I installed the official Reddit app and went on it to see what the old place was looking like now. My inbox was filled with spam. The “home feed” shows subs I never subscribed to. There are so many ads. Between the ads and the the extra subs in the feed, it’s hard to just scroll. I also noted a lot of spam in some of the subs. Maybe they are subs with no mods? I’m not sure what’s up with that.
as a former sync for reddit user, we were living in a delusion in the end. We fixed it for ourselves but the tides of change were inevitable
Hopefully now a sync for lemmy user!
Most definitely
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Reddit is nothing but a bunch of violent thugs , I had the sheer nerve to suggest non-violent passive resistance might be a viable form of protest and I was met with wave after wave of hateful responses and a downvote brigade.
Peaceful protests are a convenient way to gather everyone that disagrees with you and slaughter them all, unarmed. Just ask China about the year 1989
Or ask the British empire in India in 1947… Peaceful protests won them their independence and started the ball rolling for decolonialization worldwide.
Now tell me what happened to MLK
End result? Civil rights legislation and the end of Jim Crow Laws. He did die though, but all his immediate goals were accomplished and significant progress was made on his major goals and he is a hero to millions.
I’m not using Reddit since the whole API stuff got closed. However I posted something to get some tech help on a specific service online. Despite being nothing wrong with my post it was getting down voted. The mod perked up and said it’s just Reddit and just get used to it. No thanks.
I miss the amount of content that would make me laugh but I don’t miss the utter dickheads that reside there. I’m sticking with Lemmy.
I am using a shortcut to open a list of my preferred multireddits in Safari. I have the Noir dark mode app and old Reddit. only way it is bearable for me. Hard to abandon certain niche communities, but I realise in time, Reddit will become worse, and I will have to abandon it all together.
If you don’t care about being able to participate, Geddit is an ok alternative on Android. It’s an app skin for the RSS reddit feed with minimal functionality. No login, so no commenting or voting. But it does allow a sort of front page, still has access to nsfw content, and filters the ads. And it doesn’t give reddit clicks.
You should delete your account at r/redditseppuku
I ran shreddit to delete rest of my comments off the GDPR files that power delete suite missed. And it’s really fun seeing everything be deleted as the script is run.
They’re your comments and I understand the sentiment, but I do wish people didn’t delete their Reddit comments. Preserving what’s there will help people who look in the future - we just don’t have to add to it, and can (and should) devote our energies elsewhere.
Preserving but just adding a line after every comment directing people to Lemmy or wherever the user went would be much better.
That kind of built up history is exactly what keeps Reddit relevant though. It’s been the go-to place for so long that it stays just because it is where all the content is. And now with LLM’s any content you leave is going to get turned into a chatGPT bot to generate fake engagement for their ad numbers.
I will never understand the desire to destroy human knowledge out of spite.
It’s not about spite. It’s about not wanting your past work and creativity to continue to help an individual and a company who are bad for society, and who are destroying a platform many people loved.
I assume you aren’t the kind of person who ever commented about DIY or code stuff then? If you were, hundreds of people would miss out on solutions to problems. Meanwhile, reddit and spez don’t lose a damn thing, except maybe a few hundredths of a cent here and there. If you’ve ever posted anything useful to reddit, you would be hurting people who are trying to use the Internet to help them in exchange for the idea of “getting at” some random CEO who doesn’t care.
On the other hand, if you never posted anything useful to anyone, carry on.
if you’ve never posted anything useful to anyone
First of all, I’ve put painstaking effort into a lot of contributions. It hurts to delete them. Second of all, I don’t need to be a contributor to be impacted by people deleting valuable comments, but I still support the deletion.
Reddit had become the “go-to” place for finding trustworthy user reviews, and it’s been shoring up weaknesses in Google’s search engine for a few years now. They don’t deserve the reputation of being that platform because they regularly abuse and alienate good-faith contributors, and the CEO of the company has been caught multiple times in lies and completely unprofessional and untrustworthy behavior.
Fortunately, there are backups of Reddit and archive systems. It’s time for users who care about contributing to bring their value elsewhere, where we can build new ecosystems of user-powered value and knowledge sharing.
To be fair, LLMs are still going to be able to scrape your content, and I’d say even more so since individual instance owners do not have big lawyer teams like in Reddit protecting their content from being scraped. My personal take is to just keep commenting and posting on the Fediverse and make this a better place over time, and just use adblockers whenever you need Reddit to find information.
