Restricting search results to reddit is still a nice way to filter out corporate junk and just get honest end user opinion on things. As much as I hate the management of the platform now, you have to remember that Reddit didn’t always used to be shit. Aaron Swartz was a co-founder.
Except companies have learned the meta, and now a bunch of search queries for Reddit are filled with ads on Reddit. (not to mention you have to use google to get their results now.)
Eh, I still get Reddit results through DDG. They may not be fresh, but they seem to still be in the index, and honestly, that’s fine because I only really care about the older content.
at this point I get like 75% fuck spez/etc post edits instead
It is rapidly becoming an unviable way to find info these days. I have to specifically ignore anything from the past couple years.
Aaron Swartz was a co-founder.
Swartz has been six feet under for longer than some Lemmyites have been alive.
You still have to filter through bots posing as real people replies on some posts high in google results
The hardcore forums survived.
Are you kidding? They were some of the first to go.
What makes you think so? I read hardcore as ‘small and tight-knit’, exactly the kind of forum that could survive easily on user donations and due to the more personal relationship there’s more loss in leaving it. I know some forums that fit that description that are still around now.
None of the small tight knit ones I used have survived outside of VI Control. But even the remaining ones are barely turned up by search engines.
I’m sorry to hear that, that’s a shame. My experiences are more with gaming communities from the early 2000s, so perhaps my view isn’t universally applicable to other hobbies, professions, and such.
Nah, I’m happy to hear there are still some thriving out there. Gives me hope for the future. I’ve just noticed that I’m corralled towards Reddit any time I seek out the sorts of discussions that used to happen on forums.
Yeah I can definitely say for a while that was the case for me as well. It’s honestly why I like Lemmy, since by the nature of federation it can both be self-contained and owned by the people actually using it, but still kept around even if the specific instance doesn’t last forever.
So so so many of my old favorite forms are dead. I’m not sure I agree with you
I use it less and less. I only really visit two sub reddit, and one of them has been really declining as it has grown.
To be fair reddit is still better than some instances of lemmy
If you use Inoreader, you can just skip going to it for the most part.
Please elaborate
No.
Look, I also left Reddit because it got worse, but this just reads like “I said something racist and people got mad” to me.
4chan was hating on Reddit before it was cool
Yeah but what good has ever come from 4chan?
Always seemed like a place for people to be subversive and provide a heaven for hate and degeneracy.
Reddit is cool?
I think they meant that hating on reddit is cool.
Yeah, this makes more sense
Ah, the ol’ lemmy switcheroo!
hold my
beerlingerie, i’m going in!
It dies every time someone stops using it.
The bots will continue to churn like npcs in an abandoned mmo.
Disenchantment is the little death.
I thought fear was the little death???
That’s not what the Frenchman told me
No, the Frenchman told you that ‘the breakfast is the little lunch’.
FYI it’s the female (only?) orgasm …
French being french ofc…
TIL
La petit mort
Omelette au petit mort…
DU FROMAGE* YOU HEATHEN.
Dexter is a fucking nerd.
No, fear is the mind killer.
What’s the next line?
Its a joke son. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No sons allowed 😠
- Bene Gesserit
No You!
-Lady Jessica
The spice must flow
Will the bots be what ends it?
Eventually it’ll be all bots jerking themselves off
AI really is taking our jobs, huh?
Half the users may as well be bots anyway, it’s just dorks yelling the same catch phrases at each other in the comments.
Have a look at r/wholesomememes; they decided to allow only original content (no bots or reposts), and, after two days the only post was one begging human users to post anything original.
Much more than half the users are bots.
Subs like that are bot farms for sure, but it’s been common knowledge for a decade that the default subs are awful. The ratio in smaller subs is probably a lot better.
Besides, I think things did get better there after a while?
I just had a look… there were four posts yesterday.
Seven the day before.
For a sub with over 17 million subscribers.It doesn’t look much better, I’d say.
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Reddit is garbage because of the mods.
It was dead to me over here until you posted about it. Want a reddit hate circle jerk updoot buddy?
My account has been banned for like 2 years but I can still watch porn so idc.
It’s already dead. r/wholesomememes decided to allow only original content (no bots or reposts), and, after two days the only post was one begging human users to post anything original.
There are no users left. It’s bots all the way through, like worms in a rotting corpse.
17m members and only 2 posts in the last 24 hours as of right now lol
It’s tragic, really. Reddit used to be great. Enshittification sucks.
