How the userbase is constantly bombarding the site with alternate versions of the same meme. Everything just feels so try-hard.
Everyones comments was a “your joke but worse” kinda situation.
This is exactly what Lemmy has felt like the past week or so.
I made this same criticism myself recently. Gotta get those internet points somehow, I guess…
Also, that people post stuff that isn’t really the theme of the subreddit. For example, on r/whatcouldgowrong someone will post a video of using their phone and then it slips out of their hand and cracks on the ground with the title “WCGW using your phone”. It’s not like they were standing on top of a moving vehicle or something they just were clumsy and broke their phone.
The mods. Many mods are just abusive. In r/iamatotalpieceofshit the mods were constantly censoring a story about a man who was sexually abused. And stupid estrict rules that makes your posts get autoremoved.
not a government, not censorship
u/spez
This comment aged like fine wine
When there’s a subreddit about something you’re interested in, but it’s run by mods who enforce a extensive collection of esoteric posting rules.
We’re sorry, but you’ve posted about Topic C on a Wednesday, which is strictly prohibited. Discussion of Topic C is only allowed in the megathread which is only open for comments on the first Saturday of odd numbered months. Didn’t you read our rules?
also, you need 1 million karma to post and your account must be 100 years old. oh and you’re shadowbanned in that sub, so nobody can see your posts, because a mod once read an unrelated comment you wrote in a different sub and didn’t like it.
The “download the app” prompt 🤕 I know there are open source clients, but sometimes i want to read with my browser
While I have no problem with the UI. I found it becoming more like Facebook and twitter. I think it I is drifting to become a Facebook alternative with chat, avatars, profile pages, bios, etc. I liked Reddit at first when it was about content. Now it is becoming about individuals.
The whole concept of powermods. At this point they should essentially be employed by reddit
it is So Fucking Slow. i can’t use it for more than 10 minutes without it slowing down to the point of unusability
- Closed source (honestly, I’d rather not know what the redesign of Reddit is made of…)
- It’s annoying, slow and tedious
- Works better for Chrome™ (I can’t even scroll down the website properly with Firefox)
- Harmful business model (Reddit Premium, Reddit Coins, pay-to-win-karma…)
- It’s a JavaScript powered website (not recommended for low-end machines)
- Communities are full of racists, homophobes, sexists, xenophobes…
- The use of sensationalist headlines is promoted to gain karma
- Is the ideal site for alt-right and conspiracy theories apologists
- Leftist/Communist/ML/MLM userbase is discriminated and censored everyday
- Reddit moderators are terrible (most of them)
- Dark patterns everywhere
- They block Tor users
- (I can think of many more but need I go on?)
This. ^
O see nothing wrong with censoring and making fun of MLM content. (Multi Level Marketing)
Yeah, maybe OP has something to do with them? They teach to stay away from MLM everywhere, it’s not just reddit. And that’s positive, because it’s a scam
lol MLM in this context means Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
But I also see nothing wrong with making fun of these MLMs.
this is one of the best misinterpretations of an acronym I have ever seen
MLM in this case refers to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism or Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought, not Multi-Level Marketing.
I was going to post some gripes, but you’ve really covered them comprehensively.
We might be visiting different sites because the reddit I know is anti-right. Most popular news subreddits like /r/politics are actually US-democratic party echo chambers.
Have you ever visited r/europe or r/worldnews?
I have. They are mostly made up of leftists actually. Not extreme left, but left nonetheless.
Hmm, I don’t think so (I guess because we have different conceptions of what is alt-right). But, do you agree with the rest of what I wrote?
Yeah, the rest I agree with. I also hate the move towards profiles and more attention to the individual.
How it’s living rent free in the head of many lemmy users who keep making posts aboit it
Check the post date.
Im sorry but posts like this one. Being meta all the time for no reason
I posted this 2 years ago.
Am I tripping or is this post 2 years old
Oh wtf, you opened my eyes here. Its interesting how these 2 year old comments are still relevant especially now.
Yeah I posted this 2 years ago. The way “Active” sorting works in Lemmy, is you see the posts with recent comments. Someone commented on this, pushing it back to the front page.
All comments are 2 years old as well.
There must have been a glitch. In time. 2 years have passed since we opened the comment page.
Reddit/Lemmy Lake House confirmed
Absolutely crazy how a 2 year old post can pop up sorting by hot. It is funny how relevant it is now though.
For me it’s how explicitly for-profit it has become. This manifests in a lot of things like:
- rampant advertisements
- dark patterns to get the users hooked
- you literally cannot use the mobile site because it nudges you to install the app at all times
- new UI is garbage
- misinformation is freely allowed to fester to not drive down revenue
It has pretty much become like Facebook and it really sucks.
This lays everything out really well. The dark pattern / psychologically addictive stuff is something I’d love compile a megathread of articles on, not to necessarily create anything official, but just as a series of design principles to refer to.
I don’t even know where to find scientific information on the dark patterns. The thing you shared about infinite scrolling is relevant. But a lot of what I read are unproved observations. Psychologists should be all over this shit since they publish literally anything these days. Maybe it will be easier to find if I dig deeper on Google Scholar. For example I know their nanotransaction bullshit where you can distribute awards worth less than a dollar is a result of their experimentation with psychological engineering too. Worst thing is shit like this becoming more and more normal by the day and people in general have zero objections to these. Considering how long it took the capitalist world to reign in big tobacco I don’t see this being addressed in the near future. Plus get ready to hear fuckwits screeching about totalitarianism when China does literally anything about it.
Being not a FOSS is enough.
As always when someone asks me this question, I have to reply that reddit is just generally very hostile towards its users.
Mods always fight against admins; I used to be a mod. You check reddit one day and see there’s a new sitewide rule you now have to enforce. These rules fit on one line, so you’re left confused trying to understand how to implement it (e.g. the “no violent content” rule. Is cartoon violence prohibited? Reddit seems to think so), and you get no advance warning. We are performing free labour to keep their site running and yet as a mod your account is not in any way protected. You get three strikes like everyone else and after that you’re suspended, even if you mod a big subreddit that needs someone there.
Other users are really aggressive towards new users if you don’t catch the inner workings of Reddit fast enough. Most subreddits have a karma or account age threshold before you can post to cut on spam. That means you, as a new user, make an account and you can’t post anywhere anyway. It’s like the site doesn’t want you. Mods are also notoriously hostile towards their community but part of that is because they get so much hate that they can do nothing against (it took the admins years to implement a mute function in modmail, they had no idea mods actually even got hate mail). Don’t respect this obscure rule you had no idea existed and you get your post removed without any notification. Every community is ran differently despite being on the same site. But wait, didn’t I say reddit enforces rules to its mods without warning them?
Yep, you get it now. There are too many contradictions happening in Reddit and I can only hope Lemmy knows to learn from them.
Don’t forget the mods that selectively enforce certain rules or remove content because they don’t agree with something even though it doesn’t violate any rules.
