Both have gotten much worse

Add Youtube to the list...

Yeah YouTube is one of the more annoying ones imo
- Yeah. Lack of any viable alternatives really sucks with YouTube in particular. Hosting video is too damn expensive.
What's happened to YouTube? It's been more or less the same experience for me.

Unless this is about ads? But tbh i don't even consider that to be remotely on the same scale as the issues with Reddit and Twitter
- At least they've had (bad) attempts at blocking adblockers recently. Search function has became almost unusable etc.
- There are multiple workarounds for YouTube ads like Revanced on Android for example. On Computer I didn't encounter any issues for using the uBlock Origin extension.
Add most of the commercial internet to the list

we have alternatives to both. people just need to switch.

but youtube is really hard to replace.

Don't worry, there's TikTok. /s

SEO might actually enshittificate YT or make it dependant on AI. Both are hard to deal with from a privacy or open source POV.
Nebula.tv has some promise. It's not free but it's very cheap and creator-owned. Plus there's no ads. But it can never be a true replacement for Youtube because it doesn't allow just anyone to upload there.
What about Peertube as an alternative?

Like, I use neither. Just curious.
- Hard to monetize + server costs
- Perfect from the user side but not that great for content creators and server owners
Your best bed with youtube is odysee. It is not perfect but much better then youtube.

A direct, very intentional, assault on major social media by fascists.

Wouldn't exactly say fashisim is to blame but rather simply corpos want maximize profit on a hinherently unprofitable business models. Like I'm personally not seeing much ideology getting pushed anywhere. Granted I hardly spend time on Twitter but all I've been seein on x is furry tits and on the other platforms just ads getting pushed. From what I can tell you can say what ever and no one will hear you over the ads.
- There is not much „maximizing profit“ in allowing fascists back on twitter. Elon is throwing money away for his political goals.
- I have Twitter completely blocked, just from the news alone it's clear Elon is pushing a political agenda at the expense of the business, which means it's the intended point, because he's not dumb. It doesn't matter what you specifically would see in your timeline these days, assuming you would follow better-than-garbage people. The platform is directly being advertised to the world as a place for fascist ideology to go unchecked. The people that know that, and stay on the platform specifically for that reason, are following a very different set of accounts and they're getting a huge, daily dose of empowerment as Elon lets it flow freely, even engages in it regularly. Again, intentionally.

Am I the only one who is frustrated about the text placement over the colors?

I think they wanted to avoid "Reddit Twitter becoming becoming worse worse"
- For me, it's not the text placement itself but the mapping of color and text. Reddit should be red, Twitter should be blue 🧐
yes

I'm colorblind so I could be way off... But it looks like the red one is Twitter and the blue one is Reddit which just seems ironic lol

Fuck spez and elmo.

In 2023... Why would you use either?

to be where the people are?

I love the idea of our little corner of the Internet, but it doesn't have the content or the users of the incumbents.
- Ewww, people. No thanks.
- Conceptually I get what you're saying, but I've never used Twitter and I dropped Reddit in July cold turkey.
  
  I have had no issues being where the people are just sticking to the Fediverse.
  
  I don't feel like I've missed anything. I did pick up Mastodon, but that's just lurking. I picked up a few news apps to fill in a blank or two, but those usually end up on Lemmy anyway.
- Also because it's convenient.
Easy. Twitter is where my metal homies are. Reddit for baseball. I don't care about the political angle of each. That's not why I'm there.