Is it me or Reddit is starting to malfunction and getting worse? More errors, bots, and the gradual decline of the platform itself. Parts of it don’t work on some days, and it’s starting to feel like it’s falling apart.
These kind of comments remind me of the days before the digg exodus
I jumped ship permanently a few weeks ago. It was unusable. finding content made by a human is getting harder and harder. Its all just reposts at this point. Bots posting, bots commenting back and fourth to each other with prompts, ect. The whole place is a mess and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
Sounds like subredditsimulator infected the whole site.
Yeah, I created a lemmy account last year
Funny, because statistically it seems to be doing fine. Like Google searches for reddit have doubled in 5 years.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today 5-y&q=reddit
I have no idea how it has developed since they closed the API, except what I read on Lemmy, because I had already closed my account about a year before that, because the quality had deteriorated a lot already back then.Lemmy though is nice, it’s a lot like reddit was in the beginning.
I would guess part of it is Google getting worse and people adding reddit to the query hoping to find answers to PC problems, etc.
It’s possible, but AFAIK Google is known for prioritizing reddit results. i don’t see why that part should be worse. But to be honest I don’t use Google search that much, my default search is Qwant.
Funny, because statistically it seems to be doing fine.
Considering most google searches show reddit posts, its not too surprising. There’s good info on it, but anything made more recently is pretty low-quality. There’s still gonna be users on it, but nobody will know exactly how many are actually human.
I sadly had to get a Reddit account just a few weeks ago, I am an IT technician and needed help from the sysadmin subreddit for a work question.
But after rejoining after more than a year away from the site, it has clearly seen a huge decline, way less people post less content, the content that is posted isn’t as interesting as it used to be.
It’s down for a bunch of people right now
Again?
It might be
Then again, maybe it’s not
Who cares?
Who cares?
Not the investors. The share price is up again and that’s all that counts.
https://x.com/redditstatus/status/1836846532886417887?s=19
It’s down right now
there has got to be a better down detector than a twitter account
Well, there’s literally a site called “down detector” which is independent and relies on people reporting a site as being unavailable for them.
Caveat: No ads on the site, so they’re probably in the business of building profiles on the people who use their sites.
Enshitification
