I haven't read a Reddit page since I switched from Protonvpn to Mullvadvpn.
Reddit seems to allow Proton but blocks Mullvad.
Another reason to appreciate Mullvad.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2026
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I’ve been on Reddit for 16 years now, it’s just not the same anymore. The only reason I stick around is my local subreddit. I have no interest in Reddit anymore.
Problem is that it's still where so many people are. It's honestly such a shame that more people won't move to lemmy... Because in comparison there's barely anyone here. And the only reason these kinds of websites are useful is that there's a lot of people on them
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Majority of the posts on the popular subreddots are written by bots.
the subs that allow pictures, and screenshots, and videos are the most obvious. you can tell they are reposting but they try to obscure when the "tweet' was posted by blacking out the date/time. pics during the election year was so obvious "biden genocide" pics, it wasnt pointing out what trump/gop were supporting too. luckily there was any sense in the mod prior to the massive purges, that it was removed.
FWIW I get that pop up on my iphone, but it goes away and proceeds to the site using Safari.
I was on reddit every day for damn near 20 years, and if I'm being 100% honest, the fediverse is 10,000% better. The only problem is that not enough people interact. I've never seen a post with more than like 200 comments. It feels a bit empty here. But, on the other hand, 200 decent comments is better than 2000 shitty ones.
Once this place gets a few more users, it's gonna be the GOAT.
I prefer the fewer comments here. Who want's to read 1200+ comments, 50% of which are the same tired jokes?
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And my axe!
This.
reddit was better before 2016, before trump took the white house the first time, almost as soon as took the WH, russia realized that reddit was a good place to use bots/propaganda, then we see sudden increase in politicl aposts, and then ban of "Questionable" subs. orignially because of this you would make different account for different niches to avoid a ban affecting other accounts.
Onze this place gets enough users, it's gonna be exactly the same.
Careful what you wish for, the larger the sample size the dumber it gets
We're already getting bots and trolls and the mods often do nothing about them.
Yep. Happened with bluesky. It was pretty decent and wasn't getting any troll crap that was rampant on Twitter. Then there was some controversy on Twitter and Blue sky quickly went up in its new members and...yep, it just got all trolly and agro 🙄
Personally I just miss when we had individual sites for a topic like when I was a teenager. Grew up on forums for a certain artist and another different site for specific sports teams, books. Way less likely to get idiots if you actually have to actively find the specific website for an artist you hate.
I loved forums. I have a group of friends I met on a forum and we rarely talk about that subject anymore but we're still really close.
This... People keep dreaming of reddit crashing and burning or going under but, realistically if that did happen a good portion of the existing userbase will filter into the fediverse somewhere, and thats a lot of inorganic growth. Currently there are a handful of popular topics, and some niche topics. Yes there are also reddit like mannerisms but, when people slowly filter in, the room can be read and the existing culture remains, when a mass intake happens (like what happend with the API debacle) the influx is faster than the adoption and the culture comes with it.
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Fedi being way slower than Reddit was a godsend to me. It helped me detox from the endless content on Reddit because I was going loopy.
After the 5th scroll past the same boring hornypost I'm like "ugh I guess I'll put the phone down and go to sleep."
While I agree, there are plenty of chill subreddits that are full of interaction and the counterparts here aren't very active. I know that it's up to us to start creating the posts but I'm more of a lurker and replier.
i usually visit identifying unknown plant (it was fun since i was able to see people post rare and unusual plants that are very rarely seen by normally)and animal subs, because politics post is designed to get people to be angry and comment.
I need to find a client that does paginating instead of infinite scroll. It's like a fucking vortex, I can't pull myself away from it...
Its better this way. Limited content. You have to out the phone down and do something else
I'm new, came over a couple weeks ago. Others will come.
Welcome!
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That's why I just left. You can use the redirect to old Reddit extension, but this is just so fucking dumb.
It's like an extra step, to get access to their ads too. No idea why anyone was paying for ads on Reddit before, but seems more pointless now
finally? since they unilaterally banned people with no ability to appeal because they cant be bothered to "hear all the appeals" its been dead since they use AI moderation. i think thier ban affected the site enough that bots have been the mostly source of "engagement" now. plus spez/musk/gop wants to push a propaganda narrative for reddit, that hasnt fully capitulated like META, and tiktok, youtube.
Reddit doesn't like my VPN, so for the times when it comes up in my search or a buddy sends me something from there I have an extension in firefox now to redirect reddit links to redlib.
It's called libredirect. It's got a bunch of sites so you can avoid most of those shitty pop-ups if you set them up.
It's a loss, but I've come to see it as just a part of the endless treadmill of 1. Go to where the cool people are 2. Uncool people show up 3. It gets bad 4. Look for the cool people. Feels like that's always going to be the way of it.
It's almost like we're suppose to build and guard our communities and interest against tho...... sorry I meant do nothing and complain.
Support your local federated instance, hold mods and admins to task, get to know people in your community, report trolls and push to defederate instances run poorly or in bad faith. If that ends up not being enough, fuck I dunno.
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