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Who cares. Reddit is dead to me, and spez murdered it.
Reddit was amazing. I will always enjoy and fondly remember what it was like before Spez fucked up one of the most reputable cultures and brands in internet history. Fuck that guy… just… what a fucking shithead to destroy something so wonderful.
It’s going to take years, but Lemmy will kill Reddit. People like authenticity. Reddit will lose authenticity as it antagonizes its user base through its monetization efforts.
My bar isn’t set too high to beat Reddit.
I’d be perfectly happy if we have small but thriving communities spread throughout the fediverse on a diverse set of niche topics.
We’re in a good place for memes, star trek, and general discussion, niche content still has ways to go.
But to those people that are trying and posting to niche communities, I see you and I appreciate you!
I just want more diversity of communities. That needs more diversity of users, and that needs scale.
I like the way you think.
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This is one of the things I like about Lemmy. I can scroll through and be done in 10-20 minutes. More if I want, but otherwise, the rest of the day is mine for the taking. It’s like I’ve escaped and reclaimed my time.
Much the same, I was lost for a while till I adjusted.
The issue is, that a lot of Google searches lead to reddit
It’s quite annoying actually. A huge number of the results return pages that are years old and a huge chunk of the comments are just gone.
I know why I know everyone went through all their posts and edited or deleted them or both but it shouldn’t be returning in search results now.
I have a bookmark that is a link to Google with a prepopulated search field with stuff like
-Reddit.com after:2019
Honestly you took the words right out of my mouth. I literally could not have said it better myself. I hate that man, and his company for what they did to one of my absolute favourite pieces of the Internet. Reddit will live in on history, because I sure as hell won’t go there anymore.
Reddit will keep making horrible decision after horrible decision, completing the process of enshitification, until they slowly piss off their remaining userbase one by one until they have nothing left and go the way of Digg. It’s gonna take a long time because people hate change, but they usually hate bullshit more than that and everyone has a breaking point.
Don’t just blame Spez…that what the board wants you to strawman.
Blame the board as well
Who I blame doesn’t matter. I just stopped using it. Spez doesn’t care that I’m gone. Neither does the board. I don’t like current reddit. But I’m under no illusion that they will to clamor to keep the users that want vpns and anonymous viewing.
A large group of data providers using the site is better for them than a huge group of content sharers.
Ellen Pao
In hindsight, Pao wasn’t so bad after all.
Conspiracy theory: I think the whole Pao thing was a power play to make spez more powerful and played the userbase like a fiddle by doubling down on reddit’s built in misogyny and anti-authority/corporate bent at the time.
Couldn’t have said it better myself, haven’t been back once since I joined Lemmy and I never will.
I’ve been back a few times for specific communities that haven’t moved over, so like once or twice a week
It’s much like when I initially went from Digg to Reddit; it was dramatic then with time it was less unless until one day I realized I hadn’t been back to Digg in forever.
Same
Honestly, this is part of a broader trend of enshittification sweeping the Internet these days. It’s not just spez, it’s any SV bro from the current crop of technology companies. I think this is a lesson worth remembering for all of us who took the freedom and magic of the Internet for granted.
I was active on reddit for quite a while and by contributing and visiting the site making reddit money.
I have no desire to feed their greed and what they pulled with their API pricing was nothing but greed and shortsightedness.
I’m gone from reddit for good.I just wanna look at memes, cats, and news and hang out in the comment section without being exposed to ads, is that too much to ask?I hope their IPO sucks and they get shorted i to oblivion while they bleed off users month over month, because thats whats going to happen if they keep pulling this sort of stuff.
Who cares
it still has a shitload of valuable content and will continue to generate lots of it
Who cares. Reddit is dead to me, and spez murdered it.
Reddit was amazing. I will always enjoy and fondly remember what it was like before Spez fucked up one of the most reputable cultures and brands in internet history. Fuck that guy… just… what a fucking shithead to destroy something so wonderful.
“whoa there, pardner”
cunts
Weekly reminder that the best way to tell them off is to donate to the Lemmy developers, even 1 dollar is no doubt appreciated. Tell reddit off by using their competitor and paying for it.
Reminder is much appreciated. I checked out their donation page and learned that they also accept XMR, which is great if you don’t want to give the middleman leeches (paypal etc.) any data or money: https://join-lemmy.org/crypto
Thanks to your comment, the Lemmy devs are now at least 20$ richer!
