Technology

When I search for things at work, and reddit may have the top result, I stopped clicking them becasue they want me to log in.

When I search for things on my phone, and reddit is one of the top results, I stopped clicking it because now it won't let me read it in browser, and forces me to use their app.

They got rid of old reddit.

Clearly they are trying to pad their logged-in user counts.

I'm done. I'm sorry to say that I'd rather have an AI-generated answer (that likely is citing the right answer on reddit anyway) than to give reddit the satisfaction of making me open their app or log in.

Fuck them.

Fuck spez.

RIP AaronSw.

Well, this is it. Time to make my online residence on Lemmy permanent.

They're JUSTIFYING it with AI bots. Very different.

Reddit is also killing itself lately. I hope it goes down forever and good platforms like Discuit or Lemmy become the mainstream thing.

Enshittification continues

Anyone with a bit of foresight could see this coming after the site became closed-source sometime around September 2017. The saddest thing is that the network effect is real, and most of the subreddits I'm interested on will not move to the Threadiverse any time soon.

Definitely to stop their userbase using 3rd party apps and force them to use their godawful ad-hell

Translation: RSS feeds allowed users to access reddit posts without logging in which is a huge no no for data collection. It also enabled 3rd party open source reddit clients to function which is again a huge no no. For these reasons, we (reddit) are ending rss feeds

Oh look, reddit removing features and making the platform worse? Anyone remember when tech got better as time went on?

Tbh I hope they inevitably go down. I had been on Reddit for years before they permabanned my account without warning. I literally would just post pictures of soaps I make and interact with other subs that caught my interest. I tried appealing but it was denied and I keep being ignored. Reddit is killing their user base with their AI bot BS and I miss when they weren’t so corporate

i stopped missing them when i found this place

Reddit is killing reddit

They even banned /r/Lemmy. The nerve lol

because of AI bots

Is it because they want it to be only a.i. bots, because that seems to be where it's heading by making it more and more hostile to humans.

Reddit is insufferable. It’s impossible to get an interesting convo going and the vast majority of posts are slop. Even the subreddits for hobbyists are affected. I’ll save a sad memory for the glory days but it’s time to move on.

because of AI bots

We all know they really were just looking for any excuse

I know we all collectively hate Reddit here - no sarcasm on my end -, but I hate to think what it's gonna be like 10 years from now.

The sheer amount of good information I've obtained from Reddit over these last 15 years: mental, physical health, nutrition, tech, jobs... all for free, as it should be! It's insane when you think about it.

Imagining a world where I'll have to get charged to search every little thing, and yet get biased information due to ads and marketing... All of this sucks so much.

How are you guys gonna cope with this? What do you intend to do in the future I mean.

There is a single silver thread in reddit these days— there are multiple subreddits dedicated to posting info about the epstein files. A subject US media has no interest in following.

Obligatory Fuck Spez

reddit been so far gone for years it is kinda strange this happened now and not in 2022.

Lol Reddit

I actually forgot about Reddit in the same way I forgot about Friendster... Which I want to point out is also still around and being used by real people, somehow.

Reddit never gave a shit about bots. To them it's something that pumps up their active users numbers to woo their investors. They're only doing this so they can force people to view their ads that are designed to look like posts.

Who goes on Reddit nowadays anyway?

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