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I hate reddit (thelemmy.club)

I hate that is filled with bots and a lot of garbage and brain dead content from tiktok, instascam and fakebook where videos have added music for some reason with crappy edits where they have to "jingle keys" so they won't lose interest. A lot of people post content without a source "Source!? My dreams bro, that's the source" and karma farm, or posts that are clearly fake rage baits and now they combine all of it with AI to create the ultimate slop.

And on top of all they ban and shadow ban accounts without a reason while actual bots get a pass.

A couple of more reasons on why I hate reddit:

  1. It's centralized
  2. It has lots of bots and owners take no action
  3. Lots of creeps and owners take no action
  4. They can ban your account for any reason
  5. They push ads
  6. They train AI models on our content without giving us anything
  7. They removed free API access
  8. Their app is garbage and so is their website
  9. They can remove and reassign subreddit moderators
  10. They added karma points
  11. Lots of stupid achievements
  12. Non-bot new users get easily banned for being suspected as a bot while actual bots pass
  13. Their support is garbage
  14. They don't listen to the users
  15. Garbage algorithm for recommendations
  16. Shitty owners
  17. Garbage Reddit filters that shadowban
  18. Terrible app/website settings
  19. Added awards that cost real-life money
  20. They sell our data for money
  21. They don't care about fake information and AI content
  22. Limited settings for subreddits
  23. Reddit Premium
  24. Avatar customization that costs real-life money
  25. Limited accessibility for disabled people (there were apps that were accessible, but they charged money for the API so they shut down, and Reddit didn't implement those features)
  26. AI search in Reddit
  27. Ads disguised as normal content
  28. Buggy app/website
  29. Pushing games
  30. Lack of new features
  31. Private messages can be read
  32. Specific content can be deleted without reason and removed without prior notice
  33. Personal data is used for automated decision-making, profiling, or AI training
  34. Personal data is used for advertising
  35. Data may be processed and stored anywhere in the world
  36. The stupid "Join the most real place on the internet" banner on the website that appears if you aren't logged in
  37. Reddit moderators (most of them)
  38. Reddit's garbage rules
  39. A lot of reposts
  40. A lot of AI posts
  41. They remove my comments without a reason
  42. Reddit bots
  43. Changing the UI often and mostly for the worse
  44. The owners are greedy bastards
  45. A lot of the community is garbage and supports a lot of AI slop content and/or fake information
  46. Hard to get API access
  47. They don't center my PFP, those bastards
  48. "We have encountered an error" — WHICH ONE?
  49. Automatically saving my comments or posts to drafts
  50. THEY KEEP CHANGING AND REMOVING STUFF FOR THE WORSE
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[-] rimu@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

A couple of more reasons...

...proceeds to list 50 reasons

love it! :D

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
  1. There is no genuine discovery, it is now a carefully crafted feed meant to propagandize users every day. Tell them what to think, what to feel, what to be outraged about, what to be distracted by, and what to focus their attention on when they wouldn't be thinking of it prior.
[-] FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

Ir gets harder and harder to find interesting subs. When I originally used it (2018) it was super easy to find a really diverse range of stuff, the website is just people interacting with the same front page subreddits now. I do like boy/girldinnerdiaries and a handful of small ones i remember the name of. Can only use Reddit through redlib now

[-] k3v_d3v@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

They were on the outs with me for a while but requiring sign-in for old.reddit is the end for me. Unfortunately people have willing been giving their knowledge to the platform for almost 2 decades so it is still a good source (especially pre-AI slop). Does any one know if there are any mirrors like X cancel for twitter?

I only think about redit when i see posts like this lol

[-] notmyusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago
[-] Phantom_Feline17@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

If i had to list the things i hate about reddit, i'd be here all year.

And they still manage to make it worse.

this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2026
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