With that budget, gonna be some crazy new features soon!!
No really this helps lemmy, good job!
What’s Reddit?
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What does Lemmy have to do with email?
Lemmy runs on the ActivityPub protocol, which works basically like an email address. Check out “How the Fediverse works” on your browser or YouTube.
I knew about ActivityPub but it still doesn’t really seem to have anything in common with email to me other than the @ symbols…
/me shrugs
It’s not just the @ symbols. It’s the fact that both are federated systems. Lemmy is federated because a user of aussie.zone can interact with a user of lemmy.world.
Email is federated because a user of gmail.com can interact with a user of outlook.com.
It’s about the fact that they each work on an open standard and anyone who implements that standard can communicate with anyone else who also does.
Yeah that’s a weird analogy.
is decentralized
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The email analogy always sounded weird to me, especially when you want to explain lemmy to a reddit user. It’s much easier to describe it as interconnected reddit websites, where anyone can host their own site and you can sign up with any site you want and interact with posts/users on other reddit sites.
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Just an isolated kinda-lemmy instance. Not worth it.
A bit like Lemmy, but worse in every way.
Doesn’t look like anything to me.
Lemmy but for squares; like pants are for squares
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change your user agent to “fuck reddit and fuck you spez v. 1.2.45”
v23.6.12
I get this even when signed in. Reddit really doesn’t like VPNs at all these days.
Advertisers probably don’t like an anonymous user base.
If you’re logged in you’re not anonymous
It used to be that you didn’t need an email to sign up. The account I had before the API crap this summer didn’t have an email associated with it. Couple that with using an always on VPN browser anti-fingerprint measures, and you could theoretically maintain a reasonable degree of anonymity, assuming you don’t dox yourself. I assume a lot of this also has to do with users utilizing VPNs to circumvent band as well.
Same with Twitch now too
Probably because they have some geo-locked content now (e.g. NFL games) and also because VPNs and proxies can potentially be used to bypass ads.
If I was going to r/FortNiteBR, I’d be using private browsing mode on mobile firefox too
what happen on fortnitebr
there’s people who play forknife there, yuck! /s
Translation: If we can’t track you, you’re of no interest to us.
Change the url to old. instead of www. and you can bypass it.
I love that this is the solution to all the logged-out user crap they’ve pulled lately.
Alas, I suspect it means they will drop old. in the near future.
It also works with nsfw content they put behind an appwall.
YoU HaVe tO UsE tHe ApP To ViEw ThIs CoNteNt.
STFU with that BS.
I hate this one. Particularly when I’m looking for SFW info.
I straight up choose to stay ignorant if it’s the only option
We’ve been speculating they will drop old. for quite a while now. Im wondering why they haven’t yet.
Yep. Maybe they want to keep the MAU figure up while getting all the data from the majority that use normal / the app.
I know I only use old and not logged in if there’s something I need to see on there.
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Nope, doesn’t help I’m afraid.
Hmm, It’s worked for me recently. I guess ymmv depending on your IP.
Try to clear your cookies, they put a bad boy cookie in if you’re violating the unwritten rules of le bacon
I’ve been meaning to say this, there has been surge of influx of users recently. Maybe this has to do with it? My VPN IP has been targeted. This isn’t a problem if you switch to a different location as certain VPN IP addresses are flagged by websites. VPN providers tend to change the addresses so this shouldn’t be a long term problem.
Since the debacle of Reddit and curtailing of privacy in their site, I log in to Reddit via Tor on Onion. It’s awkward to do so, but I won’t go back to the original site. They have gone in the way of Facebook with predatory harvesting of data.
Works for me 😎
More like it depends on choice of VPN providers rather than skill
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Mullvad is more expensive than Nord and the like but I’ve been blocked far less on sites for some user DDOSing it.
Had PIA before and it had issues way more often with blocked IP’s
Fuck em
try: [email protected]
The only time I use reddit instead of Lemmy now is when I want to read discussion of TV shows I just watched.
If I may ask, what is stopping you from discussing here on Lemmy ?
For me it’s the fact that I am one of approximately two people on Lemmy that has ever seen stuff like Haibane Renmei or Shin Sekai Yori, and there isn’t almost a decade worth of discussions about them to read on this platform. I could start communities for them, but I’m not cut out to moderate, and I’m not quite a big enough fan of either to justify taking on the role of a community leader
