That picture on the side looks like it represents the least real place on the internet

Most real? Lol its all bots.

So they're shooting themselves in the foot. Good. I deleted my 15-year account back in 2023 after that greedy piece of shit, spez, screwed over the app devs. Only reason I ever visit reddit now is if it happens to be the end result of a google search. If they require me to log in to see it, then they will no longer get my traffic. And I suspect that will be the case for quite a lot of people.

Ugh goddammit. I still check a handful of long running CW post chains from some writers/users whose stories I’ve become invested in.. but I guess I’m done with that now :(

That’s how I ended up on lemmy, but I’ve seen more new memes in the past week than I’d probably seen all month on reddit.

Yeah I seen that coming when I tried to make a reddit to lemmy Cross posting app. Reddit made a system where you can download a video but not get the audio. Also their embedded videos tend to require that you go to reddit.

Reddit is getting enshitified

Why force account creation if their AI just bans people en masse anyway? Has their rabid banning affected their numbers?

What benefit? It keeps banning accounts for no reason. It seems like new users have almost no entry

If any more people get caught up in their dipshit automod filters bugging out like I did it looks like it's curtains for us. Ive been lurking but I guess this is my cue to actually be active on Lemmy now.

you can just use safereddit.com instead

On the occasion a search result forces me to reddit, I delete the "upsell" div (that's what the code of the site calls it) and remove the block scroll class from the body.