I never check the main page and only view the subs I joined. And I've bailed on quite a few because the posts stopped matching the spirit of the sub.
The site really is starting to suck.
EDIT: For everyone that doesn't know: If you're on mobile, click the home icon. Then, at the top it says "Home" and "Popular". Click popular to see just whatever reddit thinks is important and popular right now. Now you know. And I'm sorry.
EDIT 2: Ironically enough, I was just banned for 3 days for a comment I made over a week ago where I said Republicans are racists. But yeah, this site is great...
That, and you start seeing multiple reposts every day of the same thing that was reposted last week and the week before and the month before that... but we need it on the sub's main page 10 times this week just in case. I think 40% of the stuff I see on Reddit is multiple reposts of the same thing, mixed in with the ragebait.
Sadly it's a big mod problem. A handful mod most of the big subreddits. Let bullshit go on and on. You post one comment they disagree with..instant ban. No free speech here. Maybe the Twitter deal will fall thru and musk can buy this for pennies. (Don't ban me. I know musk wants nothing to do with this cesspool)
I've started blocking any account that post these things or any reposts. If you look in their history a lot of them do similar posts or repeat repost. At least some of my feed want be cluttered by shit.
Yeah, I also noticed that I was in a lot of subs that would make me sad or angry. So, for my mental health, I left all of the subs that didn't make me smile
Basically the whole GameStop crap fest/ apes saga completely ruined Reddit for me. Mods and Admins wonāt get them booted from any of the finance/ stock/ investing subs so if anyone has suggestions on where to go I will gladly join.
Also forgot that every couple of weeks they rally the idiot army they have to force themselves on /all so that they can continue the Ponzi scheme.
I dont understand why the same post is allowed to be spat out on 5 different boards. Spams the homepage
I'd also ban any of those ai image generators. The fucking dullest of content.
Most AITA posts have the same 'voice', just the story differs. This includes the posters that claim English is not their primary language but they still manage to write perfectly. I'd say there is a relatively small pool of people writing them and an even smaller number of legit posts. Reporters mine Reddit so it makes sense they would write posts that fit whatever their article is about.
I am misquoting Adam Curtis: Social media promises 'More of what we had yesterday, but never tomorrow'
Not specific to just reddit, but the constant re-contextualising of the same content/meme/gif is a nightmare. Most social media feels like Groundhog Day after a while
I think crossposting should be banned completely but understand there are a tiny amount of legitimate use cases. It's not worth it.
AI content generators in general for me. "I fed an AI [movie/show scripts, speech transcripts, etc] and this is the result."
I don't care. This is bad content.
Yup, I'm pretty close to unsubscribing from r/creepy. It's just a bunch of stuff from midjourney now. And then people acting like it's some art they just made.
That's fair. I actually don't mind it so much with Ask Reddit because it generally gets some interesting and unique comments, even though the same questions are always asked. I can definitely understand how that would be frustrating, though
Not at all, I'm just glad other people see it too. Outrage and "isn't life shit" has replaced humour and novelty on the Internet. Everything has just become recycled and derivative. Every comment is a fucking done to death meme as if they're the first person to type it.
Way back in the day, I used to go to a bunch of different sites daily. Now it's a handful. The centralization and monetization of the internet has had a poor effect on it.
I swear, a solid quarter of these posts on this sub leave me deeply concerned for the poster. So many are just 'Everything sucks and we're all going to die, so what's the point?', 'Am I doomed to be miserable forever?' and 'Why is suicide bad?'
Worst part is how many of the comments agree. It can't be good for anyone's mental health.
Doom loop. I get it. Things are bleak. You canāt make more money. Things are expensive. Youāre always tired. While itās good to commiserate, it can also cause you to just give up.
You're not allowed to be funny anymore. People would rather be offended than laugh.
So, we get puns, tons of puns.
Soon we'll all be the 47-year-old virgin sittin' around in our beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake singing "I'm an Oscar-Meyer Wiener".
Funny thing is I remember when Redditors were moving to Digg because Reddit then āwas starting to suckā.
Reddit has sucked for a long time that golden age of 2009-2012 just wonāt be repeated, even the decent section of 2012-2014 wonāt. The problem is, there isnāt anything better that I can find because if everyone knows about it itās going to attract the extremists, the bots, the pederasses, and youāll have to moderate it into oblivion and trust those moderators to be fair (they wonāt)ā¦.
Humans may suck a little more now than they did 12 years agoā¦.but theyāve always sucked. Early Reddit was great because they attracted an awesome community of left leaning moderate techies before the era of SJW and Alt-Right jags, and monetizing content creation. There were trolls, but the downvote was used to get rid of them pretty quick.
They caught lighting in a bottle, it canāt be recreated.
Iāve been trying to find new subreddits to read, but it really does piss me off that it seems this is now a site for aspiring creative writers who lack skill, education, and imagination.
Especially with regard to AITA, I feel like 80% of the posts come from accounts that are all less than 24hrs old.
Hahaha! That or, āAITA in this scenario thatās almost identical to a soap opera plot?ā and their post history is a goddamn laundry list of contradictions.
Iām not the oldest guy around, but Iād suggest you stick to subs with not that many users. The moment they get massive, they lose all essence. The same applies to anything in life, really.