No, but there is no monetary gain to scrape and repost on Lemmy. Reddit makes money when they do that, which means they’ll encourage it more.
The built up history gives Reddit momentum, but it’s not like when you Google a solution to some tech issue and find a Reddit post from 2017 that solves it, that’s materially contributing to Spez’s IPO-chasing metrics. No, that’s all about engagement, and active current users.
When you delete your history, you’re just reducing the total information available to random people who are looking for it. It may feel good lighting it on fire but that’s about it.
If we stop using it, it’s just a historical record. Stopping using it is enough.
Ar least archive it, so archive org gets the engegemant instead of reddit.com
I keep my account up because I’m in subs that have technical help for certain hardware and software and haven’t migrated anywhere. I have lots of answers to issues that can be very helpful when searching. It sucks that Spez has forced so many people to delete important help like that.
r/redditseppuku
it is time. a month away from my reddit account has proven I don’t have any desire to return. Damn Spez, way to shoot yourself in the face you fucking bellend.
Don’t know what you mean. I don’t have hard statistics but it seems pretty apparent that Reddit weathered the storm well, just as he said they would.
Sure, some users got very angry with Spez and Reddit but ultimately didn’t go anywhere. They continue to complain about Reddit on Reddit.
Sure, some users left entirely but I’m certain many many more chose to subject themselves to the data-mining, ads, and pop-up notifications in the official app, thereby continuing to contribute to increasing Reddit’s value.
If Twitter has taught us anything, it’s that once you’ve built a sufficient userbase, there’s almost nothing they won’t tolerate.
I don’t have hard statistics but it seems pretty apparent that Reddit weathered the storm well, just as he said they would.
did I say I had hard statistics saying Reddit was going down?
No, no I didn’t, but you imagined that and just ran with a few paragraphs retorting it lol.
Damn Spez, way to shoot yourself in the face you fucking bellend.
he’s lost thousands of mods. you know, the idiots (like me) who did exceptional amounts of free labor, keeping the place clean and fun. you can already see the effect in multiple subs, the spammers are back in force.
that’s how he’s shot himself in the face. They’re never going to go back after this shit, and now that lemmy exists, people are moving on to the better alternative.
LOL, oh yeah, Twitter’s doing great. How’s that advertising working for 'em?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/twitter-ad-sales-musk.html
Please, don’t reply to something you’re making up in your head in response.
bwahahahaha all the new rising posts on reddit are crypto scams. https://lemm.ee/post/6038434
that’s working out great for spezzo
did I say I had hard statistics saying Reddit was going down?
…did I say you did?
No, no I didn’t, but you imagined that
Please, don’t reply to something you’re making up in your head in response.
Pot meet kettle.
oh yeah, Twitter’s doing great. How’s that advertising working for 'em?
What does advertising have to do with the number of people on the platform?
silly me, I didn’t know how accurate your username was. gonna block this idiotic discourse because you either can’t or won’t read, or are just shitposting.
More like blocking me because of what a giant buffoon you’ve made of yourself
I went on Reddit after 30 days away and each post has like 7301 comments. It’s just pointless to comment anymore
I am still not sure at this point if 7,301 is a lot of too little. And at this point, I’m too afraid to ask.
I’ll pop in to search for something real quick, but once I get my answer, I’m out.
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All I know is there’s several face rating subs now. The AskReddit and AITA type subs are trying to catch up.
Don’t forget the prime content of r/popping.
Don’t you hate on my baby, it’s been hard since the breakup.
I think you are just getting recommended stuff related to other subs you clicked on, whether you are subbed to them or not.
I actually have tried to use reddit multiple times, however they’ve soft-disabled most new accounts. It’s around a 50% chance in my experience if your account is shadowbanned immediately, with a slightly lower chance it’ll be shadowbanned within a week, regardless of what you post. If you use a privacy-focused email provider or use a vpn, or use a browser that is resistant to fingerprinting, you’re basically persona non-grata at reddit. Which is honestly fine with me at this point, half of all content you encounter in almost any major sub is either bot posted or “totally a legitimate user that uses the site 24/7” posted.
Yes, exactly. I was permabanned for insulting spez during the 3p shit. I wanted to see if things had changed and created a throwaway.
