I love that I don’t care about Reddit news anymore. “Spez made a new sub you have to such his dick to join.” Don’t care. Haven’t in a long time.
He really wants to kill that platform lol
Submitted 2 months ago by Shatpoz1288@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Kaavi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m glad you have not sucked his dick in a long time 🥳
SimplyChad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Come to Lemmy for the hatred of Spez’s actions Stay for the certainty he’ll do it again
flicker@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There was a while there where people were constantly coming to Lemmy to talk about reddit and I just… couldn’t give a fuck.
I feel like it might be an age thing. Those of us on the internet since the 90s are somewhat used to being digital nomads.
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We’ve seen empires burn to the ground so many times before.
Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Deleted my account just now and jumped to lemmy. Wondering why I didn’t sooner.
_bcron@midwest.social 2 months ago
I tried last year but a month back I got bannes for ‘ban evasion’ after going on a 5000 mile roadtrip for a honeymoon and using the sketchiest of unsecured wifi APs.
This time around I realized I can set the default sort in account settings to the top posts in the past 1 or 6 hours, def give that a shot, neverending stream of new posts, zero reason to wanna doomscroll reddit ever again
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
And you manage to not go on the
.worldso you are doing well.
WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
This is just the latest in a long string. Spez has demonstrated repeatedly throughout the years that he’s an entitled cretin - equal parts smug and ignorant.
My personal favorite was when he snidely commented on Reddit’s unprofitability in his AMA after the API debacle, making it sound as if it was somehow our fault, only to then not only have it made common knowledge that the official app was useless garbage and had been for years, but that the entirety of Reddit’s loss for the year was just about exactly equal to his salary alone.
Arbiter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This really goes to show he has no clue how to monetize Reddit.
Allero@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I think we should stop with copium every time some change happens on Reddit.
It’s not going anywhere and it’s still the front page of the Internet. A few thousand folks migrating to Lemmy doesn’t mean Reddit is gonna die tomorrow.
And the CEO knows that perfectly well. Spez can juice this place more and more, and people, for the most part, will eat that and stay after a tiny show of discontent.
You know what? That might be for the better. While it sucks to have less content here, we at Lemmy also have a healthier demographic, and that’s something we should praise and look after.
If anything, at our best we should not spend our energy shitting on Reddit, but rather direct it to care for Lemmy. Start your cozy or important community and share it! Make new interesting posts, preferably not about Reddit or American politics - plenty of that in here. Leave useful and/or supportive comments. We can for once build our beautiful garden, not a place of powerless hate and spite.
Lizardking27@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not “copium”, reddit is genuinely heavily populated by bots, advertisers, and sponsored content. There aren’t nearly as many actual people using it as before. I’m not saying they all came here, but reddit is definitely not “the front page of the internet” anymore, and hasn’t been since long before the api exodus occurred.
Nobody talks about reddit in daily conversation like insta, tiktok, youtube, or even facebook. The majority of people on the internet do not know it exists. It’s a weird, niche website desperately failing to claw it’s way to the mainstream, when the whole charm of it was that it wasn’t mainstream social media.
However, I agree that I’d like to stop hearing about it here.
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Nobody talks about reddit in daily conversation like insta, tiktok, youtube, or even facebook. The majority of people on the internet do not know it exists.
The movie “Good on paper” had a joke about Reddit, but the joke basically implied that Reddit is full of sexist incels… so I get the feeling that most people have heard of Reddit but that Reddit is not viewed very favorably by the average person.
Allero@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Fair points on your side!
big_slap@lemmy.world 2 months ago
While it sucks to have less content here, we at Lemmy also have a healthier demographic, and that’s something we should praise and look after.
yes, say it louder for the people in the back!!
quality > quantity, and my interactions on the fediverse, compared to reddit, are so much more fruitful 😁
Allero@lemmy.today 2 months ago
They get much more kind and productive - that’s for certain!
People are more willing to engage in a positive way and not algorithmically trained to hate.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
well said!
Allero@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Thanks :)
charleroi2@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Lemmy also have a healthier demographic
Maybe overall, but have you seen worldnews folk?
