Please, for the love of sanity stop using Reddit

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨parallelminds@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

I don’t know if this is the right community, but I suppose it’s close enough.

You can’t even make posts like this on Reddit anymore, Reddit has become such a hog on the internet traffic it’s ridiculous. It wouldn’t be a problem if Reddit didn’t take such precious internet space.

They censor people, regular people who aren’t even doing anything too controversial. Reddit’s automated filers constantly remove people’s posts, only conformist content is allowed there, and so nothing of value remains. Just generic conformist post after another generic conformist post.

Why is this platform still popular is honestly just beyond me at this point. No really, can someone please, please explain to me why do people keep using this broken website anymore?

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Kintarian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I mentioned I am fat on Reddit and had a bot admonish me for being insensitive. I guess I should ostracize myself.

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SSETranquility@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s a daily vice I’ve used since 2013 with my very first smart phone. It was tough, but feels good to kick it in 2026. Damn, 13 years of scrolling. It’s a terrible addiction. I’m telling myself I’m using lemmy differently bc I’m interacting more. Thanks for reading!

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ElChinchilla@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The only thing I truly miss is meme dumps. I know that is a weird thing to miss. Crazy that Reddit had basically become a new google, too, with added benefit of user context. Like if I need a know something. “Query + “reddit””= some dude in Lithuania who did the exact same thing 4 years ago and 12 people’s comments with additional tips.

Youtube similarly on DIY fixing. Had to add commercials. I’m looking for a video on how to replace a latch in a fucking dishwasher, I do not want a video about dish soap.

Enshitification of all nice things is the way of capitalism.

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stickyprimer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ll be honest with you. I I refer everything about Lenny’s technology and ownership/maintenance structure. However the only topic I know I can get consistent substantial input on here is communist revolution.

For literally everything else, Reddit has captured people who know things. They are enshittifying it to be sure but until I can post a picture of a coffee table on Lemmy and have someone tell me if it’s finished with lacquer or shellac, this will be the answer.

We don’t have to like it, and we should hope to change it. But please don’t pretend you can’t understand it. Critical mass of community investment builds up in one place, and it doesn’t quickly migrate away, even under some enshittification pressure. Perhaps in time.

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- Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Lenny
  
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  - incompetent@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That’s the shortest sprog poem I’ve ever seen.
    
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- parallelminds@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I have already built my own community. But no one shows up. nightash.net if you’re curious.
  
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nullspace@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I miss the nfl meme war subs, but to be honest a lot of it is recycling the same posts over and over with some possible corporate sprinkling.

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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Honestly for the love of sanity you should probably also stop using Lemmy, for similar reasons. Many of the large communities heavily censor, and many communities are super toxic.

Reddit is occasionally still useful for getting answers to questions because they actually have a user base to support niche subjects. I never post, but there is a good chance someone has already asked the question I have and there is an actual answer, unlike here.

I browse Lemmy like once a week, but I try to limit actually posting or commenting like once or twice a month, because the engagement is often so vitriolic that it causes anxiety and is generally bad for me. The benign communities are usually small and boring.

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Blaad@europe.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Honestly atp the censorship isn’t even the worst of it. Go to Lemmy.ml, say anything bad against China and see how it goes. Many Lemmy communities are no better.

No the worst of reddit is the fact that it’s a data-mining operation at this point, with age checks and a complete Mishandling of your user data (everything is indexed and easy to search even if you set your profile to private…)

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- hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Even better: don’t go to any ML instance and enjoy increased happiness and mental wellbeing.
  
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- amgine@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I haven’t found it (if it exists) is there a way to block all posts and comments from Lemmy.ml users? I may start my own instance to do so
  
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darthsundhaft@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Also, stop using X. Like why do so many foreign companies even still bother? Drives me nuts.

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- surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Network effect. You want to reach people, then you go where people are. It’s self perpetuating.
  
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  - mangobanana@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You would have thought when the Nazi bought it, everybody would have stopped using it
    
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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  thats ones eaiser to not use, i never had an account
  
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  - mangobanana@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Funny enough when Twitter came out I thought it was the stupidest damn platform. Only 180 characters to say what you want to say I just thought it was so completely stupid. And then when the Nazi bought it I was so glad I never signed up for it.
    
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- Malica@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Governments use it, until they stop, others won’t
  
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MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That’sWhyI’mHere.ObiWan

I’d say the network effect is a big part. A lot of the established communities are there, so people stay there.

I do my best to stay off there, though. One thing that helped me drastically cut down on Reddit interactions is donating an Euro to PieFed for every comment I make on Reddit. (besides, either it works, or I help keep the fediverse running and improving. It’s a win-win :P)

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- Malica@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Love this is
  
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- CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Ok but the most effective way to cure ourselves from reddit is to get so permabanned that every whisper of our likeness gets rejected from participating over there.
  
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  - mangobanana@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yep that’s exactly what happened to me. I’m still really fucking bitter about it. I didn’t even do anything bad. Just absent-mindedly posting from different accounts to a sub I had been banned from. Didn’t even think about it honestly and boom Perma band
    
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- grranibal@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That’s a genius idea, I love it
  
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  - MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I also made c/takeyourtimeback and kept track of it there (forgot to post about it last month tho) https://piefed.social/c/takeyourtimeback/p/2077191/piefed-donation-pledge
    
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Crescent@fedinsfw.app ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m really trying not to go back there but Lemmy is doing its best to alienate me.

