discussion and recommendations.

but now it’s mostly shit, like anything that is remotely social media. crazy power users and bad faith actors are all over the place.

I stopped using it a few years ago because people who harass me based on my reviews, esp if it was a critical review of a popular book.

they do that as a cover.

nobody wants to hear a teen say they want to die and and suffering form incredibly emotional pain.

or being hated by your peers and loved ones.

yep. i practiced self-harming as a teen.

it felt good. it was a way to cope with extremely negative and suicidal emotions, vs drugs.

there isn’t much more to it than that.

if you get banned from enough subs you get that account suspended. try to come back as an alt and get banned again, your get ip banned from the site.

powermods would abuse their position as mods of multiple subs to silence and harass people they didn’t like or agree with. I myself was a victim of this.

it doesn’t matter if reddit is woke, what matters is the behavior. doesn’t matter if the powermod in question is left or right leaning, they still basically have the power to ban someone from the entire site, merely because they don’t like your politics, or worse, one comment you made on one sub.

even if that comment is bannable, doesn’t mean you should be banned from unrelated subs, let alone the site. it’s also double ridiculous when you are a power user or other significant person in the sub who has helped build the community and some power mod decides you’re a threat to them.

reddit’s whole api used to be open and any user could run scripts with a bit of php. it was incredibly fun and interesting.

my entire history of reddit was joining a small cool sub about a niche topic i liked. learning more and more and watching it grow. then watch it become flooded with low quality content by more and more people who were just there to brag and ask stupid questions and troll. then the good users would leave and the mod would ban anyone who disagreed with whatever populist bullshit was being pushed and pointed out viral marketing and steal advertising accounts. that or the mods were uptight nazis who basically banned anyone or anything outside of what they posted. or the pathetic users who would stalk and harass and insult you because you said something they dind’t like.

i just wanted a place where i could enjoy things and learn things and be free of peopel trolling for attention and validation for their fragile egos. pretty much all hobby subs become ‘look at this very expensive thing i purchased’. or if they were artistic it was ‘good vibes only’. on top of all the bullshitting and lying and karma farming.

reddit was best when it was basically link aggregator with comments. as soon as people were able to post images/videos and were able to ban anyone they disagreed with, it basically devolved into a kindergarten level show and tell hugbox with the mods being kindergarten teachers telling us anything other than ‘being nice’ meant you were no longer allowed to participate.

Exactly. Reddit used to be fun. anarcho communists and hardcore libertarians could trash talk, debate, and banter. people on the site were just fun weirdos. nothing was personal, very little was seriously political.

then everything became serious business, and no more fun was allowed and mods became growth-grubbing ban-happy nutcases who only allowed ‘correct’ opinions, and the site became useless as both a source of entertainment and education because it became about perpetuating the very serious bullshit bubble of your sub at all costs.

i have been mostly having the same opinions for a decade on reddit. the past couple of years my pragmatic thoughts are now a bannable offensive because they aren’t so far-left or far-right nonsense.

if you sub to both you’ll see both in your main feed

All i know is I spend half my time on lemmy/kbin now blocking stuff because it’s just stupid meme after meme after meme.

That wasn’t the case a few weeks ago.