R.I.P. NSFW communities I guess.
I thought those weren’t visible without a login already, right?
Reddit? Is that like digg?
In the sense it digged its own grave, yes.
ive been trying to post my experience-first video player on reddit and i can’t even post anywhere because everywhere requires i comment NINE TIMES FOR EVERY PERSONAL POST. fuck that man I’m trying to share something i made for free over 3 months I’m not fucking playing social media simp just for the privilege
It’s crapitalism.
When I stopped using reddit a few years ago, I left my account intact because I had 18 years of posts that included a lot of tech help and other useful information that I figured people might stumble across.
Last night, I used Redact to scramble all 5,521 comments.
I envy you. I was a little too outspoken which led to my account being banned, and now I can’t do anything about my existing trove of data I foolishly created for them
I’ve soon been on here for 3 years now and made almost 11,700 comments in that time (which I personally find must be a miscount somehow, that sounds insane). So anyway, I was on Reddit for over 11 years. Extrapolating these numbers kind of boggles my mind a bit.
I only access Reddit (and Lemmy) through RSS so when they nuke that in two weeks, I’ll be gone, too.
My RSS feed already stopped sending me Reddit posts. Last ones were about 17 days ago. Ridiculous.
There’s only one social media site that’s still the same as it was a decade ago. The only problem is that it was never good.
Lemmy is the best
Anyone who still has an account there, I’d encourage you to use it to gently promote your favourite Fediverse website. There are a significant number of people asking about Reddit alternatives the last couple of days, and sending people directly to a specific suggested site (rather than just saying something like “Lemmy”) is more likely to get people to come over and check things out.
It’s a shame there’s not some big social engagement event going on here right now. Anyone want to start some kind of viral shitpostery?
Can we offer you some powdered milk in these trying times?
They permanently ban everyone anyway
Reddit is a haven for spam, rife with bots and scammers, and it often hands over control to fraudsters.
This will of course fix none of those issues.
I’m still waiting, reddit, why are you still accessible publicly? Second thoughts, spez? Seems this is taking longer than other announcements, like when they locked old.reddit behind a login. I saw the login prompt pop up on desktop once, and never again after that.
Reddit has repeatedly proved that they do not care about their users, regardless of what they say. No one who has left is eager to get back, they are only trying to catch new users which other social networks are much more effective at.
It also allows us to protect access to Reddit’s extremely valuable corpus of data
That’s the real problem, people have to stop giving Reddit their data to monetize before they inevitable kick them to the curve and remove any control they had over their own data.
What is a Reddit? /s
Great, it’s removing itself from a lot of free publicity it was getting from search results and basically conceding them to the AIs spez was always using as a strawman.
Spez has all but basically admitted that reddit is a targeted experience now and that the only posts you will see are ads, echo chambers, and rage baits. It has little to do with its origins now.
Ok
