• The recommended subreddits are all just repost farms where people pretend not to get the joke or repost videos with less context each time
  • The games they put into the mobile view are fun for about 1 play but now they are half my feed
  • my local subreddit is so obviously being astroturfed in preparation for November that you normal users are calling it out

It seems like on all fronts Reddit is getting so much worse.

But is it getting worse faster or is it just because I have a new account and I took the bait and interacted with dumb features?

I got banned by AI about a month ago, being the sucker that I am, I created a new account, so I’m not 100% if this is the experience new redditors get/want or if it’s being pushed on everyone.

  • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    Covid wrecked Reddit. It like double or tripled in size.

    I would say there have been phases. I started using it around 2010. There was always an eternal September type complaining going on.

    Kony 2012 and Rand Paul were the weird millennial activism years. They were kinda fun. Then there was the Ellen Pao years where the site started regressing and actively pissing off the community. The_Donald really fucked things up by blatantly abusing the rules for years.

    After 2016 the site was getting too big and political (I mean, it was always political, but astroturfing took that election).

    Everything since the redesign has been bad. Covid growth folded into the Pre IPO years. They banned the API and my local subreddit lost its best moderators and it never recovered.

    And now it’s just garbage. Like that clickbait girl diaries sub is so clearly rage bait AI stories, it’s worse than relationship advice used to be.