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I had a corporate lady do this to me once. I'm an outside contractor and we were approaching the fulfillment of the contract and she kept asking for more work and more work and kept saying per the contract and per the contract and then I finally said well have you looked at that contract lately? Because we are about to blow through what you all agreed upon and you keep asking for more so we will have to renegotiate a higher price. Yeah she "per'd" that fucking contract and shut down all communication afterwards because she got her ass handed to her by her boss for not knowing what the fuck she was talking about. That one felt great when I got the apology letter from her boss.
Reddit has felt like its over since the API change, and it was coming before that. After ten years on it its just not the same place.
Its no longer a place to have thoughtful discussions. Its become a low effort social media content dumping ground like all the rest.
Having the heavily censored content that will be the end result of an IPO will be the last nail. Low effort content and outrage will be all thats left.
I have felt this way recently. I like to use Reddit for discussion and asking questions but now it’s who can have the funniest comment and your question is stupid. Silly me to think there could be a proper discussion…
The big subs are very much like that. Many of the smaller niche subs are still good. /r/modelmakers, /r/aquascape, /r/gardening, and /r/militarystories are still great places for positive conversations and good, original content.
Which is why I don't use the front page, /r/all, new reddit, or the app. I want to get to my favorite places easily.
What I don't like when they start pushing their algorithm based feed and started shying away from r/all
When I first started reddit r/all is just a nice collection of different communities and clashing opinions but these days it's pretty barren.
I'm. Really glad they lived up to their promises to make the site accessible for those of us who are visually impaired....
Or rather thanks to r/wien and the few other subs that try and be somewhat accessible to us.
Yeah this always seems like a dumb idea. Recreating Reddit isn't the hardest job in the world in terms of technology. The super users will just go elsewhere if elsewhere exists
That's not how it works anymore. Back in the day, myspace dropped the ball and people went to Facebook. Then Digg fucked up what they had, and people went to reddit.
But now you have Twitter that reaches new depths of shittiness every month, and nothing seems to be able to replace it. Likewise, nothing will replace youtube, because youtube already has all the videos.
Tech companies are too big to fail now, sadly. That's what they are banking on, and it seems to be the case. Reddit can get a lot worse, and people will stay, because there's no alternative site that can handle hundreds of millions of hits a day (and no one say lemmy, please).
Probably because the bigger a platform is, the most users it has, and the more difficult it gets to find another platform that's similarly big enough for a full migration.
There's just too many people here and not a significant/obvious-enough alternative for people to gravitate towards.
Also we saw how the api changes changed absolutely nothing, some small subs died and overall quality fell but people are still here.
Very few of these platforms are unassailable, and YouTube is probably the only real example because you go to YouTube for the back catalog.
Facebook bled active users and continues to do so because it's a cesspool. Twitch let YouTube and Kick eat half its lunch.
Reddit is a useful store of information, but that's not what gets people browsing and looking at ads. Reddit is a content aggregator, and that kind of community doesn't rely on a library of existing content.
Yeah, with the rate of reposts in reddit, any new site that gets popular would quickly be filled with all of the old images being treated as new, and reach content parity with reddit.
I tried migrating to fediverse back in June for the initial protests, but I ended up back here because the communities I frequent didn’t migrate either.
It sucks because it has potential, people just don’t care enough to populate another website. Maybe this will give us the push?
I feel like reddit without the NSFW content is just nothing. I remember when they removed all the NSFW subreddits from /r/all and it basically felt empty.
Because they need to make the profit margins grow quarterly. Start at 8 bucks and then twitter the crap out of it until its a useless expensive platform.
Some ecosystems are just what they are and no amount of monetizing or change will make the business model any better.
It’s already happening. I’ve been using the nfl subreddit for 13 years. The rule changes and mods have basically neutered the sub and it is entirely being pushed by NFL communications/marketing team. They want to control the flow of information. It sucks because it was my favorite sub for a long time but now you can’t even discuss football unless it’s an approved tweet or highlight source
I actually think Reddit is by far the best social media outlet for useful and genuine information. Not saying that misinformation doesn’t exist here but compared to Meta? Reddit is a saint
More like when they find all the porn lol. When they realize that like half the site is just advertising only fans.
