automod filters made reddit an absolute nightmare. pouring my heart out on the depression sub and getting it removed because it didn’t have 300 characters or it was image post saturday or god knows what. you basically just don’t get to post on any sizable sub — before it was at least a lottery! post, see if people will like it! but now you can’t even get a post through!
there are 50 automod filters on everything, forbidden words or topics, perfectly good questions cast away to megathreads no one reads!
it’s a dire, awful landscape, and really terrible user experience, having something on your chest and wanting to post, but oh hey this won’t be posted until our ‘mod team’ ‘reviews’ it. isn’t that what voting is for? please stop treating me like a spambot or troll by default!
I‘m not in expert user. My experience: I planned to create a worldbuilding series for an sci-fi Aztec empire. Designed that empire, created some leading characters and made AI images for their spaceships.
I then posted the image of the ship with the accompanying fluff and got some upvotes. I also crossposted this into an AI art area.
Next day, my original post had vanished without trace, while the crosspost still existed.
For me, this was my Wikipedia moment where I decided to not put more effort into lemmy.