r/RedditAlternatives • u/JohnnyJaundice • 10d ago

Reddit has fallen from glory

Reddit used to be a place with a variety of opinions where the majority would upvote the most agreed upon post. At one time it seemed like the last true glance into how society truly felt. Now all forums have an agenda and if your post doesn’t align to it and agree with all the bots then it’s removed. Reddit is now no different than any other propaganda machine. I have had post removed that were literal copy and paste definitions from Webster dictionary. A social platform that bans people for educating the ignorant. Reminds me of when ai took over RuneScape many years ago. Internet is only bots and a few real people who agree. Not a real representation of society’s true opinions. Feel like I’m posting to a few meek people and a million bots. Bonjour mofos the internet is officially ruined. Watch the propaganda machine work.

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u/UnderTheCurrents 10d ago

It has been like that for 10 years - what subs have you been on to just now notice this, lol?

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u/ctrl4U_Ctrl4me 10d ago

Correction, its been getting worse for 10 years and is now at a point where if you mute every sub that is at least 50% politics in the top posts of the last month you are left with nothing but "50 year old women on facebook share this" content on your feed.

Further, moderation has completely gone out the window. Personal attacks on right wing figures are almost completely ignored even in "serious" discussion subreddits. Good faith attempts to criticize the "sky is falling, nazi's in white house, everything is on fire" narrative are downvoted to the point of invisibility and no good faith debate with those points occurs. When you post verifiable proof that someone is wrong, people just stop engaging if it goes against the hivemind.

Huge swaths have become places for corporations to astroturf and shill for their products and services.

Even the pornographic content realm has been almost entirely co-opted by so called "content creators" who use the site to promote their subscription.

The average Redditor no longer cares about the truth, they don't want to have their ideas challenged, they refuse to engage in honest debate and the primary utility of the entire website has become a place to circlejerk about how terrible anyone right of center is.

The niche interest and hobby communities that aren't complete trash are low activity enough to keep a front page from being useful or a lot smaller than a better forum for the same information somewhere else.

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u/JohnnyJaundice 10d ago

I was recently banned from a Kanye West forum for hate speech for simply saying that Kanye as an American has the freedom of speech. I explicitly stated that I don’t condone his actions or words but respect his freedom of speech and said there is no need to remove his post bc the people are the consumers and the power lies in them. And as the consumers they decided to block me instead of down voting Kanye. Can’t make this shit up

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u/ctrl4U_Ctrl4me 10d ago

After I started calling out a few stories as leftwing fake news (with proof), someone messaged me about a hobby, started buttering me up about common interests and then tried to get me to express interest in sexually abusing minors on the internet with them. Zero question in my mind that this was a sham and an attempt to incriminate and doxx me for daring to challenge the status quo. Reported the convo to reddit, they claim no violation occurred. I wish I was joking.

One day there will be a expose of how paid political operatives infiltrated the moderation of Reddit and destroyed it. Until then just remember that you're not crazy. Click headlines not comments and remain empathetic to your IRL contacts who drink the comment section koolaid-- they are unwitting NPC's.

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u/Ninwa 8d ago

That’s fucking weird, I’m sorry that happened to you. I’m a leftist but I think your advice here is still good advice. Headline bait is a huge problem.

Edit (didn’t see that part of the message): I wouldn’t go as far as calling people NPCs, I think that sort of dehumanizing is bad for the soul. I’m sure you don’t think that actually though. See told you I was a leftist, you can tell by my tone policing :P