Reddit is pure filth. I was on there for 15 years and to see it die such a horrible, slow death is bittersweet. It's like Twitter after it became X.

It will get worse and worse but the chances of the site dying are pretty slim IMO. The majority of the current user base doesn't even know how good it was way back. They only know the shitty reddit and they still want to spend their time with it.

Banned for talking shit about ICE, eat my ass reddit.

AI moderation is overly sensitive, its likely by design because they went public.

Same. All I did was report ads as spam. But apparently that's "report abuse".

Honestly I don't know why they even bother, when dodging reddit bans is the easiest thing in the world to pull off. Just create a new account with a different email address (or don't enter an email at all). Bam, ban dodged.

My personal shame is to still google “product” + Reddit every month if so. Nothing compares to Reddit’s comments on recommendations.

most of reddit is 50% bots anyways, reddit is cannabilizing itself to stay alive.

I went back about a month ago to delve into a pipetobacco community since there's fuckall on the fediverse for anything even remotely similar, and got bored in half a day, found a UBB board and joined it instead, then I left the reddit account to rot.

I contributed first by no longer posting there and only rarely lurking on niches that aren't popular here. I am contributing more now that they have blocked old.reddit, because ain't no way I'm even lurking with the new interface.

vpn seems to be auto-shadowban, because reddit hates user that uses vpns.

Sounds like we should get this place ready for another wave of people

Or... why would they renew since they downloaded all the old "useful" content? (and the new content is useless)

It's like downloading a torrent, you may seed a bit, but you would never download it over and over again.

Have you seen Google's output lately? Their bar is pretty low, I'd say.

Have you seen how it is lately? It's a glorified tabloid. It's largely used for pop culture gossip. People know it's slop, and they don't care. They use it anyways.

Reddit is far from the days of being a modernized tech BBS. At least 10 years removed from it. In it's current incarnation it's an interactive daily newspaper with Bat Boy stories on the front cover. That's what they're selling. And it does sell.

They pretended that the content was written by humans. And Google needed data upon which to train its AI. I don't think there's any value in that, but if you are an AI investor, you might want to ride your bubble.

The rest of us know that Reddit is full of bots and you shouldn't be training anything on it. But if you're looking at data from three or more years ago, then maybe that's more human written. Of course Reddit and Google deny that bots dominate, but we know they're lying and they're trying to make money off of the bubble anyway, so don't trust them.

You won't get banned, but Patrick will add you to his list if you scare the normies.

I got banned for showing, quote, "extreme indifference" when Kissinger took a dirt nap 😅