I Tried Reddit Again and it Sucks Now

It does suck I'm presently suspended at the moment for abusing the report feature by reporting a Nazi supporting targeting Georgia grand jurors. Not only do they frequently not remove Nazis you can get suspended for reporting Nazis. I'm done with reddit for good. It's a cesspool like Twitter.

The "home feed" shows subs I never subscribed to.

Facebook started doing this awhile ago too and made the site completely unusable for its original purpose of keeping up with friends and family. There is zero reason to browse Facebook anymore.

Interesting to hear your experience. It took me 3.5 months to fully remove myself from Reddit. (March to July):

• I started just poking around Lemmy while using Reddit
• to occasional commenting and posting on Lemmy
• to using them about equal time
• then making a final few posts and comments in the protest weeks and helping people migrate
• then I was only upvoting
• then I made a final goodbye post on my Reddit page
• then I stopped voting but still looking around Reddit and the playplace.
• then when that was over, I uninstalled my favourite RedReader app and stopped using it altogether

I'm not one who likes to go cold turkey, but when once I commit to boycotting something I stick to it until my condition is met. In those final days I came across many Reddit users who were like "if you hate Reddit that much why are you still using iiiiiit?", that was annoying but that's behind me now and there is no condition for me to go back to it.

Long before the big fiasco I had already taken up the habit of nuking my own Reddit account after ~6 months or ~20K karma, whichever came first. I had noticed that an attachment to such accounts creates inner turmoil. Like when you get unfairly banned by some powertripping mod. I simply didn't like the fact that someone else had any kind of emotional power over me, no matter how slight, so I taught myself to kill my accounts without attachment.

So when the shit hit the fan before summer it was trivial to just delete my latest account and not make a new one. Been a happy Lemming ever since, not planning on going back. Sometimes the urge to lurk creeps in but so far I've been perfectly able to ignore it.

I honestly feel happier than before. I already don't use any news apps and limit my exposure to actuality, and Reddit was pretty much the last "toxic" thing to hammer into my mind 24/7.

I'd say I miss it, but I really don't. The hours of doomscrolling I spent on there were not only wasted, but 100% counterproductive to my happiness as a human being.

I spent over a full year /played in Wow loooong ago, and that time at least wasn't wasted because I enjoyed most of it. Can't say the same for Reddit.

Ads every few posts. Ads inside comments. Ads ads ads.

as a former sync for reddit user, we were living in a delusion in the end. We fixed it for ourselves but the tides of change were inevitable

Personally I still use Reddit for niche things (like arguing with people about whatever video game I’m playing at the time) But fediverse here for generic scrolling

The “home feed” shows subs I never subscribed to

I made a new account and was immediately bombarded with posts from subs on the account I deleted months ago, suggesting them because Reddit knew I visited them in the past.

No, that’s not creepy at all. /s

Not to mention the official reddit app is janky as hell. So many smooth scrolling 3rd party apps for lemmy.

I deleted my account as part of the Great Reddit Exodus of 2023 but have periodically visited the site since without an account.

Many of the posts I see now seem really sensationalist and almost like they were created by bots. Of course, maybe Reddit was always that way and it just some time being away for me to realize that.

Standard “wHy Do YoU cArE?” Post, ignoring this is the Reddit community.

But in all seriousness, not surprised. It’s likely only gonna get worse until it dies as a platform.

You should delete your account at r/redditseppuku

Thanks for taking the hit, soldier. I haven’t checked it since June 1, and was curious.

I'm not using Reddit since the whole API stuff got closed. However I posted something to get some tech help on a specific service online. Despite being nothing wrong with my post it was getting down voted. The mod perked up and said it's just Reddit and just get used to it. No thanks.

I miss the amount of content that would make me laugh but I don't miss the utter dickheads that reside there. I'm sticking with Lemmy.

One of the default subs in Canada seems entirely dedicated to xenophobia.

What happened to the first r/CanadianHousing🤔

All I know is there's several face rating subs now. The AskReddit and AITA type subs are trying to catch up.

Reddit is now only useful for finding answers, not for browsing

The app is also so slow and laggy af

A subreddit I used to mod which shut down in protest when the third party apps controversy happened has completely vanished from Google search.

