Technology

More people need to learn that there are federated alternatives to speed up their downfall.

Well there's always Quora.

I know you're preaching the the choir here. But, good.

It ended once they banned the third party apps because they were better than the official app.

Now that is has been scraped to death and a lot of the best people have moved on, it is just a sad shell of what it was. Fuck Reddit, but I really appreciate everyone who participated.

reddit refuses visitors without a login

"Our numbers are dropping!"

This is what happens when you IP ban anybody who uses VPN, or blinks wrong. Fuck Reddit

They lost me when they started charging for their api. It pushed out so many good apps. It was shitty.

i'm only here cos reddit sucks donkey dick now. I think they just sold out and in turn have lost support. I went there for the news, before it broke else where. Now I never get breaking news and 80% of the posts I see feel like they are for teenagers. For Profit Pigs

Reddit did everything in its power to get rid of the users that made the platform what it is. Or rather, what it once was. It’s barely a shell of the former glory days.

And if you get rid of your power users who make good content and good comments, well, this is what happens.

So many comments in here, I haven't read them all. I have some conjecture.

First, the AI scrapers already have Reddit's most valuable content ... their "virgin" data from the pre-LLM years. All new content is worth substantially less and much harder to differentiate / filter between bots/AI and real human interaction done without AI.

Second, the search engines that used to help drive users to Reddit mostly all have AI summaries / AI answers right there on the main search page these days. A lot of people read those AI results, get what they want right from Google (or otherwise), and never click any links over to Reddit.

Third, Reddit has expanded into other regions besides the western / us-centric world, such as India. The simplest way to put this is that the content and users from those regions costs Reddit US users and by extension advertising dollars.

Fourth, the corporate team's decision making is bad enough to be harmful / fatal in and of itself. It's sheer luck they've done as well as they have this long. Corporate is not only the worst enemy of users and communities, they're also their own worst enemy. It's so bad that if one of them was a competitor or adversary that had infiltrated the company in a covert operation to destroy it or gum it up, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

What's this, consequences, who do thunk it?

Wait till google decides to de-rank them for being login-walled. All those search results they're using as leverage.

I just deleted all my comments, first edited them before deletion with power delete suite. It ran for days, but eventually, as far as I can tell, all deleted.

A few of the big subs kept sending me messages, that my comment was removed because I didn't have email verification. My account is 15 years old I think, email wasn't a requirement then. Crazy that some subs now enforce this to post.

I did not know what Lemmy was a couple weeks ago. Reddit pushed me out. I don't want to be logged in or have an account with the way they harvest data. I got tired of weekly rotating ublock origin scripts and using incognito mode. You don't want me if I'm not a willing data whore? Fine, I'm gone! I am now actively trying to NOT even look at reddit when a random Google search sends me there!

Good, I hate them both and one shit thing dying isn't gonna lose me sleep

Well deserved. First stupid API restrictions now login-wall. Soon google might pull investments out of reddit

Hopefully you just die altogether or end up a shell of yourself like digg

Fuck spez and fuck reddit tbh

I was willing to look the other way until I got banned for essentially no reason

I'm way happier not being on that platform