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[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 171 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

this just in: company enshittifies product and doesn't give a fuck about you, only money. More at 10.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 41 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Anyone holding out as long as possible, old.reddit.com still worked for me earlier this week on mobile. Ymmv

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 weeks ago

I think they’re keeping it around as a dirty little secret that either leadership doesn’t acknowledge or they realize it’s the last bastion of their power user base.

To that end, I hope it sticks around for a while, but if they ever get rid of it, I think the only ones left would be noobs and bots.

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[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 115 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Marthirial@lemmy.world 75 points 3 weeks ago (24 children)

If you are still active on Reddit after all the enshitification, you are enshitified and getting furious is no longer an option.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 56 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

Unfortunately it’s captured a lot of information and resources.

Think about crafting - I’m going to find a lot more knitting tutorials on Reddit than I will here. Lemmy is very like early Reddit, where it’s only really active on topics like politics and technology.

[–] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What do you need to craft in your life besides building the perfect Linux distro? /s

On a side note, how do you find Reddit vs Ravelry for knitting?

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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Current outlook issues are currently being talked about at length over on r/Outlook, and last I searched no one had even mentioned it on Lemmy.

There are definitely some legit reasons people still go there.

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[–] rosco385@lemmy.wtf 45 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Thank fuck I said goodbye to that place. A shame to see such a fantastic online community be murdered by capitalists try to squeeze money out of it, but probably inevitable.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The saddest part is it didn't need to be.

Imagine if, instead of going for an IPO and all this, they operated it as a non-profit? If they just tried to be a cool place for users, like it was for 10 or 15 years already.

Instead they have to drain the blood out of it and sell it for parts and wonder why it died.

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I still remember the first secret santa events on reddit. Some of the best internet times in history imo.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone contact the mods of that subreddit and tell them to point to https://join-lemmy.org/ instead of lemmy.world

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[–] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It works really well for me actually. Every time that mobile app begpost comes up it's a great reminder that I shouldn't even be looking at Reddit at all. Cut down my doomscrolling on my phone immediately.

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[–] pyromaster55@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I got permabanned this week for saying "Poor white people are being tricked into blaming black/brown/trans people for their problems instead of billionaires."

Apparently it was promoting hate based speech and attacks.

Reddit was kinda neat 15 years ago, it's a fucking cesspool now.

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[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Reached for comment, the company instead offered a puzzling explanation: that the site-breaking popup is for users’ own good.

Fuck you reddit, fuck /u/spez!

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)
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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 28 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Users do anything but stop using reddit

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Many of us here stopped a while back. For me, it was the API thing a couple of years ago. But it's still useful to check reddit website for info - there's just so many answers to so many questions on there. But fuck using their app.

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[–] CandleTiger@programming.dev 24 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

https://old.reddit.com/ is still working fine for me.

If Lemmy would pick up some more content about RVs and sailing I would leave there but meanwhile the old way still works.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How much are you posting about RVs and sailing on Lemmy?

[–] BigBrownDog@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

We can yell into the abyss all we want, but the abyss isn't yelling back.

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[–] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

This wouldn't bother me at all if reddit didn't appear at the top of almost every damn question I Google nowadays. Why are you pushing reddit for answers if you won't let me see them?

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[–] mrslt@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

RIP reddit. We knew this day would come. At least Spez will have plenty of bot accounts to keep him company.

[–] relativelyrobin@mander.xyz 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

To me, it died when they allowed users to hide their post and comment history. Enables bots and bad faith behavior.

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[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Well, old.reddit.com still works fine on Safari mobile anyway. Just tested it out of curiosity. Wonder how long until they try and lock that one down too?

[–] thal3s@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Spez specifically said they’ll never depreciate old Reddit.

So look for it to vanish in the not too distant future.

[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 11 points 3 weeks ago

fuck u/spez

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

"Personalized experience" AKA "even more ad revenue".

[–] Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

I like how reddit allows moderators to just ban users with basically no appeal process.

What a great business plan. Allow randoms to decide who gets to keep being a customer

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[–] betahack@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

I don't know why they bitch....they're just going right back. weak

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago

it takes some people mnay attempts to get out of an abusive relationship

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[–] 404found@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 weeks ago

Why??? I will tell you my non expert opinion.

Reddit makes money by selling data to advertisement companies. Users that aren't logged in are probably hard to track. They probably have a bunch of untargeted data they can't sell for much.

Reddit does not actually care about the end users experience. They want you to use their site enough to provide them with sellable data. It's like Facebook. Facebook could show you your friends posts in chronological order everyday but instead they throw in all this spam on your feed to keep you on the app. They can see what you're interested in. If all you do is 'like' your friends baby pictures then that data would be hard to sell.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

None of this would be a issue if the lazy fucks would migrate to other platforms like Lemmy etc, right now this app is very limited compared to all the various subreddits, people need to start making replicas of the popular and niche subreddits and make it easier for people to migrate

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Reddit is not dying fast enough

[–] me_myself_and_I@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The annoying thing about the app was that it copied Facebook and constantly spammed my feed with subreddits I was not subscribed to. I used an alternative app for a while and that worked ok. It is so annoying when Facebook and the like constantly force you to follow pages and groups you are not interested in.

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[–] Knightfox@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Fuck Spez, but also, is this is amateur hour?

First off, don't use new Reddit. Second, run Reddit in desktop mode. Third, use a browser like Firefox so you can run RES and UBlock Origin.

Congratz, Reddit as it should be is fully functional on your phone.

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[–] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I read ghislaine maxwell is back as a moderator on world news ... and why the hell isn't america going after the youth obsessed model world full of predators? Hello its time for frickin regulations, oh wait america's government is full of pedos they even made a pedo president twice

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[–] kheavy@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well on the bright side I found this place

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[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 11 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah not using the app

[–] ennof@feddit.org 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not getting that pop-up but it's probably blocked by my browser. I'll still continue to use it in my browser while also using Lemmy. I hope more people are going to join the Fediverse due to this.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I find it does this off and on. If you change the user agent or open the site in desktop mode itvsuddenly goes away. They are still tryingbto push the app. And the app still looks terrible. Rif used to be my jam.

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[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 10 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

If you don't intend to post/comment, Stealth is a decent read-only Reddit client.

https://gitlab.com/cosmosapps/stealth

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