Who cares. Reddit is dead to me, and spez murdered it.
Reddit was amazing. I will always enjoy and fondly remember what it was like before Spez fucked up one of the most reputable cultures and brands in internet history. Fuck that guy… just… what a fucking shithead to destroy something so wonderful.
I just wanna look at memes, cats, and news and hang out in the comment section without being exposed to ads, is that too much to ask?I hope their IPO sucks and they get shorted i to oblivion while they bleed off users month over month, because thats whats going to happen if they keep pulling this sort of stuff.
I’ve been hanging out in imgur, which is generally nice for memes and cats, and kbin for news. It’s been surprisingly effective.
12 years that place was more of my life then i care to admit. constantly scrolling.
…honestly i should think im for breaking that addiction
Much the same, I was lost for a while till I adjusted.
It’s all about Lemmy now. Lemmy is the future.
I was active on reddit for quite a while and by contributing and visiting the site making reddit money.
I have no desire to feed their greed and what they pulled with their API pricing was nothing but greed and shortsightedness.
I’m gone from reddit for good.Honestly you took the words right out of my mouth. I literally could not have said it better myself. I hate that man, and his company for what they did to one of my absolute favourite pieces of the Internet. Reddit will live in on history, because I sure as hell won’t go there anymore.
Reddit will keep making horrible decision after horrible decision, completing the process of enshitification, until they slowly piss off their remaining userbase one by one until they have nothing left and go the way of Digg. It’s gonna take a long time because people hate change, but they usually hate bullshit more than that and everyone has a breaking point.
Don’t just blame Spez…that what the board wants you to strawman.
Blame the board as well
Honestly, this is part of a broader trend of enshittification sweeping the Internet these days. It’s not just spez, it’s any SV bro from the current crop of technology companies. I think this is a lesson worth remembering for all of us who took the freedom and magic of the Internet for granted.
It’s going to take years, but Lemmy will kill Reddit. People like authenticity. Reddit will lose authenticity as it antagonizes its user base through its monetization efforts.
A core group of people who value that authenticity above all else migrated after Reddit betrayed its values this past summer. They will be the early adopters of this brand new community. It’s happened before on the internet. People hate bullshit. They want to connect with real people that have good intentions and are good faith contributors, free of the influence of investors trying to monetize those relationships.
Who cares
it still has a shitload of valuable content and will continue to generate lots of it
Who cares. Reddit is dead to me, and spez murdered it.
Reddit was amazing. I will always enjoy and fondly remember what it was like before Spez fucked up one of the most reputable cultures and brands in internet history. Fuck that guy… just… what a fucking shithead to destroy something so wonderful.
Lemmy is getting better and better at an exponential rate. I still use Reddit but eventually I expect to fully be on Lemmy.
I just quit cold turkey and moved to lemmy fulltime. I miss some communities but whatev, its no biggie.
There’s too many answers over the past decade to abandon reddit completely. Most google searches for specific questions go back to Reddit.
I’ve heard that Reddit is trying to kill that too so people will use their godawful search feature instead. I got a prompt from the site to take a survey about it sometimes last month and that’s what people were theorizing that it was about.
I’ve had some searches lead me to old reddit threads where the answers are all deleted a few times since migrating here already. So even that is becoming less true than it used to be.
Yeah I only get back on Reddit from a search engine hit. And even then I’ll use the cached copy if I can.
How do you get the cached copy?
archive.org has it. I self host searxng, and it gives me a link beside every search result to load it from archive instead.
Same. I realised 95% of Reddit for me was just the bants and chitchat. There’s a few communities I miss, but I can easily get my kicks here.
Just came over from reddit to check this place out and gotta say, I’m liking it so far!
Same here. I do go back for some niche browsing, but mostly over here now.
I’ll go back there if they have some specific discussion with good info. I.e. Linux, video games, something. But signing in and browsing? No way.
I used to use Reddit a lot more back before the whole API fiasco earlier this year. After that, I stopped, save for posts promoting Lemmy and one very specific subreddit that never migrated to Lemmy and that I just couldn’t go without. (The other subreddits I could either do without or were already replicated on Lemmy.)
If I may ask, what subreddit is that, and how big it is?
It’s /r/Toonami. It’s gotten about 35k members over the years, but it’s not as active as that number might imply.
Ok, so I created !toonami@metacritics.zone. Follow-up questions:
- Do you want to become a moderator for it?
- If there is anyone you know from Reddit that you’d like to help migrate to this community, can you tell them to join via https://portal.alien.top? This will log them in *via Reddit and automatically subscribe them to lemmy communities that correspond to the the subreddits they joined.
- While the community here is empty, would you be interested in having the content mirrored to the community (via alien.top?)
I’m not too interested in being a moderator. I don’t have time for it.
