dugg their grave
What crap. I was on Reddit for 12 years, and left with the migration, to land in the fediverse. Not going back. We are building a much better place. Onward!
reposting the worst quote i heard all year - or perhaps all my life
“There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or AA, or never at all … But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
fuck spez, fuck reddit
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It isn’t like Alexis Ohanian was any better.
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“We don’t want other AI to train on this data, only one we’re involved with.”
"Despite these concessions, dozens of Redditors promised to stop using the site altogether "
There are dozens of us!! Lol
Fucking delusional on this writer’s part. It was far more than dozens and a lot of those people were power users with an outsized influence on the community.
I personally moderated two 150-250k user subs. Stepped down from both and wiped all my posts and comments and have not contributed a single thing since.
I wish that was true for askhistorians. For some reason, there’s a lot of people with a huge amount of knowledge and potential that are attached at the hip to corporate platforms.
I mean they are historians sticking archaic sites is there thing /joking
I went from multiple comments per day and posts almost every day to a couple comments a week and I think I’ve made one post since the protests
That place got hella toxic since the protests
The official Reddit app pushes “recommended” stuff into your feed constantly, and the posts and comments both seem to be even more pervasively negative than before the 3rd party apps shut down. Scrolling on Reddit is even worse for your mental health and outward perspective than it used to be.
I refuse to use the reddit app since they killed my favorite reddit app
And browsing on a mobile browser has gotten even worse recently as well so I’m only using it on my desktop
It’s gotten so bad over there
Same. They killed Apollo, so I dipped.
Heck I’m still using my favorite reddit app, just now with lemmy instead
Using Boost or something else?
I tried to wipe my comments but I during the protest I couldn’t access my user page, I could manually navigate to each of my comments via the posts but that would have been an impossible task. Soon after submitting a service ticket I was permabanned for a comment I’d made 2 years earlier… and even more bizarrely they message me a few weeks later saying they’d taken action against an account I’d reported for CP 4 years ago
I didn’t wipe my old account, but I have not been back since everything went down. I’ve looked at it occasionally but contributed nothing. It seems pretty shit atm.
I modded a couple of million user subs, and ended up replacing all of my posts with the same text before never logging in again. Wonder if I’ve been removed from any of them yet.
Side note, my life has improved so much after not doing free work for reddit. The things I’d see everyday… looking back I’d never do it again.
Smart man, I will hate you less in the future for being a fucking mod.
I learned the “Don’t be a mod for free” lesson back in the IRC days. It’s not worth the mental strain, even if it’s for a community you love.
no need to exaggerate 😬
I’m doing my part. 🫡
i think most reluctantly have some use for it still. i only use it for gamethreads and the shittiest of shitposts, or for super niche things that don’t have any equivalent on lemmy. at the end of the day, i think people would rather stay connected with their communities than abandon them, even if it means providing value for some of the stupidest and most malignant people in the world at the same time. look how many people are still using twitter
I had to create a new work account on reddit as it has the by far best community for sysadmins I have ever found, and I needed help with an undocumented issue in a system we use at work.
even if it means providing value for some of the stupidest and most malignant people in the world at the same time
This is so emblematic of the human condition. Poisoning ourselves to relieve stress, buying slave-made clothes to stay warm. Burning our skin to attract mates. Toxifying our own environment for convenience. Humans really are some dumb ass creatures. We are reaping what we sow.
I didn’t see you at the convention in Munich last summer.
I teleconferenced in. Did you go to the seminar on chafing?
That link linked to /modcoord at perhaps dozens of moderators promised to leave, which is far more impactful than users. I know just from watching kbin, lemmy and other sites grow from this summer on that hundreds to thousands likely left reddit. Unfortunately it’s probably a drop in the bucket but Web 2.0 was always probably going to win. The only real way I can see of us getting out of that en masse if when each site inevitably kills themselves through mismanagement.
I was a moderator of a minor misspelt subreddit. I marked it private when I left. That’ll annoy about 700 - 2000 people. I haven’t deleted my account, and I do visit every couple of months for a community that hasn’t moved which I like (though it has gone downhill)
Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve logged into Reddit since I started using Lenmy
I did a couple of weeks ago, after being off it for a couple of months…it was awful. I closed my account and deleted my saved login info. I only go to it now if it comes up in a search and seems relevant.