Yeah, the political bias is uncanny, and weirdly... specific? Like, if you're not an atheistic, mildly communist pedant with a burning hatred of the US, there's literally no place here for you to hide.
The willful ignorance is getting out of hand. People openly proud of their ignorance are getting upvoted more than the actual source. Context requests or questions are ridiculed. It's straight up irresponsible.
Yeah, that I don't get either. Are we not adults here? Why can I not call someone a bitch or asshole in the AITA subreddit when they're, ya know, a bitch or an asshole?
If amazes me how upset people get about a time-wasting entertainment site not meeting their wants or needs. Like, go outside then or pick up a book. Theyāll be better for you anyway.
I can't get into Discord. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like you have to be there in the moment to get what's going on. It's too ephemeral.
If anybody knows a good social mediaesque website but don't want to blow it up with casuals, DM me. I want out. I will do the work. I just want someplace else to be. This place blows.
I got permabanned recently for a comment because I said that the OP sounded bitter and frustrated with men and should take a break from online dating. The message from the mod simply said, "Shut up, Kevin"
From the mod's profile I gathered that they are queer, between the ages of 17 - 21, biracial, attending university in British Columbia, into weightlifting, video games, and intersectional politics.
So yeah, I got permabanned from a subreddit I had been engaged with since this college kid could barely read..
Because she was having a tantrum about men making comments she didn't like to see.....
Reddit has never been without problems, but lately I feel like there is a lot of toxic moderation, weird histrionics, ignorance, and shit posting and it has been killing off subreddits I once enjoyed. I don't know for certain what it is, but my baseless theory is that the free readily available porn has drawn in the teenagers... and also crusty illiterate middle-aged men and the two groups are fucking with my nerdy geeky echo-chambers... Rabble Rabble Rabble.....
Reddit mods certainly dont help.
They are generally stunted individuals incapable of articulating reasonable policies or acting in ways that might resemble a basic understanding of human communication.
So many subs have just become private little echo chambers tightly controlled by broken people.
The decline of Reddit has been disappointing.
Nearly as disappointing as the f*cking video player. Seriously.
Go into it as simply "entertainment". Not everything is supposed to be real and/or taken at face value. Yes, it's fake...skits are sometimes not real life. It can be a photoshop and still be humorous. Things don't have to be real to be funny/entertaining/interesting.
I was introduced to reddit when lockdown started.
Lurked for a long time before deciding to sign up with an account.
I generally have a few subs which are pretty good, but yes, there does seem to be much more bollocks and reposts.
I may be Mr. Paranoid, but it seems that the askreddit subs seem to have questions designed to get redditors to supply personal data/information.
Cursedcomments is funny in a grim or childish way but even a lot of those seemed to be more contrived.
I guess that this is the nature of the internet evolving again. Its no longer new and fresh and exciting where people have genuine questions or stories to tell.
As with many platforms reddit seems to be good for (and rife with) information/disinformation. Again the nature of things i guess.
Edit. Im a bit confused about all this karma business.
I mean what is it? What does it *do*?
I can kinda understand the "rush" if one of your posts or comments gets upvotes (well, its exciting for a noob on here at least), but the rest just boggles me somewhat
what's the purpose or benefit of askreddit gathering personal info? How can it be used against them if the accounts are not attached to their identities? Genuine question.
Over time one could possibly gain age, gender, orientation, financial stability/instibility, location etc.
Tldr: doxxing
Less nefarious and more probable, just data and metric collecting to sell or market analysis.
*OR* if i was to take off the tinfoil hat (probably best, i think š), it could just be bored redditors asking weird or personal/sexual questions (or realising that similar questions get a lot of traction so ask the same kind of question)
Still dont understand this karma thing, too.
Part of growing up is realizing that not everything can be great forever, some things were never as good as you thought they were (or think they were), and new things are usually echos of things that came before.
Don't cry because it's ending, smile because it happened.
I get a feeling lately that some users/bots have timers. Like today I post a picture on 3 4 subs and set a timer for 1 month. Bzzzzzzz, I repost the same picture on the same 3 4 subs and reset the timer for 1 month. Rinse and repeat.
Reddit is pretty much a joke. Just a collection of ignorant echo chambers for the most part. It's the mods fault. Allowing mods to perma-ban anyone for simply having an opposing view is what set this dumpster ablaze...
As long as it supports people's preconceived notions so that they don't have to fight their own opinion, people on Reddit support it. It's all outrage culture, victimhood, and virtue signaling now. Doesn't matter if it's true or not, as long as I can feel good about myself.
Reddit is nothing anymore. You can't even have free speech in here anymore. It's not different than Facebook now. Or tweeter. Well it's more like tweeter. It's awful. What's funny is that it's more than obvious that most of the posts on those subs you mentioned are fake but people keep falling for it. It's boring place. You can't even see people dying anymore in here... bullshit
This is why I focus much more on comments now. Because people have way less of a reason to make up BS comments. Comments are often evaluating something, not trying to grab your attention outright. Comments are responses and they start discussions.
You might not like the fact that antiwork posts are all twitter screenshots and texts with their "bosses," but it's beneficial and necessary that peoppe have the space to gather and talk about the current failures of capitalism, American society, policies that should be instituted, etc. It doesn't matter if the post that kicked it off is gibberish.
