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.
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?
Reddit is not dying fast enough
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.
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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.
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 working as intended.
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.
this just in: company enshittifies product and doesn’t give a fuck about you, only money. More at 10.
Anyone holding out as long as possible, old.reddit.com still worked for me earlier this week on mobile. Ymmv
I think they’re keeping it around as a dirty little secret that either leadership doesn’t acknowledge or they realize it’s the last bastion of their power user base.
To that end, I hope it sticks around for a while, but if they ever get rid of it, I think the only ones left would be noobs and bots.
LibRedirect addon allows one to change links to reddit’s and other sites’ mirrors instead.
I thrive on the
oldsubdomain, yeah. The new form with variable popup-like post frames depending on how you approached the content is barely even tolerable, and certainly much less appealing.By the way, Slide works really well (again); that’s the mobile app that I use. You just have to go through the steps to list yourself as an app developer and claim it’s your app, which the current Slide maintainer literally instructs you to do to use the app lol. It’s great and cuts through all the crap. However, I’m really trying to be more active here across Lemmy, all the same. If Old and the remaining mobile apps like Slide go, then I’m totally out.
there’s a handful of mobile apps that work very well, i assume, using a embedded browser, no ads, minimal interface, not hard to find
Hello I would like to buy your competent product aaaaaand it’s gone.
looks like old.reddit.com still works.
I think we should call it, “your grave!”
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.
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
Just reddit being reddit again…
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?
Two toooootally different formats.
Ravelry is a archive (want to know the attributes of any yarn or errata on any pattern ever?), project journal, occasionally interactive (imo the forum/groups can be dead).
Knittit is just FO’s and chat (chat good for exchanging technique knowledge).
That’s our intellectual property! For various values of “intellectual”.
And a LOT of really odd niche stuff. The biggest nerds migrated to here.
To be fair, I was totally lost even as a Reddit veteran, for quite a while, which is why my adoption to Lemmy was slow. It took me a very long time to really start to understand how the federation worked, and I still would not say I’m an expert in any way.
I still need to use mobile apps’ auto-fill features to help myself properly tag users and communities on other instances, an issue I never one had on Reddit.
Just search on one of the AIs that scraped Reddit.
I’m sorry were we not just talking about trying to get back on Reddit?
Enough with the anti-AI bs, it’s cringe.
lmao
Enough with pretending AI is useful for looking things up, it’s cringe.
It’s a lot more than using Reddit’s search engine.
But that’s not what this thread is about
You’re willing to use Reddit but not AI?
I’d rather use Reddit than AI, yes.
If someone says something incorrect on Reddit there’s a good chance there’s someone pointing it out. AI will insist it is correct when it tells you “strawberry” has 2 “R’s”.
If someone says something incorrect on Reddit there’s a good chance there’s someone pointing it out.
There’s a very small chance of someone pointing it out. There’s a better chance they’ll be downvoted. There’s an even better chance someone right will be downvoted and someone pointing out their mistake, incorrectly, will be upvoted.
You can’t be serious if you’re telling me you’re going to use Reddit comments as a reliable source of information, but then ideologically object to the idea of using an LLM for the same purpose.
AI will insist it is correct when it tells you “strawberry” has 2 “R’s”.
Have you used AI in the past year?
You can’t be serious if you’re telling me you’re going to use Reddit comments as a reliable source of information, but then ideologically object to the idea of using an LLM for the same purpose.
I’m saying Reddit is more reliable than AI. I agree with you that you shouldn’t just trust Reddit as a reliable source of information, I just trust AI much less.
Have you used AI in the past year?
Yes yes, someone has hard-coded a fix for the strawberry thing. It’s still an excellent example of the root issue:
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it was a thing everybody knew was incorrect and they could see how AI dealt with it: guessing, and then insisting it made no mistakes.
If I can’t trust it for basic information I can double check myself then why the fuck would I trust it for information I can’t verify myself? -
everytime something like this comes up it gets “fixed”, sure. Someone hard codes a correct answer to the specific question that everyone can easily see is incorrect. Why the fuck would I assume that’s happening for some obscure thing that I don’t immediately know is incorrect?
Sure, it’s probably not telling people to put glue on pizza anymore, because everyone who reads that knows it’s a bad idea. How do I know it’s not suggesting something equally stupid when I ask it how to rewire a thermostat, something that the majority of people won’t immediately clock as “that will burn your house down”?
LLMs are really good at sounding smart to people who don’t know when it is very wrong.
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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.
Who on lemmy uses outlook???