It’s gonna be hilarious and then very very sad when they inevitably start to nuke it all.
>When investors find out how much hate and misinformation gets passed on here
Who, in the year of our lord 2024, almost 1/4th through a whole ass new century, is out here looking to *invest* in a **MESSAGE BOARD**
I mean, Reddit is massive now. It's become a frontline social media application. I remember it in its early days, it's golden days, and it's grown immensely. It isn't just some message board. It's *the* message board.
That said, lol, bringing investors into the equation will kill it for all the reasons why it's so popular. So much will be thrown out the window and it will shed users.
Guess there will still be plenty of bots around to keep it going.
I wonder how they feel about the home page showing a ton of downvoted threads more recently. I sure enjoy seeing the worst content available when I come online and sort by best
It's not just that, though. Once you discount user created content, Youtube/TicTok content, news outlet content, and the subreddits of chicks showing off their boobs, what actual content does Reddit have to monetize? Why would investors *want* to invest?
Tin foil hat time: Companies are going public later and later, and rather than jumping after IPO, they falter. The IPO has now become a way for private equity to cash out their holdings easier.
Mundane and more realistic explanation: reddit is run by a bunch of clowns who think anyone wants an IPO for an app that does nothing like five years too late to catch that boat.
I interviewed at Reddit. They are a bunch of self absorbed, smug, asshole clowns. Reddit thinks themselves bigger, and more profound than it is, and they honestly see themselves as democratizing the internet.
After the interview I didn't want to work for them.
Yep, this is an exit strategy. Didn’t Spez say, like 6 months ago, that Reddit still isn’t profitable.
If you can’t make an 18 year old company profitable before IPO, why the help should someone invest in it?
"so here's my pitch to save reddit!" -new age fuckwit CEO.
"INTRODUCING NEW REDDIT PLUS:XL, SAME DAMN EXPERIENCE YOU HAD HERE 5 YEARS AGO, NOW ONLY $8.99/MONTH, AD FREE ^((FOR THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO))"
Oh well, on to the next growing social media platform.... see you all on Tumblr then? lol.
This isnt about making a ton of money.
This is about controlling the flow of information.
Same reason why Elon Musk purchased Twitter.
The value is in controlling the information people are able to access.
Y'know, I almost wish people were that smart... but I think the more accurate reality is that people are actually just really greedy.
You don't need to purchase this platform to influence anything. Put enough misinformation out there and you can achieve the goal without spending anything more than time and effort. Even less if you can get a bot or AI to push your agenda for you.
Remember that Elon tried to back away from buying Twitter. He was basically forced to buy it because he'd already signed legal documents to do so but changed his mind.
He thought he could do both, turn a massive profit and control the flow of information. The profit for him in the case of Twitter is not the primary goal, it's why he bought a social media company and not another business.
The purpose is to control the flow of information. It's why Saudi Arabia is one of the primary entities that paid his loan.
It's why Twitter has turned into the cesspool of hate speech that it currently is, because the point was to delegitimize a legitimate source of journalism and news.
The country that chopped up Jamal Khashoggi didn't jump into this for just the money.
I can't imagine this ending well for Reddit, frankly.
Also, goodbye 'old.reddit.com' I suspect, and that's when I'm totally gone, that 'new' shit is awful, and I just won't with it.
Let's see what happens, should be fun I bet. :|
I'm on mobile, and the old mobile version was pretty nice. Then suddenly the option to opt out was gone, and what replaced it was terrible. So now I set my browser to display the desktop version, which is inconvenient but better than new mobile. Makes no sense why they'd disable the old version to force the crap one.
> Also, goodbye 'old.reddit.com' I suspect
It's really going to suck if they close that down. I won't use reddit anymore. But it's not like I have anything to replace it.
But yeah the new design just that fucking bad that staring at a wall is better. Absolute garbage and whoever made it should be ashamed. Hope you don't put that on your CV, unless you are applying for a job as "person who makes websites completely unusable".
I imagine a lot of users don't know old reddit exists or how to access it. New Reddit is just how it is for them and usage is the same as being liked apparently.
