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didn't we post this like two weeks ago, it's gonna sit in my feed for another week

Plunge baby, plunge.

Lets take a platform driven by community participation and ostracize community users. Yeah that'll work out well.

Reddit getting Digged and me likey.

Aww, did Spez trade the family cow for some "magic" beans?

Good luck rebuilding the farm now, buddy.

I remember the early days of Reddit when it really felt like a community project. Back then, they had the goodwill necessary that Redditors would have personally financed a chunk of the costs of running particular Subreddits. Not anymore. That goodwill is gone.

The censorship going on there is crazy. I understand a site needs to tamp down on violent rhetoric but they crossed the line into absurdity. They banned me for calling out the racism in the GOP platform.

Spez fundamentally misunderstands what Reddit is and who it belongs to: the people making the posts and providing the content. The more he alienates the users, the less value Reddit will have. He's shot himself in the foot and he's getting ready to fire again.

It's not just the AI bubble, it's a distinct lack of faith in Huffman and as a CEO. He's not forward-thinking enough, he hasn't understood where the company's value lies, and he's ridiculously distracted by the latest shiny tech things (reddit NFT avatars, reddit crypto, reddit AI).

I fully expect Google to buy reddit at some point, exclusively harvesting all the info for their search engine, all the content for their AI models, and all the submission/view/voting data for their user profiles (what are you interested in, what do you think of these concepts, where are you connecting from, here are more ads we can send you, and these are arguments that might sway you in purchasing or other decisions).

Tends to happen when you ban all of your users

If you deleted your content, reminder to go back and check it again. Despite running a deletion from my GDPR export data, yesterday I noticed a bunch of comments suddenly showing up on my account that weren't there before so I i had to rerun the deletion.

Sucks to suck. Fuck Spez.

Spez can suck a taint. I was on there forever and immediately bounced once that bullshit banning stuff started happening. Should have left sooner but that was the final straw

Their only utility now is in five year old comment threads discussing niche topics, and that can only stay relevant so long.

A "dip" is when the stock goes back up. This is a correction

lol. It's only going to get worse. The site used to be the top place to look something up, now it's just going to be full of deleted answers and disappointment.

Maybe if they didn't ban their (majority) liberal users for having "opinions" on the current government, after nonstop rhetoric from conservatives.

I hope reddit dies.

After the Inauguration, they had a bloodbath in February, permabanning many long-term, high karma accounts like mine (12yrs, 900K+).

These were the members who built Reddit into what it was, and after over a decade of high volume posting without getting banned, suddenly all of us made comments that earned permanent bans in the same month. Yeah, that's plausible.

Now that they've ejected many if the members that made Reddit a lively place to debate, they're stuck with novelty accounts, puns, bots, Russian Karma Farmers, shitposters, trolls, and general bullshit. I just went over to read some subs I love, and literally the first post I read was complaining about how long they had to scroll to get past the stupid puns to get to the real discussion.

Its been getting increasingly bad for a long time, but apparently it's gotten far worse lately, now that they decided to get rid of the red meat and go vegan.

I like Lemmy, but they don't have anything close to the active guitar forums that Reddit had.

/r/wholesomenews

Well the ipo brought enshitification at max speed so that’s not surprising. They ostracize and remove users who contributed to communities for a decade+ and then replace the long standing communities with a generic, Reddit controlled alternative that only reposts all time top posts to gain traction. The only thing Reddit has going for it is the user content which is rapidly getting buried under AI slop. Worst of all (for the investor class) you can’t really see Reddit being turned into another right wing cesspool to bait young men into violence with … so there really seems to be less and less reason for Reddit to exist. Let’s hope by 2030 it’s like one of those websites people say “remember when we had Reddit …”

Everyone with half a brain knows that enshitification and pandering to CEObro echo chambers result in the platform losing large amounts of users or even dying.

Found a picture of avg Lemmy user blasting their Reddit accounts away.

Honestly reddit is still underrated in terms of social media value but it's a doomed platform from management pov. Its just so leaderless and spineless rn.

I still have no idea why I got permanently banned. The interestingasfuck subreddit said I had multiple violations across accounts—something vague about participating in the Trump subreddit. Apparently, if you so much as post in that subreddit—whether you’re agreeing with them or talking shit to the MAGAts—then go back to interestingasfuck or any other sub with the same rules, they’ll permaban your account. And not just that one—they’ll ban any new accounts you try to make too. So honestly… I guess I DO know why I was banned, but compared to the vitriol I’ve seen on there, mine was not warranted. I’ve even appealed. Fucking hate Reddit now. Cowards.

Reddit has it's problems, sure, but I just feel like the fediverse is a fresh of breath air.

I hope people keep buying and that it keeps losing money. I hope all these assholes investing in it lose a shit ton of money.

Talk about failing to pivot. Reddit was in such a good position to ride the AI bubble. Too bad all of their content had already been scraped. They then alienated their power users and casual users got a peak behind the curtain. New, interesting things don’t start on Reddit anymore. The entire front page is just trump articles and reposts. You can predict all of the top comments because it is the same shit over and over.