A somewhat sensationalist video. But a lot of good points are made. Preaching to the choir here…but I thought you would all like it.
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What I learned after 12 years on reddit: the admins are Nazi sympathizers, pedo protectors, and propaganda enablers.
Looking at that place now, it’s crazy that people are still putting up with the bullshit. Everyone is getting censored/banned, comments removed, threads the admins don’t like (especially anti Trump/Elon or pro-Palestine) get locked almost immediately. Reddit is literally bottom of the porta potty enshittified.
Agree on all accounts. I got perma-banned for making fun of the conceptual average Reddit user. Now I’m here. That website is a hollow shell of what it once was.
As predicted, their stock going public INSTANTLY made the website 10x shittier. Bots, propaganda, karma-farming, tyrant power-tripping mods/admins, misinfo, and algorithmic front page is just too much.
Well, all the better mods left when they shut down the API. It’s a self-selected group of shitheads now.
Looking at that place now, it’s crazy that people are still putting up with the bullshit. Everyone is getting censored/banned, comments removed, threads the admins don’t like (especially anti Trump/Elon or pro-Palestine) get locked almost immediately. Reddit is literally bottom of the porta potty enshittified.
Reddit still has a lot of value for me, and I still see loads of critical comments almost every day tearing down certain topics & figures that you touch on above. If the censoring / banning were really that bad, I doubt I’d be able to read all that on a regular basis across their site.
What I learned after 12 years on reddit: the admins are Nazi sympathizers, pedo protectors, and propaganda enablers.
I think it’s probably simpler than that: 1) they’re a big social media site out to make money first and foremost, 2) they want to avoid agitating powerful figures of the day, and 3) they see their users moreso as convenient assets than individual voices who might stir up trouble for them. It’s pretty much just the corporate model of the day in a late-stage capitalist reality.
My point here is that I’d rather not buy in to and perpetuate false assumptions and false narratives. I don’t want to just assume that all their admins are really as bad as you think, when in reality many of them might just be trying to give users a fair shake. Many might in fact be ‘resisting.’
I got permbanned for saying Neo-Nazis should be named and shamed. Spez edits comments that are critical of him. There was a massive ban wave a few months ago of anyone posting the names of Elon Musk’s DOGE goons (who btw are supposed to be known as public officials) because Musk whined to Spez about it. Mods of r/news locked several recent topics on the atrocities committed by the Israeli government, without explanation and within an hour of being posted. On topics critical of the Trump regime, from what I can gather from replies and even quotes, the [removed] comments are tame, yet they continue with their draconian crackdown on “advocating violence”
And on that subject, I got caught in a 3 day ban for “advocating violence” when I was joking about a mosquito smoking a cigarette and getting cancer. My appeal was denied.
And I haven’t even touched on the thousands upon thousands of bots I’ve seen posting, commenting, getting awarded and boosted, and even running entirely-bot populated subs while admins and powers that be throw up their hands saying “welp nothing we can do” at the same time making it easier for bots to sign up, spread propaganda, and hide their tracks. Why? Because bots are their bread and butter. They drive up engagement. They boost reddits active user count (big number = investors happy). There exists an incentive not to do anything about it.
Reddit is biased, bots are everywhere and their mods and admins are out of control. The platform is circling the shitter, from personal experience.
Edit: I mean don’t get me wrong, reddit was a good resource for a great myriad of things from like 2005- ~2023 ish. But now, it’s become so permeated with misinformation, disinformation, astroturfing, and LLM slop that it’s currently unsalvageable, in my opinion.
And I haven’t even touched on the thousands upon thousands of bots I’ve seen posting, commenting, getting awarded and boosted, and even running entirely-bot populated subs while admins and powers that be throw up their hands saying “welp nothing we can do” at the same time making it easier for bots to sign up, spread propaganda, and hide their tracks. Why? Because bots are their bread and butter. They drive up engagement.
They boost reddits active user count (big number = investors happy).There exists an incentive not to do anything about it.Nearly all of this applies to Lemmy too, though not quite as bad.
Incoming speculation.
You know the incentives of the developers. I suspect it’s why certain features are lagging. I also suspect it’s why Lemmy was made in the first place, in case big tech showed a political preference they didn’t like.
A lot of these problems are lessened by being open source and people able to run their own servers, but not completely solved.
Rust is better than Python. But Piefed doesn’t have most of these very important issues.
Any anonymous social media is going to have a big chunk of the bot problem, but I trust Piefed to fight it more than Lemmy. And Reddit of course will lean into the bots.
I don’t think (or assume) you’re wrong across various examples of such, duderino, but you’re also spinning it right there in to a laughably-giant web of conspiracy (so to speak) simply to meet the needs of your hurt feelings and self-righteousness.
You and the downvoters are sinking in to the worst aspects of our natural state (tribalism), while completely whiffing on the better aspects of tribalism, which (to me?) is to recognise friends where you can see them, and not assume ‘evil’ about everyone around you.
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I left Reddit with a good conscience. I’m toying with idea of leaving here. But where would I go? Shit’s fuckup up yo.
I’m toying with idea of leaving here
I’m not, but I have noticed that some of the not-so-good things that made me leave reddit are being replicated here on the Fedi/Lemmiverse.
what are you seeing?
Soulless PowerPosters
like all the reddit bot links that come in 20 at a time?
that’s been annoying the shit out of me and i haven’t found an effective block keyword for voyager yet.
i’ve just been manually blocking the communities as they come up.
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I was permabanned because of a powertrip from the mods of r/argentina, they cited me for racism when the topic of the post was regarding poverty as an identity. I read the answers and there were actual xenophobic and classist answers that were left unattended while I got banned. I had past clashes with the mods because I showed them that they temp banned me for no reason, I gave them actual proof of what I was writing, based on social studies from universities and data from social studies. I guess they didn’t like this, I was a 17 year user for Reddit. It’s a shame really, it has all gone to shit.
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It is rather terrible, I am grieving a little bit but it is what it is, life is unjust like that a lot of times and I refuse to let power starved mods ruin my days.
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It’s not worth it, they will ban your other accounts. I had all 3 of mine permabanned even using a VPN. One had 110k karma, one had 30k karma, and the other had 26k karma. Reddit accounts don’t matter and reddit doesn’t matter. It’s a search engine tool now and nothing else.
I was looking up a review of a mediocre tech gadget the other day. It turned out it sucked, in research Google took me to Reddit and every third post about it was a glowing “I use blah every day and it works perfectly for my needs and I’m glad I bought it.” The negative posts were obviously real with details about annoying quirks and the very positive posts were obviously AI/sponsored. And it reminded me why I left and how normal this has become.
That form of advertising is actually illegal even in USA.