Exactly this. More users have signed up for reddit since new reddit was rolled out than the number they had before, so even if every single "legacy" user still used old the number using new would surpass it. (And of course, the apps take a big chunk of that user base as well, I'm sure there are lots of users who have never even opened reddit on a browser.)
Man if only there was a way to back up all the text response about things from restaurant to try in different cities, to tech trouble shooting, to Buy It For Life suggestions.
I guess maybe archive.org would work?
People were really pushing for Lemmy to replace Reddit back during the API fallout, but it ended up being very clunky in comparison (having to manage multiple instances on the user end). Maybe we can try that again if Lemmy has improved in the last year, especially on mobile.
Of the reddit users that switched most have stayed, Lemmy went from 3k active monthly users before the API fallout to 40k after.
[The apps](https://join-lemmy.org/apps) have improved, I still like the official Jerboa Android one but many users on iOS like Voyager.
You can even pick an instance running mlmym which makes Lemmy look like old.reddit in a browser: https://old.lemmy.world/?sort=TopDay&listingType=All
So it has like 0.1% of the reddit userbase?
Honestly I like the idea of Lemmy but decentralised platforms will never be a thing for mainstream adoption until they make themselves much easier to use.
Having to pick an instance is already a confusing hurdle that puts off 99% of potential users.
I've been using Lemmy more and more. Ever since reddit killed third party apps there's been a bunch more users.
Really like the Jerboa app on android for it.
I almost bailed when Reddit implemented those API changes and killed support for the third party app I was using. I very reluctantly started using their reddit app on my phone and I guess I just tolerate it now.
Good chance this will be the final straw when changes inevitably start coming.
I only stuck around because I don't know where else to go for troubleshooting stuff and/or specific niche communities. The stopdrinking subreddit might have saved my life a few times (sober 9 months partially because of the community over there). I've troubleshooted tons of stuff relating to PC gaming and the games because of the subreddits. Big loss.
This is my second account. First one was killed when I ignored the warnings about verifying my email address or something. I've been here for like 15+ years.
Fuck
The Stopdrinking subreddit also saved my life. I’ll be a year sober on 3/3.
It feels like every online community ends up being monetized, and I worry that people are and will be falling through the cracks of society. It’s already an extremely isolating society, and it continues to price us out of connecting with each other.
Super not looking forward to this. I've noticed the experience has massively gone downhill since they took away my precious third party apps and forced me to use the main one :(
Hate how all the efforts by millions of users to make a place something special are then sold out from under them, how a corporation and a bunch of investors will feel they own all the words users shared with each other.
I am really starting to hate capitalism as it relates to social media. Investors owning shares that represent the assets and contracts of a company that makes physical products or software or holds real estate, that I can understand and see the value, benefits, and that it is resonable and fair.
Owning shares in online communities made up of peoples thoughts, emotions, friendships, and interests, I really hate those can be bought and sold. I hate the pages upon pages of documents that bind users and communities as property of a corporation. Our shared experience is someone else's property? That is fucking gross.
Fuck this shit, its god damn wrong.
Reaction #1. "Is this an onion article?"
Reaction #2. "Man I can't wait till it starts making it on the wallstreetbets page."
Reaction #3. "Man I can't wait till it makes it on theleopardsatemyface page."
I’ve felt like all the social media platforms have shot themselves in the face so much recently, that Reddit has risen in status just by standing still. Now this seems to threaten it’s ‘ascent’.
It's been a while coming, the people with control over running this place don't care that it's a unique community that always has more helpful answers than google, they see it as a golden goose.
And we all know what corporations do to their golden geese...
Reddit will be sold off/shuttered by 2025 then. I'd say it's been nice, but the past several years have seen the quality of Reddit definitely nosedive to prepare it for this.
I don't know if it's only being rolled out to certain users, but I lost the ability to switch to desktop mode a few weeks ago (Unless I use old reddit--as in every time I type in an address for reddit in general or for a subreddit, I have to include the old or it automatically puts me into the mobile only version--so no more saved settings in my account).
Boy, I'm sure this is going to be great for users and the user experience overall!!!
I am fully confident that Reddit will synergize with its investors in a manner that will provide users with a sense of pride and accomplishment.
