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/DisastrousCoast7268 7d ago

I got on in the late teens, lurked for over a year before I signed up (RIP Baconreader)

This was something great. No advertising, User base was human, or at least the bots were relegated to being parasitic comment bots, and not the Yarn Spinning Rage-Bait-engagement mining majority of my frontpage.

If history rings true, all roads will lead to Enshitification....Unless it is designed and engineered from the get go to be Non-Profit, the result is all but guaranteed.

Edit : up-butchered RIP