reddit is transforming itself from a social media platform into a history lesson at this point. I’d say don’t feel guilty if you still browse reddit at all, but don’t be shocked when it’s gone either.
the attitude and behavior of the company towards the community is what’s going to finish it off more than anything.
there’s so other ways they could’ve monetized reddit without causing all this, but they seem hell bent on being obtuse. to that, i shrug and move on.
Honestly I’ve been addicted to reddit for several years, and it even had negative consequences for my life. When I was depressed I just used reddit all day and became obsessed with the subreddit moderated. I deleted that account and now I’m in a much better place but that constant urge to open reddit is still there.
Before July 1 my reddit usage was around 2 hours every day, now it’s been 0 for 5 days.
Happy for you friend! I also went from a few hours a day to nothing. Wasn’t trying to improve myself, it was just out of sheer rage at how things were being done over there. Any time I would log in I would feel self hatred and just end up making lengthy comments about spez being an asshole.
Question, have you tried replacing the hobby? I’ve found hiking and writing - (writing lyrics/other things as I hike/walk) to provide even more enjoyment than I was getting online 24/7
I got banned for wrong-think (essentially talking back to a sub mod) and it greatly improved my mental health not being able to call out the absolutely driveling imbeciles that populate reddit. It just made me not care anymore.
And yes reddit admins will ban you if you respond to sub mods to complain
They ban permanently for all kinds of bs. Felt like walking on eggshells at that place.
Didn’t help that I wasn’t 100% “left” - ironically I did lean left but if you’re not 100% emphatically regurgitating all of the talking points they’re currently recycling they gang up on you, mass report, call for mods, twist words etc.
Last month a mod flipped out and called me a Nazi bc I commented that it’s bogus that mods blanket ban everyone that stumbles on and comments any sub that they dissaprove of.
Their logic was that if I comment on a conservative sub (Nazi?) Then that absolutely makes me a Nazi and there’s absolutely no grey area or context.
That seems to be what most of the communities in some subs is like as well. If you’re not high fiving them, you’re shooting at them.
I don’t like it… I miss the old days of the internet, sure we all argued and shit but everyone at least had their little factions. Now it feels like the left runs the entire internet because most sites don’t want Republicans there.
I get why but it sucks feeling like I don’t belong on either side. I’m apolitical, which in itself has sparked a dozen redshit arguments and accusations. Can’t say “apolitical” you’re just secretly a centrist if you do. Can’t disagree with BOTH sides because neither can fathom that. Can’t sympathize with a single “red” point of view bc you’re a Nazi.
Ugh.
Cringetopia (the sub) branched off and made a website. Loved that place. Unfortunately the subs own userbase hates the chAnge and boycotted the site, also running smear campaigns and bs saying the site was only in it for the money via ad revenue even though the site owners had paid out of their own pockets for the servers and there wasn’t a single ad…
I guess some of that has come over here based on your comment scores, but at least your comments aren’t being removed 🤷♀️ I haven’t been downvoting anything here based on disagreement cause a) I think discouraging people from sharing their opinions here will kill the site, even if you don’t like their opinions and b) I think it’s wrong anyway.
I hope the extreme polarization and just general toxicity doesn’t last here. I get that Reddit is perfectly designed to split people into tribes, and I hope that’s not true of this site as well.
I agree entirely. Just because I might not agree with someone on their politics doesn’t mean we can’t have a civil discussion, especially regarding apolitical topics
Now it feels like the left runs the entire internet because most sites don’t want Republicans there.
It is interesting that this is your experience, but I can say that this is objectively not true. Especially if you’re on social media and not logged in, the content has a far right bias, there’s often at least one recommended video which goes in that direction. About twitter was one study that twitter systematically preferred right-wing content… before Elon bought it. And I mean, everyone knows about Facebook.
The fascist Bolsonaro (he literally said the dictatorship was Brazil’s best time and that its only mistake was to not torture enough; you gotta agree he’s a literal fascist) movement just won the presidential elections because of Facebook and social media. It is a massive system driving people especially to a far-right extreme.
