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Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPO::“Edit: Obligatory ‘F— Spez’ for karma.”
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Has he tried publicly spouting fringe fascist conspiracy theories yet? No? Give it time…
They only need one speech bubble in the logo, it’s cheugy to have more.
You can’t polish a turd.
Well you can put lipstick on a pig …but its still a pig. And that 3D snoo head looked creepy.
Honestly the past two iterations of Snoo before this logo were pretty good. Wish it wasn’t attached to an awful website but, eh.
New look, same Reddit
I mean, yes and no. It’s the same reddit from six months ago yeah, the vultures hungry for an IPO and who don’t give a fuck about users.
The change in font actually speaks massively to a huge change in how reddit functions, and this has been a slow, gradual change.
Reddit was originally an all text site. The name fucking implies it.
“Oh did you see that link?”
“Yeah, I already read it.”
The pivot to sound and video has been going on for a few years. The logo still referenced the text-heavy nature of the site by being stylized as text you might read on a website. Now it is clearly a logo that has dropped that pretense entirely, as they have said “fuck people who like to read,” we’re here for eyeballs on screens, and video is what makes that happen!
So yeah, it screams a huge change in direction that’s been happening for years now. They’re just updating the branding to match the site direction.
Exactly. I remember going to Reddit as a minimalist alternative to Digg even before 2.0 pushed everyone out.
It was only a matter of time.
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Anyone wanna place a bet on how long it will be before the porn on there gets banned for good?
I know what Spez said about keeping it but he has lied before.
My bet is once they nail down the investors for the IPO, Reddit users are going to see a sharp shift in moderating - including what is allowed regarding NSFW/NSFL content.
Maybe they should have spent some of the money they used on this questionable design update on improving their app or working with third party app developers.
“we cant afford the API costs for 3P clients! we need that money for making our own open source font that no one asked for!”
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Fuck spez I used that reddit for years. However you can only be fucked over so much.
i still use reddit a lot of comunities havent left and my god the amout of bots now is insane entire threads are coppied with 1 year 6 month old acounts with zero history and what i think is ai spam from simualr acounts its a mess over there now what brainless idiot is letting this happen
A friend of mine was talking about how they had blatant homophobia sent their way on an LGBT subreddit, which was upvoted. Went to check r/ApolloApp and someone critical of the dev (because he was selling merch) was being blatantly and casually homophobic with similar upvote behaviour.
I’m not an easily offended guy but, honestly, I’m glad I left that shithole.
Had a brief look at r/WorldNews yesterday. Every comment was blatantly disgusting Islamaphobia that I couldn’t believe hadn’t been deleted yet. I don’t ever remember it being that bad over there
Same, I remember r/worldnews not swinging that way whatsoever.
They did kick out a lot of mods during the protests and moderation has gone to utter shit since the api change
Yeah. I read an article (also on Ars Technica funnily enough) about how some moderators aren’t equipped to deal with things. I believe they singled out r/canning because of the potential for food poisoning, but r/ender3 had a sympathetic “mod” who only joined that subreddit as a moderator just to fuck with Reddit corporate when they were replacing the mods.
Reddit, predictably, did not respond, so whoever wrote that article did their job right.
Oh god canning I heard about the new mods haveing less than a clue about it christ that’s a massive fuck up
Yeah new moderation didn’t stand a chance because the good mod tools were all 3rd party.
So many good mod bots aswell all gone
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Fuck spez
Everyone here is on copium, not gonna lie.
Reddit isn’t going to die. Honestly it has 1000x more content than lemmy.
Lemmy has a place and so does reddit.
Everyone? Those people who say these companies are sinking ship are probably so addicted to them they have to mention it anytime anything vaguely relates to it. Normal people use both and don’t give a shit where their meme comes from.
Honestly it has 1000x more content than lemmy.
So steal the content and post it here. At least the good stuff.
There aren’t any laws preventing you from doing that.
The good content on reddit isn’t the shitty-ass memes, it’s the discussion by experts on niche subreddits. Kinda hard to steal that…
What if you told you you can take a screenshot of those and share that here…
What if I told you that you could copy and paste text instead of taking a photo?
It’s kinda how these sites function at all nowadays lol. Wasn’t reddit text posts only a long time ago?