Allero@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Overall, indeed. Same with noncredibledefense etc. etc.
julysfire@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I used Reddit for 12 years, which granted, isn’t as long as some others, but it is really sad to see what it has become after all these years. It helped a lot back in the day, but now it is time to let it go.
aquinteros@lemmy.world 2 months ago
it was sad for me too. I haven’t looked back since they banned 3rd party apps, it was time to let it go
julysfire@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Since they killed RIF, in the shittest way possible, my usage went down significantly. I still miss RIF
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
The third party app ban was doubly stupid because not only did it piss people off but then they replaced all of those apps with something that didn’t work properly. Even if you didn’t care about third party apps all that much you cared that the only option you now had was terrible.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I hopped on Reddit the week before the Digg migration happened. I’m not sure how I really took in the Internet before that (lolcats and wimp mostly), but I remember nearly the exact moment it happened. I’d never heard of Digg before that. I’d barely heard of Reddit.
It’s not the same as it was back then, and I’m very happy to be done with it. Fuck spez/Steve Huffman, that piece of shit burned everything to the ground to enrich himself and piss on the community.
Tyfud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Same. It’s a part of life though. At least as long as we’re living in a capitalist nightmare.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Welcome!
SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Why would I download a toilet?
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I usually flush my downloads…
Fosheze@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BRB, gotta upload some content to the series of tubes.
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A toilet is useful.
Why would I download a concert filled Porta-potty?
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I agree! After my initial fury over Spez’s whole tantrum, I found Lemmy, and I gotta say, yeah I really do think we need a lot more communities and diverse topics, but for those of us who remember what the Usenet was early on, it was a paradise for free-thinking, tech-savvy individuals to socialize and share ideas. I’d love to see Lemmy stay under the radar, because once something becomes popular enough, it gets enshittified by people looking to monetize and people looking to just plain shit all over it. If it remains fairly small, but in that it is a concentration of the most desirable people (mostly), I’ll take it. I can always hop over to dread-it if I really need something not here.
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Even when Reddit exploded in popularity there were still plenty of great, but smaller, communities. I really enjoyed being part of Reddit until the API changes when all the decent moderators quit. The quality of Reddit went off a cliff shortly after that happened.
So I think Lemmy will be fine even if it explodes in popularity. Capitalist greed that betrayed the OG members and mods who built Reddit is what is making Reddit a cess pool, not the number of users.
sfxrlz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well except for when they start paywalling shit
davidgro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If they had just done the obvious thing and made ad-free 3rd party API access depend on a subscription fee, then I would have just paid it and wouldn’t be here. But no, they have to do everything the worst way possible.
Azzu@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Wait I don’t understand, didn’t they do exactly that? Just the pricing was outrageous
davidgro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, they are charging the app devs instead of the users directly (who would then be free to use Any app, and the apps would have remained as they were: ad-supported or paid or whatever)
AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To this day I still dont understand why they didnt do it this way.
Oh well, at least now we are on a platform which has a future.
Reddit being on the stock market… Like what the actual fuck…
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Capitalism is like Dog-strangling vine or swallowroot
mormund@feddit.org 2 months ago
Wasn’t there always a pay-walled subreddit, made by the community? I think you had to have had gold/premium to get invited.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The lounge, don’t worry it wasn’t interesting
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 months ago
Didn’t they also already scrape that when they rebrand “gilding” to multi-tier award? Idk it’s been years since i first got into there.
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Good, bury reddit.
PunchingWood@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can’t say I’m sad.
I got permabanned on Reddit because of events involving powertripping moderators and every appeal I tried has been met only with generic bot auto replies. It seems impossible to get an actual human to look at my case for which I provided a lot of detail on what went wrong and how I was incorrectly permabanned (I was confronting moderators of one of my favorite subs about them violating their own Subreddit and Reddit’s policy).
I’ve been trying for over 9 months but there’s literally no way to get it fixed. And every new account eventually gets permabanned as well.
I’m so done with that garbage platform. Shame about the small fun communities I was in. But the downfall of Reddit can’t come soon enough.