What I can say about “Can’t disagree with BOTH sides because neither can fathom that.” is well… I mean, yeah, if you disagree with both, both probably won’t like that haha. But there is one problem to disagree with both sides if one side of them is e.g. literally trying to eradicate trans people, trying to deny them their existence, discriminate, etc., and also literally trying to undermine democracy and overthrow elections and is actively restricting who is able to vote, and the other one… isn’t.
I can understand if someone financially benefits from Republicans, or is business-friendly or such, but criticising both as in that both are the same amount of bad is just wrong and harmful, because we just got to the point where only one side got completely off all norms and in an antidemocratic and borderline genocidal.
(And for the record: I’m not a US-American. I am certainly not a fan of the US Democratic party. And I do think that of course it’s good to criticise everyone who does bad stuff, and to point that out.)
If you view reddit in incognito or on a VPN, the front page absolutely, 100 percent has the most hard far left slant possible. Half the front page posts are from whitepeopletwitter which has the collective personality of a meth-ed up AOC crossed with Stalin
Well, I was generally talking about social media, and for Youtube, Facebook, Twitter it was all the other side. To be fair, I do not know about Reddit (haven’t read any studies about it and are personally not enough in that sphere), so I could imagine it to be the outlier. Besides that, this comment does not respond to any of my arguments or talking points.
I don’t support Republicans going against trans people or messing with abortion, to be honest I think they should keep their nose out of our personal choices and leave us be.
But I don’t like the left either.
It’s not “left vs. right” - that’s just how it’s framed to us. The U.S government is fucked up on all levels and both sides have done heinous things and kept us divided throughout history.
I truly believe that’s all the two party system is, division. Ever listened to “Binaural beats”? Where they play for example a lower frequency in one ear, but a higher frequency in the other. I don’t remember the exact method so pardon if I’m Rusty but basically the end result is we hear and are tuned to the frequency in between the two, low and high, sounds.
To me that’s what the two party system reminds me of. One party outrages and destroys certain liberties or whatever. The other party fights back and the result is whatever they want it to be.
I just want to do away with all of it. Remove every part of the government that isn’t directly benefitting our quality of life and start over.
I used reddit for 11 years, founded multiple subreddits, and was a head mod on even more. I had over 150,000 karma. I spent hours a day for over decade in that shithole. I recently walked away. My account still lives but it is no longer a mod of any sub and I have deleted every single comment I ever made. I struggle every day to stay off reddit.
i liked reading discussions and learning things from lurking reddit but never felt compelled to participate in discussions. now that i got my lemmy account figured out my desire to be on there is even less.
for some reason i actually want to be a part of the fediverse community. maybe it rekindles some of that old internet spirit for me.
the only thing I miss about reddit is how much more diversity it had. cause let’s face it, there just isn’t as much content here. it’s also how I stayed caught up on current events
reddit certainly had a plethora of communities. the fediverse can get there too.
it’s going to be more hands on than reddit. we can’t wait for things to come to us like products on a conveyor belt. the content is in the discussions.
as long as people continue to participate, it will grow. stay positive.
It’s a shame because there’s so much good stuff on the site. (So much bad stuff, too, don’t get me wrong.) All that stuff is looking more and more likely to go up in smoke.
I didn’t get any! I got it for the Private sub before. I demand my blackmail from modcodeofconduct. I should send some “FuckYouSpezs” around and see what happens. If anyone from Reddit monitors this, the sub in question is /r/mushing
Best idea I’ve seen so far is to comply - and let the nsfw posts just keep on coming. Show the advertisers how their ads are being shown next to nsfw, and see how that goes.
They can, but Reddit can just as easily restore it, with a blank mod list. But based on their actions I wouldn’t be surprised if they outright ban any mods that try this.
There is a lot of information about the war on Mastodon. It might be enough for you if you want to take a look. #Ukraine and #UkraineWar are both worth looking into.
I only go to Reddit now because of one or two forums that don’t exist on here yet, But the more I see stories like this, the more I’m inclined to just say screw it and nuke my account.
Honestly, at this point, my plan is to nuke my account. The only communities on their that I really check that aren’t on here have devolved into mindless rage-bait. Probably a so-long and good riddance situation.
Do it. I did it when BaconReader stopped working, if they’re not going to do the bare minimum of caring about their users I’m not doing the bare minimum of caring about my content on their platform. It also makes it easy to not use it again.
