Just reddit being reddit again…
It works really well for me actually. Every time that mobile app begpost comes up it’s a great reminder that I shouldn’t even be looking at Reddit at all. Cut down my doomscrolling on my phone immediately.
looks like old.reddit.com still works.
I got permabanned this week for saying “Poor white people are being tricked into blaming black/brown/trans people for their problems instead of billionaires.”
Apparently it was promoting hate based speech and attacks.
Reddit was kinda neat 15 years ago, it’s a fucking cesspool now.
3 days tops before some reverse engineers the app and makes a proxy website. You won’t win this fight, spez. You will just lose in the most expensive way possible.
Reddit is not dying fast enough
This wouldn’t bother me at all if reddit didn’t appear at the top of almost every damn question I Google nowadays. Why are you pushing reddit for answers if you won’t let me see them?
I just use desktop agent on my phone if there’s a good answer to something on reddit, but honestly it needs to die and we need to use fediverse more for discussions.
Reached for comment, the company instead offered a puzzling explanation: that the site-breaking popup is for users’ own good.
Fuck you reddit, fuck /u/spez!
Users do anything but stop using reddit
Many of us here stopped a while back. For me, it was the API thing a couple of years ago. But it’s still useful to check reddit website for info - there’s just so many answers to so many questions on there. But fuck using their app.
Then there’s some of us who simply got kicked out of the Reddit realm altogether
I would have switched sooner if I had known about lemmy, but been here over a year now.
It took time to get to this point. The software had to mature and a lot of people wouldn’t stay around with so few choices of communities, but you can count on /u/spez to keep enshitifying Reddit, so Lemmy stays growing.
The API thing was the final straw for me as well.
That’s my situation. I nuked my comment history with a script when it was obvious they wanted to profit off of ai scraping. I still look at old reddit.com in my desktop, but I don’t touch it on mobile.
Yeah I have looked at old a few times, reddit is shit but internet searches are often even shitter these days with so fucking many AI generated websites.
If I know a better source I will search for that. Started growing some of my own food recently so anything plant related I try and check RHS first.
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👋 I stopped using reddit last week.
The way they are banning people for barely nothing, people will be stopping using it quickly
Once again I am reminded of an old coworker. He’d talk a good game about caring about things, but when it came to the slightest inconvenience he’d dither and usually just do the basic thing. Still an avid reddit user, last I heard.
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there are too many hyper local subs on there to stop reading it entirely… I’d love to even get state level channels on lemmy, but there are only a few.
I read ghislaine maxwell is back as a moderator on world news … and why the hell isn’t america going after the youth obsessed model world full of predators? Hello its time for frickin regulations
Thank fuck I said goodbye to that place. A shame to see such a fantastic online community be murdered by capitalists try to squeeze money out of it, but probably inevitable.
I still remember the first secret santa events on reddit. Some of the best internet times in history imo.
Iyeah those were fun. The original place, Reddit Mold, they were pretty creative.
I got stood up by my original secret Santa in like 2011 and the replacement hand knitted me a scarf!
The saddest part is it didn’t need to be.
Imagine if, instead of going for an IPO and all this, they operated it as a non-profit? If they just tried to be a cool place for users, like it was for 10 or 15 years already.
Instead they have to drain the blood out of it and sell it for parts and wonder why it died.
The investors aren’t wondering why it died, they’re wondering why they waited so long to kill it for profit before moving onto another thing to kill for profit. They know enough about business to know their actions will destroy the site, but they also know that the money they make just beforehand is enough to make a good return on their investment before they leave. That’s the issue with making a system motivated by profit; it’s profitable to run a business well for a long time, but it’s even more profitable to run it poorly for a short time and then leave.
That’s just capitalism.
Same here. I only browse it every now and then to get away from the hyper politics on Lemmy (either extremes are not good for the psyche).
But the quality on reddit is staggeringly low.
The comments don’t have the vibe like on lemmy.
I wouldnt call it “hollow” but it’s close or adjacent to it. Maybe superficial?
Too bad the non-political/non-technical communities are kinda dead here :/The comments don’t have the vibe like on lemmy.
I wouldnt call it “hollow” but it’s close or adjacent to it. Maybe superficial?Bots?
Also people are a lot more protective about their karma so it tends to make everyone into a weird homogeneous blob too scared to say anything that goes against the grain
That’s what is surprising to me: They didnt exactly feel like bots.
For example r/sysadmin feels very bot-like. Same for AskReddit (very engagement baity. Sort of like the AskLemmy versions here that feel like bots trying to get very weird research answers).
Same for r/selfhosted.Other subs do not feel like the bots they are frequenting. But it’s still very distant.
Sort of like a conversation in a rural vs metropolitan area.
Literally, any time I have been on there lately (which is much less often) it is very obvious the majority of replies in large communities are bots/AI slop. It is so ridiculous and sad to see what it has become.
The 50 or so top replies on pretty much every post are always a combination of the same 10 jokes and reaction gifs, plus hundreds of bots replying to those instead of the OP.
Any time a serious question is asked you have to scroll halfway down the page to get to an answer. It’s just not a usable site anymore if you want actual human input and opinions.
The 50 or so top replies on pretty much every post are always a combination of the same 10 jokes and reaction gifs
It’s been that way for a long, long time now.
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I thought Reddit broke their mobile site a long time ago.
