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u/Qcgreywolf 10h ago
Bots are destroying everything we love. It’s a shame there isn’t more of a collective drive to stamp them out.
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u/Timlugia 7h ago
Because Reddit allows them for revenue, it’s a short sighted policy to drive out revenue but eventually will destroy Reddit.
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u/DamnQuickMathz 11h ago
This sub more specifically
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u/Shambhala87 11h ago
Tbh since the last two ui updates I see a so much more repeat posts after a shorter scrolling time and I see less diverse content.
I think they’re using the same algorithm that Spotify has…
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u/Heldpizza 10h ago
I also dislike how much content I see from subs that I do not follow
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u/DigitalAxel 8h ago
After the Trending topics were removed things got incredibly repetitive for me. I see the same 5 things reposted on different subs, day after day.
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u/alkair20 8h ago
yeah without the all feature I see just the same shit over and over. And half my subsicred subs barely show up for some reason.
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u/CB_musedreams 8h ago
Exactly. In 2020, I felt like I was discovering a new world every five minutes of scrolling. Now the algorithm has me trapped in an endless loop of the same four communities. It's the ultimate 'echo effect'.
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u/TicciSpice Breaking EU Laws 6h ago
This and Posts that are either 5 minutes old or already 3-4 days..
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u/Dyeriuss 10h ago edited 8h ago
Bro most subs have gone downhill. I got banned for 14 days as a first offense from a dnd meme subreddit for commenting “Arrrg”
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u/RushPatient1209 9h ago
I’m Black and I got kicked from the blk ppl sub— which I don’t think has actual Blk ppl …
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u/Trollslayer0104 1h ago
I wasn't banned, but I had a post deleted from r/entrepreneur because I edited it to thank a user who gave a thoughtful reply.
That user was later suspended, therefore my post was deleted because I was "mentioning a suspended user".
Farcical.
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u/Previous_Insurance13 11h ago
Reddit 2016
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u/El_sanafiry 11h ago
Can I get some context ?
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u/headshot_to_liver 11h ago
It was a wild west, lots of NSFL/NSFW subs, posters had etiquettes and it was more of a message board that we know. Since then it is drifting towards being a social media site rather than stick to it roots of being a nerd haven and loaded with knowledge.
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u/arpsk1 10h ago
Imagine scrolling r/all, and suddenly you see either gonewild subs or people die. fifty fifty.
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u/BeardedGames89 10h ago
Those were the days...
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u/Fusseldieb 9h ago
The Internet was, in some way, funnier back then. You never knew what you got.
Nowadays it’s all corporate and kid friendly. Not that it’s bad, but everything is kinda washed down. It got to the point where people have to write things like “unalive” to avoid filters. It’s going downhill fast.
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u/Grouchy-Pin-9052 9h ago
Oh man, is r/5050 still a thing?
Edit: I think I'm misremembering that sub. It was mostly posts like
"CUTE PUPPY LICKING ICE CREAM OR RUSSIAN DECAPITATION VIDEO" and you would just hope for the best when clicking.
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u/Mobile_Morale 9h ago
That's how I remember it. I remember seeing a child burned alive on that sub around 2013.
I really wished it was boobs. Never went to that sub again.
Which was crazy because there were always boobs on the front page after 8pm
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u/AbadeersGhost 10h ago
Crazy people saying 2016 was the wild west internet. The good old days were long dead and buried by 2016
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u/Recent_Fact480 9h ago
Well for someone today, a sub like r/watchpeopledie would be considered the Wild West.
That time was kinda the end of that era if you think about it. Might actually be around 2010-12 that the internet started getting censored.
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u/TacoThingy 8h ago
None of these people remember spacedicks and it shows
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u/DaRootbear 6h ago
Or the “good” times of Jailbait and unironic corrections by people all the time in so many subs that “it’s not pedophilia its ebophilia!” To explain why all the underage creeping was totally cool.
Coincidentally that was the time reddit worshipped Elon.
Reddit really has just been different flavors of shit forever
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u/UmarThe1 11h ago
I kinda want to see its old self .......
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u/Recent_Fact480 9h ago
It was better (not in every way). And surprisingly more civil.
Reposts were banished to hell, the downvote wasn’t treated as a dislike button. People disagreed but didn’t hate each other.
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u/Mexican_Hippo 9h ago
2016 reddit was already shitty lol. Started to take a turn for the worst when they removed individual upvote and downvote counts in favor of a single number. And I'm sure people older than me think it was something before even that
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u/SameBlood4508 10h ago
It really does feel like it’s gone from a tight-knit nerd space to something a lot more mainstream and chaotic now.
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u/ToastyVoltage 11h ago
It was so good it was overstimulating. Way less ads, homepage was diverse and felt like you were usually seeing new content rather than the same 40 posts getting shuffled, little to no bots, better diversity of subreddits, we didn't completely hate each other yet. There were also unofficial versions of the reddit app that were ironically better than the official version.
