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main reason is the app changes of course, but I've been getting sick of the site for quite awhile.
powermods that run hundreds of subreddits abusing their authority, everyone is snarky and rude, only approved stances are allowed and anything deviating from them get dogpiled/censored, the annoying redditisms (edit: Thank you kind stranger! Wow I didn't expect this to blow up! obvious fake stories in AITA/Relationships, etc).
the entire site was just getting really stale.
the upside was that it had an active forum for almost every niche interest, but that's also a negative as it really killed many of the small special interest communities.
You summarized my experience / feelings on the matter perfectly.
A few of the reddit mods were so obnoxious, they would ban you for posting to other subs they didn't like. Even if you had never been to their stupid sub or cared about it, you would get a random ban notification from some wacky niche sub.
On the one hand: who cares. But on the other hand: it doesn't feel like a very welcoming place when you check the site for the first time that day and some weirdo has banned you "because reasons".
I even saw one mod that would stalk individual users and mock them for getting banned from his precious sub. It was so absurd.
As for the typical users of reddit: I know it's a tired cliché...but it really was like a "hive mind" over there.
It also has a horrible new user experience. To get some basic level of karma you have to jump through hoops. The whole thing feels like a nasty reindeer game.
I'm really glad lemmy doesn't have karma.
My anecdotal take: I got banned from a random sub i hadn't heard of for comments in PolCompMemes and the ban message identified me as a nazi. I replied saying something like Ok, I don't use that sub so great effort, and not a nazi my flair is libleft ffs.
I got a 3day sitewide ban for harassing mods for that one reply to their message. Absolutely unhinged behavior, and the appeal wasn't even looked at. The only logical reason for this is advertising the small sub otherwise it is just a very stupid person wrote the banbot.
yea, I regularly deleted my account and made a new one.
each time, I would create my account.
have zero karma, start commenting to get karma, and all my comments were removed because I didn't have enough karma lmao
THIS. (Sorry, had to respond with a Reddit cliche)
Like you mentioned, the upside of communities for almost all niche interests is the thing that kept me there for years even after the front page went to shit. In addition to the things I was actively following, I really enjoyed stumbling into new niche subs and learning about something from a group of passionate experts by reading threads. I’m hoping we have that same sense of depth here soon too!
powermods that run hundreds of subreddits abusing their authority
Speaking of this, I really hope awkwardtheturtle had a meltdown. Talk about the worst of the worst mods on reddit.
oh my god thank you for this
Oh boy, you get an updoot for that!
Any time someone says upvote but replaces vote with anything I downdoot them.
What are your feelings vis-a-vis "upboat"?
You’re still replacing the word “vote” with something. It’s all annoying to me and my visceral reaction is to downvote. Petty and not something important, I know.
Ugh, not to mention the top comments on discussion-worthy topics just being a meme, one-liners or comment chains which somehow get 5000 upvotes like it was so note-worthy and significant when you could find the same thing in multiple posts in r/all for the past month. It still happens on Lemmy, but at least all the thoughtful comments aren't buried under them.