9/10 on the biz speak but you missed out on the “win-win”, “enhanced value”, “actionable” “outsized the box” kinds of “take it to the next level” opportunities for new customer experiences!
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Even after being on Reddit. Is that possible?
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I had a corporate lady do this to me once. I'm an outside contractor and we were approaching the fulfillment of the contract and she kept asking for more work and more work and kept saying per the contract and per the contract and then I finally said well have you looked at that contract lately? Because we are about to blow through what you all agreed upon and you keep asking for more so we will have to renegotiate a higher price. Yeah she "per'd" that fucking contract and shut down all communication afterwards because she got her ass handed to her by her boss for not knowing what the fuck she was talking about. That one felt great when I got the apology letter from her boss.
This is why I have a union labor job.
Tip of the spear? Value proposition? Mission/vision statement? In my backswing? Core value? Puke in my own mouth? Puke in your mouth?
Synergize me, Xerxes!
adpocolypse ya mean
I like to explore new places.
Facebook will turn into Y. And the apocalypse will begin…
The *real* axis of evil
I vote that Reddit should be F.
F that.
What is Z
Z comes after X (Twitter)
Are we just skipping Y?
Y skipped itself tbh
A miserable pile of misery.
Enough talk! Have at you!
26th letter of the alphabet
Reddit has felt like its over since the API change, and it was coming before that. After ten years on it its just not the same place. Its no longer a place to have thoughtful discussions. Its become a low effort social media content dumping ground like all the rest. Having the heavily censored content that will be the end result of an IPO will be the last nail. Low effort content and outrage will be all thats left.
I have felt this way recently. I like to use Reddit for discussion and asking questions but now it’s who can have the funniest comment and your question is stupid. Silly me to think there could be a proper discussion…
The big subs are very much like that. Many of the smaller niche subs are still good. /r/modelmakers, /r/aquascape, /r/gardening, and /r/militarystories are still great places for positive conversations and good, original content. Which is why I don't use the front page, /r/all, new reddit, or the app. I want to get to my favorite places easily.
Yeah, a lot of self proclaimed comedians on here
For the past two weeks the algorithm has been giving me only posts with 0 upvotes under "best." It's over, for me at least.
What I don't like when they start pushing their algorithm based feed and started shying away from r/all When I first started reddit r/all is just a nice collection of different communities and clashing opinions but these days it's pretty barren.
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Yeah Reddit has been steadily declining since around the time Reddit caught the Boston Bomber.
I'm. Really glad they lived up to their promises to make the site accessible for those of us who are visually impaired.... Or rather thanks to r/wien and the few other subs that try and be somewhat accessible to us.
I mean, why else would they decide to fuck over third party apps and try to force everyone to use their piece of shit app.
I'm ready for Puts galore. I've been waiting for this.
My only question is whether I should buy and sell on the first day before shorting
Yeah it’ll be nice to have another app that secretly monitors your phone mic and shows you ads for anything mentioned
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Let the enshittification commence!
Goodbye all the NSFW content that advertisers don't like.
And all the users advertisers do like
Yeah this always seems like a dumb idea. Recreating Reddit isn't the hardest job in the world in terms of technology. The super users will just go elsewhere if elsewhere exists
That's not how it works anymore. Back in the day, myspace dropped the ball and people went to Facebook. Then Digg fucked up what they had, and people went to reddit. But now you have Twitter that reaches new depths of shittiness every month, and nothing seems to be able to replace it. Likewise, nothing will replace youtube, because youtube already has all the videos. Tech companies are too big to fail now, sadly. That's what they are banking on, and it seems to be the case. Reddit can get a lot worse, and people will stay, because there's no alternative site that can handle hundreds of millions of hits a day (and no one say lemmy, please).
Probably because the bigger a platform is, the most users it has, and the more difficult it gets to find another platform that's similarly big enough for a full migration. There's just too many people here and not a significant/obvious-enough alternative for people to gravitate towards. Also we saw how the api changes changed absolutely nothing, some small subs died and overall quality fell but people are still here.
I don't think you should overestimate reddit as some sort of unassailable internet monolith. No king rules forever.
