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points by gwerbin 1 day ago | 0 comments

I stopped using Reddit not because I got banned, but because it has been steadily converted from the world's most popular forum platform to a trash heap of engagement hacks and shady practices. Moreso than SO, which was already struggling with existential problems before AI, Reddit did itself in.

[–] paraknight 1 day ago

I've been struggling to find something that scratches the Reddit itch, in the lineage of Slashdot, then Fark, then Digg. Any recommendations? I don't mean niche communities, there needs to be enough of a mainstream critical mass the makes it _the_ place to go. I don't think it's Lemmy, though maybe it could be.

[–] RugnirViking 17 hours ago

I really enjoy lemmy with summit client on my phone. Never been on it from my desktop though. Probably a good thing all things considered.

It's got pretty good coverage of most things related to my country and interests, but if you go too far afield/niche theres not many users on many topics

[–] arccy 19 hours ago

TikTok, but you'll have to suffer the video format

[–] IshKebab 21 hours ago

There isn't one unfortunately. Some nerd is ok on Lemmy but you'll never find stuff like knitting or local communities. Not with any people on them anyway.

[–] ryandrake 1 day ago

I stopped when they killed old.reddit.com for non-logged-in users.

[–] dawnerd 23 hours ago

They're also blocking you from using even the new site on mobile.

[–] nichos 1 day ago

The updated Firefox plugin still works.

[–] ryandrake 8 hours ago

Yea, but I just don't feel like going to a site that doesn't want me as a visitor. F them.

[–] anthk 15 hours ago

There's a FFox plugin to enforce old.reddit.com's old CSS.

[–] ergocoder 1 day ago

Reddit has the most advanced AI system.

I tried to post on r/showerthoughts several times over the past 10 years. And every time it deleted my post saying my thought wasn't original. I was wow how they would even know that, and this was pre-AI.

[–] fishingisfun 1 day ago

there is an amazing opportunity on the internet for proper community that isnt slinging shooting to either extreme of the political spectrum. we need a decent discussion board like reddit without the horrible mods banning or automods deleteing something because it wasnt EXACTLY following 19 different rules in the sub baar.

[–] heresie-dabord 1 day ago

> there is an amazing opportunity on the internet for proper community

But how will you design it to survive in this age of malicious actors and persona farms?

[–] mike_hearn 21 hours ago

Rely completely on LLM moderators. But it's problems largely stem from its reliance on volunteer human moderators, who often self-select for strange and problematic characteristics (e.g. they are attempting to advance a political agenda by manipulating what people can read on the site).

[–] freecodeio 17 hours ago

I have upgraded my reddit experience to no account and not browsing the comments.

[–] cferry 21 hours ago

This site is a prime example of the worst kind of enshittification that could happen around an IPO. I left when the first moves around that were looming (API restrictions and 3rd party app ban). This is one of the rare decisions of mine that I have yet to be critical about.

When I read old.reddit.com was disabled for non-logged-in users, to be sure I'd never hit this site again even by mistake, I put a rule in my router's DNS resolver to lie and pretend an NXDOMAIN.