It’s old.reddit.com or nothing for me.

A lot of subs I followed just seemed to be full of a lot more intolerance and a load of bots, I think moderators that remain just don't have the tools they used to have to root out these accounts

I find that most of those issues are nonexistent the way I am on reddit - just use old.reddit everywhere. Yes, even on mobile. I'm special, and not in a good way, but it works.

I fear the day old.reddit gets shut down, considering the amount of communities that don't have an (alive) analog on Lemmy, so for now I use both...

I noticed when signed out, there is a lot more fight videos, rate me, am I ugly, kinda clickbait stuff that's wasn't there before the API change. It's gross, like being on youtube while signed out.

It really feels worse now, even in terms of topics in the subreddits for which there is no equivalent here.

Still, until certain things are born here or well populated, I'll still check it out from time to time.

At least, so far I seem to check it less and less and am grateful for Lemmy and its growth. I hope it keeps growing!

I am using a shortcut to open a list of my preferred multireddits in Safari. I have the Noir dark mode app and old Reddit. only way it is bearable for me. Hard to abandon certain niche communities, but I realise in time, Reddit will become worse, and I will have to abandon it all together.

I don't think I've ever experienced any spam ever in my Reddit inbox in the 14 years I've been on it. What sort of stuff do you get?

About a quarter of the posts in my home feed are from subs I don't subscribe to.

Since the whole fiasco started reddit took a turn, I was a scab for longer than I should have. I check in periodically specifically to keep track of Ukraine stuff, it's still a hive of activity compared to Lemmy but I don't care for it. If I was savvy I would have a script running to scraping content from Reddit and mirror it here on Lemmy to keep in tune with certain feeds.

I actually have tried to use reddit multiple times, however they've soft-disabled most new accounts. It's around a 50% chance in my experience if your account is shadowbanned immediately, with a slightly lower chance it'll be shadowbanned within a week, regardless of what you post. If you use a privacy-focused email provider or use a vpn, or use a browser that is resistant to fingerprinting, you're basically persona non-grata at reddit. Which is honestly fine with me at this point, half of all content you encounter in almost any major sub is either bot posted or "totally a legitimate user that uses the site 24/7" posted.

Deleted my account, but I installed a firefox extension that forces every reddit link through the old.reddit interface and it's okay for lurking it.

Same. If I could still use boost I would probably go back often, but the official all is so incredibly, profoundly user unfriendly that I just can't

I don’t know what’s going on there, but I’ve had a shitton of commenters on old thread comments that are months or a year+ old. Who is digging up old threads and replying to them, and why?

This maybe happened once a year before the whole API debacle, I’m getting 2-3 a week now.

The content has become pretty boring too

I got the app when lemmy was having some issues and I needed to scratch the itch. From what I gather, the sorting options are shit. There’s only popular, home, latest, news and watch. I only downvote now, especially ads.

One of my most favorite subs used to have the usual lovely posts and interactions. After the drama, one mod just posts a daily question. It's boring. Hardly anybody responds. I don't think people are allowed to post freely anymore, because it's just full of these boring questions. One way to take down your subreddit.

I've noticed it cycles between two posts I'm subscribed to, an ad, a popular on Reddit post, and a recommended community post. You can't just see what you're subscribed to anymore.

So there are still some 3rd party reddit apps that seem to work, Orion and Reno on iOS, probably others on Android, neither are as good as Apollo (RIP) but they’re not terrible.

Once they stop working, I’m done. The shitty ads alone are enough for me to dump that trash fire.

I'll pop in to search for something real quick, but once I get my answer, I'm out.

Infinity for Android is subscription only as of August 31st so it's time to pull the plug for me!

It sucked before, too.

You're not alone. Reddit is now basically just a shadow of its former self. And it's all to make money.

Don't you love it when big companies practice corporate greed? Because I f***ing don't.

I wouldn't have expected anything different.

Reddit is nothing but a bunch of violent thugs , I had the sheer nerve to suggest non-violent passive resistance might be a viable form of protest and I was met with wave after wave of hateful responses and a downvote brigade.

still use old dot, but the moment that goes away so do I