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holy fuck, i didnt know it was quite that bad

17m members and only 2 posts in the last 24 hours as of right now lol

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.

true.

anyway, fuck spez.

I mean, making a post about hating on Reddit, on Lemmy, is pretty circlejerky too at this point.

There's a key difference, at least when it comes to hating Reddit.

Most [all?] users here have actual, informed reasons to hate Reddit, from past experiences with the site. They aren't simply joining some bandwagon due to social expectations to bend to the crowd.

Goes to Google and types in a search

• Reddit

• Reddit

• Forum post that links back to Reddit

• YouTube that's just a bunch of screenshots of Reddit over an automated voice

• Reddit again

Why won't my ex leave me the fuck alone?

She did me dirty bro she deserves it

That's just the way it is.

When Reddit was new, it mentioned Digg a lot.
When Digg was new, it mentioned /. a lot.
When /. was new (yes, I was there, too), it mentioned Usenet a lot.

At some points in time, the likes of The WELL, the Facepunch forums and Metafilter got their own mentions, prompting me to check them out.

Id say discord is a good place for already enstablished friend groups to hang out

I was one of those. Before Lemmy, nothing was truly an alternative for Reddit. There were alternative Twitter-like sites up the ass and Facebook; but nothing similar to Reddit's layout/presentation.

Thats... why I'm here.

The bots will continue to churn like npcs in an abandoned mmo.

I have literally over a hundred permabanned accounts on that site.

4chan, in part, ruined real life. So much of the initial meme buzz around Trump came directly from 4chan - god emperor, etc. /b/ and /pol/ had large coordinated campaigns to boost Trump for lulz and to fuck with people. These made the news occasionally and were sometimes quite wide-reaching. Edit: not to forget Qanon, pizzagate, etc.

Additionally, 4chan is responsible for a massive swathe of meme culture more broadly. Most people don't dredge its depths or even know "the hacker named 4chan" exists, but it has been a massively influential force.

4chan is kinda the sump of the Internet. All the crud sinks there.

4chan doesn't nearly have the kind of traffic to ever have ruined the internet.

• A website built by unpaid users and mods that Reddit wants to profit off of.

I had a 10+ year old account with like 1.5m karma get full stop banned for reasons behind my comprehension. I wasn't doing any overt racism, misogyny, violent rabble rousing... Nothingworse than vehemently disagreeing with somebody and calling them an idiot or a clown.

I only suspect I triggered a nerve which got me mass reported to an extent that I got caught in the dragnet. Being disagreeable was a ban worthy offensive maybe??

Overly sensitive fuckwits with brittle feelings. I am the same ol' dumbass I always was but the culture shifted towards "business casual" away from being more like "diet 4chan"

Aaron Swartz was a co-founder.

Swartz has been six feet under for longer than some Lemmyites have been alive.

It is rapidly becoming an unviable way to find info these days. I have to specifically ignore anything from the past couple years.