• patachu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I lurk the frontpage occasionally and I’ve already noticed the Reddit atmosphere has gotten … weird.

    Little-known, content-churning subreddits are bubbling to the top because of all the other blackouts and desertions. Fringe viewpoints and wacko opinions that would normally get downvoted to the bottom of a thread are now out in the open because there’s no voice of reason to hold them back.

    And the kind of people that are still on there, acting as if everything is fine (or, God forbid, better(???) than it was before the revolts) … it’s a very strange place now.

    • ShlorpianMafia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Reddit is pretty much at the point where you can open any thread on the front page and the comments will be indistinguishable from a Facebook comment section.

    • catastrophicblues@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      There was an r/Apple thread were people were going off about simplicity and just how hard it is to get into and use Lemmy… I am so glad I left lol

    • MachineTeaching@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The meltdowns are something else.

      On one smaller sub that participated in the blackout people were seriously accusing mods of rigging the votes to stay closed for longer. Of course nothing actually indicated that, and neither did they present any evidence, they just couldn’t stand not getting their content.

    • Rannoch@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same! I went to check it out earlier and the frontpage had a couple of subreddits I recognized but am not interested in, and the rest were all subreddits I had never heard of before. I also thought the scores seemed weirdly low, but not 100% sure about that since I dont usually pay super close attention. At least the weird vibe was pretty helpful in getting me to hop off, versus getting sucked in to browsing around more.