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Reddit has more friction to sign up or post while new or low karma.

The main subreddits will basically shadowban you until your account is aged and has more than X karma.

This is why I don’t create a Reddit account or post there: there are so many rules that dissuade new accounts. I don’t even bother to try.

Reddit is fantastic, to me. It's worth the struggle to get past the initial bullshit.

There are a lot of flaws, though. Their appeal system is very broken, for instance.

Which in itself is annoying, IMO. It creates a whole separate set of problems. You need karma, so people post in karma-farming subs to get a few crumbs. Then you get auto-banned from a dozen of the top subreddits preemptively for farming.

Reddit hasn't been as overrun by bots yet, for the most part, although how long they can hold out I don't know.

maybe not overrun by spam, but the amount of bots I see on popular subs is definitely not 0

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