Reddit is dead.
It's mostly bots now.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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This is a silly/ridiculous narrative that simply isn't true.
I'm on both places, and have been doing my best to grow things on the Lemmy side for ~2yrs now, but Reddit is still invaluable to me for plenty of fresh and authentic talk across a number of subjects. Yes, botting may be a problem here and there, and power-tripping mods exist (at both places, actually), but overall Reddit is still a robust, useful site.
Now, do I like forward to the Fediverse growing and attracting more users over time to more and more niche communities? ABS-SO-LUTELY.
But I think we have to make that happen by producing quality comments, posts and communities, not by declaring false victories, nor by making completely disingenuous comments.
Most of the posters are bots recycling content from years ago, same post title, image, and everything.
Most commenters are definitely chatbots these days.
Ignore the above poster, it is mostly bots now
Bullshit.
I've been on Reddit for 9yrs, and have seen loads of recycled post content, which is definitely a thing. Even for the karma-farmers, though, there's at least a usefulness in bringing interesting content to new users who hadn't seen it before. And yeah, sometimes bots will replicate comments in such threads from years earlier. This is also a thing.
But across my ~dozen curated streams I see about 10% of that stuff, and 90% actual fresh content, including actual commenters that one can interact with if one merely tries. (have you?)
So part of my point is this-- if you're browsing vanilla Reddit and complaining about the experience, then you're telling me that you haven't made any significant attempt to set up your Reddit acct properly, up to and including failing to set up RES properly.
And if so, what you're telling me in short here is that you don't know what you're talking about.
I've been permabanned on several occasions and just mess with my vpn with a new account and boom everything is fine.
Power tripping mods will just permaban willy nilly so I will reciprocate by fucking with them and teasing them about how I've been banned before and how they are absolutely powerless in the grand scale of things.
What do you mean by mess with your VPN?
Same thing happened to me. Got shadow banned and didn't even do anything this time
So my comments get removed because I don't think like some of the others on this thread. You don't see anything wrong w this?
I quoted a sentence from a banned post (I like to hit people) and asked if OOP understands the difference between "hit" and "hit on" since there are many non native speakers online. Next day I was banned. No repeal. That's it. I am so fed up.
It'll only get better, welcome!
Maybe you were upvoting things that Reddit was finding against their ToS?
I saw something about them previously warning users for things that they had been upvoting.
And, a fair warning, your upvotes and downvotes on the fediverse/Lemmy are public even if it's not shown to you within the Lemmy interface itself.
Maybe you were upvoting things that Reddit was finding against their ToS?
I suppose anything is possible. Or maybe it's because I like pineapple on pizza, I wrote about that once too
Banned for having good taste. Right on brand for Reddit.
Hello: Mod logs
Goodbye: Niche communities…
Welcome
The only way to get niche communities is to attract the more people to populate them
Modlog in of itself is a content generation master piece 🤣
Can be frustrating for us though, especially when you give the wrong rule number lol
Welcome!
Same thing happened to me. I admit I'll rage post sometimes and sure I might deserve a subreddit ban here or there. But I've never done anything worthy of a site-wide ban. But the reddit admins act like dictators on a power trip. They LOVE to slap people with site-wide bans. For no good reason, and I don't understand it. The admins have turned the whole site toxic, and places like Lemmy are a direct response to their insane powertripping.
Right now it sucks. Reddit is still the most popular forum on the internet. I pray that someday it won't be.
on lemmy its much better. if we are banned its because of politics. thankfully i can still post on tech lemmies in other instances. it would be a shame if people could be banned from all the instances just because they disagree with the mods.
"politics"
Fascism (or liberalism on .ml)
Decentralized system doesn't permit out right removal of an account unlike reddit where wrong speak will get you outright censored.
That system will be down fall of Reddit at the end.