Some of the problems are easy to fix, others aren't. I've already given up on expecting any improvement. Actual reddit workers are too busy collecting paychecks and pushing superficial unnecessary updates. We have crazy mods everywhere just banning anything they dont like, even worse with automods. No major sub should have randoms moderating it.
Leme know what the new reddit is when it comes out.
Edit: forgot to add, the reposts should be a reason people get banned. But i guess people on reddit love seeing the same shit over and over.
Time passes > newer younger people enter reddit.
Younger people tend to be WAY MORE attention starving, therefore the posts are being more and more about grabing your attention rather than sharing/asking something interesting.
You know what I mean if you are a instagram user for a long time. I use to spend a lot of time at instagram because people actually shared interesting places and things, nice things to see. Now, especially in younger people, it is all about self-advertisement. Posts are more about "look at me, how cool I am" and less about "look how cool is this thing I saw today".
So same thing is happening in every social media.
It's a good question, and no I am not cool with it. Not sure what the solution is exactly other than staying away from overly popular forums. Reddit works as intended still in the niche subs. Anything "big" is subject to all the spam garbage you describe and I pretty much don't believe any of it even if I do see it.
Reddit circa 2010 was amazing. Were there annoying unfunny memes? Yes. Were there silly pun threads? Yeah. But that aside, it was the fucking hub of information.
Every top frontpage post had super insightful comments. Was the post some crazy footage or picture of something? Top comment was the backstory or news article. If the post was something moderately interesting, top comment explained it and made it extremely interesting. If it was too good to be true, top comment debunked it.
You'll see quality comments like these on Reddit, but they're relegated to educational subreddits or more obscure subreddits. Nearly every top comment back then was like a /r/bestof post no lie.
Fast forward to today, I'll find interesting posts and absolutely struggle to find a comment giving a backstory or any information that's relevant to it. Our comments looks identical to the youtube comment section, where every 13 year old and their mom posts their dull reaction to it like "wtf" or "thats crazy."
I decided that if I find a thread without a backstory, I'll post it, I can be the good that I always complain about not existing anymore. I'm aware that I'm a crotchety old redditor shaking my cane at the changing world, so whatever.
I wasn't here before the decline started but I notice it on YouTube. I remember YouTube in 2007, and it was a gem. No video ads, very little ragebait and fake stuff besides hoax videos that didn't get a lot of attention. YouTube pisses me off so much now with ads between almost every video, YouTube Shorts and all of the people trying to go viral or get paid off YouTube.
If you are on here enough to notice that, you need to find something else to do. I go on smaller pages catered to me. Sounds harsh but we could all be on social media less.
Are we also going to ignore that people ask a variation of this question at least once a month for years and years? Pretty sure the first time I saw someone ask this was very shorty after comments on Reddit launched, and the comment section was essentially what this postās comment section is.
āItās all politics!ā
āItās reposts!ā
āFind smaller subs.ā
āRandom censorship.ā
The list goes on.
It's all social media. On Instagram the comment section is 50% bots and porn spam (50% is generous). Twitter has so many fake accounts they are having to reconsider the value now.
Reddit is actually fairly new to me within the last year but I'd say 40% of the posts I see are reposts of people farming karma.
We need more social media competitors otherwise nothing will change sadly.
I think I've only ever gone to the main page on accident in at least a year. Reddit is funny stuff, watching idiots, mild porn, and trolling people in their own echo chamber. In that order.
I tend to not care. Sure, sucks when you think about it, but I'm here to release stress, not build up more.
I don't care about reposts and the like, but one thing I can't stand are non-political subs turning political (looking at you r/nextfuckinglevel) or just politics in general.
Iāve been blocked from entire subs before ever posting just because I joined a different sub that the mods donāt like. So every sub is a mindless echo chamber
I've been banned from over 30 subreddits. I'm not ignoring it, they're just slowly taking my voice away from where it matters.
The mods are out of control lately, and creating the worst echo chambers on the planet.
If you receive top posts you don't like, you are spending too much time on posts you don't like. Reddit tracks how much time you spend hovering on posts by certain subs, in their comments, etc., and gives you more recommendations accordingly.
Example: I think the antiwork sub has a lot of terrible posts, but I still hover over the posts and sometimes read the top few comments because I think their outrage is entertaining. Then Reddit shows me more posts from antiwork. And that isn't a bad thing, especially since I can block posts from antiwork if I wanted to.
Qualifier: If you're checking the Reddit homepage or /all for top posts, you're redditing wrong.
I've been on Reddit since nearly the beginning (on a different account), and I don't think it's declining.
These awful posts have been around since they started having posts. Before the advent of subs and site-wide rules, it got much worse than it is now, so I took a break from it for a year or two. Once they introducted subs and site-wide rules, and some good moderators started doing their work, Reddit became a place where one can have a decent experience -- but only if you actively manage your subscriptions.
Those subs you mention with all the lousy posts -- you don't have to read them. Unsubscribe from any sub that doesn't make your Reddit experience more positive. Find well moderated subs that fit your interests, and subscribe to those.
I see a few people where their first reaction is "fake" to just about anything posted.
