I've browsed Reddit a couple of times since walking away in June. IMO the quality of the content has declined significantly. This while both the quality and quantity of content on Lemmy has noticeably increased.
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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I've gone back a few times to view some niche subs that probably won't take hold here for a while. They're doing fine.
I would think that would be the case. For some subjects there's nowhere else to go. I've just been looking at the front page without logging in and although there's some good content still there, there's also a lot more crap than there used to be.
Lemmy doesn't have everything but it is surprising where it is capable. So far I've encountered quite a few of the real credentialed experts I went to reddit to find before it died. Now, a Llama2 70B is more effective and accurate than most of what reddit ever was. The little bit that I have been unable to get the model to do is already here. I ghosted reddit June 9th and have never been back and never will. It is blocked on my firewall.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The dangers of food canning were explained to me clearly, succinctly, and with cited sources by Brad Barclay and someone going by Dromio05 on Reddit (who asked to withhold their real name for privacy reasons).
He noted various canning misconceptions, from thinking the contents of a concave lid are safe to eat to believing you don't need to apply heat to food in jars.
For example, Barclay pointed to one mod recommending "citizen science," saying they would use a temperature data logger to "begin conducting experiments to determine what new canning products are safe."
It includes already-canned tomatoes, which experts like the National Center for Home Food Preservation (NCHFP) recommend against, as there's no safe tested process for this.
What's critical for Reddit's content quality is not that moderators adopt identical philosophies but that they are equipped to facilitate healthy and safe discussions and debates that benefit the community.
But the hastiness with which these specific replacement mods were ushered in, and the disposal of respected, long-time moderators, raises questions about whether Reddit prioritized reopening subreddits to get things back to normal instead of finding the best people for the volunteer jobs.
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The funny thing to me is the worst, most extreme mods are still running /r/funny.
Reddit sucks. Consider ritualistic suicide of your account
Post here, then delete yourself:
https://old.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku/top/?sort=top&t=all
I already did that a month ago.