Ok I know the title is weirdly said but I will explain more here. I tried using reddit but all of the subs and topics I wanted to speak on were gated by Karma, so I searched reddit for no karma sub so I just posted on ask reddit,nostupid questions and I made one post on r/advice which I cross posted to relationship advice after which my account glitched. Turned out I had been shadow banned and I have no clue how. My theory is I posted to much and copy and pasting a post tripped the alarm but the post was a bit different on relationship advice and I did it once, I saw reddit from like youtube videos and tiktok and people cross post to subs all the time why is that an issue ?

But to get to the main ponint of this, why is reddit run the way it is ? In the sense why do they ask so much of their users hurting both the user expirience and the site’s ability to grow. The Karma system forces you into a position where to get to the content you want you have to interact with and post content you don’t care about.So you have a ton of disengaged user’s just punching their time card to get to what they actually care about. Imagine if other social media sites did this, imagine if you wanted to listen to sabrina carpenter on spotify but to do that you had to listen to 100 hours of Conway Twitty, what sense does that make ?

Reddit’s karma and age gate systems resemble a mobile game and while annoying when it’s done there you understand why it’s designed to get you to pay to skip it, but reddit doesn’t let you pay to skip it at east not directly.

Every other social media site wants to get users the content they want as easy as possible. TikTok is the best example the reason it’s popular is because it’s the best at getting you what you want with as little work required on your part as possible. The for you page fetches you videos your interested in, if your a creator the format of the app increases your chance of being seen and going viral.

Reddit on the other hand leaves so much of the user experience up to weather or not your post on ask reddt go gets upvotes or if you happen to know if a good sub with a karma limit since subs do not disclose their karma limit

Again for the last time, why ? Even from a selfish business standpoint this seemingly makes no sense so what am I missing

  • Zenith@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    I was an ultra early Reddit user, frankly it’s incredibly simple, money. Several years back Reddit really started blowing up internationally and we stopped the nerd shit several years before that, no more “because reasons” or “the condoms are under the sink” silly in-jokes, or recognizable friendly power users, I was a lesser power user but hit the front page several times. It becoming international was a little bumpy cause the grammar Nazis we’re struggling with non American users and other culture type things but in general redditors were gracious and accepted people who weren’t English as first language users. When Aaron Swartz was outed and subsequently killed himself I think it was really the beginning of the end. Once Aaron was gone, once the Trump subreddits started being pumped by Russian troll farms and the final nail in the coffin, going public for bigger profit there was no going back. They sold out to political interests then sold out for money. Greed for money and power killed Reddit. All that said, Lemmy is a lot more quiet, obviously but it feels like the Reddit from ~20 years ago and I’ve been really enjoying it.

    My instance is being closed so hopefully I can find a new home here I enjoy as much, that’s the biggest downside I’ve seen so far, you can essentially just lose your account due to others.