As for migrating the community, they actually are one of the communities that held a vote, and they voted to stay on Reddit rather than migrate to Lemmy. I’d like to respect that decision.
I don’t have any problem with content being mirrored, though.
they actually are one of the communities that held a vote, and they voted to stay on Reddit rather than migrate to Lemmy.
That’s interesting. Can you link me to this discussion or poll? Reddit search, as usual, is not showing much.
I apparently misremembered. There was a poll, and they posted the results here. But the poll didn’t make mention of Lemmy and instead asked about migrating entirely to Discord (which honestly makes sense since the weekly thread is mainly a “live chat” of sorts). They voted to stay on Reddit instead of migrating entirely to their Discord server.
Both the subreddit and Discord server are active enough that they don’t feel “barren” but small enough that they have a tight sense of community.
I also used to rely more on reddit but just came to lemmy and can really see potential that with time will overpass reddit eventually
I think we can overpass in quality some day but not in rough numbers(at least for now, reddit has to fuck up a lot to go down like twitter).
Even with “all the fuck ups from Twitter”, their traffic is down only 4-5%.
It’s going to take a lot more than just waiting for them to fuck up. Network effects are real and the big companies spent the last 18 years making sure that they built enough moat around their fiefdoms.
Protests are not enough. “Strikes” were the leaders announce beforehand how long they will paralyze is not enough. Depending on moderators who are more worried about losing their status with their masters is not enough.
We need to treat this as a fight. Get all the tooling that can be used to make as easy as possible to migrate and ensure that people can get their dose of dopamine away from Reddit. Then things will start looking better.
I honestly haven’t used Reddit since the API exodus. The only reason I still have an account there is for when I have weird tech issues and the only search results are from old Reddit posts.
I only check Lemmy a few times a day, (and I tend to browse /all so I’m not limited to only seeing my subscriptions,) so I always have fresh content whenever I open the app. My posts and comments tend to get better engagement on Lemmy anyways. They don’t get buried by power users and karma-farming bots, so I actually get real responses. Nearly every time I open my app, I have three or four comment responses to check.
I miss like one community and sort by controversial to enjoy a really nice shit show.
I browse old.reddit when I finish a show or movie for review and to touch in on hiphop releases. But without interaction. Lemmy is where I am now, fuck reddit I’m not a complete fuck Spez but they’re a genuinely unlikeable company.
Some of my main communities didn’t take hold here, so I keep my toes in those subreddits. In the past week, the experience has gotten measurably worse. It’s wild.
I wish those communities had reached a critical mass here.
Someday.
Translation: If we can’t track you, you’re of no interest to us.
Basically. They need to know who you are.
Correction: They need to know how they can market you to advertisers.
Weekly reminder that the best way to tell them off is to donate to the Lemmy developers, even 1 dollar is no doubt appreciated. Tell reddit off by using their competitor and paying for it.
Reminder is much appreciated. I checked out their donation page and learned that they also accept XMR, which is great if you don’t want to give the middleman leeches (paypal etc.) any data or money: https://join-lemmy.org/crypto
Thanks to your comment, the Lemmy devs are now at least 20$ richer!
With that budget, gonna be some crazy new features soon!!
No really this helps lemmy, good job!
The server you use would also like some love.
In my case I’m my own server runner but hey I wouldn’t mind a donation 😂
Reddit is the new digg
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What does this mean?
JFC
DON’T LOOK AT THE NUMBER!! YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE IT!! YOUR BRAIN IS AN ILLEGAL OBJECT IF YOU MEMORISE IT!!
Pathetic
Edit: thanks for educating me
Aac S
Lemmy is quickly embodying the worst of reddit too.
I’d argue that, for Lemmy, it depends on which communities you subscribe to. Even if you subscribed to one community that now has stuff you don’t like, there’s a decent chance that another community on another instance has what you’re looking for.
Lemmy at least has alternative instances and instance blocking.
“Lemmy” is not a platform, it is software you can use to make a platform (unless you’re on .ml I guess).
I’m out of the loop but I’ve seen this stated many times now re: .ml. What’s the deal with it? I thought it was mostly dev focused with memes and left-leaning stuff?
It’s the instance owned and operated by the main Lemmy devs. Most instances are run by totally unaffiliated people using Lemmy software. .ml is the only one where you could say the software devs are also the community Admins and moderators.
.ml belongs to Malian government, hence Marxist websites register the domains with that TLD.
Good ol Mali
Of course it is, it’s a reddit clone marketed to redditors.
jpeg of a pig pooping /s
The censorship is already worse here than it was on Reddit.
Depends on the instance. Lemmygrad is the most restrictive.
I think there is something there to start a conversation about how messed up the Internet is these days.
Walls are being placed up all over. Security teams are always freaking out and checks that charge the guest are being put up just to track people going in and out.
