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Mildly Infuriating

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I know, I know, reddit sucks ass. I've been using firefox with ublock to read the best ofs for the unquenchable need for bullshit drama in my life.

But now it's not just a pop up saying to use the app, but a full ass unpassable thing. Old Reddit still works, but that's just another step for something that's already so not worthwhile.

Welp...

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[–] Watermark710@piefed.social 104 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I was on reddit every day for damn near 20 years, and if I'm being 100% honest, the fediverse is 10,000% better. The only problem is that not enough people interact. I've never seen a post with more than like 200 comments. It feels a bit empty here. But, on the other hand, 200 decent comments is better than 2000 shitty ones.

Once this place gets a few more users, it's gonna be the GOAT.

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Careful what you wish for, the larger the sample size the dumber it gets

[–] lifeinlarkhall@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yep. Happened with bluesky. It was pretty decent and wasn't getting any troll crap that was rampant on Twitter. Then there was some controversy on Twitter and Blue sky quickly went up in its new members and...yep, it just got all trolly and agro 🙄

Personally I just miss when we had individual sites for a topic like when I was a teenager. Grew up on forums for a certain artist and another different site for specific sports teams, books. Way less likely to get idiots if you actually have to actively find the specific website for an artist you hate.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I loved forums. I have a group of friends I met on a forum and we rarely talk about that subject anymore but we're still really close.

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This... People keep dreaming of reddit crashing and burning or going under but, realistically if that did happen a good portion of the existing userbase will filter into the fediverse somewhere, and thats a lot of inorganic growth. Currently there are a handful of popular topics, and some niche topics. Yes there are also reddit like mannerisms but, when people slowly filter in, the room can be read and the existing culture remains, when a mass intake happens (like what happend with the API debacle) the influx is faster than the adoption and the culture comes with it.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

ikr soon as this place gets too big I'm taking off to something else.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Fedi being way slower than Reddit was a godsend to me. It helped me detox from the endless content on Reddit because I was going loopy.

After the 5th scroll past the same boring hornypost I'm like "ugh I guess I'll put the phone down and go to sleep."

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i usually visit identifying unknown plant (it was fun since i was able to see people post rare and unusual plants that are very rarely seen by normally)and animal subs, because politics post is designed to get people to be angry and comment.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

I need to find a client that does paginating instead of infinite scroll. It's like a fucking vortex, I can't pull myself away from it...

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I prefer the fewer comments here. Who want's to read 1200+ comments, 50% of which are the same tired jokes?

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] k_rol@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago
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[–] Lojcs@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think it's fine as is. The worst part of reddit was opening an interesting post and finding the comments full of jokes and badly remembered quotes.

Edit: That was probably due to the awards creating perverse incentives but still, the more comments there are the more striking a comment needs to be to be on top

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 9 points 1 week ago

It had a lot more with being first to comment than it did about the quality of your comment. After about 100 comments your chances of being near the top were pretty much gone.

I agree with you. Coming up on at least my second year here and I do love it, but I miss some parts of having the bigger crowd.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm new, came over a couple weeks ago. Others will come.

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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 5 points 1 week ago

I absolutely fell in love with reddit when I joined 19 years ago. Up until the Digg migration I loved it maybe even more than the BBS' I was on in my youth. But it steadily went downhill from there, and I thank Jebus every day for the fediverse because it brings back that good old energy that I was missing. Reddit is so unpleasant compared to here.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

reddit was better before 2016, before trump took the white house the first time, almost as soon as took the WH, russia realized that reddit was a good place to use bots/propaganda, then we see sudden increase in politiclaposts, and then ban of "Questionable" subs.

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 29 points 1 week ago (7 children)

It's a loss, but I've come to see it as just a part of the endless treadmill of 1. Go to where the cool people are 2. Uncool people show up 3. It gets bad 4. Look for the cool people. Feels like that's always going to be the way of it.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Always has been.

