Reddit is not dying fast enough
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, oh wait america’s government is full of pedos they even made a pedo president twice
but isn’t she still in jail? I mean, a country club jail, but jail nonetheless?
I thought Reddit broke their mobile site a long time ago.
Can’t break what never worked in the first place /taps forehead
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?
Because they paid bank for a data deal with Reddit a little while back so they’re damn well gonna try to make that money back with your clicks.
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.
Having 8 Reddit accounts is so goddamn funny and normal.
I don’t even really know why I had that many accounts, one I had for my business posting pottery stuff which that’s the one I’m most upset about losing. But the rest were just random ones that I made on random emails. Still sad, they shouldn’t have the ability to nuke all of your accounts like that.
Ditto. Had multiple accounts for anonymity and different algorithms lol. I was talking about a “murder suicide” true case and that got flagged as “threatening violence” and I got permanently banned 😅 jumped on a different account and…perma banned. And yep, instantly took out all 5 accounts 🤷♀️ hence why I’m here lol.
And I get the whole it’s their business and they can do what they want but when it’s a monopoly basically, they should not be allowed to IP ban people.
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!
Reminder that Steve Huffman is greedy little pig boy
Yeah. But let’s not just do this. It’s pointless cursing. Hit them where it hurts, spread word about lemmy, create posts on Lemmy. More content, more users on lemmy
Redditt is becoming more and more difficult to use on the web over the last couple of months or so. They know that there are browser extensions that filter out unwanted elements, and also that trackers and fingerprints are increasingly being blocked.
You can’t be tracked as easily with a properly configured browser and I suspect that this is what the change is all about. I will continue using Reddit on the browser, for now, but am happy to ditch it if it becomes a problem.
There is a lot of AI and Human slop posted these days - I am getting fed up with having to decipher posts from people who simply cannot string a coherent sentence together. I am also getting fed up with people using expletives and profanities and just wish people would communicate properly.
That’s what this has always been about.
The shutdown of third-party apps and the “API exodus” was all because of reddit wanting people on the first-party platform where they have control.
Breaking the mobile web client is the same deal - they want people in app, because app is the most intrusive and least blockable, and where reddit can really monetise you.
Glad I bailed on reddit when I did.
Users do anything but stop using reddit
👋 I stopped using reddit last week.
The way they are banning people for barely nothing, people will be stopping using it quickly
I used reddit for years. Made lots of comments, had original posts hit #1 many times. I was contributing to their site.
Then I said something bad about Musk and got banned. I think it was about Musk, they deleted a bunch of what I posted so I’m not entirely sure.
I still browse reddit from time to time. I use the old reddit site with adblock. Now I’m just a leech to them. I take but don’t contribute back.
I’m fine with that relationship.
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
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.
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.
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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.
I stayed with them and bitched about them for quite some time. About the time they started cracking down on the API i went ahead and left because whatever inconvenience I was weathering would be 10x worse if I waited till the last minute to start over somewhere else.
I get this. I once worked in an abattoir where we had cattle chutes.
They tried this before
Right? They didn’t have mobile experience before. It’s ok., I will only use desktop and spread the word of lemmy even faster
I only use reddit via a web browser on a phone. I would never use some shitty app bloating the phone, tracking me, attempting to increase my engagement or shitting out a stream of ads. The same goes for all social media apps.
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.
That’s just capitalism working as intended.
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.
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.
It seems like my user agent switcher has mysteriously self activated.
What do you mean ?
I’ve seen this popup on the mobile website with Firefox a few times, enabling a user agent switcher extention and setting my user agent to be that of a desktop operating system makes the popup go away.
They intentionally target Firefox, because of plugins and real adblocker. Tbh I don’t even care. I would use reddit only from desktop before I ever see ads. It’s their loss my valuable content won’t be on their platform.
Is this a Firefox extension?
There are numerous user agent switcher extentions you can use across both the chrome web store and the firefox web store. However since Firefox supports extentions on mobile, unlike chrome, you could say that it is a Firefox extention for this use case.
Explanation of what a user agent is, just in case:
A user agent is a small piece of text your browser sends to websites that includes information about the operating environment of the user, stuff like browser version and the operating system.
Normally, if I went to Reddit on Android, Reddit could see from my user agent that I was on android device, so Reddit could prompt me to download the app and block my acsess to the reddit content from the website with the popup mentioned in the post.
Basically, changing your user agent is like making your browser lie to websites by saying “I am Chrome running on Windows” rather than “I am Firefox running on Android”, causing Reddit to falsely believe that I am not using a smartphone, therefore it would be dumb to tell me to use the smartphone app instead of the website, therefore the popup doesnt appear and I can use the Reddit website on my phone freely.
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.
You can change that in the settings where your feed is only the subreddits you subscribe to. You’ll still see the stupid little ads but you won’t get posts from other subreddits you don’t subscribe to or that reddit thinks it needs to suggest to you. The only reason I still use reddit is because there’s a handful of subs I frequent that there are no equivalent on Lemmy. Plus I have a small group chat of friends.
Everything about their app is annoying. For them to be so late to their own party and deliver something so sub-par is impressive. It was nearly impossible to use for anything other than doom scrolling.
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 would argue that Lemmy.world has even more strict rules than reddit. At least it seems like that sometimes. Certain topics are just deleted.
I think Lemmy is decent for memes and entertainment but I dont think it can serve as a proper discussion site. The moderation wouldnt work. Unpaid moderators cant keep this place open for good discussions because it requires too much effort. But its good for memes. I like Lemmy in that way. Its positive and fun.
How is the moderation landscape any different on Lemmy vs Reddit? Aren’t Reddit moderators all unpaid too?
I think so, but people want to do it for a high profile site like reddit. Not so much for Lemmy.
I haven’t encountered this. Which topics?
Probably transphobia tbh. That’s a hot button issue across Lemmy, as it should be.
The person you’re replying to might be conflating .world with .ml or one of the other authoritarian left instances. On those criticizing any world power other than the US is called out as racism.
Yeah I never seen anything crazy on .world except some mistakes and a few power tripping community mods but nowhere near what reddit is. Maybe OP is thinking of
.mlwhich is an absolute shithole in every sense of the word.Either way that’s the entire point of decentralization - you can just hop on a different server.
