<story><title>Reddit banned me for developing Geddit</title><url>https://www.buzl.uk/2024/08/24/reddit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maipen</author><text>&amp;gt; but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine.&lt;p&gt;Pretty much sums up every popular social media platform these days.&lt;p&gt;HN is still a good place to learn about whats going on in the tech world and what not because it&amp;#x27;s simple and filters out alot of &amp;quot;brainrot&amp;quot;, although there is an increasing number of comments that soley react at the headline.&lt;p&gt;Reddit has become like meta, you either have an account or your user experience will be so horrible that you won&amp;#x27;t use it.&lt;p&gt;X simply doesn&amp;#x27;t allow you to use it, atleast it doesn&amp;#x27;t pretend.&lt;p&gt;I think we need more simple websites again, but I am not sure about the incentive structure.</text></item><item><author>mubu</author><text>Reddit was my favorite website growing up. I&amp;#x27;d discover new interesting subs, read random posts and comments. The frontpage was somewhat interesting too, but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine.&lt;p&gt;I still use Reddit but way less than I used to before, and I no longer use it for fun but just to read niche tech subs.&lt;p&gt;I refuse to use the official mobile app. I&amp;#x27;ve always used Baconreader and then Relay on Android. Relay survived the API changes and adopted a subscription model.&lt;p&gt;But thanks to Revanced I was able to patch an old version of Relay to use my own API key for free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hi-v-rocknroll</author><text>Well, reddit became worse than that ~10 years ago because of the inconsistent, absurd, immature unreasonableness of a sizable fraction of mods who added suck and subtracted cool from the world. Maybe this is a pattern common to most all group-oriented social media platforms where community mods skew towards being drama-oriented, elitist, and&amp;#x2F;or crazy because no one else wants the job and so, like policing, it attracts certain personality disorder-like individuals.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit banned me for developing Geddit</title><url>https://www.buzl.uk/2024/08/24/reddit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maipen</author><text>&amp;gt; but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine.&lt;p&gt;Pretty much sums up every popular social media platform these days.&lt;p&gt;HN is still a good place to learn about whats going on in the tech world and what not because it&amp;#x27;s simple and filters out alot of &amp;quot;brainrot&amp;quot;, although there is an increasing number of comments that soley react at the headline.&lt;p&gt;Reddit has become like meta, you either have an account or your user experience will be so horrible that you won&amp;#x27;t use it.&lt;p&gt;X simply doesn&amp;#x27;t allow you to use it, atleast it doesn&amp;#x27;t pretend.&lt;p&gt;I think we need more simple websites again, but I am not sure about the incentive structure.</text></item><item><author>mubu</author><text>Reddit was my favorite website growing up. I&amp;#x27;d discover new interesting subs, read random posts and comments. The frontpage was somewhat interesting too, but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine.&lt;p&gt;I still use Reddit but way less than I used to before, and I no longer use it for fun but just to read niche tech subs.&lt;p&gt;I refuse to use the official mobile app. I&amp;#x27;ve always used Baconreader and then Relay on Android. Relay survived the API changes and adopted a subscription model.&lt;p&gt;But thanks to Revanced I was able to patch an old version of Relay to use my own API key for free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mulmen</author><text>&amp;gt; I think we need more simple websites again, but I am not sure about the incentive structure.&lt;p&gt;Then go make one.  It’s easier now than ever.  The social media mistake was trying to make one site everything to everyone but the web is still there.</text></comment>