12 years that place was more of my life then i care to admit. constantly scrolling.
…honestly i should think im for breaking that addiction
Comment on Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 6 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.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 6 months ago
OneShotLido@lemmy.world 6 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.
Sabata11792@kbin.social 6 months ago
Much the same, I was lost for a while till I adjusted.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 6 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.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 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!
wewbull@feddit.uk 6 months ago
I just want more diversity of communities. That needs more diversity of users, and that needs scale.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 6 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.
irreticent@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We need more activity in local communities too. Even big cities seem lacking in content.
OneShotLido@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I like the way you think.
Sho@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Couldn’t have said it better myself, haven’t been back once since I joined Lemmy and I never will.
OneShotLido@lemmy.world 6 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.world 6 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.zone 6 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.
InternetUser2012@midwest.social 6 months ago
Same
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The issue is, that a lot of Google searches lead to reddit
echodot@feddit.uk 6 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.world 6 months ago
I have a bookmark that is a link to Google with a prepopulated search field with stuff like
-Reddit.com after:2019lil@lemy.lol 6 months ago
I suggest
-site:Reddit.cominstead of-Reddit.com
anonymoose@lemmy.ca 6 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.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 months ago
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 6 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.Kaliax@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s all about Lemmy now. Lemmy is the future.
Marsey_Enjoyer@lemm.ee 6 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.
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 6 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.world 6 months ago
when is the IPO (what is an ipo) happening? i want to see their stock graph fall and jerk off to it
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 6 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.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Reddit was a nice upgrade to usenet newsgroups
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 6 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 6 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.world 6 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.world 6 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.
takeda@lemmy.world 6 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.world 6 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.world 6 months ago
Imgur is owned by the same parent company as Reddit
SaltySalamander@kbin.social 6 months ago
Imgur is owned by MediaLab. Reddit is owned by Advance Publications.
crsu@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You probably got it mixed up in your memory. It was owned by a reddit user, then sold
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Throw few bucks at your app developer, instance hosted, and Lemmy dev team.