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This comment was in a post about a guy who openly spilled secrets then got fired.
https://www.reddit.com/r/golf/comments/1dynric/rip_to_the_augusta_ama_guy_yesterday_who_was_not/
Now i get random ban, even if i have legitimate use.
I just comment around, nice word. Reddit AI decided that i am spamming.
Trip the spam filter once in 2 day.
Reddit wouldn't censor those names. People are self censoring on the big subreddits
In Japan, we have to be careful because a company could sue for reputational damage (even if the claims are 100% true and provable). Same for some other examples like posting a pic of someone with his mistress or basically anything with their face.
It was a Wild West but I'm not sure the Lemmy community would have liked it much - there was a lot of content in the "offensive to everyone" category and people generally didn't mind as long as it was contained in its own subreddits. That doesn't seem to be the attitude of "kids these days".
remember when space dicks would get front page. or imgoingtohellforthis
The big Lemmy instances are constantly inundated with posts to defederate from unscrupulous instances, which to me seems like a stronger version of siloing off content than what early reddit was like.
Most of the calls I've seen to defederate haven't been because of an instance's content, but rather because of an instance's users being the problem.
E.g. hexbear getting the boot during the period where some of its users thought it was hilarious to brigade other instances and spam giant emojis of a well endowed pig shitting on itself.
I've been on reddit since the fall of digg. It was a wild time that's for sure.
I’ve been on Reddit for 15 years and haven’t really noticed any shift for the most part. The only thing I find unbearable is the amount of bots and karma whoring reposting that goes on. The culture I feel is the same.
Idk man, there were real communities where folks knew each other back then. There's very little of that anymore because moderating those subs is a thankless full time job and the rest got massive. /r/CripplingAlcoholism is a good example - back around 2010 it was a close-knit group of drunks, by 2018 or so it was just a swamp.
/r/CenturyClub and the related subs were some of the best places on the internet back ~15 years ago. I deleted my old account that was in it ages ago and haven't bothered rejoining since I passed the threshold, but even what, 8 years ago when I did that it was already way different.
Game subreddits went way downhill, too.
The overall quality of the site is much worse than it used to be.
I remember when I could post to the firefly sub and banter with the same 20 or so people every week, then one day something hit the front page and a flood of people came in.
Everything turned from thought provoking discussions about what little lore we did have and overanalysing every episode, to "this is what the actors do now" and "here's an image with a quote from the show" maybe an art post of original content here and there.
Even in 2010 the front page was a shitshow. The smaller communities are generally their own thing but i'd say reddit often did more harm than good.
I came to Lemmy to get away from Reddit, not to reminisce about how good it used to be.