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Who cares. Reddit is dead to me, and spez murdered it.
Reddit was amazing. I will always enjoy and fondly remember what it was like before Spez fucked up one of the most reputable cultures and brands in internet history. Fuck that guy… just… what a fucking shithead to destroy something so wonderful.
I just wanna look at memes, cats, and news and hang out in the comment section without being exposed to ads, is that too much to ask?I hope their IPO sucks and they get shorted i to oblivion while they bleed off users month over month, because thats whats going to happen if they keep pulling this sort of stuff.
when is the IPO (what is an ipo) happening? i want to see their stock graph fall and jerk off to it
I dunno there have been rumours that their IPO is just around the corner for years now, idk how they justify it reddit just isn’t set up for that sort of growth model. Its users (at least before all the nonsense) I’d say are on average more likely to use 3rd party apps, ad blockers and not engage with the kind of activity that normally creates revinue (thats frankly why I’m here I’m a reddit refugee from appolo). My guess is all this activity is prep for going public but I just can’t see it going well.
Reddit was a nice upgrade to usenet newsgroups
Throw few bucks at your app developer, instance hoster, and Lemmy dev team.
It’s going to take years, but Lemmy will kill Reddit. People like authenticity. Reddit will lose authenticity as it antagonizes its user base through its monetization efforts.
A core group of people who value that authenticity above all else migrated after Reddit betrayed its values this past summer. They will be the early adopters of this brand new community. It’s happened before on the internet. People hate bullshit. They want to connect with real people that have good intentions and are good faith contributors, free of the influence of investors trying to monetize those relationships.
My bar isn’t set too high to beat Reddit.
I’d be perfectly happy if we have small but thriving communities spread throughout the fediverse on a diverse set of niche topics.
We’re in a good place for memes, star trek, and general discussion, niche content still has ways to go.
But to those people that are trying and posting to niche communities, I see you and I appreciate you!
Yeah every time Reddit pulls some shitty stunt, we get a new influx of angry people demanding algorithms, whining about federation being too complicated and picking fights.
It’s like the bar just closed and everybody’s going to 7-Eleven to be mad about it.
We need more activity in local communities too. Even big cities seem lacking in content.
I like the way you think.
12 years that place was more of my life then i care to admit. constantly scrolling.
…honestly i should thank him for breaking that addiction
This is one of the things I like about Lemmy. I can scroll through and be done in 10-20 minutes. More if I want, but otherwise, the rest of the day is mine for the taking. It’s like I’ve escaped and reclaimed my time.
Couldn’t have said it better myself, haven’t been back once since I joined Lemmy and I never will.
I only go back when there’s an answer to a DDG search. There’s so much valuable information there, but as time goes by, that will change and the answers will become less accurate. In ten years, it’ll be a graveyard.
One can hope, but you’re right. There is too much valuable information on there to ignore when it’s needed.
The issue is, that a lot of Google searches lead to reddit
Honestly you took the words right out of my mouth. I literally could not have said it better myself. I hate that man, and his company for what they did to one of my absolute favourite pieces of the Internet. Reddit will live in on history, because I sure as hell won’t go there anymore.
Reddit will keep making horrible decision after horrible decision, completing the process of enshitification, until they slowly piss off their remaining userbase one by one until they have nothing left and go the way of Digg. It’s gonna take a long time because people hate change, but they usually hate bullshit more than that and everyone has a breaking point.
It’s all about Lemmy now. Lemmy is the future.
Honestly, this is part of a broader trend of enshittification sweeping the Internet these days. It’s not just spez, it’s any SV bro from the current crop of technology companies. I think this is a lesson worth remembering for all of us who took the freedom and magic of the Internet for granted.
Absolutely. Cory Doctorow’s Def Con 31 talk really nailed it. I’ve listened to it like 3 times. He is the person who coined the term “enshitification” and the talk describes what it is, how it happens, and some things we can do to prevent it. The Q&A at the end is also awesome.
I was active on reddit for quite a while and by contributing and visiting the site making reddit money.
I have no desire to feed their greed and what they pulled with their API pricing was nothing but greed and shortsightedness.
I’m gone from reddit for good.Who cares
it still has a shitload of valuable content and will continue to generate lots of it
“whoa there, pardner”
cunts
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This is very apt.
Lemmy is getting better and better at an exponential rate. I still use Reddit but eventually I expect to fully be on Lemmy.
I just quit cold turkey and moved to lemmy fulltime. I miss some communities but whatev, its no biggie.
There’s too many answers over the past decade to abandon reddit completely. Most google searches for specific questions go back to Reddit.
I’ve heard that Reddit is trying to kill that too so people will use their godawful search feature instead. I got a prompt from the site to take a survey about it sometimes last month and that’s what people were theorizing that it was about.