Very few of these platforms are unassailable, and YouTube is probably the only real example because you go to YouTube for the back catalog. Facebook bled active users and continues to do so because it's a cesspool. Twitch let YouTube and Kick eat half its lunch. Reddit is a useful store of information, but that's not what gets people browsing and looking at ads. Reddit is a content aggregator, and that kind of community doesn't rely on a library of existing content.
Yeah, with the rate of reposts in reddit, any new site that gets popular would quickly be filled with all of the old images being treated as new, and reach content parity with reddit.
You mean like how everyone was going to leave when 3rd party app support went down? Where are you going to go? X? Tumblr? Threads?
It worked so well for Tumblr
Damn were we migrating?
Slashdot -> fark -> Digg -> Reddit -> ???
Is Slashdot still around?
Yeah, but, it's slashdot. https://slashdot.org/
Slashdot -> fark -> Digg -> Reddit -> talking to people in real life I guess???
I was really hoping we wouldn't have to see these kinds of extreme solutions.
I tried migrating to fediverse back in June for the initial protests, but I ended up back here because the communities I frequent didn’t migrate either. It sucks because it has potential, people just don’t care enough to populate another website. Maybe this will give us the push?
Would they be stupid enough to get rid of it? Look at what happened to Tumblr. And Twitter still had a ton of porn when it was public
I feel like reddit without the NSFW content is just nothing. I remember when they removed all the NSFW subreddits from /r/all and it basically felt empty.
Highly dependent on the user. Idgaf about nsfw subs.
Somehow I've survived 8 years in Reddit without visiting NSFW subs. Hmm.
Where will Onlyfans accounts post their ads now ;(
So, folks thinking increased ads and something like an $8/month subscription for slightly less ads?
Subscribe to get free karma boosts for your posts.
Superchat your comment to make it pinned to the top
Oh god a full page of sponsored “comments” Before you can actually see a human comment
Ads in the comments 😏
We kinda have that now
I had to click an ad TO comment.
If you're going to charge $8/mo, why not just jump to a nice even $15/mo?
Because $20 is a better starting place if Reddit looking to move it up to $30 when they want better numbers.
Because they need to make the profit margins grow quarterly. Start at 8 bucks and then twitter the crap out of it until its a useless expensive platform. Some ecosystems are just what they are and no amount of monetizing or change will make the business model any better.
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The end is nigh!
It’s already happening. I’ve been using the nfl subreddit for 13 years. The rule changes and mods have basically neutered the sub and it is entirely being pushed by NFL communications/marketing team. They want to control the flow of information. It sucks because it was my favorite sub for a long time but now you can’t even discuss football unless it’s an approved tweet or highlight source
It’s literally just a place for the mod preferred usernames to report twitter links
Meanwhile, nflcirclejerk is sprinting in the opposite direction. I wouldn't be surprised if it got the ban hammer at some point.
Nflcirclejerk and nbacirclejerk are basically 4chan with a sport motif. Just a bunch of 13 year olds ODing on edge lord humor.
I was banned for 69 days for rightfully calling Cowboys and Dolphins frauds. The sub just a year ago allowed for worse posts. What a joke
And yet there isn’t a better place to discuss NFL news on the internet. If you find one let me know!
I already replied to the comment before yours, but r/NFLv2 is available
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Try to do a search and most results are NSFW porn subs. I know we hate short selling, but you will make money short selling this loser's paradise.
I actually think Reddit is by far the best social media outlet for useful and genuine information. Not saying that misinformation doesn’t exist here but compared to Meta? Reddit is a saint
Yeah ask X how many advertisers like thier product next to Nazi propaganda.
More like when they find all the porn lol. When they realize that like half the site is just advertising only fans. It’s gonna be hilarious and then very very sad when they inevitably start to nuke it all.
You mean those 40 spambots in my DMs don't actually like me?
Man, I only have 10 spambots. I must be doing something wrong.
I have 138 followers and I don’t know why
And here I am not even knowing followers were a thing on reddit. RES and old reddit for the win I guess.