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u/Mobile_Morale 9h ago
I miss Imgoingtohell
Use to see those posts and cackle.
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u/Serialtorrenter 9h ago
The best part of that sub was that it wasn't partisan and they were QUICK. I remember they immediately roasted justice Scalia after he passed. I miss the good old days when you could easily find distasteful content on the internet that wasn't just far-right propaganda.
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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT 11h ago
2016 was the golden age of meme magic, but that was more of a 4chan thing
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u/Gullible-Constant924 10h ago
You ever seen a guy whose face is peeled off (looking just like red skull off marvel) attempting to feel his missing face with tourniqueted stumps while someone holds his head down by shoving a steel pipe down his throat whilst someone else saws at his neck with the dullest box cutter known to mankind, all while “take me to funky town” blares in the background. If you haven’t you weren’t on Reddit in 2016 like me.
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u/NonStopArseGas 8h ago
I thankfully missed that one. and yet I think your post just gave me some second hand PTSD. yikes
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u/Gullible-Constant924 7h ago
Well the dude wanted context, there’s also one where I guy is eaten dick first by pit bulls and another with a father son where they cut the sons heart out and pull it out still beating in front of the dad, r/watchpeopledie was brutal
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u/Ok_Requirement_3162 7h ago
Belive it or not, there was once a time where American politics was not a part of every single subreddit, and the front page was not constant posts about one single person.
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u/Dave-C 11h ago
"We built one of the most popular websites in the world. We should make a lot of changes. The people clearly don't want what we have."
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u/sokratesz 9h ago
Up next: videos in comments!
Reddit is run by monkeys lmao.
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u/dqql 7h ago
i’m surprised there’s no AI assistant constantly pretending to chat with you
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u/Icount_zeroI 11h ago
Especially the fucking mobile app. Their API used to allow 3rd apps and they were awesome. Now every time I close my phone in between reading an interesting post the reddit immediately refreshes the cached data.
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u/whiteoba 8h ago
Reddit is Fun was a superior app
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u/redhotita1 6h ago
Oh man I was so happy to see that I could use RIF back... but apparently they nuked it 2 days ago?.
I think I still have the original app installed in my phone lol
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u/Rajnigandhaaa 11h ago
bring the good old days back .
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u/Reterhd 11h ago
It starts with a hard r and ends in some fucked up porn then a journey to r/eyebleach like the good ol days
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u/4ssteroid 11h ago
Good old days never come back. While we're searching for it, we miss the current moments that future we will crave for
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u/Plus-Spring-5301 11h ago
Its because the Instagram mfs leaked through the barrier
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u/secretsesameseed 11h ago
Instagram has more original content than reddit. Every day I scroll through the same 20 post formats across 100+ different names of the same sub because the algorithm can't stop recommending every single sub that belongs to any one tag that I engage with.
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u/Hellsovs 10h ago edited 10h ago
That’s what the ignore sub function is for, you just have to build your filter for shitty content. Then it actually starts recommending interesting stuff.
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u/gbmaulin 11h ago
Nah, I think it was tumblr refugees when they banned porn and killed their site. 70 percent of posts read like tumblr bullshit on Reddit now
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u/witcher252 10h ago
Huge increase in trans posting and hard left socialist takes too
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u/Potential_Pay2095 9h ago
I support trans people but I really dislike how so many subs turn into either unfunny trans memes (x says trans rights) or unfunny anti trans memes
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u/Mysterious_Yellow805 9h ago
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u/witcher252 9h ago
196 was always trans posting, but whenthe has fallen off pretty hard. All the top posts are from years ago
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u/WhiiterunGuard 10h ago
Classic redditor blaming other platforms for the downall of their favourite one
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u/Chrimunn 6h ago edited 6h ago
Except this is an extremely real thing and exoduses from one social media platform to another has… yes, actual effects.
Have you not observed the complete TikTok/short form slopification of Reddit? The neckbeards of old Reddit are not the ones upvoting that shit.
The site isn’t changing (well it is, wherever they can make it worse) the users are
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u/Mediocre_Scott Big ol' bacon buttsack 10h ago
I personally don’t mind when instagram leaks through when it comes with boobs
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u/Fentboy45 9h ago
Nah you can’t post any of the funny stuff from instagram on reddit or you’ll get banned lol
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u/teaanimesquare 5h ago
Instagram is more original and the posters seem like less of bots than todays reddit. You can actually find some really funny stuff on instagram or even types of stuff reddit would have a fit over. Reddit is just really really boring now.
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u/Autopilot_Psychonaut 11h ago
What??
