Reddit Drives away Their entire user base.
Reddit - "oh no what happened to my user base?"
Fuck off reddit
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2026
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It’s all bots and influence ops over there anymore
Bots for at least 10 years, the influencing and viral marketing has been going on since forever, though.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Digg that.
Stop perma banning people for bullshit reasons.
Well yeah, everyone trained off the data there already. Reddit (or heck, any social media) is just the same old cyclical shit. The AI deals were not a sustainable long-term model, and I'm surprised no one at Reddit, or these companies selling their users data against their wishes, could see that. Like that was the shortest term cash flow they could've gone for, and now their reputation and trust is in shambles.
"I wonder what we did to drive away engagement."
I don't think you can count on that level of introspection.
They have screwed it up so bad I literally find myself on Facebook more often then Reddit and that's after being gone from Facebook for like 20 years lmao
I'm on Facebook as often per year as I am on Reddit these days. Hint: you can count it on one hand. F— both of those sites.
Let’s mods indiscriminately block users for arbitrary reasons; why do we keep losing users??
"please install our app to continue"
I don't browse Reddit since I switched entirely to Lemmy the day the API migration happened, but I did still reluctantly have to reference reddit on occasion. Now I can't even do that for niche issues I run into. I am so upset that millions of people donated their time and energy into making Reddit the place it was just to have all of that entirely gated off. I know we're likely all in the same boat, but there really are no words for what spez did. He ruined a really great place for community and knowledge and turned it into a slop fest.
My usecase is this: To see what both they, the people in power want us to see, and to see what users say in reaction to it. I see a lot of luigiposting on the comments, a lot of pro-socialism, a lot of pissed off reactions to bad corpodem takes, and I see way, far less pro-Trump or even middling takes on the front page, at least. I'm sure there are still righty/tankie subs, but it ain't 2024 anymore.
You guys scarecly change your opinions, most of us are leftists, were when we got here and if we werent, we are now, in some shade at least. Reddit goes in flux a lot and seeing how much bluer their community is than 2024 does make me grin a little.
I learned that lesson with experts-exchange even before stack overflow. All sites will be bought out and enshittified.
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There were so many fun reddit moments that the community got behind and some not so great like the Boston Marathon bombing.
But the Snapining was one of my favorite events reddit did for infinity war
The cat fuckers getting what he deserves.
what
I assume this is some reddit meme that came up after I left 3 years ago
CEO Steve Huffman said, "These deals aren't binary. They have to make sense for Reddit, but there are many ways, I think, for the value to return to Reddit."
lol - “The value has left Reddit”
-/u/spez
Who could imagine when you piss off:
- third party devs who make the apps your best contributers use
- your unpaid content creators
- your unpaid moderators
…that the “value” would leave 🤣
I actually got an award as being in the top 1% of reddit karma earners for 2022.
In 2023 they banned me because I didn't buy stock when it was being introduced.
You'd think they'd want me there. Creating content. For free. I'm sure they thought I'd just create a new account. Nope. I just came here.
Weird thing is, I've had two main running jokes for years. One is being obsessed with corn. The other is calling George Clooney a smug bastard.
George Clooney really is a smug bastard.
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Reddit never was the same after the whole API/Mod fiasco. Many subreddits simpy died. Old users that made the site what it is left and there were new ones, but the whole vibe shifted.
Yep, it was the API thing that finally did it for me, but looking back, I should have seen it coming after all of the other stuff.
For me it was the way they treated the Apollo developer Christian Selig leading up to the whole API thing. Absolutely heinous.
Same. Although I'm reading this on Voyager, which has borrowed heavily from Apollo
Remember when YouTube started having AI narrated posts from r/askreddit in its shorts? And how that slowly morphed into the AI generated slop stories about how one family member give the rest of them their comeuppance because the Henderson account valued results instead of random cheap business practices involving Sgt Menendez and his cheating ex girlfriend?
(This stuff is like candy to Boomers because it mirrors the reader write in sections of Reader's Digest.)
I should have noticed this earlier, but it dawned on me a few weeks back.
Third party apps made Reddit a dream on mobile, a big part of its success were the passionate people. And they showed us all the middle finger
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It's easy to see the effects of users moving to the fediverse. Reddit has been sad since it nerfed /r/All. In fact, it seems like a thinly veiled attempt to control what its users see under the guise of providing a more tailored user experience. For me, the overall effect is that it's homogeneous, boring and I don't want to be there anymore.
The moderation team is just not the same without Ghislaine Maxwell
They removed porn from r/all but if you browse enough you get naked drawn children. Fucking hell.
Ehh, I don't know if we have that big of an effect on Reddit. I'd see more of their older, more traditional users going back to their ubb hobby boards for whatever their main interest is, which are very still out there.
I appreciate lemmy/Piefed being here as an alternative either way.
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