My friend sent me this, the current state of Reddit. (I left during the app issue and haven’t looked back)
This has gotta be the stupidest (and honestly ugliest) alternative to Reddit awards.
Thanks for the crudely gold-colored-brass up vote, kind stranger.
These arrows look like they were AI generated. “Make the arrow look more golden”
Now says it’s more bots than humans, only small subs have more real humans IMO.
This entire screenshot looks horrible.
ngl I haven’t been back to reddit since the exodus, but my youtube watching has gone up waaay too high.
Honestly, same. Between the algorithm throwing wild but entertaining YouTube shorts and me starting to watch longer more educational content, I find myself going on the reddit mobile site very rarely.
I’m in this exact same boat and I don’t love it. I don’t know if my ADHD is acting up or if YouTube has made my productivity take a nosedive (got fired a month ago due to it), but I can’t help myself from watching hours of YouTube a day. I feel like reddit was at least easier to disengage from in order to be productive.
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LMAO, imagine paying someone for content and then having a Reddit bot (or human) to copy it here for Lemmy.
Is this the new NFT lol?
… and I am starting to see user agent and VPN blocks now just within the last few days… It’s officially over, so glad to be here. Been in the fediverse since the API shutdown. Bouncing between instances. First post on this one! Absolutely no regrets.
Yeah I read they tried to play that off as an accident. You don’t “accidentally” block VPN users. That just doesn’t accidentally happen. They’re obviously attempting to do it, just waiting to deploy it. The anonymous social network sure does seem like they want you to not be anonymous.
Is that what happened? I occasionally check reddit at work since it’s unfortunately still one of the better places for actual answers to things, and in the last few days I’ve needed to use old.reddit.com to get around getting blocked. VPN block explains a lot.
It’s not confirmed what happened internally, but it was talked about a lot here for a while. Apparently VPN users were unable to access it and Reddit admins said that it was all accidental. It has just happened multiple times. Only for VPN users.
Yeah happening to mullvad vpn users for sure.
Huh, somehow completely blew past my radar. Thanks for the info!
But it’s not like they would think they could block vpn users and no one would notice and complain. The fact that they fixed it means the nefarious explanation doesn’t pass the sniff test.
My guess is that it’s something like that in the process of trying to stop scraping, their filter was cast too wide and it snagged more VPN users than it meant to.
I am constantly amazed that anyone is still using that corporate dumpster fire of a website
“See you next week,” one user smugly commented to me on my way out.
I haven’t been back, and I haven’t missed it.
Im sure Id have gotten said responses too, but ai kinda got my account suspended shortly before. The closest ive gotten on lemmy is that ive had some comments removed for valid reasons, and then their the fact that I think one of the world news mods has a grudge against me or their tools blanket remove comments.
Oh yeah I got IP banned for “abusing the report button” by reporting a literal call for violence against trans people. I had to use a VPN to browse that shitty site. In retrospect, I don’t know why I bothered.
I also got an IP ban alongside it, mind you I was proposing drowning the leaders of the UAE and Saudia Arabia. I was on NCD so I figured no one would care enough to report it, mind you my two previous strikes were from 2016, so who fucken knows what I said then.
I used to check in on againsthatesubs and report shitty content and new (usu replacement) hate subs that popped up. Admin barely cared about that shit
Yeah, I was on that sub as well, occasionally. I respect Bardfinn, the lead mod of AHS, but they used to tell me that accounts were restored on appeal if moderators retaliated by reporting users for “abusing the report button,” but my appeal was never accepted, and it was a clear instance of mod retaliation. I finally shared that experience when I was on my way out of the site for good.
Lol I left with the APIcalypse, and I was an official app user, no regrets and never looked back. Why would anyone go to that shithole when you have the fediverse?
The smaller subs (such as for specific hobbies) do not have the same momentum here on Lemmy. That’s probably why.
To be honest, they were right as often as they were wrong. Plenty of folks who proclaimed they’d never return to Reddit returned within the month. Some of the most outspoken were the quickest. I find the mods who returned particularly giggle-worthy.
The overwhelming smugness was the very thing that finally got me to leave lol
Oh, I saw a lot of those lmao.
So you can’t get that gold thing to go away?
God… I can barely remember the time before the top comment threads of every goddamned post were always lazy strings of circle-jerky jokes that you could predict before even clicking into the thread.
Don’t you love it when they’re not even made by humans, but it’s just bots copying the top comment from the last time it got posted
I was hoping when I came over here it would be more like the good old days of reddit. And i think it is, but barely. Plenty of the low quality shit made the jump as well.
Just look at this thread. Sort by top. The top post is circle jerking about people left reddit for here. The next top post is a vomiting emoji. A fucking emoji. I haven’t even been here that long and the comments in this thread were predictable in the same exact way.
I feel like that’s more of the state of how we communicate with eachother. Verbal communication is increasingly low effort and low quality just like any social media platforms I’ve been on. The only exception is hyper niche communities who’s main focus is on the actual INFORMATION. Ultimately, low importance/helpful post are going to have low importance/helpful responses.
I could barely remember too, then I took an arrow to the knee!
Something something narwhal bacon
I too choose this narwhal’s dead bacon
Wow, epic! I rate this comment 5/7 with rice! You’ve won the internet for today, my friend! I’ll pet my heckin chonky pupperino in your honor! You’re breathtaking!
This is better than that time my arms were broken and my mom took care of me (don’t worry, we’re not from Alabama! LOL 😂)
This.
New response just dropped
I understood that reference!!!
Anyone remember Kai’s Power Tools for Photoshop? Those arrows certainly do.
Holy shit that takes me back
I had Kai’s Power Goo!
laughs in curve tool
Mildly hilarious
Lmao they removed their somewhat unique award system with charm and replaced it with colored arrows
Hahahahahahah holy shit holy fucking shit
Giving Gold supports the contributors you love
Is… is this implying the person who got gilded gets a cut? Huh?
Yes
Interesting how they never say how much real money gold and upvotes are worth to these contributors
Well… nothing to real contributers. . The threshold is 10 golden upvotes. So only people who give themselves 10 golden upvotes can become eligible. No sane user would upvote someone who isn’t allready eligible, because that money would literally be throwing money in the trash. Only circle jerking upvote bots and “companies” will get money.
Is it somewhere mentioned how to see, if someone is eligible? Or even if that is possible at all?
Or they funnel it all to GallowBoob or whoever his replacement is.
I’ve never had so much irrational hate for an online person than I did for that guy.
Man I totally forgot about that guy. I’ve had him blocked for ages.
