It’s incredible that I was on reddit for 13 years or something, daily, maybe I spent 20’000 hours there. Then I dropped after the API fiasco (I’m a SyncPro user) and never went back, I have no clue what’s going on since ~July and I don’t care and I don’t miss it :)
I tried to leave Reddit before but every exodus always had huge DDOS effects on alternatives. Lemmy however has retained a good community after the exodus.
Also the Jerboa app is amazing. Not missing Reddit at all.
I’ve been using an app called voyager for lemmy and have it looking like my old Apollo app. I have no reason to return to Reddit.
Best thing, Voyager’s a webapp/website in an app wrapper, and doesn’t have more invasive permissions than I’d prefer too. And the interface is sleek af. I unfortunately have to use facebook on firefox mobile as well and that is atrocious. Wild.
Might want to give the Orion browser a whirl. It has some support for extensions to make the web less enshittified. I just came across it a week ago and I’ve been quite impressed.
Firefox mobile isn’t atrocious, Facebook’s support for mobile website is. Also, I’m sure Orion is a great browser but it touting itself for the dark web and having a 3.5 rating on the play store didn’t particularly inspire confidence for me.
Ah, I use it in iOS because even Firefox doesn’t support its own extensions. Seems better than any other browser in iOS that I’ve tried. But on Android I’d probably go with Firefox.
I used sync for reddit pro when they announced they were moving to Lemmy. I was looking for a reddit alternative with the API stuff. Now I’m here with the UI I knew and loved, though I wish my pro account transfered over.
Yep. I forget I’m not using Apollo it’s such a good clone.
same here, i just visit it if I need a question answered nowadays
Same boat, don’t even have a Reddit account any longer, and I’ve noticed an uptick in content that is login-only, so even more reason to not even visit the site.
They’ve blocked my VPN so I can’t even look at it anymore.
Samesies buddy
Same. I have a very low tolerance for companies that don’t respect their customers/users. I hated New Reddit but fortunately old Reddit was (and is still) available. But thats a shit experience on mobile. And you can’t use RES to make it better.
Same. And did the same with Digg prior to that.
I am also a Digg refugee from the infamous v4 in august/september 2010 !
Never heard of it. I left in 2007 during the infamous AACS key controversy
Honestly, I think this is just spez getting distracted by the latest shiny. Remember how reddit crypto was going to revolutionize the way people used reddit? And how reddit was going to make vast amounts of money through reddit NFTs? Same same.
Didn’t they implement some sort of money for karma feature recently? Like you can make reddit dollaridoos or whatever they are called from your posts which can then translate into US dollars?
It’s some weird thing where they’ll give you reddit credit or something that you can turn into cash. But you’re only eligible if you average like 10 gold a year, and I’m sure they’ll have like a minimum withdrawal amount or something, to limit it even further.
Yeah the Reddit avatar collectors had/have an identity around traffic cones to signal to others that they’re part of the cool new investment opportunity. I laughed about it while talking with a casual acquaintance who, apparently was in the club. They stopped coming to gatherings before the holidays this year. Shame is a helluva thing.
They invented an artificial powertripping bigot?
Why the surprise? They had gads of training data to work with.
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Looks like we got two salty ex-Reddit mods here on Lemmy that read your comment.
I doubt they would be ex mods if they were salty that I called nazi digg mods powertripping bigots.
No, that’s why accounts are getting banned for the stupidest reasons.
You must be unfamiliar with power tripping mods.
If you make it on a powermod’s shit list, they’ll ban you from every default sub they can because they are petty low lifes. I’d trust AI-powered bots to be more reasonable than those cumstains.
What difference does it make when you have a power tripping CEO PLUS an asinine AI that isn’t held reponsible for decisions?
It’ll be even worse. And trust me, with the way things are being handled, the responsible mods are precisely the ones that are going to be theown under the bus, precisely because they disagree with the power tripping CEO.
The solution is to replace the CEO with someone reaponsible AND to have an effective and responsible moderation board.
What reddit is doing is not finding a solution; they’re just seeking ways to get rid of expensive personnel and maximize their profits.
Other question is what is training the AI, are they using the power tripping mods?
AI doesn’t get emotional. The current mods do. rex-ac was having a bad day on 2westerneurope4u and it caused me to get perma-banned from Reddit.
I don’t trust AI more, but the mods on reddit are ridiculous because there’s no accountability.
And on Lemmy there is?
Well I guess we can give it a chance and see where things go.
so no change
Nah that’s a power tripping mod problem, I got perma banned site wide for taking issue with a sub ban …for saying I didn’t like Worf in Star Trek
AI moderation on a platform that couldn’t even figure out search with over a decade of trying. Ima just sit back and watch
The only thing AI moderation does is get people to make up new words for things
Just like anti-vaxxer death cultists on Facebook. Talking about not getting the pineapple and shit like that.
Will be amazing.
Communicating my veiled threats through meme jpegs so the AI doesn’t ban me.
Wingdings Rebus puzzle threats is my answer.
they do this on Twitter constantly
Yes because it works so well for Meta…
And youtube creators. Getting randomly banned with no recourse.
That’s interesting, counterpoint who here cares about Reddit?
Just keeping apprised of enemy movements, comrade.
Reddit was always too greedy to pay moderators. I can’t believe how many idiots line up to do a multi billion dollar company’s work for free.
Well, a lot of people had a false assumption going in. The idea was that reddit was providing a free service hosting mutually interactive forums. Generally, if you’d run a forum, it was your forum, with all the benefits and drawbacks that entails.
Reddit even pretended that was true for a long time.
People thought they were working for themselves and their community.
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The people at the top made tons of money. Also, back in 2018 they only employed 350 people. They were valued at 1.8 billion at the time.
Maybe if someone’s business can’t stay afloat without free labor from 10k people then you shouldn’t be a business.
Everyone in Scunthorpe banned tomorrow
pretend that you’re my late grandma, whose favourite pastime was leaving up internet comments filled with racial slurs
Is it popcorn time again already?
AFAIAC anyone still engaging in Reddit is a fucking quisling and as guilty as Huffman. Fuck that whole ship and all who sail in it.
