Props to everybody here who helped to contribute to that drop just a teeny tiny little bit.

I contributed first by no longer posting there and only rarely lurking on niches that aren’t popular here. I am contributing more now that they have blocked old.reddit, because ain’t no way I’m even lurking with the new interface.

I completely deleted my Reddit account, which is not a decision I took lightly, after more than 10 years of using that website frequently. I didn’t use any of the purge apps, my comments can be fossilized under [deleted] incase it helps anyone.

Makes me wonder if that’s a good indication of quality? I highly doubt bot accounts and astroturfers would ever delete their account, it’s too valuable for them. Deleted users are kind of verified human in a way.

Unless they get banned

My personal shame is to still google “product” + Reddit every month if so. Nothing compares to Reddit’s comments on recommendations.

It’s true, but the value is diminishing. I’ve tried that and more than once in the past half year, the advice within reddit posts were clearly astroturf AI-generated slop, and some of them were upvoted in similar amounts to apparent real recommendations.

Companies know Reddit is a recommendation hotspot, and stealth advertising is becoming typical business practice.

yeah SEO people have caught on tons of fake reviews for products

These days the recommendation isn’t real unless it’s from a random youtuber who’s testing 10 similar products in a 30 minute video and has spreadsheets.

has spreadsheets

That’s a very important part

I’ve been giving bad advice. As a joke.

Still worthwhile for older posts. Limit responses to 3+ years old and they’re pretty good

The problem with that is that any product that was good three years ago is far from guaranteed to be good now. Evening is getting shittier and less consistent. Any given product run manufactured in a different factory than the last run if there’s a lower bidder. I don’t trust reviews older than like six months at this point.

Internet is dead. If you just google the product, reddit will probably be the best result

even google does that now

most of reddit is 50% bots anyways, reddit is cannabilizing itself to stay alive.

I went back about a month ago to delve into a pipetobacco community since there’s fuckall on the fediverse for anything even remotely similar, and got bored in half a day, found a UBB board and joined it instead, then I left the reddit account to rot.

And with them putting old Reddit behind a login, they’re just losing traffic.
They’re going to start getting really desperate to mine data and drive advertising dollars soon.

Sounds like we should get this place ready for another wave of people

Ugh

“September again?” he complained after having arrived last September.

The wave has started. I just moved from there to here, after they enforced ID checks and require email or phone number.

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Fediverse needs that. There’s just not enough people to attain the one cool thing about reddit, that was having a couple people create communities around basically any niche hobby you could think of.

Only very generic topics or ultra-popular stuff get some traction, and in many cases it’s barely a blip.

A problem I’ve seen also is creating a niche community because you don’t want to just get the general content, but since there’s simple fewer users it’s just dead. And when someone else thinks about switching to Lemmy, they see a bunch of dead communities and are like “oh this site is dead.”

It’s annoying but on a newer site(/federation of sites) those niche communities need to be conversations that start in a more generalized community that enough people want to branch it off into it’s own thing. So there’s already core users, so it’s not DOA.

Is it regional or for VPN users or something? I still use old reddit when I need to from search results, and I don’t get asked to log in.

I get asked to login to old.reddit if I set my VPN to USA, but not for the European countries I’ve tested.

It seems to be rolling out region by region I reckon. I’m in the south east Asia and I don’t get asked to log in yet.

they just try to pretend like facebook, Fake engagement by significant amount of bots, which are likely going to be propaganda anyways. Also thier purges last year, probably was the final blow anyways, get rid of actual users, in favor of fake botting, propaganda, and spammers.

They’re still a decent enough porn aggregator. Maybe they can get an AI deal out of that.

That’s about all I use it for these days… I can’t lie. It’s still not as good as Tumblr was at that task but I digress.

Oh, nostalgia

grok already illegally scraped all the free galleries from the early 00s with hundreds of shots of the same model in the various positions, making a deal with a porn aggregator just to get links to images already previously scraped and a few new gw pics don’t make sense

I don’t see why Google would renew. The current content is AI slop.

Have you seen Google’s output lately? Their bar is pretty low, I’d say.

The only thing I use Google’s AI for is to get text out of images. Which I’ll give it credit for it does very well even with extremely blurry content

That was more or less the original comment back when they started. Bots were a thing on Reddit before of course but they really started getting out in hand around 2021 which was long before the deal.

Or… why would they renew since they downloaded all the old “useful” content? (and the new content is useless)

It’s like downloading a torrent, you may seed a bit, but you would never download it over and over again.

They’re making Gemini, it’s obvious that they wouldn’t even know quality if they saw it!

Good, I got banned for a stupid reason, they need some humble pie

I got banned for showing, quote, “extreme indifference” when Kissinger took a dirt nap 😅

That’s hilarious.

I got banned for posting in r/Tesla. Snowflakes.

good username, but also props to you for the restraint in punishment.

The existence of extreme indifference suggests the existence of mild indifference, where you actually do care about the subject matter a tiny little bit, but insufficiently to get to the heights of mild interest.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Reddit is the worst site ever, second only to Fandom

I wouldn’t say ever, it had a moment there

I met a few Norwegians through Reddit. And I earned 2 Guinness World records for participating in Reddit secret Santa.

