Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.
    • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      2 hours ago

      Niche communities that simply don’t exist on Lemmy. If your only hobbies are tech, lemmy probably covers all of your bases, but there are nearly no niche non-tech communities here.

      • GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        16 minutes ago

        They did exist before reddit as forums, however they where fragmented across different languages and websites. At some point Google started to show reddit more often, because it was more search engine optimized and mobile friendly. This means new users found reddit first, and old users where slowly pulled away from their forums into reddit.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        16·
        2 hours ago

        but there are nearly no niche non-tech communities here.

        And if they do exist, there are 4 subscribers and zero posts in the last 6 months.

        • limelight79@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          37 minutes ago

          Yeah. I help mod the Washington Capitals hockey team sub, and recently I looked through every other NHL team’s sub, and we’re the ONLY ones that post game day threads. And even with us, it’s basically only one or two of us commenting on the games. Compare that to dozens or even hundreds of people commenting on every game in every team’s reddit sub.

      • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
        9·
        2 hours ago

        And regional communities. There’s not nearly enough people in the fediverse to support city or state communities. And only the most populous countries.

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        51 minutes ago

        There’s also fun bullshit communities that refuse to migrate too. I listen to some of them on YouTube as they read the stories from there while I work on other things or drive.

        I tried creating a community here but never got others to post their show too.

  • bluesheep@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    3 hours ago

    I went on reddit yesterday just for a minute. Saw a post about some guy asking what he could do with a small hallway like space in his house (imagine a small walk in closet without the door). Almost every response I opened up was an AI generated image. That thread alone probably wasted a small swimming pool of water just cause some people couldn’t be arsed to copy and paste a server rack.

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      Letting gallowboob “moderate” the basically the whole front page was an insane decision. Some of those guys were selling product placement.

      The centralization of power to few mods was always a problem, but smaller communities got by.

      The huge quality drop came when Spez felt he missed the IPO wave around 2018 and decided to growth hack the site. Then they finally killed most of them too with the API drama.

      Popular and moving away from hot to best was also bad. They horribly failed to discipline abuse from the_donald for years…

      New reddit is still not even usable from a phone. It crashes frequently and i swaer to God it only shows like 8 posts and just fucking loops through them (how have thry not noticed this, I only check 4 subreddits and its unbearable).

      • Hadriscus@jlai.luEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        The dysfunction of the mobile website is most likely on purpose, to drive users towards the dedicated program

  • The Velour Fog @lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 hours ago

    I regret wasting all those years trying to fight back all the bots I flagged on that hot garbage platform.

    But I’m grateful that I gained skills on how to identify an LLM bot from a mile away.

    Now that they’re starting to creep in Lemmy, I’m prepared.