I haven’t really either. Apart from the the odd Google search results here and there, but not actually logging in.
Honestly, Fuck Steve Huffman.
I’m excited to see where Lemmy, Mastodon and the Fediverse go as I believe that’s what Aaron Swartz wanted Reddit to be when it merged with Infogami; a user curated platform about anything, and a great source of knowledge.
So many comments/posts look like bots.
Reddit always had a “repost” problem. But this time, not only am I feeling like I already saw this post, but also all the top comments? Just regurgitation of posts from years ago.
Reddit’s repost problem was brain doners posting rEPOsT!!!1!! on every fucking thread like everyone else was able to no life the internet as hard as them.
How many times did you see something new to you only for the comments section to be a shitstorm of people harassing op for not posting OC like reddit wasn’t a fucking news aggregator designed specifically to repost crap.
Hey have i got a video of a tractor stopping a prairie fire for you!
Its karma farm, they wait to repost a popular post, then post the most popular comments from the old one verbatim. Its gotten really bad
Can someone message the editor and share how because of this backlash, many moved to other platforms - like lemmy?
This is a Reddit circle jerk article, so no.
I came back to Lemmy because of the exodus. Definitely stayed longer because of the awesome Lemmy apps that came out (Boost and Sync). I check like 3 subs on Reddit occasionally, but use the web version. It’s so bad that it encourages me to get off pretty quickly lol. My only other social media is Mastodon, and my DNS blocks all the connections from other big social media.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In June, thousands of Reddit communities plunged into darkness – making their pages inaccessible to the public in a mass protest of corporate policy changes.
With rumors of an imminent IPO swirling, the company is under pressure to make money – and CEO Huffman has acknowledged as much, stating at the time of the change: “Reddit needs to be a self-sustaining business, and to do that, we can no longer subsidize commercial entities that require large-scale data use.”
Stevie Chancellor, an assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota who has studied Reddit for years, echoed these sentiments.
“It bothers me that social media companies are increasingly restricting our abilities as researchers who care deeply about these sites and who believe they can provide many benefits for people,” Chancellor said.
Reddit’s corporate overlords were ultimately unmoved by the massive blackout, and most of the thousands of dark subreddits went back to normal after a few weeks.
Users who have long been dedicated to the site, some of whom have spent countless unpaid hours working to make it better, are exhausted and resentful – and many have simply left.
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How corporate social media’s biggest user protest, and exodus, rocked reddit, acccording to corporate media - FTFY
#fuckingcapitalists
The only thing that’s changed is all the good modetators have left and the default subs have gotten worse.
God forbid you say anything mildly positive of Palestine on the main politics site. The AIPAC hired mods immediately permaban you.
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October 7 was a disgrace, Hamas must be destroyed because they don’t ever want a lasting cease fire. Israel’s authoritarian leadership eats dick and must be deradicalised for any chance of lasting peace. What are people gonna do? Down vote me? Please do who gives a shit?
October 7 was a disgrace, Hamas must be destroyed because they don’t ever want a lasting cease fire
You can thank George Bush, the previous terrible choice of most Convicted Rapist Treason Trump voters, for the process that led Hamas to power in Gaza.
I can see this may have been the case. It’s easy to make peace in the moment if you give concessions to the more powerful side. The problem that arises is that it creates an underlying contempt from the weaker side that doesn’t just go away. Especially if there is a sense of humiliation and powerlessness from the deal. The only way for peace is for both sides to give concessions and refocus on common problems with common solutions.
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Down with Reddit!
The entire “dozen” agrees!
So say we dozen!
“Technical tweaks”? Did the author write this while sucking huffman’s taint?
Very certainly
Did you see spez’s senior prom picture in the article?
[Huffman said,] “We respect when you and your communities take action to highlight the things you need, including, at times, going private.”
Really? 'Cause that’s not the impression I’ve been getting. :scepticalThor:
Agreed. It didn’t feel respectful when they started replacing mod teams that refused to reopen.