The Situationists even created new words to describe how radical ideas are co-opted by the mainstream in ways that reduce or outright removing radicalism from the ideas, making them more palatable for mainstream society. They called it recuperation. They also argued we needed to be doing the opposite, and taking the banal and making it radical, which they called détournement. This was often exemplified in the 80s/90s/early 2000s through subversion and revision of corporate advertising, often called "culture jamming."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9tournement

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[–] Sergio@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

Yes. That's a good thing.

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I've been seeing this for a long time now, as they blocked VPN and anonymous access, so I use a combination of cached pages and libredirect if I really want to bother going there.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

I’ve hit that and just switched IPs on the same VPN. The other VPN I use has never hit the screen.

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[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I haven't read a Reddit page since I switched from Protonvpn to Mullvadvpn.

Reddit seems to allow Proton but blocks Mullvad.

Another reason to appreciate Mullvad.

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Try an alternative fronted like redlib.catsarch.com for when you really need to view the page. Unfortunately, there is still too much valuable info there, which is surfaced by search engines

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[–] ponypuncher@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I got permabanned this morning. Made a joke that automod thought was inciting violence (said people who don't punch their ponies in their face make me sick - not even my joke or a joke but a reference to someone else's joke - in response to someone calling horses disgusting) and all my alts were banned too. Which is fine but I miss my TV show communities a bunch. I like to discuss my stories!

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Username checks out

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Start a community here. Be the change you want to see.

[–] ponypuncher@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I lack diplomacy when I get annoyed.

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I assure you, that has stopped nobody here -- especially not the tankies -- do not let it stop you.

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[–] skuwubi@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Problem is that it's still where so many people are. It's honestly such a shame that more people won't move to lemmy... Because in comparison there's barely anyone here. And the only reason these kinds of websites are useful is that there's a lot of people on them

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago

old reddit still works. I had to install an extension to auto redirect to the old.reddit URL the other day cuz I was troubleshooting something and the ONLY things about it were on Reddit and I noticed that bullshit app advertisement too.

I know, I know, reddit sucks ass. I've been using firefox with ublock to read the best ofs for the unquenchable need for bullshit drama in my life.

But now it's not just a pop up saying to use the app, but a full ass unpassable thing. Old Reddit still works, but that's just another step for something that's already so not worthwhile.

Welp...

[–] sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reddit perma banned me because I commented that someone should “yeet that dude (the ceo of palintir) into space” because he wants war crimes to be legal because it would be better for business.

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[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Reddit doesn't like my VPN, so for the times when it comes up in my search or a buddy sends me something from there I have an extension in firefox now to redirect reddit links to redlib.

It's called libredirect. It's got a bunch of sites so you can avoid most of those shitty pop-ups if you set them up.

[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Majority of the posts on the popular subreddots are written by bots.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the subs that allow pictures, and screenshots, and videos are the most obvious. you can tell they are reposting but they try to obscure when the "tweet' was posted by blacking out the date/time. pics during the election year was so obvious "biden genocide" pics, it wasnt pointing out what trump/gop were supporting too. luckily there was any sense in the mod prior to the massive purges, that it was removed.

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[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

That's why I just left. You can use the redirect to old Reddit extension, but this is just so fucking dumb.

It's like an extra step, to get access to their ads too. No idea why anyone was paying for ads on Reddit before, but seems more pointless now

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Better late than never!

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Why can i still browse reddit on mobile Firefox with no popup... Is this only in America or something.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Supposedly, the message currently only targets people who use the mobile site a lot. Both clearing the cache and using incognito mode fixes it for a while.

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[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For research purposes use a frontend like redlib

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[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

It's really bad when you start to see how many bots and astroturfing there is. Accounts with thousands of posts a year stirring up shit in all the contentious threads.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

finally? since they unilaterally banned people with no ability to appeal because they cant be bothered to "hear all the appeals" its been dead since they use AI moderation. i think thier ban affected the site enough that bots have been the mostly source of "engagement" now. plus spez/musk/gop wants to push a propaganda narrative for reddit, that hasnt fully capitulated like META, and tiktok, youtube.

[–] baizi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I’ve been on Reddit for 16 years now, it’s just not the same anymore. The only reason I stick around is my local subreddit. I have no interest in Reddit anymore.

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