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.
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.
when is the IPO (what is an ipo) happening? i want to see their stock graph fall and jerk off to it
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.
Reddit was a nice upgrade to usenet newsgroups
Throw few bucks at your app developer, instance hoster, and Lemmy dev team.
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.
I like the way you think.
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
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.
Couldn’t have said it better myself, haven’t been back once since I joined Lemmy and I never will.
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.
One can hope, but you’re right. There is too much valuable information on there to ignore when it’s needed.
The issue is, that a lot of Google searches lead to reddit
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
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.
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This is very apt.
“whoa there, pardner”
cunts
If I was going to r/FortNiteBR, I’d be using private browsing mode on mobile firefox too
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.
“Woah there, pardner”? What the fuck is going on with Reddit? Do they think they are like cool cowboys in the old west?
Uh, didn’t you read the thing? Reddit’s awesome and all!
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.
Happy to hear that! While we may not have as many communities, its most good folk here. Mostly
I hope you like Linux memes and weekly updates on what reddit is doing
Noticed this last week. Thanks to split tunneling, it’s easy avoidable.
That’s not avoiding it, that’s playing straight into it. That’s exactly the best case scenario they drew when they made the decision to block VPN connections. You are giving them your data and allowing them to fingerprint you.
Old reddit still works fine, but I suspect it won’t soon enough.
Use an alternate front-end. There’s a couple of them out there but usually the less popular domains are less laggy. I’m currently using https://teddit.hostux.net/r/popular
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