I’m not spending much time on Reddit these days but in no way is this the end for Reddit. The VAST majority of the user base just doesn’t care. We may see more users trickling in and Lemmy is sure more ready now than ever but people are so used to being advertised to, that this won’t be a big issue long term. People are dumb.

No opt out? Expect trouble from the EU.

you underestimate people's complacency and inertia, in no way this is end of reddit

No, this won't kill Reddit. If they can essentially remove every third-party app, they'll easily be able to start selling user data. Whether we like it or not, the majority stayed on Reddit.

Nothing short of somehow breaking through ad blockers like Twitch did will make people stop using it, even if that.

This would've resulted in my leaving if I hadn't left in June.

Saved me 3.5 months.

I'm new here. I left Reddit yesterday. No looking back.

If you wanna keep your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) that you're subscribed to before deleting your Reddit account, I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.

It's called Reddit Account Manager, and it's 100% free.

You can also use it to manage your Lemmy account(s), of course.

Hi, just made this account after reading that. Fuck Reddit fuck Spez

This is just the continuation of the instagrammification if reddit. They want to turn it into a influencer platform where people are desperately trying to make money so that they can take a big cut of it.

Is this even legal in the EU?

People aren't going to leave reddit all at once right away, because structure means that individual subreddits are very much isolated from one another in terms of users.

However, it's likely that we will be seeing some kind of cultural shift happening there as quality get worse. I feel it's inevitable that there will be more low effort content pumped out as quickly as possible than ever before now there is an actual monetary incentive instead of imaginary Internet points, and all personalized feed and ad is going to do is isolate individual users in their individual bubble and not allowing human connections to form between them.

Things are getting better here. The regulars recongnize each other's name and personalitu, whereas on reddit all the usernames all blends together into an amorphous mass unless it's one of those novelty accounts or e-celeb or something. That's the key difference between Lemmy and reddit right now.

We all know they're still not going to leave. Also lol those people buying Reddit coins can get fucked.

As a mod on reddit (who only reacts to pings these days) I would like to post an undramatic message „here‘s what happened, if you‘re interested to join our lemmy mirror, here‘s the link.“

Anyone got something I could use which will not set off reddit stans or get me replaced and the message deleted?

I deleted my reddit accounts and signed up to lemm.ee today b/c of the advert policy change.

Looking at Twitter/X, this won't be the final nail. People stick to the platforms they're on as long as it doesn't directly Negative impacts them too much.

Relay also stopped working for me today, so here I am for good now, at least on mobile.

I hope reddit sinks to the bottom because of their greed.

Nobody who remains there gives a fuck.

It sucked going from Boost to the official Reddit app and this I don't really care about but what got me to come here today was my feeds in the official Reddit app have been stale for the last several days and it's seems to have forgot what subreddits my account is in. I can go to a subreddit I'm subscribed to and see fresh posts but all the built in views Home/Popular/News... All have content I saw hours ago or yesterday.. Why do I want to use an app that shows me old posts and makes me hunt down new ones of interest?

Just deleted my account

It's only just begun. That's what they said about Xitter ages ago as well, but if it can get worse it absolutely fucking will

I just deleted my reddit account and signed up here as well. Fortunately, I don't know anyone else who still has an account. Most of my friends and family left a long time ago.

They reset all my notification settings. I deleted the app.

Obligatory fuck spez the hurensohn.

Sounds like it violates gdpr

The new update is horrible. They are blocking critical comments and gaslighting users too.

Sadly it's not even close to the final nail. The largest reason being there isn't anything to take its place. While I love Lemmy, there are still too many hurdles and roadblocks to getting started compared to other social media platforms and all of those established ones are doing similar moves to Reddit's nonsense. But just like why Mastodon hasn't topple Twitter is that the ease of use and user base isn't there.

Until someone can offer the same(ish) experience that almost fully featured and super easy to get start. Most users won't break their habits. They only other way is to offer something that is better than the other platforms (since this can be wildly subjective) again ease of use and standardized features are incredibly important.

Will Twitter, Reddit and Facebook go the way of MySpace? I'm sure at some point. But only until something can truly replace or pull users.

wow, it really is just slow erosion of our rights, huh?

extremely disappointed that we are all fighting for our basic fucking human rights (e.g. privacy) instead of, i dunno, fighting climate change? There's little hope that we can do what we did with the ozone layer again...

I don’t think this will move the needle at all

Reddit mods had a chance to migrate but decided to sit and wait thinking they could change Reddit

Its good I don't use reddit anymore

refunds for people who spent memory on Reddit coins

Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhh all of your points are valid but if anyone ever spent money on coins, it’s all in the trash anyway

Apollo let me turn awards off and it was one of the best features. So much cleaner.