You feel that? You feel it slipping?

When you have to be this hands on with your site, manipulating it, it just means your circling the drain… slowly working your way down.

It’s going to get exhausting putting out these little fires constantly. If only they had a group of people that would happily do the moderation for them… for free.

But why even acknowledge it if you’re just going to lie about it. Cringe.

Yep, exactly. And to me that’s very broken. A good game but with major flaws imo

Right. One of the best things about Diablo 1 and 2 to me were being able to grind a bit, and noticing how much stronger you were after you leveled a few times. I remember my first play through in Diablo 1 I got my ass beat in Act 4… so I went back and reran Act 3 portions and leveled a few times which helped a lot.

Your character never feels stronger, and you don’t really get rewarded much for leveling in D4… because you make everything else stronger too when you level. So that’s a big bummer for me, even though I was excited about at first

I see that those people will eventually move to another platform and it will be there.

Yeah, it’s surely a loss in the short term. Just makes me sick to think about Huffman getting rich off the content so many others created and moderated. Reddit hasn’t even done a very good job creating a good platform. The just bought out Alien Blue and have made that shittier ever since. Same with old Reddit, it was so good because it was simple yet effective, and they’ve slowly been destroying that for some time.

Monetizing ruined a great thing and they shouldn’t benefit from that.

THEY ruined Reddit and a good thing. Had they not done that, all the content and users would be there. They’d still be making money. They just want more and have been compromising the product on their end and have been held up

The quick version of that is I’m enjoying it, but it’s no Diablo 2.

To me, after about 30 hours of play… I don’t like how everything scales with you and I’m not crazy about the way stats and mechanics are set up, but other than that it’s enjoyable.

Display pic. I’m a big D2 fan as well

Thanks! And I love your DP!

Thank you.

It’s not so much that I think my content was such a great and big addition to the site on why I want to delete. In fact, it’s not that at all.

I just like the idea of Reddit being riddled with posts with comment threads that don’t offer much as a whole as most stuff has been removed. I’m just trying to do my part, and if it makes a few people aware of Lemmy, all the better.

I look at it this way… I’d rather the information start being posted here or somewhere besides Reddit, and eventually that place will be more relevant.

Reddit is not essential.

Also another note: as an old Apollo user I love the Memmy app for Lemmy. Very similar. Just a heads up for anyone in the same boat not aware of Memmy.

Accomplish something everyday, one thing outside of normal life. Can be small but one extra thing.

Just had my second kid 2 weeks ago… this is simple and perfect

Good and good riddance.

Good points and I agree with all of them. I’ll also add that when Reddit started shutting down some subs, it was a good thing, as they started with the worst of the worst. My point is just that’s when it started, and it just went too far from there. Now there definitely seems to be too heavy of a hand.

Expanding on that, that all evolved to a point where Reddit is telling moderators how to moderate, and if they fail to comply, they will force you out and replace you with someone who will moderate exactly how they want. At this point, besides niche smaller subs, there is very little that is organic on that site.

The subs used to feel like they each belonged to their creators and/or moderators. To me that is what made Reddit great and unique in so many ways, it’s why there was something for everybody. The site could perfectly fit the content to anyone. That’s pretty much dead now.

First of all, I cannot speak for the current state of Reddit myself because I literally never go there anymore.

I’ve been here for 5 days, and from my experience is this platform has gained a lot of traction even in that short timeframe. Hopefully it just doesn’t level off and then die suddenly.

Most importantly though, this article hit on the nose of what my opinion is on what made Reddit great… great 3rd party platforms (I loved Apollo) and the moderation/customization of its subreddits. Everything was so hands off. Both of those are gone now. Reddit killed off the very things that made it unique and so good.

In my 7 years on Reddit, I’d say over the last two-ish years we have slowly been seeing that leave. So many subs got shut down, and some definitely were questionable at best, but in it, Reddit organic feel and freedom. At first it was only the worst of the worst subs, but slowly more and more left. Not to mention moderation was being done by a shrinking number of people and it seemed the echo chamber in each individual sub got worse.

Some changes were directly administration’s fault, others indirect to varying degrees.

I’d argue Reddit has slowly been killing itself for awhile now, it’s just that the latest changes are the most abrupt, direct, and significant.