My friend sent me this, the current state of Reddit. (I left during the app issue and haven’t looked back)
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.
The overwhelming smugness was the very thing that finally got me to leave lol
Oh, I saw a lot of those lmao.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Each of those arrows is uglier than the last
This has gotta be the stupidest (and honestly ugliest) alternative to Reddit awards.
Thanks for the crudely gold-colored-brass up vote, kind stranger.
What a garbage place.
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.
r/todayilearned
Well, today you learned that this is the current state of Reddit.
Has no one here heard of redreader
Its still up due to an exemption iirc
QuantumBadger’s RedReader for Android was the way I used Reddit for 6 years because the official app was hot trash and it still is shit.
I still stopped using Reddit entirely after July, because it that site sucks donkey balls. Lemmy all the way, baby.
Don’t forget the fact that Redditcorp was treating RedReader along with the rest of the app developers with a “put up or shut up” attitude, despite them eventually caving and providing an exception from the blackout. There are still some good communities there I’m sure, but the site as a whole has lost my trust, so they don’t get my contributions anymore.
When I need something, I go through my self-hosted libreddit instance.
I’ve also set up autoforwarding in case I accidentally click a Reddit link in the wild.
Re-dreader? What a strange name.
I too dread going back to that site.
Yep. Still not interested.
Oh okay 👍
Reddit wouldn’t exist without the third-party clients. The state of Reddit is already being doomed to fail.
If you use the official app that’s on you.
“You people who use the Reddit app that Reddit recommends you use after shutting down almost every other app that you can use to check Reddit? You people are idiots!”
Yes, mainly for still using Reddit at all.
There’s no other apps anymore. Which of course is the whole point.
Redreader
Of course there are. I’m still using Infinity.
If you think you are using a third party app then you are even more stupid than you appear. All the third party apps are now controlled by Reddit which means they’re essentially first party apps for all intents and purposes.
Good luck with that. Let me know when it inevitably leaks all your data
Possibly the most clueless comment I’ve ever read.
Really still going to tell me that you have access to a first party app that isn’t controlled by Reddit?
Bearing in mind of course that I cannot be possibly held responsible for doing your thinking for you
By the looks of it you haven’t ever done any thinking for anyone.
Never heard of that website
I can’t even open reddit on a phone nowadays, cause my preferred sub have 18+ posts and reddit don’t let you access that if you not logged in. Also, there a notification, that I need to use shitty official mobile app. Also, there notification to login via google. Also, there a notification… Nope, I not using this shit ever again.
What’s your favorite sub (asking for a friend)
For the occasional time where I’m troubleshooting something and Reddit has the only solution on an “unmoderated sub” or one with 18+ posts, I just change the “www” in the URL to “old”, and get the old, non mobile friendly UI. It lets you bypass the other app popups, etc. Sometimes when you go into a post you’re back in the new UI, and might get another pop up, but backing out or changing the url to “old” usually solves it in my experience.
Firefox mobile now has a full suite of extensions, including old reddit redirect to bypass all that bs. It’s the only way I access reddit anymore for answers/the last few niche communities that haven’t been built up on lemmy yet.
I thought about doing that but then I decided that I don’t care about the opinions of people who somehow put up with all that shit
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.
You whiners are funny. Circlejerk just as bad as Reddit but think you’re different.
Yeah but I’m not out here paying $50 to put some pixels on someone else’s post. Cry more
On another topic, what kind of complete nonsense is that comment section?
It reads like if my phone’s autocomplete decided to go haywire one day and start spitting out random associated phrases: “Pablo Escobar… Colombian Drug Lord… District of Columbia…hungry hungry hippo…”
I don’t even know which is worse, that these are all bots, or there are actually multiple people who thinks posting these in public is a good idea.
Pablo Escobar lived in Columbia and owned hippos.
Just because you don’t get a joke doesn’t mean it was written by a bot, you goon.
edit - I just realized that I called esteemed character performer Margot Robbie a goon. Many apologies. I respect your dedication to the craft.
I just realized that I called esteemed character performer Margot Robbie a goon. Many apologies. I respect your dedication to the craft.
You should do an AMA. How did it feel being touched by god?
Now you should do an AMA too!
alright, be cool be cool be cool, it’s just Margot Robbie.
Yeah I could totally do those one of AMA dooda thingies.
what the fuck was that abomination of a sentence? Okay okay okay, let’s just try to smooth our way out of it.
