Fizz: Your Authentic Community

ita a fun way to hear what is happening and what people think on campus, and to help answer questions and sometimes get feedback. worst part is there is an overwhelming abundance of fake posts. like, theres memes, and then there is just blantly lying to farm karma, and mods cannot do anything about it because it is not a rule. people will post fake pregnancy tests, AI text message images, and things stolen from facebook or reddit and claim its real. it waters down the authenticity of the app, so maybe only 20-30% of the posts are actually substantive or legitimate scenarios. -there is no functional search function and it either says ‘no posts exists with that word’ or gives seemingly random ones that dont match the search criteria at all. -there no limitation on people making bot accounts and its not uncommon to see the same couple posts verbatim every couple weeks. -there is seemingly no limit on people who just farm the hell out of karma. its incredibly obvious in my school that 70-80% of the posts are all made by the same person, but mods cant do anything about it. -unfortunately posts that are mean or slander are not always removed, especially if they have more 100 upvotes or have been around for a couple hours. there have been several circumstances of people just being rumored to hell or called out for things that never happened, and its a shame it cant be stopped other mods wont agree to remove it because the upvotes and lifetime of the post cause bystander effect.

I found this app about a week or so ago and i’ve grown to love it, but they updated posting amounts by making you “wait a FEW MINUTES” before making a post after you’ve posted 3 within like a half hour to an hour? 🤨 Sometimes I just have a lot on my mind and want to post so why am I being put in time out just leaving and reentering the app every few minutes to try to post again. I’m not exactly sure how long it makes you wait because usually I leave the app out of frustration because I can’t post on it (yasss user engagement!). I get spamming issues, but maybe there should be a cooldown for people flagged for spam by… MODERATORS? Why am I forced to be shut up by an app who spreads… community? Socialization? Also the way I can’t even use my handle anymore for ALL of my posts? 🤔 What was the point of this change? So now not only are my posts unable to be verifiably posted by ME, but I truly don’t understand the point? Can other people not just enter their pseudonym as my handle? I don’t know… but I do know that i’m getting frustrated with the updates 😩 Just let me post freely please!!!

I am an avid user and early adopter of this app at my school, and I really enjoy it, it fixes so many things I dislike about social media and even when it’s stupid I still find useful info about what is happening on my campus faster than any other medium. However, it does have a major problem, and that is blocking. I have a stalker who was able to identify my posts, and even after I blocked my stalker comments were still viewable to them. I still get notifications when they call me out by name on comments or reFizzes and the only solution would be to irreversibly delete my account. While I can understand why this is a more difficult issue to fix than it seems this should be a development priority and until then I can only say: download this app, but post nothing