I can’t post multiple images on this site which is seemingly the only other non-dead internet forum on the whole entire web. Got temp-banned for making a “threatening” joke against house centipedes. Got twmp-banned for answering an AskReddit question. Got shadowbanned for posting about my two temp bans.
To be fair, estimates put 20% to 50% of reddit users as bots, 15% of posts generated by ai, and in high traffic subs, non human interaction in comments/replies is 40/50%…
Reddits user statistics are essentially an illusion, majority are lurkers, people just checking an answer via google, or bots.
Real active population is tiny, and the new account creation and subreddit creation system is so horrendous that I honestly don’t see how they get new people. I moved here because I created a second account to be a moderator for a subreddit I made, put in a lot of effort, both my account and sub were permabanned near instantly, no reply for why or from reddit help. Was absolutely eye opening.
Only thing was for rule number whatever: Spam…
Nothing human about the place, the individual doesn’t matter, the corporation is all. It is why I’ve decided to move away from anything American.
I really don’t know where these stats measure. I’m in none of the default subs. I’m in places like /r/antiwork, /r/fossdroid, /r/PlasticFreeLiving, /r/zerowaste, /r/Espanso, most recently /r/LinuxMint, /r/linux4noobs, etc. and the vast majority of them sure seems human to me. Go ahead and create a multireddit (as it’s called) of those specific subs and tell me how much AI you see: https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork+fossdroid+plasticfreeliving+zerowaste+espanso+LinuxMint+linux4noobs
This is precisely how I use it (well, that’s actually maybe just 10% of my subs); skip the home feed entirely and go straight to your ultra-awesome list of personally curated subs and just stick to them. I really think the best and worst of Reddit are what you make of it: where you go. I am one of those answer searchers but I also try to help others while I’m there. It’s been tremendously helpful to me over the years, despite facing trolls every now and then, sure.
Wait, is Lemmy not American? At least, the original programmers?
Thought it was French?
TIL, cool!