I assume they only require people to verify, and they let the bots roam freely without any supervision or am I wrong and it will remove bots from Reddit?

There's real people on there but they're extremely difficult to differentiate between the bots. Everybody on there sounds the same.

The oldest redditors got shadow banned because their posts were too valuable to the IPO to show up as blocked or deleted user (the story varries, but my friend ended up getting banned for joking about putting a lock on one of those uhauls full of proud boys (back when they were renting uhauls before Uhaul said they couldn't anymore)

Those of us here originally, are the ones who deleted their accounts, contrary to what reddit believed would happen.

I know at least one of you will read this, and I am here to receive a powerful high five.

I know two people still using it. Thing is, quite a lot of gaming communities are pretty much dead here, while there are still enough flesh and bone users on reddit (plus eight times as many bots, but there will always be someone to respond within a day if you have a question).

Of course it's not like there are only these two options and nothing else, but where would you go to for decently paced discussion? Honest question: I had left reddit a long time ago, but I won't find pre-existing answers on Lemmy for a good number of games, and most of the communities here seem to be bone dry.

nsfw especially on reddit filled with bots more than other subs.

Miss you too, bud

they are too forgettable to memorable, the only ones i missed were the ones in a niche sub, now defunct.

I know a handful of people that tried Lemmy at my insistence but found the overall culture even more insufferable than reddit and honestly I don't even blame them. I fear that a lot of folks here are so desperate to "beat reddit" that they are willing to tolerate the most repulsive behaviors and it's only going to push the mature people away.

I hope I'm wrong, but for someone who doesn't care about decentralization, being "not reddit" is really all I can see that we have going for us.

I already made this account a while ago, but never really got into Lemmy so much, since it's so damn hard to post videos here - that is the main reason I still used Reddit more - you can just drop videos there without having to use other video platforms that require you to make an account too,...

ehhh. the nsfw community is a bit lacking. which, like it or not, drives user engagement and boosts content creation.

debatable that it's better here, the ideal is to use nothing.

sure, it's a lot less fashy on lemmy, but goddamn there are some shockingly dense motherfuckers on this website that are worse than redditors. the top comment on basically every article posted to lemmy is someone aggressively and angrily asking a deeply ignorant rhetorical question for attention, and it's usually answered by the article. at least reddit sometimes has a decent comment at the top.

i swear half of lemmy is just people going "i literally don't understand this simple thing and it's also the stupidest thing i've ever heard" when in reality it's just a bunch of people inside of a social bubble that don't understand the actual world around them, like, at all. and i don't mean just politically, i mean generally.

never going back to reddit but there are just so many shamefully stupid people on lemmy, it's grating.

Reddit blocks a shit ton of vpns

VPN works for me so far, but like I said in another comment: I use reddit mostly on my work laptop and am not allowed to use VPN there ..

The last straw for me was getting rid of sorting by Hot on my main feed, effectively making it useless. I don't want to sort by Best that shows posts from days ago, get that Facebook shit out of here. Also there was a new tab that interspersed "recommended posts" in your main feed. It's an option now but I doubt it would be in the future. The point of having a curated feed is to see shit you're subscribed to, not whatever engagement slop is on r/popular.

Proves that convenience is the stopper. Steam and netflix can attest. Make it hard, I'll hit the high seas.

It's like the boiling frog problem

You need to remember there's addiction involved too. That will cause people to accept more awful than they normally would.

The standards people have today are so eroded.

Exactly look at Xbox 360 and PS4 going downhill.

Dude pull your head out of your ass. There are things on reddit that there are no replacements for. Lemmy doesn't hold a candle to the user base of reddit. The standard is simply "is this useful to me" and it's not hard to understand why people find value there.

Fucking holier than though dipshit.

Get with the times, grandpa

01/01/1969

Yours, too?! Crazy!

they are continuing to digg their own grave.

you need to take a photo of your balls to use reddit now and new accounts cannot login to old reddit as this feature is now restricted to only existing accounts that are older

it definetly is for me ... spent the whole afternoon yesterday to pass on ownership of all my subs to other mods ..

Fingerprinting knows

VPN works for now, but I am mostly online on my work-laptop (yeah I know 😂) and I am not allowed to run a VPN on that one ...

The verification flag might be tied to the account if there's no specific local law. If that is the case wherever they pop out reddit will try id them.

At this point, it doesn't make any sense to use Reddit at all. Just go to the Lemmy and the fediverse.

Or if you hate yourself, you can also try 9gag, there's not much difference now between that and Reddit.