So I've switched to lemmy since the reddit meltdown started, experienced quite some withdrawal symptoms, occasionally turned back to reddit, more often logged out than logged in. Now I am merely using Lemmy occasionally and by far not as often as I used reddit before. No more doom scrolling.
So far so good.
Today I went on reddit for the first time in like 3 weeks straight (I couldn't do that for the last years... yeah, I was very addicted in hindsight). I just... I don't know what it is.
Reddit just isn't fun anymore.
I turned away after maybe 5 minutes. There were maybe 2-3 repost-worthy pics, one interesting video and a few small niche discussions that all went straight tits up within a few replies.
If I ask a question on lemmy, it usually is a straightforward, honest discussion. Almost no blaming of the posters or answerers misunderstandings or senseless answers. It goes a bit back and forth usually and people tend to thank each other for corrections.
I can't remember when that happened on a reddit discussion. Maybe years back? Anyway, I'm not going back there anymore, not because I hate the CEO, but because reddit is not fun anymore. Lost all interest in it.
Did anyone of you have a similar experience?
Depending on which subs you see, the assholes have won. Holy shit the amount of right wing bullshit that got into the place. Like wallstreet silver. I didn't much give a shit before it started looking like the front page of diet stormfront.
The remaining mods are at large, S class window lickers and ableist who have been applying to get a position for years and just now get their chance to goatse the corpse of what was once a great website. Started seeing tons of people getting banned for the most petty of shit. Buddy of mine got a 30 day ban for linking another sub reddit in his comment.
Of course, I got banned too. on my 12th cake day no less, for saying a kids attitude was going to get him beat up in high school or worse.
But if anything, there are so many folks out there that can say they were there before they got spez'd and the assholes took over. It was nice for a while, but in the end, fuck reddit.
I just got a warning for "threatening violence" for telling off a guy who said we should use mob beatings as criminal justice.
Admittedly, I said something like "I agree, we should all be able to beat and murder anyone we like for our own personal gratification", but it was on /r/uk and I thought we understood sarcasm.
I always assumed WSS was FUD from the finance industry trying to persuade apes to buy silver instead of GME.
(Like, seriously, who tries to get people who buy and hold to change to silver, notoriously a cyclical metal?)
It used to be that banning was reserved for some extreme people. Now, you can get banned for stating an opinion that others think is offensive.
Things have changed a lot in the last decades. People get offended by anything now.
You guys are leaving out part of their system. It's never just a ban. It's always a ban and an immediate mute so you can't even ask them why they banned you.
Because admins don't think it's anything wrong. They never stop and think if it's OK to ban someone just like that. They don't see users as people and don't give them a chance to even explain. Who has time for that right...
If anything, the last month+ has shown just how factual it is that users are nothing more than numbers to them.
Right wing bullshit? Reddit is still dnc propaganda, unless you're just calling that right wing too.
Reddit definitely has been infiltrated by the worst of the worst conservatives. You either don't notice, or it agrees with you. Though to your last sentence, yes, the DNC is definitely on the right, they wouldn't even recognize progress.
I think you're just far-left and your overton window has shifted.
How can one tell? From my perspective: I am pretty left, but only because the majority are so far right.