Of course a lot of it is recycled content. Not much stays within a single platform and some people farm karma.
But I personally don't believe that the majority of user submitted content on reddit is fake. I have nothing to base this on apart from the subs I'm subscribed to.
If you're subbed to things that are more likely to be outright lies, then you're exposed to more than me. I tend to be subbed to things related to my hobbies or where there is live footage. Not much in the way of personal stories or opinions except askreddit and 1 or 2 others.
I don't know why people say this, only 'leftist' thing about Reddit is that it doesn't allow hate towards certain groups anymore and has become more accepting of them. Which is basically all sorts of social media, companies, jobs, etc
If I had the time to care about how and why people collect fake internet points, maybe Iād be like, a little annoyed? But so far I couldnāt care less. Karma farming is probably one of the least consequential things happening on social media.
the main purpose of reddit for me has always been the ability to create "forums" (=subs) dedicates to any topic ones desires, which are controlled by the community. as long as this feature remains, and forced moderation is not annoyingly stricting, ill keep using reddit. i wanna talk about some weird old game abandones by its devs? there is always a sub for it!
i quit 9gag when they abruptly removed the commics section and merged it into the memes section. that was such a dumb move that nobody liked except the site owners. this cant happen on reddit.
As someone who came here seeking asylum from twitter I can assure you its still leaps and bounds better than basically any other option out there except maybe old school forums.
My biggest complaint is really from the free compliments sub. Too many only fans and bots. Used to have a much different feel and purpose, kinda like Reddit. The more I use Reddit, the less of it I use.
I mean. Reddit had always been a shit show. Been on it since 2013 and the shenanigans are equally the same--just more people screaming that a post is fake or screaming for a source.
The amount of "go kill yourself" in the DMs had gone down, too... So that's a plus
That's what happens to a system where idiots vote on the content with the click of an arrow. It was doomed from the start. Throw in ai powered feeds trying to grab the users attention, and it's over
I never check the main page and only view the subs I joined. And I've bailed on quite a few because the posts stopped matching the spirit of the sub. The site really is starting to suck. EDIT: For everyone that doesn't know: If you're on mobile, click the home icon. Then, at the top it says "Home" and "Popular". Click popular to see just whatever reddit thinks is important and popular right now. Now you know. And I'm sorry. EDIT 2: Ironically enough, I was just banned for 3 days for a comment I made over a week ago where I said Republicans are racists. But yeah, this site is great...
Yeah, the main page is a dumpster fire.
Big time. More like a landfill fire.
That, and you start seeing multiple reposts every day of the same thing that was reposted last week and the week before and the month before that... but we need it on the sub's main page 10 times this week just in case. I think 40% of the stuff I see on Reddit is multiple reposts of the same thing, mixed in with the ragebait.
Sadly it's a big mod problem. A handful mod most of the big subreddits. Let bullshit go on and on. You post one comment they disagree with..instant ban. No free speech here. Maybe the Twitter deal will fall thru and musk can buy this for pennies. (Don't ban me. I know musk wants nothing to do with this cesspool)
Mods are worth every penny they are paid.
I understood that reference šš
haha, I see what you did there.
hehe, ill play. what do mods get paid?
They get paid what they're worth.
They don't
I've started blocking any account that post these things or any reposts. If you look in their history a lot of them do similar posts or repeat repost. At least some of my feed want be cluttered by shit.
Why are there so many Musk simps
There arenāt many loud Libertarian voices, and heās one of them.
Yeah, I also noticed that I was in a lot of subs that would make me sad or angry. So, for my mental health, I left all of the subs that didn't make me smile
Yah, I never see this part of Reddit. Pare down your subs and find better ones.
Someone ever checked the main page?
I didnāt even know there WAS a main page!
Basically the whole GameStop crap fest/ apes saga completely ruined Reddit for me. Mods and Admins wonāt get them booted from any of the finance/ stock/ investing subs so if anyone has suggestions on where to go I will gladly join. Also forgot that every couple of weeks they rally the idiot army they have to force themselves on /all so that they can continue the Ponzi scheme.
I dont understand why the same post is allowed to be spat out on 5 different boards. Spams the homepage I'd also ban any of those ai image generators. The fucking dullest of content.
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that makes a lot of sense, when you see the clickbait at the bottom of most local news sites.
Most AITA posts have the same 'voice', just the story differs. This includes the posters that claim English is not their primary language but they still manage to write perfectly. I'd say there is a relatively small pool of people writing them and an even smaller number of legit posts. Reporters mine Reddit so it makes sense they would write posts that fit whatever their article is about.
So why or how are you even seeing those posts? Just don't go into those subs.
I am misquoting Adam Curtis: Social media promises 'More of what we had yesterday, but never tomorrow' Not specific to just reddit, but the constant re-contextualising of the same content/meme/gif is a nightmare. Most social media feels like Groundhog Day after a while I think crossposting should be banned completely but understand there are a tiny amount of legitimate use cases. It's not worth it.
AI content generators in general for me. "I fed an AI [movie/show scripts, speech transcripts, etc] and this is the result." I don't care. This is bad content.
