• friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    60915·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • GingaNinga@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1205·
      7 months ago

      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.

      • _number8_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        201·
        7 months ago

        when is the IPO (what is an ipo) happening? i want to see their stock graph fall and jerk off to it

        • GingaNinga@lemmy.worldEnglish
          331·
          7 months ago

          I dunno there have been rumours that their IPO is just around the corner for years now, idk how they justify it reddit just isn’t set up for that sort of growth model. Its users (at least before all the nonsense) I’d say are on average more likely to use 3rd party apps, ad blockers and not engage with the kind of activity that normally creates revinue (thats frankly why I’m here I’m a reddit refugee from appolo). My guess is all this activity is prep for going public but I just can’t see it going well.

        • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
          131·
          7 months ago

          IPO = Initial Public Offering

          It’s basically when a private corporation goes public and offers shares of their company to the public for the first time, as well as listing on a major stock exchange. It’s worth noting that private corporations can issue stock to individual shareholders, those shares just aren’t traded on the open market.

      • athos77@kbin.social
        196·
        7 months ago

        I’ve been hanging out in imgur, which is generally nice for memes and cats, and kbin for news. It’s been surprisingly effective.

        • PunnyName@lemmy.worldEnglish
          59·
          7 months ago

          Imgur is a shadow of the brightness it once was. After all the weird UI and ad changes. Plus the NSFW purge, among other issues.

          • schmidtster@lemmy.worldEnglish
            431·
            7 months ago

            The user base is also incredibly toxic. Anytime you post a public picture you get ridiculed for using it to host pictures. Which is the entire point of it yeah? Sure you can also treat it like social media, but without the basis of posting pictures, it wouldn’t exist.

            • PunnyName@lemmy.worldEnglish
              71·
              7 months ago

              That’s been the case for years now. It’s no longer an image hosting site, it’s an image-based social media site.

              • schmidtster@lemmy.worldEnglish
                7·
                7 months ago

                All of their marketing says image hosting. Users don’t even understand their own walled garden.

                Imgur now defaults to private images, but those didn’t exist at a time, and when they introduced them they defaulted to public.

        • takeda@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          7 months ago

          I was convinced imgur was sold to Reddit. Although when searching for this it looks like I was wrong and they were instead sold to MediaLab, though apparently also a very shitty company.

          • Pregnenolone@lemmy.worldEnglish
            24·
            7 months ago

            It was created by a Reddit user for the purposes of hosting images posted to Reddit but it was never owned by Reddit

        • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
          77·
          7 months ago

          Imgur is owned by the same parent company as Reddit

          Edit: apparently I don’t know what I’m talking about

    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
      881·
      7 months ago

      12 years that place was more of my life then i care to admit. constantly scrolling.

      …honestly i should thank him for breaking that addiction

      • OneShotLido@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        7 months ago

        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.

    • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      671·
      7 months ago

      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.

      A core group of people who value that authenticity above all else migrated after Reddit betrayed its values this past summer. They will be the early adopters of this brand new community. It’s happened before on the internet. People hate bullshit. They want to connect with real people that have good intentions and are good faith contributors, free of the influence of investors trying to monetize those relationships.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
        24·
        7 months ago

        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!

        • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
          71·
          7 months ago

          Yeah every time Reddit pulls some shitty stunt, we get a new influx of angry people demanding algorithms, whining about federation being too complicated and picking fights.

          It’s like the bar just closed and everybody’s going to 7-Eleven to be mad about it.

        • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
          6·
          7 months ago

          I just want more diversity of communities. That needs more diversity of users, and that needs scale.

    • Sho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      7 months ago

      Couldn’t have said it better myself, haven’t been back once since I joined Lemmy and I never will.

      • OneShotLido@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        7 months ago

        I only go back when there’s an answer to a DDG search. There’s so much valuable information there, but as time goes by, that will change and the answers will become less accurate. In ten years, it’ll be a graveyard.

