I left reddit on june 12th last year in protest of spez’s decision to change the reddit api from being free as in free beer to an unbelievably expensive cost. That same day, I joined lemmy on a now abandoned account.
At first, I had a hard time adapting to lemmy’s significantly smaller community, but I got used to it and learned to embrace it. However, recently I started missing reddit a lot more, and after some consideration, made an account on the (demonic) website.
But I don’t think it felt the same way as before, sure, there was more posts, but they lacked a heart and soul, they were all so generic, as if it lost it’s spark.
Has anyone else that’s been on there noticed anything similar??
Reddit hasn’t felt the same for me since around 2021/22.
At some point it stopped being a platform for niche communities to come together and became a cesspool of corporate/government astroturfing and karma farm bots with a side of real people.
I was on reddit since 2011 or so and in the beginning it was awesome and funny and first was a thing and it was like a big clubhouse where everyone was chill for the most part. Then influencers.really picked up steam and the corps started doing their subtle ads and baby Yoda and then the bots came and toxicity and the Donald and the rest of the cesspool exploded.