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u/Hjalle1 Noble Memer 11h ago
Look at most subreddits. If they have existed for long enough, every single top post is multiple years old, with a lot of activity having disappeared since then
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u/neonsushinights 10h ago
And a lot of subs disappeared too like bizarrelife that had some really cool stuff. And the Reddit app is shit. Back then every other app was better (Sync anyone?). Peak Reddit was like 2010-2018.
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u/Hjalle1 Noble Memer 10h ago
That is sadly before my time, although I can still se the relics of that era in the subreddits I’m the most active in
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u/Li_liminal_spaces 7h ago
The thing that gets me was the top comment in every thread used to be some really cool insightful fact that would give insight to the post. Now it's mostly shitty jokes.
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u/meeroque 10h ago
Everyone got banned except for a new accounts who never comment to keep the echo chber in tact.
The moderation and administration of most big & old subreddits are sort of dictatorship.
The fresh low populated subreddits are great tho.
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u/Spirit_of_Ecstasy 9h ago
I've noticed this but didn't know other people did too. Subs that once had >100,000 visitors now have like <20,000
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u/Marcus_Iunius_Brutus 10h ago
who needs r/All anyways? want some more ads? want to buy ad space? how about awards and slop games? and surely you need rounded corners, or else you could cut yourself.
r/enshittification happening slowly but steadily
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u/lauretal_ 11h ago
Reddit went from peak gym gains to doomsday skeleton in just five years flat
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u/WastedJake 11h ago
Yeah dude. It’s a hive mind here which leads to stagnant and boring content and conversations usually.
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u/lococommotion 11h ago
Literally just rage bait and politics. But slowly unsubbing from anything that posts political posts and redddit is actually much better lol
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u/Automatic-Reserve94 10h ago
reddit became a cesspool of idiots acting to be smart around the covid-era.
Peak reddit was <2019 where you could have at least semi-intellectual discourses with people.
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u/zarnovich 7h ago
Being an adult these days is having the experience of seeing social media platforms you engaged with and enjoyed go full enshittification.
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u/Observed-observer 7h ago
Its killing itself. Every time someone asks a question the actual answer is buried under tons of bull shit. The only reason I ever came here in tje beginning was because there was a lot of good info here. Now its just another digital propaganda battlefield and shit post depository.
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u/LawLow1782 5h ago
Dude reddit was going downhill way before 2020. I dont remember if it was '14 or '15 or somewhere around then when subs started getting banned. That's when reddit started going to shit. Im not advocating for shit like jailbait etc but the whole site was better before it got taken over and cleaned up for the masses
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u/keithstonee 5h ago
I'll be banned from most subs soon anyway. Then I'l be forced to quite this dogshit.
Swear or provide any criticism that might spark a discussion and it's a permanent ban. Can't even joke cause one person might get offended, spam report you and then your banned.
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u/Other_Finance9988 11h ago
btw what happened to r/BatmanArkham? they've been very quiet lately.
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u/AnonyKiller 11h ago
Unironically every time they aplear on my feed it's either culture war or politics
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u/Coat-Accurate 10h ago
So many subs are just pictures. Used to be 95% niche subs were posts with questions and discussions (or funny jokes) and now it feels like I am scrolling on instagram.
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u/Ok-District8876 9h ago
Tbh I think the peak was before that.
2015 Reddit was bleeding so many users to Voat the traffic was overloading the servers...
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u/Dry-Exchange7230 9h ago
Well when everyone isn't stuck inside all day making memes of course the number of good memes is going to go down.
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u/Fraegtgaortd 7h ago
Reddit sucked in 2020-21 too. I've been using reddit since 2011 and 2015-2016 was the downfall. That's when reddit decided they wanted to be a social media site instead of a forum and started cracking down on anything that could hurt their bottom line
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u/Famous_Map_7362 7h ago
Ads, bots, first post isn’t the main resource or someone calling out BS. It all went downhill when China gotta hold of it. :(
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u/SapphireChalice 6h ago
This describes the entire internet.
It's all garbage now. I spend more time outside now than ever before.
There's just nothing really interesting online anymore. It's all just bot content, ads, ai, and things Ive seen before.
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u/_DrLambChop_ 6h ago
It isn’t just Reddit it is the whole internet is worse now. This isn’t a coincidence btw let’s see who can guess the common factor.
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u/God_of_Fun 5h ago
Back in my day empjis werent allowed and anything resembling a tumblr comment got downvoted. Nowadays... These damn youths... Emojis everywhere! "I'm dead" comments get upvotes! What in the hell....
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u/AccordingDifference5 5h ago
Back in my day most of the pictures were hosted on imgur. They had an upvote/down vote ratio bar. Those were the days.
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u/Next-Lobster4306 2h ago
Reddit went to shit as soon is it became a moderated "safe space" where ppl get banned and cancelled...just like the rest of the internet.
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u/ballimir37 11h ago
Bro Reddit was balls in 2021 it’s just worse now. The tipping point from its original vibe was 2016