Reddit needs to die like digg did
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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It's crap like this that's the reason why I started looking for alternatives like Lemmy. Reddit is getting a little too big for their britches.
A little too big you say?
This was the push I needed to delete my reddit account and I did it yesterday
f*ck reddit but i miss the steam and steam deck subreddits
Both the Reddit app and the Reddit website are absolute travesties
I don't even bother with reddit anymore
The Reddit manchild fanbase are just grown up tablet kids at this point. Makes sense to push them to an app on their phone.
Garbage takes itself out, lol.
They never learn.
learn what? they're more successful than they've ever been. Their profit is up, their users are up. What exactly do they need to learn? Yes, you and I and most people reading this comment are pissed off at them and left their platform. But 99% of people didn't bother. This will annoy people but ultimately it won't drive users away in any substantial numbers. They do it because they know they can and most people will do what they're told and get the app instead. You say that as if you expect them to be shooting themselves in the foot, but people being annoyed at them does not reduce their profitability.
How many are bots?
Its like facebook. Engagement is up, audience is increased, but, its likely by a small number of people. I started noticing that in the Aussie subs, that every week, near the weekend (right before night), there were obvious lobbyist posts, which suddenly shot up (stuff like pro guns, pro- one nation etc). At this point, our local racism party was clearly doing heavy lobbying on the platform (despite losing 30 years of elections, based on reddit, you'd think they were #1).
Like facebook, a lot of people are switching off now, and trying to find alternatives.
Moderation has also gotten really bad recently. I had an account for 14+ years, never got banned. Made a new account, and within a few months, I got a temp ban for apparently being racist (despite the fact, I spent a lot of time arguing AGAINST racism).
On facebook in fact, on the heatpump posts, I actually noticed 1 or 2 names pop up on almost all the adverts saying they were an engineer, and that heatpumps don't work, etc (with bad info). Reddit allows infinite accounts, and no doubt, it is not much better there
IKR, I left reddit a couple of years ago when they did the API thing, and even then it felt like there were a lot of bots around. I can only imagine that's increased massively with Gen AI having become so ubiquitous. If I were an advertiser or investor, that's a question that would worry me.
Advertisers and investors are drinking the same coolaid. It's the customers of those advertisers that need to be questioning their ad space purchases.
The average moron decides the rest of our fate. The average moron decided to sell our privacy wholesale and ask for seconds . Let's face it, intelligent people are just on the moron boat ride, and there is nothing we can do about it.
They are failing and they know it. You talk about money, but the rest of us talk about legacy and longevity. Reddit is dying.
Of course it's different now. that's why you and I left. but dying? dying means failing, and objectively they're doing better than ever. I hate that they've cashed in their goodwill/"legacy" and enshittified, but I can't argue that they haven't been successful in doing so. I seriously doubt they care about legacy when the line is going up.
Objectively their business is doing well. Their social network is clearly dropping off like most others. Real people are posting much less across the board, Reddit is turning into a passive AI fueled entertainment platform.
Their app performs worse than running their website on Firefox. That's a technical feat of its own.
I hate reddit. They blocked all of my accounts for no reason. And they're so vague explaining why, and when I tried to appeal, the whole site crashed. Literally joined Lemmy yesterday.
Lol I quit reddit a couple of years ago when they did the API thing. Recently went on there cos I was googling some game stuff that led me there - and I found that the account that was logged in had been banned. I hadn't commented or voted out even really been there for 2 years and somewhere in that time I earned a ban, somehow. Gotta laugh.
Same.
shrug Fuck that place.
I used Reddit since near it's start, never banned until recently. Apparently saying that public officials who betray their country and the will of the people should be burned at the stake is me making threats. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
I used reddit for about 4 years. I couldn't stand it anymore, the bots, the bans for no proper reason. A lot of people recommended Lemmy, but I was reluctant to start using it at first. Glad I finally made it here
Glad to have you. Honestly, I think the smaller community makes it better. Even if there is no unending firehose of memes and shitposts here. You can run out.
Same here. They don't want users. They just want bots.
Welcome, brother!
Welcome. Yeah Reddit is an evil forum. Blocked me too when I was doing an ANTI racist statement. Apparently the moderhater thought I was racist, block for life, appeal never helped. I think they cannot read properly.
16 year old reddit account. I got a 3 day suspension for "harassment" for telling the mods of a joe rogan sub that their sub is full of "losers". I was completely censoring myself by being so soft in my critique. Evidently right wing snowflakes are big fans of cancel culture. Deleted the app & here I am!
Guess we are all here. I also had a 10+ year account and the last few months started getting bans for relatively tame views, most of them taken out of context and then I finally got perma banned.
Scrubbed and deleted all my comments with a Firefox extension and deleted my account. If many of us very active users do this, I believe it can make a dent in their content.
I need to learn more about what's OK on federated platforms like lemmy, but Im interested in creating a mirror bot that clones all the posts on Reddit. Just a one-way mirror to help boost content depth. Maybe it would be best to create a dedicated lemmy server for that purpose.
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When I can no longer use Boost to access reddit, I'm totally done with it (which I expect is pretty soon)
Are there still people on Reddit?,
Yeah cause network effect
Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to Lemmy Instead
I've corrected the headline for you. Thank me later, alligator.
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