I installed the official Reddit app and went on it to see what the old place was looking like now. My inbox was filled with spam. The “home feed” shows subs I never subscribed to. There are so many ads. Between the ads and the the extra subs in the feed, it’s hard to just scroll. I also noted a lot of spam in some of the subs. Maybe they are subs with no mods? I’m not sure what’s up with that.
A subreddit I used to mod which shut down in protest when the third party apps controversy happened has completely vanished from Google search.
A lot of subs I followed just seemed to be full of a lot more intolerance and a load of bots, I think moderators that remain just don’t have the tools they used to have to root out these accounts
Good. Banning people from a subreddit because they posted something in a different subreddit is not a reason to ban someone. That’s what they used the tools for.
That’s how some mods chose to moderate their communities.
Saying that taking those tools away from all mods is a good thing because some used them in a way you don’t agree with is like saying no one should be able to build houses anymore because you don’t care for Italian architecture.
They’re too busy banning 10 year users for saying naughty words to worry about harmful bots and karma farmers and shills—it’s about priorities!
So there are still some 3rd party reddit apps that seem to work, Orion and Reno on iOS, probably others on Android, neither are as good as Apollo (RIP) but they’re not terrible.
Once they stop working, I’m done. The shitty ads alone are enough for me to dump that trash fire.
They spared those and Atom and redreader because they would be fucked under the ADA if they didnt have something that was accesible.
I just got permabanned for calling Clarence Thomas a cunt because “the c word is sexist hate speech.” You have got to be fucking kidding me, reddit has become such a piece of shit I’m done with it for good.
Haha no way I got banned for calling RBG a cunt for not retiring when she had the chance!
That’s been a standard for banning in r/politics for quite some time. “Cunt” is the mod banhammer trigger word there. Clearly they have never heard of Australia.
Clearly they have never heard of Australia.
They don’t have politics in Australia, silly. /s
Politics? That’s a 'murican tradition. That’s why r/politics only allows to discuss 'Murica, because there are no politics anywhere else. What? Did c/politics say something?
r/Australia is notoriously easy to get a permanent ban for completely arbitrary reasons. the mods there are reddit neckbeard stereotypes on steroids
Yes I was banned there for saying I wouldn’t be sad if trump dies in prison or something like that, banned for advocating death lol
meanwhile they haven’t banned clarence thomas for being an actual cunt.
I was permabanned for harassment for insulting spez during the 3p shit lol
What a bunch of fucking losers I can’t wait for their IPO to go down in flames, hopefully aided by some organization investigating and reporting the fact that like 30% of the website is karmafarming bots and chinese scam shills.
All I know is there’s several face rating subs now. The AskReddit and AITA type subs are trying to catch up.
I think you are just getting recommended stuff related to other subs you clicked on, whether you are subbed to them or not.
Don’t forget the prime content of r/popping.
Don’t you hate on my baby, it’s been hard since the breakup.
The official reddit app is filled with user tracking code and spyware, why would you subject yourself to that?
I used it on a guest account on my phone, so it was isolated from the rest of my system. I normally use RIF that’s been modified with Revanced to work signed in to Reddit. There was an issue of some comments not showing up, so I used the official app to see them. The App is a shit show. When I’m using RIF it’s just like it was before.
A lot of people here still using Reddit. Such a shame.
The world would be a better place if people were willing to put their money where their mouth is. You’re no better than the people that hate Elon Musk but refuse to leave X.
Sad to say, there is still a lot of niche info on there. Aside from finding stuff via Google, I don’t bother anymore.
Sysadmin, certain IT related subs, and my local city sub, are all still ‘useful’ subs in some way or another just due to sheer population still over there, at least until we have a larger mass adoption over here.
Based on your shared view, why would you even sub to this LW community? Just cut the cord fully if that’s your preference.
I really miss having a local sub but both of the portland subs turned into absolute cess pools the past year, there’s an ask one too that’s also filled with “i need to be right about this” type assholes.
I’m on Bluesky, but literally nobody I follow on Twitter is. I’m all for Bluesky, but it needs more people to become successful. I enjoy it a lot, but it just needs mainstream attention first.
According to WP, Bluesky is in “invite-only beta”.
That’s not true at all. There’s a distinct difference in effort between a person who left but opened the door to observe the dumpster fire and a person who goes back every day for content.
