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Reddit just isn't how it used to be. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I left reddit on june 12th last year in protest of spez's decision to change the reddit api from being free as in free beer to an unbelievably expensive cost. That same day, I joined lemmy on a now abandoned account.

At first, I had a hard time adapting to lemmy's significantly smaller community, but I got used to it and learned to embrace it. However, recently I started missing reddit a lot more, and after some consideration, made an account on the (demonic) website.

But I don't think it felt the same way as before, sure, there was more posts, but they lacked a heart and soul, they were all so generic, as if it lost it's spark.

Has anyone else that's been on there noticed anything similar??

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I go back to Reddit now from time to time. Mostly to ask specific questions in communities that are niche and don't exist on here. They are the only good interactions I see that are just as good as here. Elsewhere it's just different. I've not been able to put my finger on why, myself like. But it's definitely not the same.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Before I do that I usually try to ask the question here to generate some content and interaction. If it's for some niche community that doesn't exist I ask the question in a more general community. Usually works out pretty well.

Edit: good to well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

works out pretty well*

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

thanks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

If there was a relevant one here I'd post here for sure. Reddit is a last resort or if I really need a response from someone sooner than later, cause there's still more eyes on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Facebookification should be a term. I think every platform that tries to grow at any cost will attract a certain audience that will ultimately make the platform less desirable. Like those spamming pins in facebook comments to get updates on the post instead of turning on updates in a context menu.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No need to create a word for something that falls within the definition of another word or turn of phrase. Reddit has certainly followed Facebook down the inevitable march of the Enshitification of the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I would say enshitification is more specifically about a product or service getting worse itself, whereas they were talking more about the audience. The enshitification had very much likely caused the "facebookification" of Reddit but i would say by their definition they are not one and the same. They can happen independently as well as because of one another.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Touché good man.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I refer to it as the social graph. When a site starts using metadata to map how users are related on a social platform. And then implementing features based on that. It's not a buzzword but that's the technical root that stems everything that makes an enshittified Facebookified site.

Unfortunately when reddit started becoming a social graph based site, the technical literacy of the user base also plummet. So nobody knew wtf a graph structure is.