My personal shame is to still google “product” + Reddit every month if so. Nothing compares to Reddit’s comments on recommendations.

I contributed first by no longer posting there and only rarely lurking on niches that aren't popular here. I am contributing more now that they have blocked old.reddit, because ain't no way I'm even lurking with the new interface.

most of reddit is 50% bots anyways, reddit is cannabilizing itself to stay alive.

I went back about a month ago to delve into a pipetobacco community since there's fuckall on the fediverse for anything even remotely similar, and got bored in half a day, found a UBB board and joined it instead, then I left the reddit account to rot.

Sounds like we should get this place ready for another wave of people

they just try to pretend like facebook, Fake engagement by significant amount of bots, which are likely going to be propaganda anyways. Also thier purges last year, probably was the final blow anyways, get rid of actual users, in favor of fake botting, propaganda, and spammers.

Is it regional or for VPN users or something? I still use old reddit when I need to from search results, and I don't get asked to log in.

Have you seen Google's output lately? Their bar is pretty low, I'd say.

Or... why would they renew since they downloaded all the old "useful" content? (and the new content is useless)

It's like downloading a torrent, you may seed a bit, but you would never download it over and over again.

That was more or less the original comment back when they started. Bots were a thing on Reddit before of course but they really started getting out in hand around 2021 which was long before the deal.

They're making Gemini, it's obvious that they wouldn't even know quality if they saw it!

Reddit is pure filth. I was on there for 15 years and to see it die such a horrible, slow death is bittersweet. It's like Twitter after it became X.

Reddit is the worst site ever, second only to Fandom

vpn seems to be auto-shadowban, because reddit hates user that uses vpns.

Have you seen how it is lately? It's a glorified tabloid. It's largely used for pop culture gossip. People know it's slop, and they don't care. They use it anyways.

Reddit is far from the days of being a modernized tech BBS. At least 10 years removed from it. In it's current incarnation it's an interactive daily newspaper with Bat Boy stories on the front cover. That's what they're selling. And it does sell.

They place ads and sell reddit gold also user and site data. That extremely valuable

That’s about all I use it for these days… I can’t lie. It’s still not as good as Tumblr was at that task but I digress.

grok already illegally scraped all the free galleries from the early 00s with hundreds of shots of the same model in the various positions, making a deal with a porn aggregator just to get links to images already previously scraped and a few new gw pics don't make sense

Banned for talking shit about ICE, eat my ass reddit.

AI moderation is overly sensitive, its likely by design because they went public.

Two accounts man. Main was a 11 year old account. Fuck Reddit and u/spez

Same. All I did was report ads as spam. But apparently that's "report abuse".

Honestly I don't know why they even bother, when dodging reddit bans is the easiest thing in the world to pull off. Just create a new account with a different email address (or don't enter an email at all). Bam, ban dodged.

I got banned for showing, quote, "extreme indifference" when Kissinger took a dirt nap 😅

It'll be the deeper corners with tech and product advice, Reddit still comes up often when searching for solutions and it's because one of the communities had someone who knew the answer.

Where else could to ask others about some detailed F1 race question and have an actual track marshal who was at the race, or a pit member chime in?

Reddit the company are terrible, but the site can be gold. But they chased the best commenters away, and Google already got their training done and copied all the good stuff.

You won't get banned, but Patrick will add you to his list if you scare the normies.

Banning you caused the stock to drop 9%? You must've had some prolific hot takes.