It’s the people like OP who are killing reddit. Insulting them for going back to look at the damage is backwards.
op made me wanna check my Reddit notifications if i have any
Yeah I gave up that shit. I’ll only go there if a search result takes me there for information I was looking for.
As I stated in several other replies, I still use it because of a couple specific hardware and software help subs that haven’t migrated anywhere. As long as the owners keep the subreddits as their only place for help for their product, then I’ll have to keep using Reddit. That’s also why I haven’t deleted my account. I have help topics that people can find when searching for those devices or app. I’d hate to take those resources away just because Spez is a douche.
I still use reddit cause some niche communities are more acrive there, but I eill say the front page has gone fron bad, to worse, to wtf
Jesus, chill out dude. It’s okay to use Reddit for some things, because, like it or not, it’s the only viable option for a lot of things
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Goddamn it, it seems Reddit and TAFKAT (The App Formerly Known As…) are becoming interchangeable shitholes.
Absolutely. The signal to noise ratio used to be much better a few months ago.
I think this is an illusion and that the signal to noise ratio was bad since like mid 2020. You just notice it now that you’ve stepped away, but during the pandemic the popularity of reddit exploded (check the traffic graphs), and the quality took a steep nose dive.
I don’t think I’ve ever experienced any spam ever in my Reddit inbox in the 14 years I’ve been on it. What sort of stuff do you get?
I’ve gotten “invited to join” several subs. When I look to see what the subs are, they are just places trying to market something. I never got any spam in my inbox before the Reddit shakeup.
I used to get those and invites to group chats which were the same thing. Or mentions from those types of subreddit.
Not the guy, but a fun little side story about my reddit account is that probably multiple years ago someone tagged my username in a cryptocurrency sub or thread or something and then deleted the area I was tagged in which left me with a notification I was unable to clear or even view afterwards.
That’s a fate worse than death.
Something similar to this happened to me. Saved a comment in a sub that I no longer care for, but the comment was deleted or removed later. Now my saved feed has a blank comment from a deleted username but it’s still linked to that sub. Cannot unsave it.
You’re probably using old Reddit, aren’t you? The difference between old Reddit and new Reddit and the Reddit app are night and day in terms of spam.
You’re probably using old Reddit, aren’t you?
Correct, I’m not an imbecile!
The Reddit app is genuinely awful. When I saw people saying it was bad I figured they might have been exaggerating, but no, it’s terrible.
I got more spam Feb-June of this year on Reddit that I did in the previous 15 years. It was almost 100% only fans spam accounts too.
I poked my head in yesterday and was scared away pretty quickly by the overwhelming shitty attitudes. I got the feeling that right-wingers are taking over.
What exactly gives you that feeling? Can you link examples? Because reddit has gone so far left they are actually doing many of the things right-wingers are accused of. So in that respect, you are correct. On reddit you can be openly racist, as long as the target is a white person. You can’t say that biology and gender are separate categorizations. Calling yourself a woman does not make you a female. That is science. And it will get you insta-banned on hundred different subreddits if you say it. I learned from experience. It’s why I’m here.
Racism. Rejection of science. Rejection of medicine. Sound familiar?
Rejection of science.
The science and psychology communities, the people who actually study such things, are pro-trans rights.
Rejection of medicine.
Out of curiosity: what is your stance on the COVID vaccine?
oh we know what they think
Rejection of science, rejection of medicine
Alright buddy, let’s see your degree. Surely your distinctly right wing views have nothing to do with the bans you’re catching. It must just be because you have an extensive background in gender studies and those fools can’t handle that.
There’s no way that people don’t want you around because you’re claiming science supports a bigoted view you’re spreading, right?
Yeah we arent Reddit here, but please, let it here be more civilized. Thank you!
Boooo go away
I think you mixed up your left and rights, bud.
Hold out your hands with the backs facing you, have your thumb at a 90° angle to your index finger. The hand that forms a capital “L” is the left hand.
For anyone not sure about right and left, left is almost always the right way to move.
I do this a lot.
The “home feed” shows subs I never subscribed to.
Facebook started doing this awhile ago too and made the site completely unusable for its original purpose of keeping up with friends and family. There is zero reason to browse Facebook anymore.
