Is it me or does reddit feel, weird?

Sam_Bass, 2 months ago

Its been weird for a few years now ever since they started shutting down the more triggery subs and those folks were left to spread out into the general population

p5yk0t1km1r4ge, 2 months ago

You are right to feel weird. It’s gotten progressively worse over the years, but it’s essentially just a website full of bots and karmafarming accounts. They contribute absolutely nothing except gaining reddit clicks and comments.

unreasonabro, 2 months ago

i think the problem is you went back to reddit, giving them additional traffic and supporting their removedry.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge, 2 months ago

Be proud of me lol (jk) But yeah, I went out fighting. I wear my ban as a badge of honor knowing I struck a nerve.

jpreston2005, 2 months ago

It’s all bots, reposts, and corps trying to use the system to drive engagement towards their shit products/websites/services. The comments are worse. jokes, memes, SJWs, and random proselytizations on the most banal shit you’ve ever ignored. Every time I’m on Reddit it just feels like dead internet.

jol, 2 months ago

Honestly I think you just fell out the meme train and now you’re looking at it as an outsider.

beebarfbadger, 2 months ago

There’s a subtle difference between somebody (as in, an actual human poster) posting a meme and an army of accounts named John13452958 or the like posting basically the same question with a different meme in each post a thousand times nonstop.

merthyr1831, 2 months ago

the Facebookification of Reddit. bots are raking in engagement so they can astroturf as “legitimate” accounts later.

Appoxo, 2 months ago

Yeah, it feels very repetitive.
Only some niche subs like r/sysadmin are somewhat normal. But even those niche subs are becoming this weird version.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

It’s because of bots, in the past there was enough moderation to deal with them plus a larger amount of natural engagement.

Now after the exodus there is significantly less real engagement and much poorer moderation. Those combined allow bots and low effort posting to thrive.

joenforcer, 2 months ago

Why are you using r/videogames as an example to make this claim?

There are at least two more subs that are wildly more popular and have much more activity and substantial posts and commenting.

• videogames - 293k subscribers
• Games - 3.3m subscribers
• gaming - 40m subscribers

I am subbed to both of those last two and didn’t even know the first one existed because it’s offshoot trash.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge, 2 months ago

/r/SteamDeck

/r/Funny

/r/Videos

Are other solid examples. There’s a ton like these over there, subs of various topics. It’s not just related to gaming stuff.

Snoopy, 2 months ago

I didn’t expect it to reach this level…it doesn’t feel appealing.

Do they have some AI chatting in comment ? :)

Anticorp, 2 months ago

The GenX sub is the same now. It’s just a bunch of questions now like “what’s your favorite song from the 80’s?”. It used to be a sub with substance and now it’s lame.

itsnotits, 2 months ago

from the '80s*

LifeOfChance, 2 months ago

Has that not always been how it goes? There was a time where the joke was “what can you say at both _____ and _____” because it was posted to absolute death. I know there’s been loads of stuff like that so is that not the same as to what’s going on? Is it not just a meme?

_Sprite, 2 months ago

Fluent-in-finance sub has the same problem. Every day, it’s a twitter screenshot of some politician statement and the title is always an engagement question like “Is punitive wealth tax gay?” that makes it to /all

TORFdot0, 2 months ago

Karma bots making low effort shitposts because our dumb monkey brains will upvote it. it happened before but you ignored it because you cared enough about the organic engagement on the community and mods did enough to try to stop that behavior

Now that Reddit removed mods that actually did their jobs and you’re one of us, it’s all you can think about

taiyang, 2 months ago

You can blame bots, but having also worked as a soul crushing social media manager for a few months, you make shit like this to get karma (or on other media, interactions.) Humans deserve some blame!

That said the greatest irony is a toooon of the votes and comments are also bots and/or shills. The weirdest thing I found success on with Twitter, for instance, was wishing people a good morning, using a company account. Weirdly drove profile traffic and follows. >.>

Ashtear, 2 months ago

Yeah, there’s a reason why Youtube thumbnails have all that weird shit. It works.