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It's quite sad to see everything related to the blackout on /r/programming wiped.
(lemmy.brendan.ie)
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It doesn't surprise me at all. The spam was already there on /r/programming and /r/coding way before the blackout. I tried to report all the posts, I asked to become a mod to clean all this shit (and was rejected), but nothing worked. They don't want to clean the mess, and that's another reason why I don't care if reddit dies.
As for /r/learnprogramming, it's still filled with spam or people who cannot do a proper google query, it's as hopeless as the rest. I'm unhappy for all the newbies who want to learn something. I hope the "learnprogramming" of lemmy will be more successful.
I had some lengthy period of time where I enjoyed regularly helping folks in r/learnprogramming. But it got exhausting fast. For every person putting in a good attempt at learning, there was 10 people who couldn't do the most basic level of googling and content was often extremely repetitive as a result.
The sub also faced a constant stream of people who just wanted to self advertise their own YouTube videos for teaching programming, as if the lack of such was the barrier to learning.
Oh, and soooo many people who clearly just wanted to be told the answer to their homework questions and weren't even hiding that.