They say that Facebook spies on us and knows everything about us, but all I see on my feed is memes. I don’t like them. Here on Lemmy I block every meme community I see!
So, I’m not trying to be snarky at all, just genuinely curious, as I’ve seen several people on Lemmy brag about how much they hate memes… Like, why? Do you not enjoy humor, or just not find them funny or something? It’s a bit like someone saying they hate dogs to me. I honestly don’t get it.
It stops being funny after the 500th time. A lot of them are lolsorandumb zoomer humor. So its completely incoherrent or contains some sort of inside joke.
I’ve hated them since it got popular on 4chan and 9gag back in the day. People were just spouting memes and I could tell they lacked intelligence because of it.
I love humor. I love comedies and stand up comedy.
Memes aren’t really humor. They’re rhetoric that gets repetitive.
I didn’t say that I hate them. I said that I don’t like them. Let’s avoid using these words interchangeably.
The issue with these communities is that they recycle the same old material. You mostly see reposts and blatantly bad jokes. Sometimes I feel as though people feel the need to create a meme, but they don’t have any idea what it should be about. It’s like trying to write a book or song for the sake of writing one. Nothing good comes out of it without a creative idea.
When a new template becomes popular, people recreate old jokes with it, because even templates are not original anymore. There’s even a meme about this from Scooby-Doo, where the guy reveals that the monster (new template) is actually some guy they already knew (old template).
Mostly, such communities pollute the feed with unoriginal and unfunny content that doesn’t bring any value to me.
Okay, I appreciate such a considered response. I do agree it gets old seeing the same exact post over and over. Reddit was getting really bad with that. Of course there’s always the question of why some people find something funny and others don’t too.
For me though, setting that aside, I just find the variations on a meme can be really fascinating. Then you have memes referring to other memes or imitating them, sort of like you described. Memes that descend into abstraction so as to become practically incomprehensible… I’ve had to research a few just to understand whay they were even talking about. I think at its best memeing is like some kind of collective conceptual art collaboration. Or like graffiti or music sampling. So interesting.
I felt that way as a teenager but now as an adult it’s like a switch flipped and I find them insufferable. Memes within niche communities are still good though.
Yeah, it seems like all the answers I get boil down to: people don’t like them because they just don’t like them. Which is perfectly fair, I’m not sure why I was expecting a more nuanced response from anyone. It’s sort of like how some people like chocolate and others don’t. Who can say why really? It is interesting though that Lemmy seems to have a disproportionate share of vocal meme detractors.
We do like humour. So called “memes” (that is, image macros, memes are an entirely different thing, of which image macros are merely a particularly malignant subset)… OK, I’ll grant you, maybe they’re not entirely the opposite of humour, maybe they’re just what’s left when you remove all the humour and just leave a dry mummified shell of what might have once been a very poor attempt at a bad joke… but still, if they’re poorly made (as is the case 99% of the time), they’re noise, they’re spam, and if they have any value whatsoever it’s entirely negative… and if they’re “well” made… then they’re just plain old political propaganda (but without the artistic value that good propaganda posters had), so noise, spam, and definitely of negative value to society.
I don’t think they’re entirely negative. Memes can be very creative. Nor are they all political. That’s a weird argument to me. As far as humor, I think we’re just demonstrating how subjective it is. I find plenty of memes very funny. Yeah, can’t say I agree with really anything you said there, at least not as a blanket statement.
It shows me tons of UFC stuff. I’m not even slightly interested in UFC. I’ve blocked dozens of different groups, but there’s a thousand more to take their place. It also shows me lots of groups about soccer. I can’t say that I’ve ever even watched one soccer game in my entire life. I used to visit Facebook to see how my long distance friends and family were doing. Now I don’t visit Facebook at all, since I can’t do that anymore.
You should delete your account at r/redditseppuku
I keep my account up because I’m in subs that have technical help for certain hardware and software and haven’t migrated anywhere. I have lots of answers to issues that can be very helpful when searching. It sucks that Spez has forced so many people to delete important help like that.
I ran shreddit to delete rest of my comments off the GDPR files that power delete suite missed. And it’s really fun seeing everything be deleted as the script is run.
They’re your comments and I understand the sentiment, but I do wish people didn’t delete their Reddit comments. Preserving what’s there will help people who look in the future - we just don’t have to add to it, and can (and should) devote our energies elsewhere.
