Good.
The more of this they do, the more people move to federated sites.
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Reddit needs to die like digg did
haven’t seen any issues yet on ios? using the reddit site with sink it for reddit and it’s been fine so far, albeit slow with a vpn at times
iphone lol
f*ck reddit but i miss the steam and steam deck subreddits
/r/kitchenconfidential was my spot, seriously miss that. No going back though, needless to say
Probably there are already steam-related communities
yeah, all the gaming subs here are pro-steam and anti-console.
This was the push I needed to delete my reddit account and I did it yesterday
This is what finally did it? I stopped mine when they killed anything but their shitty app, but also when it became clear just how "freedom of speech" they weren't.
So did most of us. No reason to be hostile to someone who took more time but still committed. The day they monetized the API was the 3rd best day. Today is the 4th best day.
I say there's no reason to be hostile to someone still on Reddit. I check here first for most things, but there are many communities whose presence here is either anemic or nonexistent.
Then again, Reddit has always been a desktop first experience for me. I pretty much only use old.reddit.com, and my line in the sand will probably be when it dies.
Same. As soon as reddit is fun was gone so was i
RIF was my jam! It kinda sucked when they had to change their name from reddit is fun (rif) to rif is fun.
It's crap like this that's the reason why I started looking for alternatives like Lemmy. Reddit is getting a little too big for their britches.
A little too big you say?
Both the Reddit app and the Reddit website are absolute travesties
Garbage takes itself out, lol.
I don't even bother with reddit anymore
The Reddit manchild fanbase are just grown up tablet kids at this point. Makes sense to push them to an app on their phone.
They never learn.
They have learned being evil makes a lot of money
learn what? they're more successful than they've ever been. Their profit is up, their users are up. What exactly do they need to learn? Yes, you and I and most people reading this comment are pissed off at them and left their platform. But 99% of people didn't bother. This will annoy people but ultimately it won't drive users away in any substantial numbers. They do it because they know they can and most people will do what they're told and get the app instead. You say that as if you expect them to be shooting themselves in the foot, but people being annoyed at them does not reduce their profitability.
How many are bots?
Its like facebook. Engagement is up, audience is increased, but, its likely by a small number of people. I started noticing that in the Aussie subs, that every week, near the weekend (right before night), there were obvious lobbyist posts, which suddenly shot up (stuff like pro guns, pro- one nation etc). At this point, our local racism party was clearly doing heavy lobbying on the platform (despite losing 30 years of elections, based on reddit, you'd think they were #1).
Like facebook, a lot of people are switching off now, and trying to find alternatives.
Moderation has also gotten really bad recently. I had an account for 14+ years, never got banned. Made a new account, and within a few months, I got a temp ban for apparently being racist (despite the fact, I spent a lot of time arguing AGAINST racism).
On facebook in fact, on the heatpump posts, I actually noticed 1 or 2 names pop up on almost all the adverts saying they were an engineer, and that heatpumps don't work, etc (with bad info). Reddit allows infinite accounts, and no doubt, it is not much better there
IKR, I left reddit a couple of years ago when they did the API thing, and even then it felt like there were a lot of bots around. I can only imagine that's increased massively with Gen AI having become so ubiquitous. If I were an advertiser or investor, that's a question that would worry me.
Advertisers and investors are drinking the same coolaid. It's the customers of those advertisers that need to be questioning their ad space purchases.
The average moron decides the rest of our fate. The average moron decided to sell our privacy wholesale and ask for seconds . Let's face it, intelligent people are just on the moron boat ride, and there is nothing we can do about it.
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Their app performs worse than running their website on Firefox. That's a technical feat of its own.
I hate reddit. They blocked all of my accounts for no reason. And they're so vague explaining why, and when I tried to appeal, the whole site crashed. Literally joined Lemmy yesterday.
welcome my friend
Lol I quit reddit a couple of years ago when they did the API thing. Recently went on there cos I was googling some game stuff that led me there - and I found that the account that was logged in had been banned. I hadn't commented or voted out even really been there for 2 years and somewhere in that time I earned a ban, somehow. Gotta laugh.
Same.
shrug Fuck that place.
I used Reddit since near it's start, never banned until recently. Apparently saying that public officials who betray their country and the will of the people should be burned at the stake is me making threats. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
Same here. They don't want users. They just want bots.
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