        • Sho@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          7 months ago

          One can hope, but you’re right. There is too much valuable information on there to ignore when it’s needed.

      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        23·
        7 months ago

        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.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      25·
      7 months ago

      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.

        • Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          7 months ago

          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.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        10·
        7 months ago

        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.

        • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          7 months ago

          I have a bookmark that is a link to Google with a prepopulated search field with stuff like -site:reddit.com after:2019

          Edit: corrected -site:

    • Anony Moose@lemmy.caEnglish
      16·
      7 months ago

      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.

    • zergtoshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      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.

    • Marsey_Enjoyer@lemm.eeEnglish
      532·
      7 months ago

      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.

  • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.infoEnglish
    871·
    7 months ago

    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.

        • Frozzie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          121·
          7 months ago

          Lemmy runs on the ActivityPub protocol, which works basically like an email address. Check out “How the Fediverse works” on your browser or YouTube.

          • scottywh@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            7 months ago

            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

            • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
              51·
              7 months ago

              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.

          • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
            5·
            7 months ago

            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.

  • Chozo@kbin.social
    54·
    7 months ago

    I get this even when signed in. Reddit really doesn’t like VPNs at all these days.

        • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          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.

          • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
            2·
            7 months ago

            But they can still use everything you’ve written there to work out stuff about you. I bet they don’t do it well though, given how poorly targeted their advertising was

      • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        7 months ago

        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.

  • centof@lemm.eeEnglish
    401·
    7 months ago

    Change the url to old. instead of www. and you can bypass it.

    • r00ty@kbin.life
      42·
      7 months ago

      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.

      • centof@lemm.eeEnglish
        311·
        7 months ago

        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.

        • owen@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          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

      • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        7 months ago

        We’ve been speculating they will drop old. for quite a while now. Im wondering why they haven’t yet.

        • r00ty@kbin.life
          1·
          7 months ago

          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.

      • centof@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        7 months ago

        Hmm, It’s worked for me recently. I guess ymmv depending on your IP.

  • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
    351·
    7 months ago

    I think there is something there to start a conversation about how messed up the Internet is these days.

    Walls are being placed up all over. Security teams are always freaking out and checks that charge the guest are being put up just to track people going in and out.

    I think we have finally hit the breaking threshold of everyone getting online and gated communities are the only way people want to exist in the web now. I mean how many times has Lemmy been DDOS’d already on several instances. Scrapers are everywhere trying to steal data for any and all purposes.

    As much as we may not like it for people that want a pleasant experience without effort entrance tickets might actually need to start being made to let people into the world’s largest circus we ever made.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    English
    32·
    7 months ago

    Seems like Spez & Co finally started figuring out just how much their traffic skews to porn seekers, and is useless to advertisers. Last ditch effort to get relevant user info and metrics to sell.

      • okr765@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        I tried 3 different Mullvad IPs and none worked, maybe I just got unlucky

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        34·
        7 months ago

        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

    • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      198·
      7 months ago

      come on we all go to reddit when we need to find some information because its almost always guaranteed to be there

      Most of us dumped Reddit when third party apps went away. I personally haven’t been back to Reddit since creating a Lemmy account. Screw that place; they don’t deserve my patronage anymore. Or anyone’s, for that matter. Continuing to use their content is justifying their shitty business practices. It’ll never get better if people keep enabling it.

      Also, what specific info are you searching for that Reddit can provide? Their search function has always been garbage. Or are you referring to general content and/or subs that don’t have an active userbase here yet?

  • selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish
    191·
    7 months ago

    “Woah there, pardner”? What the fuck is going on with Reddit? Do they think they are like cool cowboys in the old west?

  • radiosimian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    7 months ago

    As a first-time user I’m enjoying Lemmy. I feel like I want to contribute mostly because I won’t have an immediately antithetical comment to follow my own. Am not looking for an echo chamber, I’m looking for conversation and sharing ideas. Reddit has devolved and this seems like the best way forward, for now.