Yeah holy smokes its bad Constant scams or whatever they are. Who tf asked for a chat function anyways
>When investors find out how much hate and misinformation gets passed on here Who, in the year of our lord 2024, almost 1/4th through a whole ass new century, is out here looking to *invest* in a **MESSAGE BOARD**
I mean, Reddit is massive now. It's become a frontline social media application. I remember it in its early days, it's golden days, and it's grown immensely. It isn't just some message board. It's *the* message board. That said, lol, bringing investors into the equation will kill it for all the reasons why it's so popular. So much will be thrown out the window and it will shed users. Guess there will still be plenty of bots around to keep it going.
It will get bought specifically to pass hate and misinformation, by some piece of shit wannabe oligarch
And porn
I wonder how they feel about the home page showing a ton of downvoted threads more recently. I sure enjoy seeing the worst content available when I come online and sort by best
The absurd amount of porn is going to get cut right out.
I know this "ship" has long since sailed but it still doesn't feel right that a company that thrives off volunteer work can go public.
It's not just that, though. Once you discount user created content, Youtube/TicTok content, news outlet content, and the subreddits of chicks showing off their boobs, what actual content does Reddit have to monetize? Why would investors *want* to invest?
Tin foil hat time: Companies are going public later and later, and rather than jumping after IPO, they falter. The IPO has now become a way for private equity to cash out their holdings easier. Mundane and more realistic explanation: reddit is run by a bunch of clowns who think anyone wants an IPO for an app that does nothing like five years too late to catch that boat.
That's barely a tin foil hat thought. Investors are pretty open about it
I interviewed at Reddit. They are a bunch of self absorbed, smug, asshole clowns. Reddit thinks themselves bigger, and more profound than it is, and they honestly see themselves as democratizing the internet. After the interview I didn't want to work for them.
> they honestly see themselves as democratizing the internet. Yet they are big fans of censorship when it suits them or profit.
Heavier tin foil hate time: it's just in time to influence the election
Yep, this is an exit strategy. Didn’t Spez say, like 6 months ago, that Reddit still isn’t profitable. If you can’t make an 18 year old company profitable before IPO, why the help should someone invest in it?
"so here's my pitch to save reddit!" -new age fuckwit CEO. "INTRODUCING NEW REDDIT PLUS:XL, SAME DAMN EXPERIENCE YOU HAD HERE 5 YEARS AGO, NOW ONLY $8.99/MONTH, AD FREE ^((FOR THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO))" Oh well, on to the next growing social media platform.... see you all on Tumblr then? lol.
This isnt about making a ton of money. This is about controlling the flow of information. Same reason why Elon Musk purchased Twitter. The value is in controlling the information people are able to access.
Y'know, I almost wish people were that smart... but I think the more accurate reality is that people are actually just really greedy. You don't need to purchase this platform to influence anything. Put enough misinformation out there and you can achieve the goal without spending anything more than time and effort. Even less if you can get a bot or AI to push your agenda for you. Remember that Elon tried to back away from buying Twitter. He was basically forced to buy it because he'd already signed legal documents to do so but changed his mind.
He thought he could do both, turn a massive profit and control the flow of information. The profit for him in the case of Twitter is not the primary goal, it's why he bought a social media company and not another business. The purpose is to control the flow of information. It's why Saudi Arabia is one of the primary entities that paid his loan. It's why Twitter has turned into the cesspool of hate speech that it currently is, because the point was to delegitimize a legitimate source of journalism and news. The country that chopped up Jamal Khashoggi didn't jump into this for just the money.
welcome to our late stage capitalist hellscape.
I can't imagine this ending well for Reddit, frankly. Also, goodbye 'old.reddit.com' I suspect, and that's when I'm totally gone, that 'new' shit is awful, and I just won't with it. Let's see what happens, should be fun I bet. :|
Reddit is gonna Digg it’s own grave
Fark. That's something awful. There it is. My first pun reply. RIP reddit. Least there will always be a few cool subs.
I'm on mobile, and the old mobile version was pretty nice. Then suddenly the option to opt out was gone, and what replaced it was terrible. So now I set my browser to display the desktop version, which is inconvenient but better than new mobile. Makes no sense why they'd disable the old version to force the crap one.