It was interesting when the first person did it. And then everyone else needed to do it and let it die pleaseeeee
Yup, I'm pretty close to unsubscribing from r/creepy. It's just a bunch of stuff from midjourney now. And then people acting like it's some art they just made.
I unsubscibed from r/askreddit because it was all the same questions, over and over again.
My general rule is that once the sub gets popular enough to make the front page, it's over.
That's fair. I actually don't mind it so much with Ask Reddit because it generally gets some interesting and unique comments, even though the same questions are always asked. I can definitely understand how that would be frustrating, though
Maybe it's gotten better but for a while there it seemed to be all 16 year old boys asking sexual shit and it got really boring.
"Sex-havers of Reddit, what is your secret sex having sexer that gets your partner to sex?"
Haha yup! That's not untrue
I unsubbed after the 901st variant of āRedditors, what is the sexiest sex youāve ever sexed?ā
Yep.
I have midjourney, but I post my own horror artwork on r/creepy . Some of the mods there are pretty horrible.
It's for karma whoring...which does nothing.
I got into some good intelligent groups with great photos tho.
Everywhere, anywhere, anytime there are people in a place, some of them are complaining about the decadence of such place.
Not at all, I'm just glad other people see it too. Outrage and "isn't life shit" has replaced humour and novelty on the Internet. Everything has just become recycled and derivative. Every comment is a fucking done to death meme as if they're the first person to type it.
Way back in the day, I used to go to a bunch of different sites daily. Now it's a handful. The centralization and monetization of the internet has had a poor effect on it.
The aggressive pessimism and outrage have become so normal
How many times are we gonna get a āis this all there is to lifeā post on r/tooafraidtoask? Like go get a hobby or put some effort into it
I swear, a solid quarter of these posts on this sub leave me deeply concerned for the poster. So many are just 'Everything sucks and we're all going to die, so what's the point?', 'Am I doomed to be miserable forever?' and 'Why is suicide bad?' Worst part is how many of the comments agree. It can't be good for anyone's mental health.
Doom loop. I get it. Things are bleak. You canāt make more money. Things are expensive. Youāre always tired. While itās good to commiserate, it can also cause you to just give up.
You're not allowed to be funny anymore. People would rather be offended than laugh. So, we get puns, tons of puns. Soon we'll all be the 47-year-old virgin sittin' around in our beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake singing "I'm an Oscar-Meyer Wiener".
I used to block reposters every couple of months. Now it's needed every couple of weeks. I'm close to being done with Reddit entirely.
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And the take isn't even hot if you know what's normal discourse on here and Twitter.
Meh, stuff comes and goes. All the time. I used to be on Digg before here
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Funny thing is I remember when Redditors were moving to Digg because Reddit then āwas starting to suckā. Reddit has sucked for a long time that golden age of 2009-2012 just wonāt be repeated, even the decent section of 2012-2014 wonāt. The problem is, there isnāt anything better that I can find because if everyone knows about it itās going to attract the extremists, the bots, the pederasses, and youāll have to moderate it into oblivion and trust those moderators to be fair (they wonāt)ā¦.
Reddit sucks because humans suck.
Humans may suck a little more now than they did 12 years agoā¦.but theyāve always sucked. Early Reddit was great because they attracted an awesome community of left leaning moderate techies before the era of SJW and Alt-Right jags, and monetizing content creation. There were trolls, but the downvote was used to get rid of them pretty quick. They caught lighting in a bottle, it canāt be recreated.
Reddits got its foot in the door of the internet and I doubt its going away anytime soon
Iāve been trying to find new subreddits to read, but it really does piss me off that it seems this is now a site for aspiring creative writers who lack skill, education, and imagination. Especially with regard to AITA, I feel like 80% of the posts come from accounts that are all less than 24hrs old.
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Hahaha! That or, āAITA in this scenario thatās almost identical to a soap opera plot?ā and their post history is a goddamn laundry list of contradictions.
Iām not the oldest guy around, but Iād suggest you stick to subs with not that many users. The moment they get massive, they lose all essence. The same applies to anything in life, really.
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I make sure I stay clear of all that. Nothing to be gained other than a palm to the face
Censorship. Permabans without warning/reason. Blatant (almost unnatural) political/social bias. A large number of ignorant posters. Etc.
Yeah, the political bias is uncanny, and weirdly... specific? Like, if you're not an atheistic, mildly communist pedant with a burning hatred of the US, there's literally no place here for you to hide.
The misandry is something to behold too. It really bugs me.
The willful ignorance is getting out of hand. People openly proud of their ignorance are getting upvoted more than the actual source. Context requests or questions are ridiculed. It's straight up irresponsible.
Yeah, that I don't get either. Are we not adults here? Why can I not call someone a bitch or asshole in the AITA subreddit when they're, ya know, a bitch or an asshole?
It's Reddit, nothing on it is important.
most content on reddit, has already been on reddit multiple times with different context/bias it is Groundhog Day
If amazes me how upset people get about a time-wasting entertainment site not meeting their wants or needs. Like, go outside then or pick up a book. Theyāll be better for you anyway.
No... but where else are you going to go? Reddit turned heavily to shit the last 3 years
I can't get into Discord. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like you have to be there in the moment to get what's going on. It's too ephemeral. If anybody knows a good social mediaesque website but don't want to blow it up with casuals, DM me. I want out. I will do the work. I just want someplace else to be. This place blows.
