Is it me or Reddit is starting to malfunction and getting worse? More errors, bots, and the gradual decline of the platform itself. Parts of it don’t work on some days, and it’s starting to feel like it’s falling apart.

  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I dunno why y’all still use Reddit honestly. I follow this community to watch people slowly come to the realization it’s time to leave.

    • egrets@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I do still search for Reddit posts when looking for opinions about products, solutions to technical problems, etc - much as I don’t want to use the platform, the quality of content is generally much higher than Quora, the Microsoft Forum, and other open discussion hubs.

      I refuse to be an active user, though. I know it needs to make money, but fuck their attitude to their users and moderators.

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      2 months ago

      Reddit has the only decent Steroid/Ped commuities on the web. I dont fuck with anabolics but I do play with some other things that are banned suppliments and its the only place to get decent user info on them.

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    2 months ago

    I sadly had to get a Reddit account just a few weeks ago, I am an IT technician and needed help from the sysadmin subreddit for a work question.

    But after rejoining after more than a year away from the site, it has clearly seen a huge decline, way less people post less content, the content that is posted isn’t as interesting as it used to be.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s the continual enshitification of the mobile website until you eventually either just fuck off, or download their app. It’s almost completely unusable now. Every single update has had tiny little breaking features to it, and all of those have finally added up to the absolute dumpster fire that it is today.

  • Soup@lemmy.cafe
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    2 months ago

    Starting to? ROFL!

    It’s like 75% bots and is mostly run by mods that didn’t want to give up that last sliver of authority they got to pretend to have.

    Granted, lemmy is no better unless you like teenagers misinterpreting socialism and manufacturing outrage…

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      2 months ago

      Lemmy is not malfunctioning like Reddit is. It is not reliant on a dogshit mobile app that constantly breaks down; it is not overrun by reposts; it has no excessive advertisements. And there is far less manufactured outrage and misinterpreted socialism on Lemmy. And that’s not even getting into the fact that is is an app. Hooooooooly shit, I just hate apps on a smartphone as a maxim. That tiny fucking phone screen makes writing comprehensively, and citing sources, like trying to stack d10s using woolen gloves. It has all sorts of trinkets and rewards for browsing the damn app too (I suppose the admins know they have to goad you in), and any third-party apps trying to solve these problems were left without support. “No better” my fucking ass.

      • Soup@lemmy.cafe
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        2 months ago

        Lemmy is no better. It’s users only thinks it is because its full of smug people that need things to mean what they want them to.

        There is no nuance here at all. It’s the same hive-mind with a different directive.