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.
I’ve been hanging out in imgur, which is generally nice for memes and cats, and kbin for news. It’s been surprisingly effective.
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.
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.
It was created by a Reddit user for the purposes of hosting images posted to Reddit but it was never owned by Reddit
Imgur is owned by the same parent company as Reddit
Edit: apparently I don’t know what I’m talking about
Imgur is owned by MediaLab. Reddit is owned by Advance Publications.
Oh damn, my mistake
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
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.
Throw few bucks at your app developer, instance hoster, and Lemmy dev team.
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
Much the same, I was lost for a while till I adjusted.
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.
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.
Same
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.
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!
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.
Absolutely. Cory Doctorow’s Def Con 31 talk really nailed it. I’ve listened to it like 3 times. He is the person who coined the term “enshitification” and the talk describes what it is, how it happens, and some things we can do to prevent it. The Q&A at the end is also awesome.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Cory Doctorow’s Def Con 31 talk
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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.
The issue is, that a lot of Google searches lead to reddit
Who cares
it still has a shitload of valuable content and will continue to generate lots of it
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.
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This is very apt.
What’s Reddit?
On a second thought, let’s not go to Reddit, tis a silly place.
According to how people try to simplify things here,
Lemmy - Email = RedditWhat does Lemmy have to do with email?
Lemmy runs on the ActivityPub protocol, which works basically like an email address. Check out “How the Fediverse works” on your browser or YouTube.
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
Yeah that’s a weird analogy.
is decentralized
Lemmy is like Reddit, but federated. And everyone describes federation as being like email. Therefore, Reddit + email = Lemmy, so Lemmy - email = Reddit
(this is a bad joke that requires you to buy into a bunch of premises to begin with, I’m glad some people here got it though)
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.
Yeah, I’m not a big fan of the analogy either, it’s just the only federated thing people know about 😭
Just an isolated kinda-lemmy instance. Not worth it.
Doesn’t look like anything to me.
Lemmy but for squares; like pants are for squares
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change your user agent to “fuck reddit and fuck you spez v. 1.2.45”
v23.6.12
I get this even when signed in. Reddit really doesn’t like VPNs at all these days.
Advertisers probably don’t like an anonymous user base.
Same with Twitch now too
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.
“whoa there, pardner”
cunts
If I was going to r/FortNiteBR, I’d be using private browsing mode on mobile firefox too
what happen on fortnitebr
Change the url to old. instead of www. and you can bypass it.
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.
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.
We’ve been speculating they will drop old. for quite a while now. Im wondering why they haven’t yet.
Nope, doesn’t help I’m afraid.
Hmm, It’s worked for me recently. I guess ymmv depending on your IP.
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.
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.
Works for me 😎
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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Why not?
I think they’re suggesting that we just avoid Reddit entirely
Huh, I thought Teddit was dead due to the apicalypse. Glad to see it’s still kicking.
It’s usable, but instances now deal with frequent rate-limits and you’ll see 429 errors quite often.
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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?
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Buildapac is probably still one of the best places to get advice on pc parts.
Google indexes Reddit, it does not index the fediverse
That sounds incorrect. What’s your source?
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site:lemmy.world “search terms”
They do indeed index, but the fediverse isn’t yet highly ranked against other results. The above will let you specifically search whatever site you choose, such as Lemmy.world
I can get this to work on Google and DDG. I haven’t bothered checking others. I usually search Lemmy via my app though.
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Previous experience that may no longer be relevant if it is actually doing so now
Works with my VPN, I suspect this is a user agent issue rather than VPN
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Curious, I get it while searching too, using Proton. Haven’t tried juggling servers though, might help.
The less nefarious explination for what might be happening there is that Reddit has blocked that VPN ip because it’s been used for bots and logging in with a known good account bypasses that block.