Ok, how can that be worse?

They just banned me for no reason

“FUCK” see? Still not banned on lemmy

Banning you caused the stock to drop 9%? You must’ve had some prolific hot takes.

You won’t get banned, but Patrick will add you to his list if you scare the normies.

Thr really scary thing is what sick twisted fucks these so-called normies must be.

Did they actually get anything useful from Reddit given that 90% of the content posted there is just BS. Especially now since it will be mostly just recycling its own slop.

It’ll be the deeper corners with tech and product advice, Reddit still comes up often when searching for solutions and it’s because one of the communities had someone who knew the answer.

Where else could to ask others about some detailed F1 race question and have an actual track marshal who was at the race, or a pit member chime in?

Reddit the company are terrible, but the site can be gold. But they chased the best commenters away, and Google already got their training done and copied all the good stuff.

I still don’t get “Reddit stock”. What value does a trumped up BBS offer?

They pretended that the content was written by humans. And Google needed data upon which to train its AI. I don’t think there’s any value in that, but if you are an AI investor, you might want to ride your bubble.

The rest of us know that Reddit is full of bots and you shouldn’t be training anything on it. But if you’re looking at data from three or more years ago, then maybe that’s more human written. Of course Reddit and Google deny that bots dominate, but we know they’re lying and they’re trying to make money off of the bubble anyway, so don’t trust them.

They’re surely juicing the numbers that they show investors. It’s all about showing that they are still growing in some way or another. Nothing else matters to them. Much to the detriment of the users. I moved away from Google many many years ago. Have been moving away from Reddit over the past several months as well.

same method as FB, they pretend there is still engagement, by drumming up interactions.

Yea, like their failed video shorts in an attempt to compete with YouTube (which I also don’t use anymore). Basically they both claim user engagement is the user watches like 10 seconds of a video, which is hard to move away from in that time.

youtube shorts is just rehaisng tiktok shorts, where they steal the content form. if you arnt following a specific channel, its usual Thirst traps, right wing content, or AI.

50% is at least bots, we know from that. it got worst they used AI to ban people.

They place ads and sell reddit gold also user and site data. That extremely valuable

Have you seen how it is lately? It’s a glorified tabloid. It’s largely used for pop culture gossip. People know it’s slop, and they don’t care. They use it anyways.

Reddit is far from the days of being a modernized tech BBS. At least 10 years removed from it. In it’s current incarnation it’s an interactive daily newspaper with Bat Boy stories on the front cover. That’s what they’re selling. And it does sell.

its also useful as facebook2.0, for disseminating various propaganda.

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Reddit sucks, form me it was being shadowbanned for no reason (really I didn’t troll anyone). I tried asking why (although maybe suspicions that I was trying proton VPN at the time), i followed their procedures, never found out why (no mods that answered to me knew why) or managed to take it off until I said to myself “why bother”? I was there trying to help mostly. So yes, fuck reddit.

vpn seems to be auto-shadowban, because reddit hates user that uses vpns.

Nothing more hateful than shadowbanning, if you block or ban me in any way , be upfront about it and let me know.

I certainly loathed the experience, i will avoid any platform that can use such method

If you are using Google AI, then an advertizing company is starting to know you way way too much.

Gemini feels 1000x more personalized from old conversations than any other AI. That isn’t going to stay in just that chat window.

jaksoy.party

Good. Banned me for absolutely fucking nothing, too.

Banned for talking shit about ICE, eat my ass reddit.

Agreed. Got banned for making fun of Republicans in the softest way

Two accounts man. Main was a 11 year old account. Fuck Reddit and u/spez

Same. All I did was report ads as spam. But apparently that’s “report abuse”.

Honestly I don’t know why they even bother, when dodging reddit bans is the easiest thing in the world to pull off. Just create a new account with a different email address (or don’t enter an email at all). Bam, ban dodged.

AI moderation is overly sensitive, its likely by design because they went public.

Reddit will die within a few years from now, mostly by design. Spez and co are pulling out all the money they can, then let it rot

Just standard enshittification

It will get worse and worse but the chances of the site dying are pretty slim IMO. The majority of the current user base doesn’t even know how good it was way back. They only know the shitty reddit and they still want to spend their time with it.

I’d say that most people I know got on Reddit after the enshittification had already started in earnest.

Most people on reddit joined after the official app came out. I cannot imagine using that absolute shit heap of an app, let alone reddit in general anymore.

I remember having to give up Falcon Pro because of the token cap and witnessing the launch of Reddit’s official app: I used to client hop between Relay, Baconreader, Sync and Joey and each one was better than the official app. Richer in features, smoother, user-friendlier (?)

Like with twitter, reddit has a lot of momentum behind it. I prefer lemmy but certain communities(subreddits) just don’t exist on it.

I cannot tell you how happy I am I found lemmy

Reddit is pure filth. I was on there for 15 years and to see it die such a horrible, slow death is bittersweet. It’s like Twitter after it became X.