Preserving but just adding a line after every comment directing people to Lemmy or wherever the user went would be much better.
That kind of built up history is exactly what keeps Reddit relevant though. It’s been the go-to place for so long that it stays just because it is where all the content is. And now with LLM’s any content you leave is going to get turned into a chatGPT bot to generate fake engagement for their ad numbers.
To be fair, LLMs are still going to be able to scrape your content, and I’d say even more so since individual instance owners do not have big lawyer teams and dedicated server maintaining teams like in Reddit to protect their content from being scraped. My personal take is to just keep commenting and posting on the Fediverse and make this a better place over time, and just use adblockers whenever you need Reddit to find information.
No, but there is no monetary gain to scrape and repost on Lemmy. Reddit makes money when they do that, which means they’ll encourage it more.
The built up history gives Reddit momentum, but it’s not like when you Google a solution to some tech issue and find a Reddit post from 2017 that solves it, that’s materially contributing to Spez’s IPO-chasing metrics. No, that’s all about engagement, and active current users.
When you delete your history, you’re just reducing the total information available to random people who are looking for it. It may feel good lighting it on fire but that’s about it.
If we stop using it, it’s just a historical record. Stopping using it is enough.
Ar least archive it, so archive org gets the engegemant instead of reddit.com
r/redditseppuku
it is time. a month away from my reddit account has proven I don’t have any desire to return. Damn Spez, way to shoot yourself in the face you fucking bellend.
Don’t know what you mean. I don’t have hard statistics but it seems pretty apparent that Reddit weathered the storm well, just as he said they would.
Sure, some users got very angry with Spez and Reddit but ultimately didn’t go anywhere. They continue to complain about Reddit on Reddit.
Sure, some users left entirely but I’m certain many many more chose to subject themselves to the data-mining, ads, and pop-up notifications in the official app, thereby continuing to contribute to increasing Reddit’s value.
If Twitter has taught us anything, it’s that once you’ve built a sufficient userbase, there’s almost nothing they won’t tolerate.
I don’t have hard statistics but it seems pretty apparent that Reddit weathered the storm well, just as he said they would.
did I say I had hard statistics saying Reddit was going down?
No, no I didn’t, but you imagined that and just ran with a few paragraphs retorting it lol.
Damn Spez, way to shoot yourself in the face you fucking bellend.
he’s lost thousands of mods. you know, the idiots (like me) who did exceptional amounts of free labor, keeping the place clean and fun. you can already see the effect in multiple subs, the spammers are back in force.
that’s how he’s shot himself in the face. They’re never going to go back after this shit, and now that lemmy exists, people are moving on to the better alternative.
LOL, oh yeah, Twitter’s doing great. How’s that advertising working for 'em?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/twitter-ad-sales-musk.html
Please, don’t reply to something you’re making up in your head in response.
bwahahahaha all the new rising posts on reddit are crypto scams. https://lemm.ee/post/6038434
that’s working out great for spezzo
did I say I had hard statistics saying Reddit was going down?
…did I say you did?
No, no I didn’t, but you imagined that
Please, don’t reply to something you’re making up in your head in response.
Pot meet kettle.
oh yeah, Twitter’s doing great. How’s that advertising working for 'em?
What does advertising have to do with the number of people on the platform?
silly me, I didn’t know how accurate your username was. gonna block this idiotic discourse because you either can’t or won’t read, or are just shitposting.
More like blocking me because of what a giant buffoon you’ve made of yourself
You’re not alone. Reddit is now basically just a shadow of its former self. And it’s all to make money.
Don’t you love it when big companies practice corporate greed? Because I f***ing don’t.
Reddit is nothing but a bunch of violent thugs , I had the sheer nerve to suggest non-violent passive resistance might be a viable form of protest and I was met with wave after wave of hateful responses and a downvote brigade.
Peaceful protests are a convenient way to gather everyone that disagrees with you and slaughter them all, unarmed. Just ask China about the year 1989
Or ask the British empire in India in 1947… Peaceful protests won them their independence and started the ball rolling for decolonialization worldwide.
I don’t know what’s going on there, but I’ve had a shitton of commenters on old thread comments that are months or a year+ old. Who is digging up old threads and replying to them, and why?
This maybe happened once a year before the whole API debacle, I’m getting 2-3 a week now.