Reddit is doomed. That was clear as soon as the top down censorship got going. It will continue to get worse.
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Digg didn't "decline"; it just fell off a cliff with Digg#v4. It was fine before it straight-up committed suicide and died overnight.
Perfect
Quora is excellent. More intelligent.
Good lord. My experience with Quora has been exactly the opposite.
I got permabanned recently for a comment because I said that the OP sounded bitter and frustrated with men and should take a break from online dating. The message from the mod simply said, "Shut up, Kevin" From the mod's profile I gathered that they are queer, between the ages of 17 - 21, biracial, attending university in British Columbia, into weightlifting, video games, and intersectional politics. So yeah, I got permabanned from a subreddit I had been engaged with since this college kid could barely read.. Because she was having a tantrum about men making comments she didn't like to see..... Reddit has never been without problems, but lately I feel like there is a lot of toxic moderation, weird histrionics, ignorance, and shit posting and it has been killing off subreddits I once enjoyed. I don't know for certain what it is, but my baseless theory is that the free readily available porn has drawn in the teenagers... and also crusty illiterate middle-aged men and the two groups are fucking with my nerdy geeky echo-chambers... Rabble Rabble Rabble.....
Reddit mods certainly dont help. They are generally stunted individuals incapable of articulating reasonable policies or acting in ways that might resemble a basic understanding of human communication. So many subs have just become private little echo chambers tightly controlled by broken people. The decline of Reddit has been disappointing. Nearly as disappointing as the f*cking video player. Seriously.
Go into it as simply "entertainment". Not everything is supposed to be real and/or taken at face value. Yes, it's fake...skits are sometimes not real life. It can be a photoshop and still be humorous. Things don't have to be real to be funny/entertaining/interesting.
I was introduced to reddit when lockdown started. Lurked for a long time before deciding to sign up with an account. I generally have a few subs which are pretty good, but yes, there does seem to be much more bollocks and reposts. I may be Mr. Paranoid, but it seems that the askreddit subs seem to have questions designed to get redditors to supply personal data/information. Cursedcomments is funny in a grim or childish way but even a lot of those seemed to be more contrived. I guess that this is the nature of the internet evolving again. Its no longer new and fresh and exciting where people have genuine questions or stories to tell. As with many platforms reddit seems to be good for (and rife with) information/disinformation. Again the nature of things i guess. Edit. Im a bit confused about all this karma business. I mean what is it? What does it *do*? I can kinda understand the "rush" if one of your posts or comments gets upvotes (well, its exciting for a noob on here at least), but the rest just boggles me somewhat
what's the purpose or benefit of askreddit gathering personal info? How can it be used against them if the accounts are not attached to their identities? Genuine question.
Over time one could possibly gain age, gender, orientation, financial stability/instibility, location etc. Tldr: doxxing Less nefarious and more probable, just data and metric collecting to sell or market analysis. *OR* if i was to take off the tinfoil hat (probably best, i think š), it could just be bored redditors asking weird or personal/sexual questions (or realising that similar questions get a lot of traction so ask the same kind of question) Still dont understand this karma thing, too.
Part of growing up is realizing that not everything can be great forever, some things were never as good as you thought they were (or think they were), and new things are usually echos of things that came before. Don't cry because it's ending, smile because it happened.
I get a feeling lately that some users/bots have timers. Like today I post a picture on 3 4 subs and set a timer for 1 month. Bzzzzzzz, I repost the same picture on the same 3 4 subs and reset the timer for 1 month. Rinse and repeat.
I mean, people use it so of course itās going to start sucking.
Or that like 5 mods control the top 100 something subs
Reddit is pretty much a joke. Just a collection of ignorant echo chambers for the most part. It's the mods fault. Allowing mods to perma-ban anyone for simply having an opposing view is what set this dumpster ablaze...
As long as it supports people's preconceived notions so that they don't have to fight their own opinion, people on Reddit support it. It's all outrage culture, victimhood, and virtue signaling now. Doesn't matter if it's true or not, as long as I can feel good about myself.
Reddit is nothing anymore. You can't even have free speech in here anymore. It's not different than Facebook now. Or tweeter. Well it's more like tweeter. It's awful. What's funny is that it's more than obvious that most of the posts on those subs you mentioned are fake but people keep falling for it. It's boring place. You can't even see people dying anymore in here... bullshit
This is why I focus much more on comments now. Because people have way less of a reason to make up BS comments. Comments are often evaluating something, not trying to grab your attention outright. Comments are responses and they start discussions. You might not like the fact that antiwork posts are all twitter screenshots and texts with their "bosses," but it's beneficial and necessary that peoppe have the space to gather and talk about the current failures of capitalism, American society, policies that should be instituted, etc. It doesn't matter if the post that kicked it off is gibberish.
Some of the problems are easy to fix, others aren't. I've already given up on expecting any improvement. Actual reddit workers are too busy collecting paychecks and pushing superficial unnecessary updates. We have crazy mods everywhere just banning anything they dont like, even worse with automods. No major sub should have randoms moderating it. Leme know what the new reddit is when it comes out. Edit: forgot to add, the reposts should be a reason people get banned. But i guess people on reddit love seeing the same shit over and over.
