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I think we should call it, "your grave!"
If you are still active on Reddit after all the enshitification, you are enshitified and getting furious is no longer an option.
Unfortunately it’s captured a lot of information and resources.
Think about crafting - I’m going to find a lot more knitting tutorials on Reddit than I will here. Lemmy is very like early Reddit, where it’s only really active on topics like politics and technology.
What do you need to craft in your life besides building the perfect Linux distro? /s
On a side note, how do you find Reddit vs Ravelry for knitting?
Current outlook issues are currently being talked about at length over on r/Outlook, and last I searched no one had even mentioned it on Lemmy.
There are definitely some legit reasons people still go there.
Someone contact the mods of that subreddit and tell them to point to https://join-lemmy.org/ instead of lemmy.world
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.
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.
I still remember the first secret santa events on reddit. Some of the best internet times in history imo.
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.
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?
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.
https://old.reddit.com/ is still working fine for me.
If Lemmy would pick up some more content about RVs and sailing I would leave there but meanwhile the old way still works.
How much are you posting about RVs and sailing on Lemmy?
We can yell into the abyss all we want, but the abyss isn't yelling back.
Our niche interest communities are slowly being formed on the Fediverse, but if nobody participates then 🤷🏼♀️
Yep, I remember when I first joined Lemmy, you'd be lucky if your post got 2 comments. I recently posted on a car group here and got about as much engagement as I would have on r*ddit.
I like it here, I like our community. Feels like a comic con in a small city. "I wish people at this con would talk about Squirrel Girl" maybe you should set up a booth. Same applies here.
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!
RIP reddit. We knew this day would come. At least Spez will have plenty of bot accounts to keep him company.
To me, it died when they allowed users to hide their post and comment history. Enables bots and bad faith behavior.
"Personalized experience" AKA "even more ad revenue".
Reddit is not dying fast enough
None of this would be a issue if the lazy fucks would migrate to other platforms like Lemmy etc, right now this app is very limited compared to all the various subreddits, people need to start making replicas of the popular and niche subreddits and make it easier for people to migrate
I don't know why they bitch....they're just going right back. weak
it takes some people mnay attempts to get out of an abusive relationship
Why??? I will tell you my non expert opinion.
Reddit makes money by selling data to advertisement companies. Users that aren't logged in are probably hard to track. They probably have a bunch of untargeted data they can't sell for much.
Reddit does not actually care about the end users experience. They want you to use their site enough to provide them with sellable data. It's like Facebook. Facebook could show you your friends posts in chronological order everyday but instead they throw in all this spam on your feed to keep you on the app. They can see what you're interested in. If all you do is 'like' your friends baby pictures then that data would be hard to sell.
I like how reddit allows moderators to just ban users with basically no appeal process.
What a great business plan. Allow randoms to decide who gets to keep being a customer
I'm not getting that pop-up but it's probably blocked by my browser. I'll still continue to use it in my browser while also using Lemmy. I hope more people are going to join the Fediverse due to this.
I find it does this off and on. If you change the user agent or open the site in desktop mode itvsuddenly goes away. They are still tryingbto push the app. And the app still looks terrible. Rif used to be my jam.
Not only does the app look terrible, it's able to collect much more juicy data from you.
The annoying thing about the app was that it copied Facebook and constantly spammed my feed with subreddits I was not subscribed to. I used an alternative app for a while and that worked ok. It is so annoying when Facebook and the like constantly force you to follow pages and groups you are not interested in.
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
This is every companies dark patterns.
Guess who doesn't intentially ruin user experience ? Foss .
Well, most of them... Can't be perfect.
Surprised there isn't a Firefox add-on that literally just loads the reddit site's HTML like the browser usually does and then moves all the shit around to a more mobile-friendly layout.
Wait, IS THERE such an add-on?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/oldlander/
Works well enough for me.
Fuck Spez, but also, is this is amateur hour?
First off, don't use new Reddit. Second, run Reddit in desktop mode. Third, use a browser like Firefox so you can run RES and UBlock Origin.
Congratz, Reddit as it should be is fully functional on your phone.
Is that why lemmy.world is now shitting the bed every third load like it's under a DDOS?
You know I was a multi time a day user, I had lot of favorite subreddits, I accidentally posted in a sub that I had been "banned" in from my other account (for making a comment that was not particularly political and they said it was), it was not malicious, was not intentional, was not trying to "get around their ban" just accidently posted from the wrong account. Didn't notice what sub I was in. Then 4 months later I did the same thing not, I was just not paying attention to what sub I made a casual offhanded comment in. I ALSO happened to be using a VPN. And BAM! IP banned, all 8 of my accounts banned even my business account. I was so so so upset. But now a month later, I still get kinda upset that I can't use it to ask questions. but man what a fucking time suck it was. My brain was just rotting away there. That whole IP banning thing is total bullshit.