It’s already dead. r/wholesomememes decided to allow only original content (no bots or reposts), and, after two days the only post was one begging human users to post anything original.
Asking people to post on their sub is fuckin hilarious to me. Like that’s some major, pressing issue in anyone’s life.
“Sorry, I can’t hang out today. Wholesome Memes subreddit needs me to post there! I’m doing it for the shareholders! Without them, reddit would never survive!”
Like… Is this how he expected that to go…???
If you read it, the mod certainly didn’t beg. They just mentioned that they’re still blocking bots and to not be discouraged from posting original content.
Also I find it highly doubtful that the mods of that subreddit are concerned about shareholders. Why would a mod care about money when they’re not even getting paid? They most likely just care about keeping the community alive.
Not to take away the point. Which I think is something most Lemmy users have realized ages ago, reddit is so full of repost bots that it makes gallowboob look like a saint. So much in fact that after two days, not a single original post has occurred in a subreddit with a reported 17 million followers.
Why would a mod care about money when they’re not even getting paid?
Better question, why the hell are they volunteering for free to moderate a paid multimillion dollar publicly traded company? The mods on Reddit have a God complex. They literally think that if they don’t do what they do then the entire website would fall apart. Like a nurse in a hospital. It’s insane
Many left with the API closing, and the site did fall apart, soooo…
holy fuck, i didnt know it was quite that bad
Except… it looks like people did start posting. So the users were crowded out by bots before and they’re posting now. That just shows that Reddit isn’t dead, but it does have too many bots.
I mean, I’m sure many people here wish there was more non-bot content. It’s annoying to see something on Reddit and come back here and see the same thing.
Saw a stat the other day, and I can’t speak to accuracy. But the claim was that like 58% I think of all content online is bots.
“Ruins the internet”
I happen to remember the forum culture of the mid-late 2000s. It wasn’t that great.
It was pretty great, actually. So much creativity, everyone has a normal voice, no YouTube celebrities
So much creativity, everyone has a normal voice,
…
You might be wearing nostalgia goggles.
It started out great. It went to shit.
It was better though. Wouldn’t call it good. But definitely better.
Gotta disagree with that. I remember the rampant elitism and tribalism, the shock-culture, isolation of communities, casual bigotry that would make modern 4chan blush, arbitrary forum rules irregularly enforced, etc etc etc.
For all the modern internet’s problems, its communities are much more connected, it’s much more accessible and less elitist, that shock-culture died out, the casual bigotry became contentious instead of accepted, and corporate running the show on most of these sites means that appeals and reversals are much easier than when you would rub some mod the wrong way and get permabanned from a forum you were a long-time member of. Never happened to me, but I saw it numerous times.
Yes, but if you didn’t like one forum you just move on to the next. Today there are very few active forums left.
Wish I could experience it
It had unique pieces, and a lot that I genuinely miss. But… there was also a LOT of bullshit that wouldn’t pass muster nowadays.
I do recall that people were extraordinarily toxic online. Reddit for a few years was a breath of fresh air but then got too big.
I’ve made an active effort to bookmark any active forums I come across. Even Lemmy doesn’t quite fill the niche that actual forums provide, though it is still useful.
I still use reddit for looking up information even after deleting my account. Yesterday i decided i wanted to compile the zen kernel for fedora. And reddit had the best guide for doing so. And what settings were worth a damn.
Lemmy still has a lot of problems reddit does, just smaller and weirder. It’s probably not possible to create a “perfect” social media platform, but there still seems like room for a new type of social network that’s federated but isn’t a clone of something else.
What’s your favorite forum?
Civfanatics. I actually joined up long before I ever signed up for Reddit. It’s probably the one site besides Youtube that I’ve consistently used since middle school.
It’s about the Civilization games?
Yes.
It’s gonna die like Digg or Fark … Which are still around, but shells of their former selves. TBH most normal folks haven’t even heard of Reddit, let alone Lemmy or Mastodon.
AI means Reddit will always look alive at a glance.
Like you still get some people complaining that lemmy isn’t active enough for them to leave Reddit, even though they’re just hanging out with bots all day.
I disagree with you on how well known Reddit is, it’s been mentioned in enough news stories over the years that most people have heard of it, even if they’ve never been there.
Yeah, the name was picking up steam. If they hadn’t fucked it up that name would be been gold in 1 or 2 years.
It’s a catchy name.
Since about 2018, I’ve gotten the sense that most internet users know about Reddit, but are embarrassed to admit they know about Reddit.