MercurySunrise@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I’ve officially said my goodbyes. It’s absolutely fucked over there. This is just one of many serious problems with Reddit. The CEO is tanking it harder than Musk tanked Twitter. He’s musk’d it.
greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Is there a way to fully download or scrape a full subreddit or say stackoverflow since they’ve both committed themselves to enshittification and alienating their userbases?
asking because that seems difficult to do and there’s a lot of useful information on both sites
jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Its not super hard, but the main hurdle will by bypassing whatever api limits there are such as by using multiple accounts
Certain libraries like praw still work to some extent (my discord bot is still running somehow) but trying to scrape all of the posts in a sub might have to be done slowly. You might be able to sort by old so that the results dont move relative to the page and then go page by page.
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
*laughs in Lemmy
MediaSensationalism@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reddit getting rid of paid rewards pre-IPO only to reintroduce the feature later on and boast it as a major QOQ increase in non-ad revenue while artificially inflating their on-paper growth was slick.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Was it also fraud? Some slick fraud?
Blink8@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, here we are, he’s surely winning at that
Casual_Harper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I went back to reddit after being away for six years and I’m already done with the mods, the toxicity, the fakeness, just the whole thing. So here I am.
MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Welcome to Lemmy:)
rarbg@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Welcome (⁀ᗢ⁀)
foreverunsure@pawb.social 2 months ago
welcome!
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 months ago
I’ll say this here, too: Based on the phrasing, this is probably competition for Patreon, not for current styled subreddits.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
I remember i almost bought reddit premium
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Fyi Reddit is one of the few recent tech IPOs that increased in value
lath@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He’s rich and giggling. Quite likely does not give a shit.
nexussapphire@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I mean openai already has.😄
TotalCasual@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reddit is dying. Spez is a degenerate freak, a scam artist, and a Nazi. The OpenAI training platform / propaganda website begins to circle the drain. Microsoft is starting to lose the last iota of goodwill they once had.
Nothing about Reddit looks good into the future and no one, with serious cash, is going to invest in a dying platform run by a scam artist, a freak, and a Nazi.
The questions now are, “How long?” and “What’s next?”
NastyNative@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Lemmy you my only friend!
Qbanrev@lemmyf.uk 2 months ago
Reddits an echo chamber for the worst ppl 9f the left. Disagree and you get a ban. We need more online places where there is no banning and people can just disagree and learn that they are not the only type of person.
probableprotogen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I absolutely would download a subreddit thank you very much
leisesprecher@feddit.org 2 months ago
What’s really baffling to me is that a bunch of nerds with too much free time on their hands basically stomped out a fully fledged Reddit alternative within a few months, including multiple frontends and apps.
Yet Reddit spends millions on development every year, for no discernable improvement whatsoever, while still turning no profit.
Where is all that money going? Seriously, Reddit is a very simple site. There’s nothing that hard about it. The amount of data is tiny, since the content is external, none of the resources are that time critical, a lot of content can be cached.
What are the devs doing all day?
Johanno@feddit.org 2 months ago
Lemmy wasn’t made in a few months. However development increased a lot once the api war started.
gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
what/who are you referring to? the reddit ceo or reddit users?
april@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They are referring to the lemmy developers
leisesprecher@feddit.org 2 months ago
Where exactly do you think you’re writing this?
orcrist@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The ideas leading to Lemmy go back at least a decade, that I can remember. There are many little things that people figured out when developing distributed federated social media networks of this type. It’s a success story of collaboration over a long time with a shared goal of making Reddit and Twitter easy to replace with a superior product.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I’m surprised that nobody has tried to turn Facebook into a distributed service or perhaps they haven’t they just haven’t noticed.
I’m not really interested in a Twitter alternative is I never really used the original. But I would like a less shitty Facebook.
If somebody could basically just make Google plus again, but then actually let people use it, that would be great.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You mean stamped out, stomped implies extinguishing, stamped means mass production of some sort.
yourgodlucifer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lemmy existed before reddits downfall
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
spez’s bank account. when they did the IPO, it was revealed pretty much half their income went to his salary alone.