I’ve had some searches lead me to old reddit threads where the answers are all deleted a few times since migrating here already. So even that is becoming less true than it used to be.
Yeah I only get back on Reddit from a search engine hit. And even then I’ll use the cached copy if I can.
How do you get the cached copy?
archive.org has it. I self host searxng, and it gives me a link beside every search result to load it from archive instead.
Same here. I do go back for some niche browsing, but mostly over here now.
I’ll go back there if they have some specific discussion with good info. I.e. Linux, video games, something. But signing in and browsing? No way.
I used to use Reddit a lot more back before the whole API fiasco earlier this year. After that, I stopped, save for posts promoting Lemmy and one very specific subreddit that never migrated to Lemmy and that I just couldn’t go without. (The other subreddits I could either do without or were already replicated on Lemmy.)
I also used to rely more on reddit but just came to lemmy and can really see potential that with time will overpass reddit eventually
I think we can overpass in quality some day but not in rough numbers(at least for now, reddit has to fuck up a lot to go down like twitter).
I honestly haven’t used Reddit since the API exodus. The only reason I still have an account there is for when I have weird tech issues and the only search results are from old Reddit posts.
I only check Lemmy a few times a day, (and I tend to browse /all so I’m not limited to only seeing my subscriptions,) so I always have fresh content whenever I open the app. My posts and comments tend to get better engagement on Lemmy anyways. They don’t get buried by power users and karma-farming bots, so I actually get real responses. Nearly every time I open my app, I have three or four comment responses to check.
I miss like one community and sort by controversial to enjoy a really nice shit show.
Some of my main communities didn’t take hold here, so I keep my toes in those subreddits. In the past week, the experience has gotten measurably worse. It’s wild.
I wish those communities had reached a critical mass here.
Someday.
I browse old.reddit when I finish a show or movie for review and to touch in on hiphop releases. But without interaction. Lemmy is where I am now, fuck reddit I’m not a complete fuck Spez but they’re a genuinely unlikeable company.
Translation: If we can’t track you, you’re of no interest to us.
Basically. They need to know who you are.
Correction: They need to know how they can market you to advertisers.
change your user agent to “fuck reddit and fuck you spez v. 1.2.45”
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Reddit is the new digg
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Lemmy is quickly embodying the worst of reddit too.
Lemmy at least has alternative instances and instance blocking.
I’d argue that, for Lemmy, it depends on which communities you subscribe to. Even if you subscribed to one community that now has stuff you don’t like, there’s a decent chance that another community on another instance has what you’re looking for.
Of course it is, it’s a reddit clone marketed to redditors.
If I was going to r/FortNiteBR, I’d be using private browsing mode on mobile firefox too
old.reddit.com still works (for now…).
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Once the majority of the old guard mods dip or get removed then they’ll get rid of it, but not sooner. Of course, with how things are going in that regard…
Wtf are they doing?
Seems like Spez & Co finally started figuring out just how much their traffic skews to porn seekers, and is useless to advertisers. Last ditch effort to get relevant user info and metrics to sell.
“Woah there, pardner”? What the fuck is going on with Reddit? Do they think they are like cool cowboys in the old west?
Uh, didn’t you read the thing? Reddit’s awesome and all!
As a first-time user I’m enjoying Lemmy. I feel like I want to contribute mostly because I won’t have an immediately antithetical comment to follow my own. Am not looking for an echo chamber, I’m looking for conversation and sharing ideas. Reddit has devolved and this seems like the best way forward, for now.
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I hope you like Linux memes and weekly updates on what reddit is doing
I just keep opening new accounts until they ban them, rinse and repeat
Noticed this last week. Thanks to split tunneling, it’s easy avoidable.
That’s not avoiding it, that’s playing straight into it. That’s exactly the best case scenario they drew when they made the decision to block VPN connections. You are giving them your data and allowing them to fingerprint you.
Old reddit still works fine, but I suspect it won’t soon enough.
Split tunneling generally means traffic destined to your local network isn’t tunneled while internet traffic is, which would result in the same outcome since Reddit doesn’t exist on your local network. Unless you have something more specific in mind.
To me split tunneling just sounds like “traffic matching certain rules is routed differently”, and the rules depend on the configuration 🤷
Like mobile protonvpn lets you include/exclude certain apps/ips; desktop wireguard has allowed ips, etc.
Well yeah it just means that you’re not routing all your internet traffic through a VPN.
What I was wondering is how that’s actually help in this scenario. But the answer is it doesn’t, he just gave up and stopped using the VPN for Reddit traffic lol.
Yap, basically. Look, I never said it was a good solution 🤣
If you use Mullvad, You can have the Mullvad browser on the VPN while Firefox isn’t.
Right but that wouldn’t actually solve the problem of getting blocked when using a VPN. You’d have to access Reddit without.