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- ElDuderino@lemmus.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m still blocking tankies and incels one by one.
  
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  - ElChinchilla@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Tankies is still a new one for me. Maybe my interests just keep me removed from them.
    
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SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Where’s the StandupComedy community on Lemmy, with a comparable amount of quality material?

Outside of that, I use Reddit to doomscroll through random junk and have drunken arguments. I don’t see why it’s unfit for that. Though it’s gradually turning into Facebook with all the sob stories and the endless videos of dogs Beringreunited with their owners.

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thethrilloftime69@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
There will come a reckoning for the Internet. Corporate social media will eventually crumble. Nothing lasts forever and these corporations are overextending themselves.

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- Strider@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I really wish it will turn out this way, but I fear it won’t.
  
  People are really slow and it has to be convenient. They still use Facebook and reddit. Or worse, WhatsApp is absolutely dominant in some countries.
  
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  - thethrilloftime69@feddit.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Facebook didn’t exist 25 years ago. All it takes is a couple years of bad decisions by management, a shift in market conditions for them to fall apart.
    
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- melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Amen to that.
  
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mangobanana@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I got banned from Reddit for some stupid nonsense. I posted a "political post (which honestly talking about my own healthcare insurance should not be considered a political post) and got banned from the Gen x sub. I did not realize that I was logged in with a different login and I made a comment not even thinking about it on the Gen x sub and basically got all of my accounts banned permanently. They call it an IP band. Fuck them. And now since they make you log in to read anything super fuck them. I hate that you can’t block Reddit from your Google results anymore.

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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
niche stuff dont exist on lemmy, plus every time a minor disagreement between an instances, people just scatter so theres no growing a community.

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Magnum@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Where shitpost?

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- DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s a post about shit. Close enough.
  
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AppleMango@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The SEO of lemmy needs to improve for more people to move off of reddit. That also means more bot traffic here, though.

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AcidBurn@retrofed.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Because at their core, most people are basic, conformist, weenies

Something like 95% of people

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- pipi1234@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  They don’t know better.
  
  This is the age of convenience.
  
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  - AcidBurn@retrofed.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s not a new phenomenon, humans have been pretty lame since agriculture
    
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Malica@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s still popular because people are addicted to it. I only escaped because I replaced reddit with Lemmy. If you want people to leave, tell them about Lemmy.

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Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Most people aren't very savvy with going outside normal areas, so they follow where others are. Unfortunately even after a few years Lemmy and the rest are still very niche and not mainstream at all. When Reddit first became ridiculous and the first people started looking for alternatives, Lemmy was just one of a number of potentials and ended up the bigger draw, maybe because it was the only one that could handle the sudden traffic. But this was a small part of the Reddit user base, the ones who knew enough to look around and find other places. Trying to spread the word to others on Reddit became a battle, otherwise I think we'd be a lot larger by now.

So why do people deal with how Reddit is now? I ask that a lot about other platforms, even hear it from family griping about how terrible places like Facebook or Instagram are, and yet they stay. People don't like change from familiar, even when it's difficult. And when they don't know of other places or how to transition, they'll hunker down even more and deal with it.

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- foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Anyone using old.reddit.com could easily jump to old.lemmy.(… whatever… I’m on .zip) and not miss a beat.
  
  I sure didn’t.
  
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Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The majority of people don’t have any problem with anything you are mentioning. People still use Facebook and Twitter for fuck’s sake…

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- ElChinchilla@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Twitter is just the status bar of facebook, not even a unique thing in it’s own capacity. Thankfully free of facebook since 2015 and never used twitter.
  
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theedqueen@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I miss early 2000s internet before SM and corporations took over. Where each fandom had their own websites/forums.

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- amgine@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I ran a couple back in the day. They were a pain in the ass to maintain. Can’t imagine the AI bots trying to exploit it these days
  
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agent_nycto@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This isn’t a shitpost what’s this doing here

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Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Wrong community for this post tbh. Stop posting #general in #memes

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- Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  No it’s right. Read the sidebar. Shitposts are not just memes
  
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- melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This is it. This is why.
  
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  - Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    gasp A user has-- has disagreed with me?? They must be banned IMMEDIATELY Image
    
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remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Well if you’re serious about this then this definitely isn’t the right community.

Reddit has better shitposts than this!

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MyOpinion@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You are speaking to the band right now. I only check reddit for the latest news.

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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  i visit the niches occasionally. look at the news, but never participate, no one should.
  
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Goudewup@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It doesn’t take precious internet space, internet space is practically limitless (by the time ipv6 addresses run out we’ll be well on our way with ipv7 or 8). It just takes as much space in your mind as you’re willing to give it. Instead of highlighting something that’s negative to you redirect that energy into building lemmy into something more positive

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- autriyo@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It does however use real electricity and hardware. Which could be used for something else.
  
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  - five_bucks@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Probably the biggest resource being hogged is human attention. It’s a precious commodity.
    
    Electricity can be renewable, but we only get so much attention per person.
    
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scytale@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
There’s !reddit@lemmy.world where you can also post this.

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