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Reddit has been on a slow, steady downward trajectory for over a decade. However, it was the rampant engagement bots nagging me with inane questions that drove me away. That, and overzealous moderation deleting comments and dishing out temporary bans for the lamest reasons. Reddit used to be the place where smart and funny people hung out and shared. Now it's just another bland social media site trying to wring the greatest profit out the unwashed masses.

i noticed the unmoderated communities banned a while ago and didn't realize that was a recent change. The ones I noticed were pretty obscure. I'm using old.reddit.com while it still works so haven't seen much issue with AI and NFT's, at least so far. (I don't post but I still lurk). Most annoying recent change was they shut down the PM system in favor of their shitty chat system.

Reddit is run by evil and ill-intentioned people but it is fairly well executed in terms of keeping user engagement. Lemmy by comparison is, at least for now, nowhere near as lively. Lemmy has much better intentions but I think its execution made mistakes. If I were king of Lemmy, I'd reorganize its software and protocols in the hope of helping it run at bigger scale. But, it's still early days.

Reddit died with Aaron. The fact you're still trying to milk Internet points from that site, using Reddit-style, low effort posting, only reveals you're the kind of user that ruined it in the first place.

Don't Reddit my Lemmy

Reddit died long ago, we are just flies tipping on it’s rotting corpse

Ironically I saw this ad last night.

You have an account on reddit, but you're not a bot? That's a banning!