Thank fuck I said goodbye to that place. A shame to see such a fantastic online community be murdered by capitalists try to squeeze money out of it, but probably inevitable.
Imagine if, instead of going for an IPO and all this, they operated it as a non-profit? If they just tried to be a cool place for users, like it was for 10 or 15 years already.
Instead they have to drain the blood out of it and sell it for parts and wonder why it died.
The investors aren’t wondering why it died, they’re wondering why they waited so long to kill it for profit before moving onto another thing to kill for profit. They know enough about business to know their actions will destroy the site, but they also know that the money they make just beforehand is enough to make a good return on their investment before they leave. That’s the issue with making a system motivated by profit; it’s profitable to run a business well for a long time, but it’s even more profitable to run it poorly for a short time and then leave.
Same here. I only browse it every now and then to get away from the hyper politics on Lemmy (either extremes are not good for the psyche).
But the quality on reddit is staggeringly low.
The comments don’t have the vibe like on lemmy.
I wouldnt call it “hollow” but it’s close or adjacent to it. Maybe superficial?
Too bad the non-political/non-technical communities are kinda dead here :/
Also people are a lot more protective about their karma so it tends to make everyone into a weird homogeneous blob too scared to say anything that goes against the grain
That’s what is surprising to me: They didnt exactly feel like bots.
For example r/sysadmin feels very bot-like. Same for AskReddit (very engagement baity. Sort of like the AskLemmy versions here that feel like bots trying to get very weird research answers).
Same for r/selfhosted.
Other subs do not feel like the bots they are frequenting. But it’s still very distant.
Sort of like a conversation in a rural vs metropolitan area.
Literally, any time I have been on there lately (which is much less often) it is very obvious the majority of replies in large communities are bots/AI slop. It is so ridiculous and sad to see what it has become.
The 50 or so top replies on pretty much every post are always a combination of the same 10 jokes and reaction gifs, plus hundreds of bots replying to those instead of the OP.
Any time a serious question is asked you have to scroll halfway down the page to get to an answer. It’s just not a usable site anymore if you want actual human input and opinions.
Thank fuck I said goodbye to that place. A shame to see such a fantastic online community be murdered by capitalists try to squeeze money out of it, but probably inevitable.
I still remember the first secret santa events on reddit. Some of the best internet times in history imo.
Iyeah those were fun. The original place, Reddit Mold, they were pretty creative.
I got stood up by my original secret Santa in like 2011 and the replacement hand knitted me a scarf!
The saddest part is it didn’t need to be.
Imagine if, instead of going for an IPO and all this, they operated it as a non-profit? If they just tried to be a cool place for users, like it was for 10 or 15 years already.
Instead they have to drain the blood out of it and sell it for parts and wonder why it died.
The investors aren’t wondering why it died, they’re wondering why they waited so long to kill it for profit before moving onto another thing to kill for profit. They know enough about business to know their actions will destroy the site, but they also know that the money they make just beforehand is enough to make a good return on their investment before they leave. That’s the issue with making a system motivated by profit; it’s profitable to run a business well for a long time, but it’s even more profitable to run it poorly for a short time and then leave.
That’s just capitalism working as intended.
Same here. I only browse it every now and then to get away from the hyper politics on Lemmy (either extremes are not good for the psyche).
But the quality on reddit is staggeringly low.
The comments don’t have the vibe like on lemmy.
I wouldnt call it “hollow” but it’s close or adjacent to it. Maybe superficial?
Too bad the non-political/non-technical communities are kinda dead here :/
Bots?
Also people are a lot more protective about their karma so it tends to make everyone into a weird homogeneous blob too scared to say anything that goes against the grain
That’s what is surprising to me: They didnt exactly feel like bots.
For example r/sysadmin feels very bot-like. Same for AskReddit (very engagement baity. Sort of like the AskLemmy versions here that feel like bots trying to get very weird research answers).
Same for r/selfhosted.
Other subs do not feel like the bots they are frequenting. But it’s still very distant.
Sort of like a conversation in a rural vs metropolitan area.
Literally, any time I have been on there lately (which is much less often) it is very obvious the majority of replies in large communities are bots/AI slop. It is so ridiculous and sad to see what it has become.
The 50 or so top replies on pretty much every post are always a combination of the same 10 jokes and reaction gifs, plus hundreds of bots replying to those instead of the OP.
Any time a serious question is asked you have to scroll halfway down the page to get to an answer. It’s just not a usable site anymore if you want actual human input and opinions.
It’s been that way for a long, long time now.