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Send us the text posts to replace all the people posting fuckin YouTube videos instead of articles here!
I still browse reddit, simply because the size of the communities I want to visit is much larger there. My browsing is however confined to the mobile page in Firefox, which is slow, clunky, and breaks frequently, which means my reddit usage is down by something like 99%. Lemmy has the sync app, and without the app I wouldn’t be here. Browsing Lemmy before it was awful.
Also, I kinda like that Lemmy is smaller. There’s much less noise, less of an algorithm feel to browsing. It feels slightly more like the internet I grew up with in the 90s and 00s, and I kinda missed that.
The throwback feel really is an intangible value add that means it might not catch on for younger folks but damn it does feel good.
honestly I think the opposite. from what a younger sibling has told me, old is new and the current trends in TikTok and stuff seem to be younger people wanting physical media, non flat design back, the old internet and etc. gives me hope at least.
I go back for sports communities because they’re still active enough on reddit for back and forth during live games, but literally yesterday on the hockey sub people were talking about how there’s less content. API changes meant less autoposted game highlights and it even seems there’s less back and forth on the game day threads. Now it depends a lot on the team these days.
TIL not supporting businesses you don’t agree with = being on copium.
Guess I better go buy Nestle products again.
No I think that’s fine, it’s just I see people thinking that reddit is literally dying, which is just not the case.
Oh oh… can we look forward to another wave of reddit leavers after inevitable changes to the site to please investors?
I mean … that’s almost certainly what’s going to happen to some degree
Anyone who didn’t leave when old.reddit.com stopped being the default isn’t going to leave over any other redesigns. They couldn’t possibly be worse.
I think there might be another wave when old.reddit.com stops working, a number of people still access it that way, despite it not being well known by the modern reddit audience.
I’m kind of looking forward to that. I don’t have an account there anymore, but I still check old.reddit.com because it’s quick enough scan the homepage on my phone when I’m waiting on something. Dropping old would help me break that habit very easily.
Agreed, that band-aid needs to be ripped off, because the site is really dead anyway. (It only appears alive because of bots trolling for engagement.)
It really is bad. I ask myself why I even bother every time I look at it. Looking at r/popular now feels more like what looking at r/popular/rising/ used to be, mostly reposted garbage with only the occasional interesting topic, but even those I’ve usually already seen somewhere else.
Responding to like three of your comments at once. But I used RES since like 2010. Until June I, and I imagine many others, had zero idea what “vanilla” reddit even looked like.
But yes, I only do r/NFL because I haven’t found that in fediverse yet. When I’m there and the muscle. Memory kicks in and I click the logo and go to the home it’s… Bad…
I’ve popped in once or twice in the niche communities I used to do. There’s activity, but it’s stuff I would have called filler posts two years ago. Not bad just… Not good.
The fall of Digg didn’t happen in one single wave.
Lots of people just want to stay with what they’re familiar with, and it takes loss of critical mass of content/interaction before they’ll look at the door.
It took an annoying girl in Uni, who was like 6 years younger than me, pestering me why I would still used Digg when reddit existed. I finally checked it out and never looked back. Then a couple years later everyone else I knew was on here.
I mean it really was a single wave. V4 or whatever version it was fundamentally changed the way Digg worked in a big way overnight. It wasn’t even the same thing anymore. Sure there were some holdovers but it’s tough to compare the two like this.
With the exception of third party apps, Reddit still more or less works the same for the average user as it has forever.
Yeah, Digg v4 hit like a shockwave and site traffic plummeted as users immediately flocked to Reddit by the millions. Reddit spent the next week crashing like crazy from the influx of new users and had to temporarily suspend and then limit new user creation and new sub creation for weeks after to handle the strain. It was kind of similar to what happened when everyone rushed over to Lemmy for the first time, but that happened a bit more slowly, over a longer period of time. 
Honestly, dark theme is how they got me with that one. Haven’t used the site aside from search results since the API changes went live but I like to think I’d leave if a new redesign was worse.
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“Edit: Obligatory ‘Fuck Spez’ for karma.”
“I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it any more!”
I didn’t leave Reddit and join Lemmy because I want to read about Reddit. Fuck Reddi. it’s yesterday’s news.
Nobody’s forcing you.
How do you know? Maybe he’s tied up mechanical orange style?