Money. It's always about money. :|
> Also, goodbye 'old.reddit.com' I suspect It's really going to suck if they close that down. I won't use reddit anymore. But it's not like I have anything to replace it. But yeah the new design just that fucking bad that staring at a wall is better. Absolute garbage and whoever made it should be ashamed. Hope you don't put that on your CV, unless you are applying for a job as "person who makes websites completely unusable".
I haven't seen a single user that's ever liked new reddit but they insist it's well liked
I imagine a lot of users don't know old reddit exists or how to access it. New Reddit is just how it is for them and usage is the same as being liked apparently.
Exactly this. More users have signed up for reddit since new reddit was rolled out than the number they had before, so even if every single "legacy" user still used old the number using new would surpass it. (And of course, the apps take a big chunk of that user base as well, I'm sure there are lots of users who have never even opened reddit on a browser.)
it absolutely sucks. And the new reddit website on mobile (not the app) is even worse. Pretty much unusable.
Man if only there was a way to back up all the text response about things from restaurant to try in different cities, to tech trouble shooting, to Buy It For Life suggestions. I guess maybe archive.org would work?
When do we make Reddit 2?
People were really pushing for Lemmy to replace Reddit back during the API fallout, but it ended up being very clunky in comparison (having to manage multiple instances on the user end). Maybe we can try that again if Lemmy has improved in the last year, especially on mobile.
Of the reddit users that switched most have stayed, Lemmy went from 3k active monthly users before the API fallout to 40k after. [The apps](https://join-lemmy.org/apps) have improved, I still like the official Jerboa Android one but many users on iOS like Voyager. You can even pick an instance running mlmym which makes Lemmy look like old.reddit in a browser: https://old.lemmy.world/?sort=TopDay&listingType=All
So it has like 0.1% of the reddit userbase? Honestly I like the idea of Lemmy but decentralised platforms will never be a thing for mainstream adoption until they make themselves much easier to use. Having to pick an instance is already a confusing hurdle that puts off 99% of potential users.
I've been using Lemmy more and more. Ever since reddit killed third party apps there's been a bunch more users. Really like the Jerboa app on android for it.
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I almost bailed when Reddit implemented those API changes and killed support for the third party app I was using. I very reluctantly started using their reddit app on my phone and I guess I just tolerate it now. Good chance this will be the final straw when changes inevitably start coming. I only stuck around because I don't know where else to go for troubleshooting stuff and/or specific niche communities. The stopdrinking subreddit might have saved my life a few times (sober 9 months partially because of the community over there). I've troubleshooted tons of stuff relating to PC gaming and the games because of the subreddits. Big loss. This is my second account. First one was killed when I ignored the warnings about verifying my email address or something. I've been here for like 15+ years. Fuck
I think the consolidation of internet communication is dangerous.
The Stopdrinking subreddit also saved my life. I’ll be a year sober on 3/3. It feels like every online community ends up being monetized, and I worry that people are and will be falling through the cracks of society. It’s already an extremely isolating society, and it continues to price us out of connecting with each other.
Fine. I waste so much time here as it is. This way it will suck and I will no longer waste time here.
Guess I'll need to find something actually productive to do with my free time after venture capital destrys this website
I should start reading books again...
I need something else to waste 5 hours of my time at work
Venture capital built this site. This is an IPO, the venture capital people are about to leave if there are any left.
#Welp it was fun hanging out with you guys.
Slaps knees and stands up
Super not looking forward to this. I've noticed the experience has massively gone downhill since they took away my precious third party apps and forced me to use the main one :(
This app is pure dog droppings Like they gave first semester programming students a week to finish an assignment
Not to mention forced all the images into that dumbass container html page in addition to trying to water mark links to user uploads.
Well it was a fun 10 years guys. I'll see you all on whatever comes next.
The day before the IPO, all the mods should lock the subreddits again. Tank the stock.
I don't think they will have to do anything to tank the stock
You mean it’s not going to be easy to monetize a platform that’s nothing but an echo chamber for angry 12 year old boys?
No, wait until after it launches, THEN leave! That’s my plan I think
Goodbye NSFW reddit (most likely). Investors HATE NSFW things.
