Enshitification of places where people used to hang out means people will just simply move to better places to chill and hang out.
I know that "the grass is greener on the other side of the hill" is a cliche trope but sometimes it's true.
I'm not surprised that corpos still don't understand this after what happened to most /if not all malls that toxified themselves to irrelevancy and death.
I know that “the grass is greener on the other side of the hill” is a cliche trope but sometimes it’s true
It's more an observation that you'll romanticize at a distance.
Even now, I'll pop back into Twitter or Reddit or Facebook from time to time, having forgotten their current state. Takes about five seconds to remember why I left, but I do have to go there to get slapped in the face with it from time to time as a refresher.
This makes one so depressed, realizing it was better a few years ago, like 2019 the vibes I got from these sites was different.
What is meant by 'potential drop of old.reddit'?
Not OP; just a guess: old.reddit.com is a way to view and interact with Reddit using the original theme (or closely based on original look). A ton of tools were built for the site to look for data in a specific format. Many users likely utilize this “old” Reddit due to using legacy tools. It’s a way to get people onto the newer product so you can retire old infrastructure.
Basically, an enshittification decision by Reddit because they need to make more money.
old.reddit also bypasses a lot of the new blocks in place. For example, the constant full screen nag to make an account to view nsfw communities and posts. Just swapping www for old in the url and it shows right up.
true, and it also prevents intentional lagging that happens on the "forever scrolling" on the browser( plus it resets your feed everytime you refresh) to force you to use the datamining intrusive app.
Also, old.reddit didn't make me nauseous when looking at it like new reddit did
they were in a downward spiral the moment they went PUBLIC. they have to please right wingers and advertisements somehow.
The stats.
The original post title:
Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits. Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead.
And this was a comment:
And sadly they also announced that on old.reddit the stats will entirely go.
Done replying to some people and promoting Lemmy and piefed. 🫰
Thank you!
That looks like actual, real people? Wild.
Lots of smaller communities still have active human populations. It is, somewhat paradoxically, the most active subs that have the least real people.
active subs like ... r/news r/politics ?
I guess manipulating those is seen as essential by some.
/r/news in particular. Heavily censored and crawling with bots.
They’re also taking the stats away from old-reddit…
They are dropping subscriber count and online user count from Old Reddit's subreddit sidebars. On Shreddit (the newer design) they get replaced with a new 7 day average, but on Old Reddit they've announced they'll remove them entirely and won't replace them with anything.
That's the only thing I see people complain about in regards to Old Reddit in that thread.
That said, this follows a trend and it's clear to me that they ARE dropping Old Reddit. They're moving features away, requiring you to use Shreddit to access more and more features of the site. For example chat and the notifications inbox are replacing private messages, but they only support Shreddit. So users who want to view replies to their posts have to visit Shreddit to see them. Now with this change, if you want to see how many subscribers a subreddit has, you need to switch to Shreddit to see that.
It’s going to be sad in that we will no longer be able to see how large r/linux has become.
From the thread:
Why not include both. What are you trying to hide reddit
I think Reddit is trying to hide that most users don't actively engage with the content there, they only passively consume it, and that this will likely get worse over time. In other words: subreddits aren't communities any more, just random assortments of junk for you to consume.
The following comment confirms it for me:
I miss the old reddit, reddit is awful these days. Mindless scrolling.
On another matter...
Reminder that Digg is back and has an app
they also want to hide the bots/AI numbers on the site too. half of the site is mostly bots. if people are using the browser(like myself) to access reddit without logging in, use adblocks while you are doing it, so they dont get any adverts.
One of the fastest ways to get your account banned on Reddit is to mention the competition.
Just mention /r/RedditAlternatives
I've noticed r/technology shadowbans a bunch of comments based on keywords. Some Lemmy instance names, also "PieFed", I had to start saying "Pie-Fed" in there instead.
Aw man, my 20 minutes of replying to people on that post is going to the shadowrealm 😮💨
Whenever I make comments like that, I always open the comment link Incognito to make sure it actually shows up
2 out of 3 comments I made are not showing. A shame.
Sorry to hear
Thanks for the tip. I'll have to check on the computer later. Either I'll not find it because shadowban/mod deleted, or the dreaded orange reply indicator.
I posted a link to a post of mine and later browsing not signed in I decided to see if anyone replied but it just said deleted by moderator. When I logged in it still appeared to be there like a ghost delete.
I just replied to myself with the same comment and link and know people followed it through to Lemmy again because it had a few uovotes a couple of days later.
I only very recently got back on reddit just because I got a new laptop and its the only community for it
I guess my 10 years old account is finally getting banned. A shame, I liked some people in the smaller subreddits I subbed to.
That is a good thing.
If they drop old.reddit.com and kill my RSS subscriptions then they'll have single-handedly eliminated the last acceptable way to read reddit.
Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.
This could make it easier to delete dead accounts.
What I find funny is all those people complaining about ai posts and looking for somewhere to escape it. Yet people here use ai bots to mirror the reddit bot posts to lemmy. Those ai snatchers are not doing lemmy any good imo.
Ai bots? A simple scraper matching keywords is not ai bro.
In the future they can always block or shadow-ban such conversations with keyword-search and AI.
A community to organize and discuss the growth of the fediverse as a whole