There’s a schedule I rely on that gets posted on Reddit, but I just stay logged out and see it that way. I’ve asked on their Discord if they’d also post it on Lemmy or Mastodon, but they haven’t replied. It’s a very slow Discord though.
I haven’t nuked my account yet simply because I think it could do some good. I was a power user and I went back in and pinned a note to the top of my profile telling people to come to Lemmy. So anyone who looks me up, and I frequently got responses in months-old threads, so that’s not impossible, will see that. If it convinces even a couple of people, it’s worth it.
I did something similar to that with my Twitter account, that and while I stopped using it in November of last year I didn’t want to delete it right away in the off chance that things changed and it got better. But after a few months I figured anyone that wanted to find me on Mastodon would have found me and Twitter wasn’t any better, so I hit the nuke button. I get ya’.
The only thing reddit cant do it stop people just not using reddit. All these protests really arent that effective as people leaving reddit and going elsewhere (hopefully lemmy tho.)
I’ve been gone for 15 days. I opened old.reddit a few times to see if the protests were working.
I haven’t gone on there at all in days and I’m fine with it. A little sad about it, but I’m fine with it.
Things keep getting better here and there aren’t so many people that having a discussion is like playing the lottery. Whatever I say, someone responds here. Someone sees it.
That’s nice. I’d like to see it grow, but not so much that everything you say gets lost in the noise.
I’m past that hump as well. I was “protesting” and spreading the word through June on there, but when RiF stopped I stopped visiting the site except as a result of Google searches for specific things.
I don’t even really care what happens now over there, I’ll feel a bit of Schadenfreude the day I hear they’re going under but I don’t care to follow the day to day of what’s happening.
It’s also not going to be a quick process, it’s been going down the drain for years already and it’ll be many more years before it’s “dead”.
for me it was learning there was somewhere else to go. Reddit has been garbage for a long time that if you dont argee exactly with someone with a little bit of power you get kicked out of subreddits
I think the next step is to announce privatization of subreddits. Take a week to get all active members approved and then go private until they take the protests seriously or the site just stops growing and dies off
After the blackout, it seems the Admin sent out a generic message to mods of every private sub giving them a deadline to reopen, regardless of whether that sub had already been private prior to any talk of a blackout. Examples give in this post.
Then the admins will just override them and force the subs public. They’ll also remove the mods and appoint new ones. The only thing anyone can do is stop posting and leave.
But at least we are doing everything we can to inform everyone about what’s going on, why it’s bad, and why we’re upset. We also let them know that there’s a place to go where we can rebuild what’s lost.
They’ll also remove the mods and appoint new ones.
This assumes that A. There will be anyone willing to do the job at this point and further B. Anyone that actually does want the job won’t use it for their own gain or otherwise put their thumb on the scale and make the sub less appealing anyways.
Moderating large subreddits is a ton of work, chances are the people willing to do that work are already doing it and will thus either be part of the ones being removed or to busy with their current workload elsewhere. I mean it’s basicly a unpaid volunteer job that doesn’t benefit your resume, doesn’t exactly sound like something people stand in line for.
Moderators there are volunteers, responsible for curating the content that users post… The mods just need to limit their responsibility and only enforce the site-wide rules.
Allow their subs to devolve to shitposts and memes.
Reddit is already dead. It just might be a few years before Spez and co figure it out.
I find it sad for all the useful information on that website ( which, if you come across, do repost it on a lemmy community! ) and the subreddits dedicated to helping others out. It would be great if we could build that on the fediverse, but I can imagine wanting to reach as many people as possible when you’re helping out veterans for example.
I was wondering about this, whether just taking some of my interresting or more sucesfull posts and discussions and reposting them to lemmy communities, maybe even summarizing the best comments from Reddit, would be a worthwhile endeavor. If so, it would be best to not do it at once, but gradually over the next weeks or months.
But you are right, I’ll definitely do that for obscure questions I had that were answered in a helpful way, so I can finally start writing “lemmy” instead of “reddit” after every google search.
I did it when I was looking up information about lore books from a video game and someone posted all the books as PDF’s in a comment 4 years ago. Thought that was a great example of something I could repost!
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