It is tragic. But on the plus side I think this transition will be a lot smoother than trying to leave twitter since here you don't have to individually find everyone you want to follow, just show up at the proper forums.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Reddit hasn't been the same in years. I've been thinking about leaving for a long time now. Ever since subs started banning people for participating in the "wrong" subreddits, things have really gone downhill. People shouldn't be expected to do a background check on every post they want to comment on.
I was drawn to reddit in the early days for the uncensored and open pics, gifs of the arab spring horrors. I stayed with the promise of free speech, though I did welcome the clamping down on hate, anti lgbt+, and similar.
The thing is free speech should apply to all opinions, not just those you don't like. There are hate speech laws on the books but the bar is set high and it's done for good reasons. If someone incites violence or makes threats then they should be prosecuted. But being offensive does not meet the bar of hate speech.
The things I could say but won’t. I’ll just leave it as, yes. I hate it!!!! I’ve been banned for the dumbest things from 2 subs, ran by the same girl. Once for promoting my sub, which ok, maybe I shouldn’t have done, and second because oh no!!!! I used a Reddit bot in my Discord server and I guess the chick thought I was copying her. The thing that sucks is that now my sub is suffering and I’m weary od creating a BDSM subreddit because this doesn’t seem the place for that.
agree with all the sentiments here.
but imho think we'd have to agree that the dangers of one corp entity controlling a whole social media platfor (with twitter first and now reddit) are pretty clear.
our communities will coalesce again somewhere but until then we should adopt the spirit of curiosity and just enjoy these new experiences ❤️
If former redditors join here, it's not like actually leaving.
I’m sure it’s a pipe dream atm, but I’m just hoping fediverse will have a unified method to look up archived posts across all platforms. Unfortunately, it’s probably very difficult to set up because indexing would take forever given the exponentially increasing amount of content. I used to use Reddit to look up a lot of video game info/memes. Reddit’s search engine was garbage, but at least I could find info from older game guides from 10+ years ago. My main concern is that a lot of indie game devs are directing people to talk about their games on Discord, which is terrible for archiving information.
With Google getting increasingly worse, reddit is usually where I find what I'm looking for in a sea of blog spam. And while I personally think Discord is absolutely great as a chat plaform it is nowhere near close as being a reddit replacement. Everything posted in there is silo'd and not searchable from outside.
Ive been on reddit since the beginning. Watched it grow and change. These things are always bittersweet but honestly I never thought it would last this long.
My internet history is litered with relics. All the way back to the phpbb web forums, irc servers, aim/aol chatrooms, and the BBSs before them.
FuckSpez! and all those other on the spectrum megalomaniacs fuckin up the world of open source info and commerce.
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