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.
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.