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Reddit is more or less dead to me, as the popular subs are botfests and the niche subs are empty. I'm lucky to get a single reply on gaming subs.

• tardedmeme 4mo ago
  There's also a third category where the sub looks organic because the moderator deletes and bans anyone who doesn't post exactly what the moderator wants.
  • octoberfranklin 4mo ago
    Wait isn't that every sub? /s
• sgarman 4mo ago
  The fact that reddit enabled hiding your posts is crazy to me. In a time where knowing who's engaging in a community is more important than ever (am I talking to a bot or a troll?) reddit removes even more options to validate.
  • rgblambda 4mo ago
    I interpreted that as an attempt to mask the number of bots on the site so as to not scare paying advertisers into thinking their ads won't be seen by real humans.
    • lizknope 4mo ago
      They also now hide the number of subscribers. Before you could see if a subreddit was popular or not. Now you really don't know. I think reddit does this so they can promote stuff to the front page for clicks even if it isn't popular.
  • baxuz 4mo ago
    I enabled hiding my posts because I kept getting harrassed and even doxxed.
    • deleted 4mo ago
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  • octoberfranklin 4mo ago
    The problem is that it has become very popular to ban people from a sub based on what other subs they post to. It was turning Reddit into a two-party universe. The better fix would be to make the support for multiple accounts in the reddit app not so incredibly-shitty, where you're basically logging out and logging back in. Instead, just tell it "posts to this sub use this account, posts to that sub use that account", etc.
    • intended 4mo ago
      That two-party universe thing comes from the issue of having to moderate, and moderation is ideological by nature.
• rjh29 4mo ago
  Plenty of good subs they are just under the radar. Once something gets more than about 10k users the quality sinks.