Careful what you wish for, the larger the sample size the dumber it gets

Fedi being way slower than Reddit was a godsend to me. It helped me detox from the endless content on Reddit because I was going loopy.

After the 5th scroll past the same boring hornypost I'm like "ugh I guess I'll put the phone down and go to sleep."

I prefer the fewer comments here. Who want's to read 1200+ comments, 50% of which are the same tired jokes?

I think it's fine as is. The worst part of reddit was opening an interesting post and finding the comments full of jokes and badly remembered quotes.

Edit: That was probably due to the awards creating perverse incentives but still, the more comments there are the more striking a comment needs to be to be on top

reddit was better before 2016, before trump took the white house the first time, almost as soon as took the WH, russia realized that reddit was a good place to use bots/propaganda, then we see sudden increase in politicl aposts, and then ban of "Questionable" subs. orignially because of this you would make different account for different niches to avoid a ban affecting other accounts.

I absolutely fell in love with reddit when I joined 19 years ago. Up until the Digg migration I loved it maybe even more than the BBS' I was on in my youth. But it steadily went downhill from there, and I thank Jebus every day for the fediverse because it brings back that good old energy that I was missing. Reddit is so unpleasant compared to here.

I'm new, came over a couple weeks ago. Others will come.

Its better this way. Limited content. You have to out the phone down and do something else

Onze this place gets enough users, it's gonna be exactly the same.

Always has been.

The Situationists even created new words to describe how radical ideas are co-opted by the mainstream in ways that reduce or outright removing radicalism from the ideas, making them more palatable for mainstream society. They called it recuperation. They also argued we needed to be doing the opposite, and taking the banal and making it radical, which they called détournement. This was often exemplified in the 80s/90s/early 2000s through subversion and revision of corporate advertising, often called "culture jamming."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9tournement

Yes. That's a good thing.

It's almost like we're suppose to build and guard our communities and interest against tho...... sorry I meant do nothing and complain.

I always thought that once I moved here, I might still visit reddit but I almost never do. And much of the reason is those fucking stupid cartoon mascots. "snoo"s iirc? FML.

reddit blocks people who use vpns, or will shadowban you if it somehow evades this page. they are too aware of it now. new devices, proxies, anti-detect browsers+ proxy intergration, new browser, fingerprinting are usually the only other way of getting around it(this method can be pricey if intend to make money off of reddit). apparently some vpns do get through reddit, but you probably shouldnt use the cheap or free ones, or the highly abused ones.

I’ve hit that and just switched IPs on the same VPN. The other VPN I use has never hit the screen.

They did that about a year or so after I blocked reddit via DNS. No idea why, I don't use a VPN for reddit, and I hadent given them any traffic outside the once and awhile checking a tech support post, but something about my network triggered it.

No big loss.

Try an alternative fronted like redlib.catsarch.com for when you really need to view the page. Unfortunately, there is still too much valuable info there, which is surfaced by search engines

Username checks out

Start a community here. Be the change you want to see.

that is what happened to the purges last year, only need 1 ban/shadowban if any of your other accts even participated in the one you banned it(even if your dormant accounts dint get banned), even temporarily it just shadowbanned it. this was a new tactic reddit used. originally they dint care as long as you wait a long time with a new account before using it.

There's also the Nora app on f-droid.

the subs that allow pictures, and screenshots, and videos are the most obvious. you can tell they are reposting but they try to obscure when the "tweet' was posted by blacking out the date/time. pics during the election year was so obvious "biden genocide" pics, it wasnt pointing out what trump/gop were supporting too. luckily there was any sense in the mod prior to the massive purges, that it was removed.

I'm not like actively there but an example, for me, is that I just watched the Hateful Eight and thought it'd be nice to see what others said about it and the main links were Reddit and they hard pushed me to the app. All the other links had ads that actively blocked me from reading the article.

I mod my city's subreddit and Colonial Williamsburg. And that's it.

No one in my real life left reddit. Reddit and Facebook are the only ones with active communities for many of my games and interests. I avoid it, but yes, it's quite active and is now the only relevant search result on recent news and strategies.