I have no sympathy for those who suckle at the corporate teat.
Nothing to see here folks, just reddit continuing to dig its own grave.
Digg its own grave? (sorry)
😂
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
Maybe not * 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 came over well before that but I’d still land on the odd link from search or something. Then it asked me to sign in and now I ingore reddit links 🤷
Welcome aboard.
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.
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.
That’s a feature. every instance gets to set and enforce their own rules. The users get to decide which communities (and their attendant rules and admins) they participate in. Humans don’t suddenly become more immune to the follies of power, but power is more distributed and (so far) are less likely to be captured by monied interests.
If you’re waiting for humans to suddenly stop falling for the temptation to abuse of power, I think you’ll be waiting a while. I think it’s a significant improvement on the centralized corporate model.
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!
You mean there are more options then posting cringe feudposts daily begging your instances admins to defederate from instances instead of blocking them yourself?
I wish that were true.
It is true. Did you even try?
Edit: why are you talking about being banned from 16 communities when the modlog only shows two bans? You wouldn’t be ban evading, would you?
I mean, you should have definitely been banned from the Seattle community for saying that Washington state deserved what was coming to it with ICE because they implemented gun control after mass shootings, but that didn’t happen to this account.
To everyone reading, you can check this person’s moderation history. Check out mine to, love that page!
Luckily, Lemmy is a place, where you can communicate with the actual human beings.
Mods can’t manage more than 5 communities by design.
Really? But I see plenty of posts like this that show mods managing dozens of comms? https://lemmy.world/post/48545685
Maybe each instance can override the number?
Never underestimate just how corrupting it is giving marginalized people any semblance of power.
They are basically taking out their frustrations on the family cat except we’re the cat.
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, last nail in the coffin for me. Fucked if I’m gonna wade through more than titles to sort through the bullshit. Maybe RSS-Bridge can save us, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Wonder how bad their real user numbers will tank.
Its a good thing Aaron isn’t alive to see the thing he created being stripped away from the other thing he created.
Eh, Aaron didn’t create Reddit. He came in after a year or so
Just absolutely pissing on the grave or Aaron Schwartz.
Yeah, they actually said the quiet part out loud.
I have to say, this war on Old Reddit is doing wonders to curb my Reddit use.
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.
I stopped commenting years ago. Old reddit changes stopped me browsing too.
I used Stealth for a while, and it was awesome, but it would go in and out, and a few months ago it just stopped working completely.
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”
It all went downhill when the government killed Aaron Swartz.
And now the oligarchs behind the big AI firms ingest pirated scientific papers at enormous scale to build their products, and they see fuck all consequences for it. It’s quite plausible the very papers Swartz was hounded to his grave over ended up in the training data. Justice is a fucking rare thing.
Not just that but it’s also spez hostile takeover.
Fuck you, spez.
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.
I dunno, being in a reddit thread for a big game isn’t really much of a discussion. It’s just flowing text like Twitch chat. Exciting maybe, but I don’t think it’s all that valuable.
not that it’s much of an improvement but there is Discord.
It’s not an improvement at all, Discord is actively terrible for any community bigger than about two dozen people and I hate that it has taken the place of traditional forums.
There are so many of those. Literally just search the term sports forum, and there are millions of them that have extremely active threads for all games
Millions of them? Give me your top 200,000
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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.
You could always post content here yourself you know.
Why not try Duolingo or something? Or a crossword? The NYT app lets you play some games for free.
And the alternative to Lemmy is what? Viewing the same content of fifteen years reposted by a bot every once in a while, and having your discussion subverted by bad faith actors and bots?
I definitely don’t feel like using Reddit much anymore. Most of my time is spent in a particular programming subreddit to answer such fruitful questions as ‘what is a function’ next to master thesis-worthy posts, which is entertaining I guess.
Reddit said a long time ago there were no plans to change availability of the HTML version of the website, and I suppose now there are plans driven by unscrupulous shareholder interests.
The lion’s share of people are still on that platform, and those should be slowly nudged away from that burning garbage heap. It would be both tragic and hilarious at the same time if the mention of Lemmy caused the platform to ban you instantly.
Because when Reddit fucks up those users will look for alternatives, like Lemmy.
In this case it’s important to highlight that Lemmy has many different front ends and apps available. Lemmy can look however you’d like it to look.
Because to forget it is to repeat it.
I like to keep track of enshittification in general.
Fuck reddit but r/gunpla is 100x better than c/gunpla
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?
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.
Sounds like runescape classic
:(
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.
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
I think this is a big part of why they’re trying to kill it. They want to trap you in an endless doom scroll. They don’t want you to be able to quickly see there’s nothing new and get out. Everything you look at needs to be another attempt to ensnare you and shove ads in your face.
What’s Reddit?
Fuck Reddit.
Fuck Spez.
