It's difficult for me to give any less of a shit about Reddit. I'm perfectly happy with Lemmy.
It's been a hard habit to break after 15 years, but I'm getting there.
Went to reddit to see what the top posts were. Not much has changed.
"I kicked a puppy. AITA?"
"Gang of teens beat up an elderly homeless guy. Not ragebait."
"What are your favorite dating tips? Help me write my fluff article."
you forgot "Men have it so much harder than women and here's an entire fucking essay on why you bitches!!"
The comments are just so much worse than the top posts. It is akin to Twitter after Musk pushed the main active user base away in exchange for a Faustian deal with right wingnuts. That or Reddit was truly duplicitous in their messaging and are perfectly fine taking money from propaganda organizations running in other countries which can pay the API fees to push narratives still. Not that they'd want that before an IPO or anything....
So the same shit as here, except for the "look at how bad Reddit is now" posts?
I mean.. I like seeing that it's clearly going way down hill and fast.
I always enjoy a bit of schadenfreude in the morning.
Agreed. Fuck Reddit
Stop going to Reddit?
The enshittification is nearing completion.
Sphincter 1 or sphincter 2?
Where we are going we don’t need
eyessphincters.
What a terrible Lemmy clone...
At least they are not doing the Twitter/X thing where they impersonate celebrities to push crypto... yet.
Lemmy Silver is the only fake Internet money I endorse.
Sorry to see you're still using Reddit
This is clearly the trend for Reddit- posts in general interest subs are frequently reposts by bots and commented on by bots that are karma farming so that they can post and upvote these scams.
The scary thing is that this would be easier to accomplish on Lemmy, we just aren’t big enough to be worth their time yet.
Unrelated, but has anyone noticed that almost all posts and comments have at least one downvote?
When you have a platform with multiple millions of people, everyone is gonna be hated by someone
it was always mind boggling to be on a sub reddit, like say for King of the Hill and someone posts an innocent quote from the show or something and they just randomly have two downvotes for some reason.
I'm sorry op, I tried to summon all of my fucks, but alas, there were none to give
Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and thou shalt see that it is barren
The same crypto scam, must be a bot army
Man, it's almost like we warned them this would happen
There's a scam on the Reddit front page today
It's the same old scam as yesterday
More like mildlyexpected
Spez can drown in the shitpile he's created
WTF kinda subs are you subbed to, dude?
It's the rising posts for /r/all. So all the posts from all the subs that, if they continue to get up votes and comments, are close to being on the front page.
Not those, see the 'join' button?
Edit:spelling
I bet there are absolutely no bots at work on the platform!
More like mildly amusing. This is what happens when you basically get rid of or dissuade your volunteer mods from doing free work for you.
Shit like this is why people will leave reddit and never come back.
We are even more vulnerable here... hopefully the scammers come slowly enough that we can develop effective defenses without scaring away our users.
Gross
It should straight up be illegal to manipulate a platform like this using bots tbh.
nazi digg deserves it.
And their new Elmo-like system to pay mods will make this type of spam worse as mods will be incentivized to allow this crap.
Is there even payment? I was under the impression it was simply digital awards similar to what is already on user profiles. It seems like it only affects the modsupport subreddit. Is there something I missed?
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/24/reddit-mod-helper-program-update-moderation-protest/
What are they doing now? I must have missed that news because that sounds wild
Glad i never got into crypto. I don't even know what airdrop and L0 mean
No fucking clue myself but isn't airdrop an iPhone thing?
Airdrop(TM) is, but "airdrop" is to data transfer what Q-tips are to cotton swabs.
Spez's plan to increase Reddit profitability for the shareholders was to implement NFTs. This is unsurprising.
munching popcorn
I dont use reddit anymore but still have it installed. The amount of chat invites i get per day from bots is insane.
Not having any chat features was the absolute best part of Reddit is Fun.
RIP old friend
RIF was the only reason I used reddit. 55k+ karma account, 9 years of contributing. 1 post since RIF went down.
The crypto and buy GME spam from the groupthink "investment" subs was one of my biggest annoyances on Reddit. I used to love some of the investment subs, they got utterly ruined by the GME spam. Every other post is about trying to pump and dump some short squeeze stock.
The saddest part is so many of them don't even realize it's just a bunch of pump and dumps and hold the bag on stocks forever. There's still so many of them screaming about how GameStop or AMC is a good investment. Failing outdated business models, good investments because people short the stock. Sound logic.
I used to browse by new and once you filtered out all the crypto scams it was usually pretty fun and diverse. I do the same on Lemmy now, but there's a lot less stuff to filter. Haven't used Reddit since the API announcement and never looked back, though.
I guess we now get to see what happens with little to no moderation on social media platforms. Starting with Reddit...
What do you mean? You can see that result on Twitter and Facebook now those places are cesspools full of scam posts.
That's fair. I've never been a Twitter user and haven't been on fb in close to 4 years, so they didn't even come into my fov, but you bring up a very good point.
What a fucking disingenuous post. I can go to reddit now, and most rising posts are about things that interest me, because i subscribe to subreddits that match my interests. If you subscribe to Crypto scam subreddits, you can't go here and whine about it. Curate your timeline, just like you need to do here.
I'm so sick off all the FUD about reddit. Yes, the reddit management are basically pure evil, I agree. But reddit itself was barely affected by the exodus.
These are the rising posts on /r/all, not my feed. I've used /r/all/rising for years because it gives more frequent and diverse posts than the same couple dozen lowest common denominator posts that stay on the front page all day.
Yet, you are here contributing to the discussion about it.
The only people I've ever seen use the term "FUD" have been cryptobros lol
Why so much salt at people hating on crypto?
The only people I’ve ever seen use the term “FUD” have been cryptobros lol
For the record, "FUD" had a long history before crypto was even invented. In fact, in an Internet context I'd say it was much more closely associated with Microsoft nonsense than with crypto nonsense.
I didn't write a single positive word about crypto. I even changed "spam" to "scam".
I am salty at people hating on reddit with tailored examples to "prove" how shit it has become. It's basically people trying to tell themselves that things are much better here, and reddit has turned to shit since they left. My guess is that they actually think the content here is kinda sparse, so they need to keep telling themselves they did the right thing.
But reddit itself was barely affected by the exodus.
True, but only for now. There's a single leading alternative as a result of the exodus, and theoretically you can only enshittify something so much before people start to leave en mass.