Of course, if you use the same browser they use IP, fingerprinting and such so I used VPNs, fingerprint randomizing browsers, protonmail and it would last maybe 4,5,6 days.
Which is fine since it’s a complete waste of time and shit content for the most part. Lots of niche communities are a real loss still tho.
So many comments are clear they are bots it’s just sad all around. I don’t get why anyone stays
I think you’re either overselling their defensive capabilities (like mods there do) or the solutions you used are just leaky and awful. I’ve found Tor to work very well, less complicated than the solutions you presented since it’s basically an all in one. I had an account on there for almost a year only through Tor so it works well, but I lost the password and since I used a throwaway email account is gone for good, but still not shadowbanned.
I have 4 other accounts (I’m not going to say which ones they are, makes the job of admins harder) still been going for over two months.
You can usually appeal shadow-bans and they overturn them I’ve found, you have to send an appeal showing both that you know but also pretend you don’t know why otherwise they’ll think they owned you.
I find that most of those issues are nonexistent the way I am on reddit - just use old.reddit everywhere. Yes, even on mobile. I’m special, and not in a good way, but it works.
I fear the day old.reddit gets shut down, considering the amount of communities that don’t have an (alive) analog on Lemmy, so for now I use both…
I fear the day old.reddit gets shut down
On that day there will be a new flood of refugees here. Looking forward to it.
That’d be a silver lining if it were to work out that way. However, seeing the stats of old.reddit usage is depressing - it’s a very small minority, would barely make a dent in reddit’s traffic if every old.reddit user migrated in such a case.
My personal issue is that reddit has that critical mass to not only sustain generic wide-appeal communities, which Lemmy also achieves, but also small niche communities, which Lemmy really doesn’t for the most part. Reddit needs to fuck up even worse, way worse than just discontinuing old.reddit.
would barely make a dent in reddit’s traffic if every old.reddit user
Personally, I don’t really care if Reddit fails, I just want Lemmy to thrive. Users of old.reddit seem likely to be high-contribution people, so it’d be great if they came here.
small niche communities
Yeah, I see your point. On the other hand, places like Facebook also have niche communities but people still set up on Reddit. The question is not “does it exist on Facebook?” but “is Reddit better?” Now we’re in the process of working out the bugs so we can say “but Lemmy is best.”
Maybe you’re right. Best we can do is be active here.
Infinity for Android is subscription only as of August 31st so it’s time to pull the plug for me!
I just got permabanned for calling Clarence Thomas a cunt because “the c word is sexist hate speech.” You have got to be fucking kidding me, reddit has become such a piece of shit I’m done with it for good.
meanwhile they haven’t banned clarence thomas for being an actual cunt.
Haha no way I got banned for calling RBG a cunt for not retiring when she had the chance!
I was permabanned for harassment for insulting spez during the 3p shit lol
What a bunch of fucking losers I can’t wait for their IPO to go down in flames, hopefully aided by some organization investigating and reporting the fact that like 30% of the website is karmafarming bots and chinese scam shills.
That’s been a standard for banning in r/politics for quite some time. “Cunt” is the mod banhammer trigger word there. Clearly they have never heard of Australia.
Yes I was banned there for saying I wouldn’t be sad if trump dies in prison or something like that, banned for advocating death lol
Clearly they have never heard of Australia.
They don’t have politics in Australia, silly. /s
Politics? That’s a 'murican tradition. That’s why r/politics only allows to discuss 'Murica, because there are no politics anywhere else. What? Did c/politics say something?
r/Australia is notoriously easy to get a permanent ban for completely arbitrary reasons. the mods there are reddit neckbeard stereotypes on steroids
I feel like there’s also been an uptick in hate posts
Goddamn it, it seems Reddit and TAFKAT (The App Formerly Known As…) are becoming interchangeable shitholes.
Becoming, lol
Absolutely. The signal to noise ratio used to be much better a few months ago.
I think this is an illusion and that the signal to noise ratio was bad since like mid 2020. You just notice it now that you’ve stepped away, but during the pandemic the popularity of reddit exploded (check the traffic graphs), and the quality took a steep nose dive.
It sucked before, too.
Same. If I could still use boost I would probably go back often, but the official all is so incredibly, profoundly user unfriendly that I just can’t
You can use Revanced to patch Boost. I used it for RIF is Fun and it works just like before the API fiasco.
