There's only one social media site that's still the same as it was a decade ago. The only problem is that it was never good.
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2026
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It's not the same place it was 20 years ago 😂 I hate how old I fucking feel knowing I was an og /b/tard
How has it changed? I’m genuinely not familiar with it. I know of the spicy reputation it once had, but I rarely see it mentioned anymore these days. I assume censorship or something like it found its way there?
Check this out, it's actually quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU7gCt-7kKk
Edit: and no, it's not rickroll, even if it would have been very appropriate here.
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Only reason I was still there was for my local state and city subreddits. Both of them have a discord now and both also have talks of moving to matrix if discord moves to age verification so I have 0 reason to stuck around.
Anyone who still has an account there, I'd encourage you to use it to gently promote your favourite Fediverse website. There are a significant number of people asking about Reddit alternatives the last couple of days, and sending people directly to a specific suggested site (rather than just saying something like "Lemmy") is more likely to get people to come over and check things out.
It's a shame there's not some big social engagement event going on here right now. Anyone want to start some kind of viral shitpostery?
They auto remove and ban anyone who mentions the fediverse. Or maybe they’ve backtracked on that?
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In other news, Reddit stock is down a whopping 28% today.
Please do. It sounds like the perfect plan for reddit to finally sink to complete irrelevance.
It's super funny to me. They're so greedy to keep our content that we gave them for free, that they're going to commit a slow digg.
i have moved to reddit-free experience
Great, it's removing itself from a lot of free publicity it was getting from search results and basically conceding them to the AIs spez was always using as a strawman.
Spez has all but basically admitted that reddit is a targeted experience now and that the only posts you will see are ads, echo chambers, and rage baits. It has little to do with its origins now.