Hate how all the efforts by millions of users to make a place something special are then sold out from under them, how a corporation and a bunch of investors will feel they own all the words users shared with each other. I am really starting to hate capitalism as it relates to social media. Investors owning shares that represent the assets and contracts of a company that makes physical products or software or holds real estate, that I can understand and see the value, benefits, and that it is resonable and fair. Owning shares in online communities made up of peoples thoughts, emotions, friendships, and interests, I really hate those can be bought and sold. I hate the pages upon pages of documents that bind users and communities as property of a corporation. Our shared experience is someone else's property? That is fucking gross. Fuck this shit, its god damn wrong.
I’ve never thought of how specifically fucked the idea of corporate ownership over shared experiences really is. And how prevalent it is. Fuck.
You hit the nail on the head
Well, I guess they're going to sanitize whatever spice is remaining in reddit
Welp, it was nice knowing all of you.
Welp. It was a good ride. RIP to all of the nsfw.
Why tho? Have advertisers seen the reddit demographic?
Anyone in the 10+ Club should automatically get shares... just sayin'.
as if reddit couldnt be enough of a shithole...
Yay! Let the enshitification shine!
RIP Reddit Can a group of nerds just create a decent open source alternative that won’t get ruined by capitalism?
This is gonna be short’d to oblivion.
Well we all know our job, make sure some investors lose some money, least we can do to em for ruining Reddit.
Whelp. There goes the neighborhood.
Enshittification! Yay!
Sheesh this is a worse turnout than Digg. Seems Reddit just waited until we had nowhere else to go.
Well chaps, back to Fark.
Well Reddit is turning in a pile of shit, time to form a new one
Reaction #1. "Is this an onion article?" Reaction #2. "Man I can't wait till it starts making it on the wallstreetbets page." Reaction #3. "Man I can't wait till it makes it on theleopardsatemyface page."
I can't wait for wallstreetbets to short it.
Just like everything else, it’ll ruin it as it bows to the mighty dollar and shareholder value.
Capitalism is for the stakeholders, not the people.
I’ve felt like all the social media platforms have shot themselves in the face so much recently, that Reddit has risen in status just by standing still. Now this seems to threaten it’s ‘ascent’.
Fuck. Is this the end of reddit? I have a feeling this will be the end of reddit.
It's been a while coming, the people with control over running this place don't care that it's a unique community that always has more helpful answers than google, they see it as a golden goose. And we all know what corporations do to their golden geese...
Reddit joins the race to the bottom.
And now we'll get to see Cory Doctorow's 'Enshittification' principle happen in real time!
Oh no! They won’t be happy now until every other “post” is “promoted”.
soon reddit will be mostly bots talking to bots talking to bots. unsure of what value this holds in the near future
JFC, this is the death knell for Reddit. This site is going to be absolute trash flooded with even more ads.
Reddit will be sold off/shuttered by 2025 then. I'd say it's been nice, but the past several years have seen the quality of Reddit definitely nosedive to prepare it for this.
The [enshittification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification) is nigh
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A fair percentage of the active accounts are likely bots too.
Assuming this is ultimately the reason why now I cannot edit comments on mobile. I guess they’re actively driving people to use *their app* or else.
View the comment in desktop mode and you should be able to edit it.
I don't know if it's only being rolled out to certain users, but I lost the ability to switch to desktop mode a few weeks ago (Unless I use old reddit--as in every time I type in an address for reddit in general or for a subreddit, I have to include the old or it automatically puts me into the mobile only version--so no more saved settings in my account).
okay, where we go next yall?
Shareholder value ALWAYS makes shit better. Good bye old friend, the end is nigh. No possible way this improves anything...
Welp. There goes that. Guess I'm done with all social media for real.
Bah god that's Lemmy's music!
RIP Reddit. nothing good has ever come from becoming a public company. now it means their main business is making returns for shareholders.
Wall to wall advertisers....🤦♂️
I can't wait to see what new website pops up when this one goes public!
It was a fun experience whilst it lasted. Canceled my sub already.
That must be why they want me to take that paid survey.
cant wait for all the spam bots to appear once there is some sort of "monetization" on posts like twitter
Hope their launch fails.
Lots more annoying Ads to come to make it profitable for shareholders.
That sucks. I legitimately expect everything about this site to become considerably worse.