Loving FOSS and being able to use it are different things - plenty of people are required to use outlook at work.
I use Outlook for work, but it will be a cold day in hell when you catch me reading an Outlook subreddit
I understand why people on lemmy look at the outlook subreddit. Sometimes they have to use it at work, and outlook breaks in difficult to understand ways. Poor chaps
Literally anyone who works at a company they don’t own with more than 20 employees.
That sounds like a work problem on the work computer for the work IT people to fix. Don’t get tricked into fixing the boss’s electronics for free on your own time!
but I AM the work IT people and I DON’T understand it EITHER!!!
Good news! 70+% of the exorbitant costs your company is paying for these services are strictly for the benefit of having a big, prominent 3rd party to blame and throat to choke.
Make Microsoft fix it! That should be fun.
My job requires it.
Same… though I guess the alternative would just be Google anyway…
I view Reddit for that kind of stuff, still. But don’t participate.
At risk of posting a long list of grievences, well, I’m not giving them my engagement. And for reference/issue stuff, you largely don’t need it.
until people start posting their relationship melodrama on lemmy, i’ll still be lurking reddit unfortunately. i need my soaps.
“I stole my girlfriend’s dog and emptied her bank account without her knowledge and now she’s mad at me for some reason. AITA?”
“My (25F) bf (61M) burned down my house after he got mad at me for ‘not being servile enough’. I asked him to please consider thinking about a plan to try not to do this again, but he won’t promise. This seems wrong but I’m not sure. AIO?”
Actually, Im embracing the Fedi and find it more real, aproachable and relatable.
I’m new and enjoying the rarity of morons compared to Reddit.
Don’t you worry, we’re here too :)
we are the algorythm!
They are not so loud and abundant xD
With posts like that, I’m sure you are approached a lot.
Thanks Dog, Im doing my best
I mean yeah, if i can’t browse reddit on my mobile browser I guess i’ll just have to find something else to do but i just checked then and it still worked
I like lemmy but there is just not enough content, it’s like if reddit was youtube, lemmy is dailymotion, there’s just not enough content for me to stick just here
the main comm I use on reddit is !nrl@aussie.zone and it’s completely dead here :\
If browsing is all you need, I’m quite content with Stealth.
I like lemmy but there is just not enough content, it’s like if reddit was youtube, lemmy is dailymotion, there’s just not enough content for me to stick just here
Well, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” - Ghandi. Keep cross-posting stuff from there to here. It takes real work to build up massive, highly active communities. Lemmy is a nonprofit so it doesn’t have the marketing power of Reddit. We have to grow it ourselves and usage is the biggest way.
i have nearly 3000 comments, this is the same number of comments as i made on reddit in 15 years, i have over 1000 posts which is 990 more than i made on reddit
in 2 years the population of aussie.zone has gone from 158 daily active users to 155
it is what it is
Dang… That sucks… Pin a paper saying “Leave Reddit for Aussie.zone” to community bulletin boards over there, maybe lol!
There’s also people who are and have been involved in interests for a long time that are well covered by discussion on Reddit and Facebook.
We like to give these networks shit and justifiably so but unfortunately there are no genuine alternatives for things like Marketplace, Facebook groups and subreddits in terms of complex discussion.
I buy used all the time and once never used fb marketplace. I promise you it’s easier to replace than reddit.
Go on, where do you buy from?
Theres only so much one man can do to prop up a community. Reddit is still where you have to go for anything even remotely niche, since Reddit is thousands of times the size of the Fediverse. For example, if you wanted to get an alternative to the Dota 2 subreddit, you’d need a community maybe a 10th the size of Reddit’s Dota 2 community - equivalent to 5% of the Fediverse posting on a weekly basis. Right now, its roughly 0.0004% of the Fediverse, for reference.
Is this platform the best alternative?
I genuinely miss having discussions with Maga people. Even though the conversations are rarely productive, I still have hope that my comments will sometimes give that person (or a Maga lurker) some food for thought that could potentially get the ball rolling for them to eventually find rationality and basic decency.
However, I haven’t found any places to have those types of civil conversations on here.
Let me try to help.
Listen up, blue hair, soy boy, beta cuck. I’ll gladly pay out the ass for gas so trans people don’t get to place 4th place in college badminton that I was previously unaware of.
Does that do it for you?
Most of them on Reddit are bots dude.
Is someone who has been enshitified an enshitiphile?
Wouldn’t that mean someone who likes enshitification? Which is what OP implied. But using the term enshitified means the person themselves has gone through the enshitification process. Maybe then one implies the other?
