Reddit

I had a 13 year old account I simply stopped using in 2023 when compact.reddit.com was killed and the API changes fees were introduced. Lemmy was "good enough" get to get what I was getting from reddit. I stopped using reddit and haven't posted since.

I'd say the most recent major influences were the IPO and the emergence of LLMs.

Reddit becoming a publicly traded company and the preparation to do so certainly initiated a major shift in its priorities.

Ai and large language models make it easier than ever to create shiny, but low quality content.

And the rest is just reddit becoming more mainstream leading to an overall shift towards banal rather than niche topics.

I got a 3 day site wide ban for saying that without due process, these ICE guys are just racking up hundreds of kidnapping and trafficking charges in a sane world. The ban said I was threatening violence. I'm done with Reddit.

They want to be "Corporate Friendly."

Criticize corporations, or Musk and Trump for a week, enjoy your permanent ban.

We'll be here for you.

I got permabanned just for participating in /r/enoughmuskspam. We figured out Musk frequented the sub, and as an active member who mocked him daily, I had a feeling it was coming. I'm fairly sure he flagged me and other users for permabans.

Their excuse was that I said (((Soros))) to a Nazi MAGA claiming Soros was funding all the protests, which wasn't at all true. Why is that a bannable offense? Never seen censorship like that on the net in my life

My suspicion is that it's happening a lot and that they want to turn Reddit red like they did with Twitter. Musk and Reddit's CEO are pals.

Billionaires are taking control of any avenue for free speech. Get yourself ready to switch to torr. Won't be long now until it's the last place free of misinfo/disinfo campains.

Yep, also told off Nazis. Then, perm banned. I've been on that site for 15 years, moved over to Lemmy. Fuck Reddit.

Enshittification happened, a long time ago.

Reddit got threatened by a billionaire Nazi. Reddit caved to said billionaire Nazi.

I mean a lot of things happened to Reddit.

The most recent obvious decline was allowing AI moderation. That's when I finally checked out.

Got banned for saying that "Israeli people should be upset enough with Netanyahu to have his head on a pike" for "advocating violence". Even non-native English speakers are familiar with this expression which does not literally mean heads on pikes unless you somehow travel back in time to medieval Europe.

I've been on reddit since it's inception and while I didn't go there that often now that Lemmy exists the ban kinda seals the Reddit brand for me.

Another turning point was the April fools mini game this year which was universally hated. This has never happened on Reddit before. I think Reddit is beyond redemption at this point unfortunately and Reddit itself thinks that so they'll get their bags while they can.

Reddit only wants plain vanilla, perfectly non-offensive content. Nothing controversial, nothing. As to why they've changed, we can kick that idea around all night long, but that's where they're at, what they want.

You think it's bad? Go look at "popular" while you're not logged in (no subs / filters). It's shocking how insipid the experience is.

Oh good I’m not alone in believing something weird is going on like AI moderation. Random old account I had I wasn’t even using got a notification it was permabanned for violating a rule. No definition of which rule. Tried asking. Just a repeat that I violated a rule with no definition of which rule.

It must be just bots on there now.

It’s starting here too I called out a 5hr old account for being a suspected Russian bot and my comments were removed. I also got mobbed on by a manosphere group in a comment on an article about a book that a woman wrote about being doxed with revenge porn. The toxic Reddit culture is starting to come over.

Elon whined to the admins, reddit is completely run by fascist bootlickers lmao. You can't even shit talk dusty evangelicals for being the amoral murder rapists they are without getting a site wide ban

Me, too. 12 year account, 900K+ Karma. I was looking forward to crossing the million mark this year.

At first I was concerned about having fewer people on Lemmy, but for things like Politics, the quality of discourse is far higher than Reddit. Every Reddit post is filled with puns, idiots, trolls, Russian propaganda farmers, etc., all of which are far smaller or non-existent on Lemmy.

I still miss Reddit's active guitar subs, though.

Not to mention the reposts.

The number of old pics and videos that keep reposting is through the roof.

r/AskReddit has dropped in quality. It used to keep me busy and entertained for ages.

The only reason I use Reddit now are for old niche posts that answer specific questions. Other than that, I find my selfing going to lemmy first these days.

Welcome to the reality! I saw reddit changing in a bad way 2 years ago and came to lemmy.

I'm just there for the porn, these days. Any sort of meaningful interaction with people happens elsewhere.

Left about 3 months ago, has not been missed.

The only reason I log in there now is to slowly erase my comment history.

Literal brownshirt-wannabes are not worth engaging on social media, and "don't feed the troll" has been an Internet aphorism since last century now

Loads of old accounts are now just getting perma banned site wide.

I had an accot that hadn't been used for commenting (just the every now and then looking for something) that got perma banned about a month ago. Reason? None given.

I'm guessing they want to rid the site of users that still remember how great it once was

I canceled my reddit premium account a few months ago. I was shocked at how numerous and annoying the ads are.