemmy. Did you see the thread yesterday about lemmy.ml banning people for posting news articles in a news community that are critical of the CCP?