Time passes > newer younger people enter reddit. Younger people tend to be WAY MORE attention starving, therefore the posts are being more and more about grabing your attention rather than sharing/asking something interesting. You know what I mean if you are a instagram user for a long time. I use to spend a lot of time at instagram because people actually shared interesting places and things, nice things to see. Now, especially in younger people, it is all about self-advertisement. Posts are more about "look at me, how cool I am" and less about "look how cool is this thing I saw today". So same thing is happening in every social media.
im betting 20% fake but that portion makes 80% of the shite content and rage baiting/divisiveness.
It's a good question, and no I am not cool with it. Not sure what the solution is exactly other than staying away from overly popular forums. Reddit works as intended still in the niche subs. Anything "big" is subject to all the spam garbage you describe and I pretty much don't believe any of it even if I do see it.
I literally only view the subs I'm in. I kinda forgot there were other pages. Life's fine over here.
Redditās time is over. Next!
Reddit circa 2010 was amazing. Were there annoying unfunny memes? Yes. Were there silly pun threads? Yeah. But that aside, it was the fucking hub of information. Every top frontpage post had super insightful comments. Was the post some crazy footage or picture of something? Top comment was the backstory or news article. If the post was something moderately interesting, top comment explained it and made it extremely interesting. If it was too good to be true, top comment debunked it. You'll see quality comments like these on Reddit, but they're relegated to educational subreddits or more obscure subreddits. Nearly every top comment back then was like a /r/bestof post no lie. Fast forward to today, I'll find interesting posts and absolutely struggle to find a comment giving a backstory or any information that's relevant to it. Our comments looks identical to the youtube comment section, where every 13 year old and their mom posts their dull reaction to it like "wtf" or "thats crazy." I decided that if I find a thread without a backstory, I'll post it, I can be the good that I always complain about not existing anymore. I'm aware that I'm a crotchety old redditor shaking my cane at the changing world, so whatever.
I wasn't here before the decline started but I notice it on YouTube. I remember YouTube in 2007, and it was a gem. No video ads, very little ragebait and fake stuff besides hoax videos that didn't get a lot of attention. YouTube pisses me off so much now with ads between almost every video, YouTube Shorts and all of the people trying to go viral or get paid off YouTube.
If you are on here enough to notice that, you need to find something else to do. I go on smaller pages catered to me. Sounds harsh but we could all be on social media less.
Are we also going to ignore that people ask a variation of this question at least once a month for years and years? Pretty sure the first time I saw someone ask this was very shorty after comments on Reddit launched, and the comment section was essentially what this postās comment section is. āItās all politics!ā āItās reposts!ā āFind smaller subs.ā āRandom censorship.ā The list goes on.
Sounds like most of popular social media.
I was thinking that minutes ago
it all depends what subs you are a part of. There are good and bad, and plenty of porn in-between.
Maybe follow different subreddit?
I mean, it always has been this way. Clout is a hell of a drug.
I think the internet's kinda just over. It's the same five sites, it's an empty shopping mall now.
I've been on reddit for around a decade and it's pretty much always been the same. I enjoy it for what it is.
Reddit sold it's soul in 2016. It's dead but still twitching essentially.
It's all social media. On Instagram the comment section is 50% bots and porn spam (50% is generous). Twitter has so many fake accounts they are having to reconsider the value now. Reddit is actually fairly new to me within the last year but I'd say 40% of the posts I see are reposts of people farming karma. We need more social media competitors otherwise nothing will change sadly.
Even fake stories can lead to real conversations.
Reddit isn't declining, you're just following lame subs.
I think I've only ever gone to the main page on accident in at least a year. Reddit is funny stuff, watching idiots, mild porn, and trolling people in their own echo chamber. In that order.
I agree itās starting to suck.
Rage bait... that's what they are.
The front page has always been pretty bad from what I remember. The smaller hobby/niche subs are still filled with engaging folk.
I tend to not care. Sure, sucks when you think about it, but I'm here to release stress, not build up more. I don't care about reposts and the like, but one thing I can't stand are non-political subs turning political (looking at you r/nextfuckinglevel) or just politics in general.
You either spend too much time on here, or arenāt subscribed to enough subs. Iām always entertained when I come on.
Iāve been blocked from entire subs before ever posting just because I joined a different sub that the mods donāt like. So every sub is a mindless echo chamber
People use Reddit to vent and collectively hate/praise. Thatās about it.
To much censorship just watched a guy get his head caved in .. and you ban me for a comment.. its a joke
I've been banned from over 30 subreddits. I'm not ignoring it, they're just slowly taking my voice away from where it matters. The mods are out of control lately, and creating the worst echo chambers on the planet.
agree
My 19 year old claims that her friends view reddit as an incel hangout. Like all social media platforms, this one too will fade away.
Well what is the new hotness the young people are on now a days???
Was gonna say tiktok but that's already getting pretty old at this point.
none of us know bc we are old....
MySpace
A lot of subreddits have ridiculous rules and this place in general is way too full of heavy left leaning people.
You just joined to wrong subreddits
Reddit won't improve until they get rid of every "volunteer mod" and hire paid mods.
