I found Reddit about 6 years ago, took a little while to understand what it was about but when I finally got it, I felt like I had found the best place on the internet. Somewhere I could be my true self without being myself. Every time I logged in, I felt free. Like solo roaming the streets of a new city in a foreign country for the first time. Intellectual conversation, assistance on vague problems, sharing life experiences, advice, watching porn you didn’t know existed, and then slipping out the back door when you were done.

As many here already know, those days are gone. The freedom is gone, it feels like a communist regime and it seems that their success is their downfall. The entire personality of Reddit has changed and will never come back, it even shows in the users. The community is broken, unauthentic and the Truth has left the conversation. Freedom is dead over there. What a shame. It’s like my favorite bar burnt down.

But the thing that really gets me is that it didn’t just change, it became the exact opposite. It has become the exact reason why someone built it, in the first place.

I read that it’s attracting the most new users of all the social apps. Best performing app, which means the end is near. Soon it will just be a limb of the pretend society that we used to hide from behind the walls of Reddit. And for some reason, I just want to see it burn.

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    5 days ago

    I just got a three day account ban, for threatening violence, by commenting that I hope someone got charged for running a red light. This is the second time this has happened in two months, all thanks to maniacs on our community subs.

    It took me awhile to go back to that shit hole, and I’m getting a good reminder why. I just wish Lemmy would get a bit more active, and I can finally put Reddit to bed.

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        4 days ago

        Yeah, very rarely do I not get replies, if there are no replies, its on like an art post that still gets votes just doesn’t need a discussion (on other accounts, this ones new)

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        12 hours ago

        The great thing with Lemmy though, is you can leave instances. I could get banned into the 6th dimension and I just have to start a different account on a different instance. Often can find whatever kind of sub I’m looking for on different instances too.

        The cost of this will be less users but I mean if you can get a couple hundred, that largely eliminates that issue. Lemmy will keep getting bigger, we’ll have to deal with the nutsack mods at some point, but there’s no big daddy reddit for them to hide behind here. They are on their own.

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      4 days ago

      Mainstream social media is ridiculously censored now. I called a bunch of racists a single word: “gross”.

      My comment was removed while the overt racism stayed up. the digital world ain’t it.

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        It is. It’s also melted all our brains though, like some people need to be parented, but I mean the absolute garbage shit. That’s morphed from people cleaning that up and the spam, to mods trying to enforce a whole bunch of unwritten rules and arbitrarily deciding what people can post or comment based on their own opinions. Those people are mostly neckbeards too, so that don’t help.

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      4 days ago

      If you haven’t noticed they have been permabanning accounts after the temp bans expire on users. Their filters automatically flag account as ban evasion regardless if the bans have resolved. Additionally, this might be still going on. If you multiple accounts, getting a temp can trigger site wide ban on all accounts.

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          4 days ago

          lets not get to the part where currently people are getting shadowbanned soon after creating account, or posting on a sub with arbitrary requirements.

          smal niche subs have less moderation, large subs have the most: eg more likely to ban.

          and some in the middle have low-traffic but enough moderaiton where the MOds can nitpick.