Bye
He lived in Colombia*, which I assume is how D.C. snuck into the comments. Took me a sec to follow that jump.
Yes. The DC in Washington DC stands for District of Columbia.
I get all the references, but making a chain of references without any jokes isn’t exactly funny.
Meta comedy is overused to the degree that it is difficult to do it well.
Not all of us are blessed with the incredible talent of the writers of the nine-time Golden Globe-nominated motion picture Barbie, two-time Critic’s Choice Movie Award-winning actor Margot Robbie.
Doesn’t it feel weird that people feel guilty when being mean to you only because you are famous? You probably also have more anominous accounts so I wonder, how different does the internet feel as Margot Robbie and Jane Doe?
Doesn’t it feel weird that people feel guilty when being mean to you only because you are famous?
No, because there are plenty more people in life who won’t feel guilty about being mean to you at all. It’s more stressful in the days knowing a Twitter mob is ready to “slam” you for every little thing you say or do in life 24/7.
Besides, it’s not like anything I say here can be tied back to me anyways. Why do you think I refuse to get verified?
You probably also have more anominous accounts
Ugh… That Letterboxd account…
No, because there are plenty more people in life who won’t feel guilty about being mean to you at all. It’s more stressful in the days knowing a Twitter mob is ready to “slam” you for every little thing you say or do in life 24/7.
Really understandable. Haters will always be a louder minority and when you have 9 positive comments and a single negative one, the negative one will stick out.
Besides, it’s not like anything I say here can be tied back to me anyways. Why do you think I refuse to get verified?
That is probably the smart move. I have a unbsession with celebrities and such and when I hear people obsessing over every single detail of their lives, I feel sorry for the celebrities. If a single mishap gets blown up and reported of my life, I don’t think I would handle. It feels like people enjoy the story of the mental degradation of celebrity X. It is disheartening.
That Letterboxd account I wasn’t aware of this and it is one of those things where I don’t want to click the articles explaing it. I personally have ADHD and if I was watched like that 24/7, I would slip up. Furthermore, all my social media accounts use the same name so it can easily be tracked, luckily no one cares.
Any how, good luck with it all. Sorry for my short sighted thought and thanks for explaining. Remember that most people see you in a really great way. These people just aren’t the loudest.
Besides, it’s not like anything I say here can be tied back to me anyways. Why do you think I refuse to get verified?
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. On one hand, I totally don’t believe you’re the real Margot Robbie, so you do have plausable deniability, but if anyone gains access to your server either being the owner of it, hacking it, or having a warrant, it might be trivial to connect you to your account with your IP if you aren’t using a VPN or Tor. Not that you’d likely be in that situation, but it is good to be aware of.
I think it looks like AI bots talking to each other.
I just realized that I called esteemed character performer Margot Robbie a goon. Many apologies.
What’s wrong with her posting on Something Awful?!
Maybe they’re bots that don’t know they are bots
spez is hungryyyyy [insert The Idiot’s Lantern Doctor Who episode monster]
I hope people start posting pictures like this instead of paying for them
That’ll be $49.99, pal.
Don’t call me pal. But you know what friend? I think it would be hilarious if this image started getting used ironically.
I’m not your friend buddy
I’m not your buddy, guy.
I’m not your guy, dude.
I’m not your dude, chief.
Which reddit probably won’t give any to the creator
Actually, they will, a part at least
I guarantee the vast majority of gold rewards will be going straight into Reddit’s pocket. The contrived requirements to get a payout are designed to keep as much of it for themselves as they can, while still saying it’s “possible” for users to get some of the money for themselves.
Only if the person has received a total of 10 special arrows recently, or something.
Curiously enough, 99% of awards go to people ineligible for a share of the money.
Sounds like buying expensive-but-worthless loot boxes to send as gifts
And since reddit decides can change requirements at any point
You mean the commentor? Or thread creator? Nothing for anyone creating the content that warranted the upvote?
Think just who it’s given too not any other part. You’ve thought this out more than reddit did
Ok, ntsc.
You’ve gotta pay, pal.
Hold it. Hoooooold it.
Um excuse me are you gonna pay for that?
I love the vibrant colours of that vomit.
I was just thinking the same thing. More than the usual amount of love went into that one, and most people probably wouldn’t even stop to notice. The subtle fade-out at the top. That is some pleasing vomit.
Look at that subtle off-green gradient. The tasteful thickness of it… Oh my god, it even has ornaments…
I had to pause for a second. Most high def emoji I’ve ever seen. Can’t believe I just typed that.