I think we have finally hit the breaking threshold of everyone getting online and gated communities are the only way people want to exist in the web now. I mean how many times has Lemmy been DDOS’d already on several instances. Scrapers are everywhere trying to steal data for any and all purposes.
As much as we may not like it for people that want a pleasant experience without effort entrance tickets might actually need to start being made to let people into the world’s largest circus we ever made.
I’ve been meaning to say this, there has been surge of influx of users recently. Maybe this has to do with it? My VPN IP has been targeted. This isn’t a problem if you switch to a different location as certain VPN IP addresses are flagged by websites. VPN providers tend to change the addresses so this shouldn’t be a long term problem.
Since the debacle of Reddit and curtailing of privacy in their site, I log in to Reddit via Tor on Onion. It’s awkward to do so, but I won’t go back to the original site. They have gone in the way of Facebook with predatory harvesting of data.
What’s Reddit?
On a second thought, let’s not go to Reddit, tis a silly place.
A bit like Lemmy, but worse in every way.
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Lemmy but for squares; like pants are for squares
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old.reddit.com still works (for now…).
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Once the majority of the old guard mods dip or get removed then they’ll get rid of it, but not sooner. Of course, with how things are going in that regard…
The only time I use reddit instead of Lemmy now is when I want to read discussion of TV shows I just watched.
If I may ask, what is stopping you from discussing here on Lemmy ?
Effort!
I don’t usually want to contribute my own opinion. I just want to read other people’s and silently judge them if they disagree with me.
This is the way.
Also it helps to get super highly up voted opinions and then recycle them for my friends so they think I’m more insightful/smarter than i am.
The water coolers never came here organically. The communities exist here, but the bots are forwarding the articles from Reddit, the moderators are meta moderators of 50 different communities that sprung up on the first migration happened. Trying to actually hold conversations in most of the communities you’re just screaming into the void.
Then there’s the problem of the community existing in six different nodes each with four life humans in them.
A lot of the niche communities haven’t hit the user density required for self-sustaining discourse.
Then of course when you do start to get a community with a couple dozen active people moderation starts demanding tags and strict rules. I mean it’s good to get out ahead of things if you can, but if you only have a couple dozen active users don’t run them off.
Even the big communities feel small compared to reddit. You post something on a news comment section and you might get one to two polite replies fact checking you or giving their opinions. On reddit you would get dozens of people telling you how your post is wrong, and even if it’s an opinion your opinion is worthless and you have no value in life.
Much more engagement on reddit.
Yeah quality versus quantity is a serious problem over there.
Community sizes are much different.
For me it’s the fact that I am one of approximately two people on Lemmy that has ever seen stuff like Haibane Renmei or Shin Sekai Yori, and there isn’t almost a decade worth of discussions about them to read on this platform. I could start communities for them, but I’m not cut out to moderate, and I’m not quite a big enough fan of either to justify taking on the role of a community leader
oh hey, I must be the other guy
We should start a forum and argue about whether Squealer was right all along (he was) or what the walls actually represent (honestly idk)
Hey I’ve seen SSY too! That’s already three.
I don’t recall it perfectly but I remember the end result being pretty much an ESH situation rather than someone being “right”
I still use Reddit for this same reason. It’s the lack of communities. Every TV and every movie having a thread available. I’d love if lemmy started doing live discussions.
Wtf are they doing?
They are trying to force researchers and other data grabbers onto the API. If people can scrape the website Reddit can’t charge them
Considering it took this long for them to figure out “empty user agent means it is a bot” and “well-known vpn may be used by bots”, and old.reddit still apparently bypassing this, I’m going to guess they are not going to have much success.
I imagine old.reddit is going to be killed off soon.
Can’t you just spoof a user agent anyway?
You can, but some people don’t if they don’t think they’re doing anything wrong
if they are blocking proxy and VPN connections, when they detect an unusual amount of requests from your IP they’ll ban it and you won’t be able to circumvent it changing your user agent.
Fuck em
change your user agent to “fuck reddit and fuck you spez v. 1.2.45”
I get this even when signed in. Reddit really doesn’t like VPNs at all these days.
Advertisers probably don’t like an anonymous user base.
If you’re logged in you’re not anonymous
It used to be that you didn’t need an email to sign up. The account I had before the API crap this summer didn’t have an email associated with it. Couple that with using an always on VPN browser anti-fingerprint measures, and you could theoretically maintain a reasonable degree of anonymity, assuming you don’t dox yourself. I assume a lot of this also has to do with users utilizing VPNs to circumvent band as well.
But they can still use everything you’ve written there to work out stuff about you. I bet they don’t do it well though, given how poorly targeted their advertising was
“Woah there, pardner”? What the fuck is going on with Reddit? Do they think they are like cool cowboys in the old west?
Uh, didn’t you read the thing? Reddit’s awesome and all!