My friendship ended with Reddit. Now Lemmy is my friend. 🫂
Until a comment you makes pisses off a power tripping mod and then you are permabanned from like 16 communities.
Shits infected here too.
All the communities with power tripping mods here are either minor or have significant viable alternatives.
Heck you can make your own instance (as others have) and do what you want!
Luckily, Lemmy is a place, where you can communicate with the actual human beings.
We know RSS has been a beloved part of the open web for a long time, and we're grateful to everyone who used it to stay connected to Reddit,
It’s like they aren’t even listening to the words they are saying themselves
Oh God they are dumping RSS too? Fucking hell that's the only way I even use that platform anymore since it means getting a handful of news updates on some games without going there.
Yeah, they actually said the quiet part out loud.
Its a good thing Aaron isn't alive to see the thing he created being stripped away from the other thing he created.
Man I know I'm the minority here, but once I see a paywall, age verification, or logon block, I just move on with my life. It's not that important... Or there are other sources.
I don't think you're in the minority here
The day they blocked my old.reddit is the day I came over here. It honestly was easier than I thought, there are only a handful of communities I really miss, and those were all getting filled with AI bots anyways. It's emptier here, but at least I'm talking to actual people.
I have to say, this war on Old Reddit is doing wonders to curb my Reddit use.
I stopped commenting years ago. Old reddit changes stopped me browsing too.
It's actually amazing how quickly it killed my usage of the site. I deleted my account years ago but still lurked every now and then. Now I literally can't go back, I won't download the app and the new site layout is pretty much unusable for me.
Also the "you must use the app!!!!" banner that appears after 30 seconds is fantastic on mobile, as they are actively preventing me to continue reading and doomscroll.
It's like "no! Bad dog! You already got your info. Now close your tab and go back to Lemmy"
Why are we still caring what Reddit does?
Reddit is fantastic for certain niche communities. On the whole, it fucking sucks, but it does contain so much helpful info because it just brings people together over a specific topic.
There is literally nowhere else I can go for live game threads for sports as good as reddit.
Because realistically I can only scroll on Fedi for maybe 20-30 minutes in a day before I've seen everything and if I have more time to kill, Reddit is there. Although I don't comment there at all anymore, it's truly worthless for conversation.
That change helped reduce scraping and automated abuse, but still allowed any logged-in account to access Old Reddit, including accounts with no prior Old Reddit use.
To close this gap, in the next few months, we'll further limit access for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months
How horrible, ANY logged-in account can just access old reddit?? That needs to be fixed asap, how dare new users just use old reddit when they have a perfectly good shreddit available to them. — Reddit admins apparently
Nice admission there. Didn't expect them to be this open about their true feelings on the matter.
Reddit is gone move on
Was there for about 15 years. Been gone for over a year and I'm not looking back.
This is the modern reality of capital capturing digital communities.
More like deaddit amiright?
Fuck you, spez.
i don't buy this "continues to fight AI scraping" bullshit for a second. they literally ceased API access for regular users after they sold the rights to google to specifically scrape their site with AI.
Fight AI scraping by anyone who hasn't paid them for the privilege.
"In the next few months, we'll further limit access for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months (which covers the vast majority of all Old Reddit users),"
really? you expect me to believe the majority of old reddit users are old reddit users?
It all went downhill when the government killed Aaron Swartz.
Nothing to see here folks, just reddit continuing to dig its own grave.
Digg its own grave? (sorry)
Reddit is mostly ai bots, & bots, and maybe a few genuine users.
I had my 18yo account 0erma-banned by ai. Then, ai reviewed ai ... ... ai said ai was correct but would send it up for further review... ... by another ai. Who sent it to a human... ... and the human sent me an apology. "Sometimes, we get things wrong. Your account has now been fully re-instated. We are sorry." ... and then ai stepped in and overrode the humans mods.
HAL 9000 is not fiction.
Fuck Reddit.
Fuck Spez.
"We're concentrating our resources on the areas that will drive results for our most pressing needs, improving the core product, making Reddit a go-to search engine, and expanding internationally." --Steve Huffman
"Wait. No! Not like that!" --Also Steve Huffman
LMAO
Reddit search barely works
Search engine? 🤷♂️
:(
Never got into new Reddit. It feels so charmless and soulless.
It's optimized for pictures and videos and ads. The old layout works better for text and links and it shows. Old Reddit was perfect for quickly checking a niche subreddit - just skim the 20 or 30 headlines, open interesting links in a new tab or check some comments and you are informed about what is currently happening in that niche. Maybe you also read some text posts with questions. New Reddit is optimized to keep you scrolling and to put an endless stream of ragebait in your face.
I wish Lemmy was as searchable as Reddit.
Why do you wish Lemmy to not be searchable at all?
been banned on reddit for stating the truth already and tried many times to fix things. reddit is anti free speech on all accounts when it was nothing inflamatory just stating truth and their mods are mostly corrupt anyway for their industry agendas. lots of ai bots and spam. useless platform when it gets incorporated it becomes useless
Haven't been on Reddit for over 2 years
So when the shitty AI moderation kills your latest account, your new one won't be able to access the only decent interface. Good to know.
I only use reddit now to mod two subreddits. If I lose that account, that's it, I'm gone. I already stopped posting news to my local city one because I just don't care enough.
What's Reddit?
I still follow some webcomics and search for things occasionally on Reddit. Using Redlib has been fantastic. Don't need to worry about their interface changes. Don't need to worry about having an account. Just input the few subscriptions I need into the Redlib docker container. All my devices are setup to redirect Reddit links to my Redlib deployment.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