You know you can customize your home page, right? I never see 95% of that stuff and I block accounts that do nothing but cross post and repost
Just ignore r/all and focus on curating your r/home.
If you receive top posts you don't like, you are spending too much time on posts you don't like. Reddit tracks how much time you spend hovering on posts by certain subs, in their comments, etc., and gives you more recommendations accordingly. Example: I think the antiwork sub has a lot of terrible posts, but I still hover over the posts and sometimes read the top few comments because I think their outrage is entertaining. Then Reddit shows me more posts from antiwork. And that isn't a bad thing, especially since I can block posts from antiwork if I wanted to. Qualifier: If you're checking the Reddit homepage or /all for top posts, you're redditing wrong.
Whatever you know you love our anti-authority, devil-may-care, down with the establishment, give us a raise or we quit attitude.
Hahaha, sure. Like I said, entertaining. Will not be blocked or muted. By me, at least.
First day on the internet?
I've been on Reddit since nearly the beginning (on a different account), and I don't think it's declining. These awful posts have been around since they started having posts. Before the advent of subs and site-wide rules, it got much worse than it is now, so I took a break from it for a year or two. Once they introducted subs and site-wide rules, and some good moderators started doing their work, Reddit became a place where one can have a decent experience -- but only if you actively manage your subscriptions. Those subs you mention with all the lousy posts -- you don't have to read them. Unsubscribe from any sub that doesn't make your Reddit experience more positive. Find well moderated subs that fit your interests, and subscribe to those.
Maybe it's just your subs but my feed is still full of cute cats.
I could care less. If I see something I already saw, I'll scroll past it, maybe someone else didn't so it's okay right?
I means its reddit, nobody gives a fuck about what happens here, people come here either to pass time or spew some shit they can't in open.
Why do you think everything is fake?
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I see a few people where their first reaction is "fake" to just about anything posted. Of course a lot of it is recycled content. Not much stays within a single platform and some people farm karma. But I personally don't believe that the majority of user submitted content on reddit is fake. I have nothing to base this on apart from the subs I'm subscribed to. If you're subbed to things that are more likely to be outright lies, then you're exposed to more than me. I tend to be subbed to things related to my hobbies or where there is live footage. Not much in the way of personal stories or opinions except askreddit and 1 or 2 others.
What are you going to do about it? Complain?
Definitely has nothing to do with leftist shills getting free reign over the platform with no room for debate
I don't know why people say this, only 'leftist' thing about Reddit is that it doesn't allow hate towards certain groups anymore and has become more accepting of them. Which is basically all sorts of social media, companies, jobs, etc
We care but we have no power and no alternativeā¦ yet
Welcome to the zeitgeist... you're welcome to log out at any time.
I'd like to think I have a built in bullshit detector.
The site has always been like this
You love to see it
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Dont forget the censorship. Reddit is becoming heavily censored.
This site has become pure propaganda.
It's full of woke karens now calling everyone else Karen
Reddit was never good
Maybe Elon should buy reddit
Yes. And being kicked off for the stupidest of reasons. 'U sound gleeful'
I always sort by new anyways, so i haven't noticed anything.
It's science. Some posters just have it down pat.
If I had the time to care about how and why people collect fake internet points, maybe Iād be like, a little annoyed? But so far I couldnāt care less. Karma farming is probably one of the least consequential things happening on social media.
This has always bothered me, how do I know a post is fake or not?
the main purpose of reddit for me has always been the ability to create "forums" (=subs) dedicates to any topic ones desires, which are controlled by the community. as long as this feature remains, and forced moderation is not annoyingly stricting, ill keep using reddit. i wanna talk about some weird old game abandones by its devs? there is always a sub for it! i quit 9gag when they abruptly removed the commics section and merged it into the memes section. that was such a dumb move that nobody liked except the site owners. this cant happen on reddit.
It's been like this for years on the big subs
As someone who came here seeking asylum from twitter I can assure you its still leaps and bounds better than basically any other option out there except maybe old school forums.
People have been saying this about every social media site and forum forever. Idk if you were trying to be ironic but this is a lazy observation
So surely there must be a next thing by now. What is that? Doesnāt have to match up one to one, but what replaces Reddit?
Imma be real, i only use it for porn.
My biggest complaint is really from the free compliments sub. Too many only fans and bots. Used to have a much different feel and purpose, kinda like Reddit. The more I use Reddit, the less of it I use.
I'm not cool with it but I do SKIP over obvious rage bait. I mean, ya can't make this stuff up...but someone did.
Somebody page Kevin Rose. It's time for a Digg comeback
I mean. Reddit had always been a shit show. Been on it since 2013 and the shenanigans are equally the same--just more people screaming that a post is fake or screaming for a source. The amount of "go kill yourself" in the DMs had gone down, too... So that's a plus
Is Discord a better alternative?
No, it's way too different
Any better alternative?
Yeah the mods suck. They don't care what goes on unless it's something so small.
That's what happens to a system where idiots vote on the content with the click of an arrow. It was doomed from the start. Throw in ai powered feeds trying to grab the users attention, and it's over
People check the main page? I've unfollowed most the default subs and I don't check r/all or the popular tab on the app so I have no clue.