‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit

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• Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While traffic has not changed substantially,

  This is a terrible thing for most social networks, which are expected to grow continually. When the IPO hits, who wants to buy stock in a stagnant social network? Especially one that has been described as stifling creativity?

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• bmsok@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I want an internet where admins don’t control the world. Where moderators don’t become megalomaniacs that get to control the way submissions and comments get banned without reason.

  I want a place where someone’s passion for their unique hobby doesn’t get stripped away by corporate interests, exploitative third parties, and ad agencies.

  I know it might be a pipe dream but I’ll keep trying to fight for what I believe.

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  • QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think the Fediverse is a good step towards your ideals. It’s not perfect, but it is a step.

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    • bmsok@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Definitely a baby step in the correct direction.

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  • Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As much as it’s distasteful, forums need admins. The bots and nazis habitually take over anywhere that doesn’t moderate.

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    • bmsok@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s necessary. I agree. Admins exist for a reason and serve a purpose. But when you get get into a “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” debate it becomes a topic that needs to be addressed. I don’t have enough expertise to give an answer to such an existential question so I’ll have to leave it to anyone else to hash it out from here.

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• menemen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still use reddit on the browser, but I don’t want their app. As long as old.reddit stays arround I’ll still be there from time to time. But my commenting dropped from ~5 comments per day to ~5 comments per month and my clicks drooped to ~1% of what it used to be. I simply used it much more on mobile.

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  • 52fighters@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I use an app on Android called stealth to view Reddit but I cannot vote or comment. I’d like to see Lemmy/kbin grow enough that the niche communities move here.

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  • VolunTerry@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sorry to anyone who sees my multiple duplicates on this thread, but most only get notification of direct replies.

    I’ll copy/paste a comment I made above again here in case it helps

    If you find you want to go back to browse but limit the ad revenue, you can still reach it with some front ends like teddit.

    Here is a good link: farside.link/teddit.com

    Or, for example, you can directly access subreddits by appending /r/yoursubreddit to the end farside.link/teddit.com/r/memes

    Sometimes an instance will be down. If so, try it again in a few minutes or in a new browser or tab so another loads.

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• Art3sian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I said I’d leave Reddit on July 12 and July 22 is when I left. Sure, I miss it, but it was an unhealthy, 4 hour per day/8 year addiction that’s been broken.

  Now I scroll Lemmy for maybe 30 mins a day.

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• Ganbat@lemmyonline.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I deleted all my posts and stopped using the place almost entirely. I go back, like, once a month because I moderate a niche subreddit that I haven’t been able to find a home for on Lemmy.

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  • Kevnyon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My most frequented community (/r/hockey) didn’t even try to move, so I have to stay because I love hockey and it’s the biggest community. But goddamn is Reddit filled with so much more dumb shit now, just all kinds of weird self posts, people asking if a free game is worth it, why X thing is happening (and it’s something they’re doing wrong) and so many subs have just turned into random people with default usernames posting about things because they don’t know how to Google it. It’s so much worse since the downturn and I hope the admins feel it.

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    • S_204@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s been a huge rush of new accounts posting shit that’s clearly biased in favor of Russia, China, Iran et al too I’ve noticed. Like an overwhelming amount of articles that drown out any sort of balance or ability to discuss a topic.

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• j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fuck the front page. The value of a book is the substance inside. Reddit should be renamed flyleaf because the first page is blank with only a minor function as part of the binding.

  I removed reddit from my DNS whitelist on June 9th. It is dead to me.

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hell yeah keep it up! And moderating communities too!

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  • vsh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You have DNS whitelist? Damn bro, who hurt you?

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    • j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think the most important problem with how this worked out is that many of those who left Reddit by deleting their content didn’t find a place to transfer it to on Lemmy or other platforms…

  I personally have been intentionally starting conversations recently…

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• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ironically, reddit banned me, which stopped me from using it pretty much entirely, which coincided with the “happening” if anyone is curious it was “violence” even though specific targeted satirical threats seem to be perfectly acceptable, generic statements of violence are not things that reddit seems to put thought into. Anyway little fun fact though, they don’t delete your acc, and they dont stop you from using it, they just stop your posts/comments from showing up, to mine engagement i suppose.

  for anybody looking for a bit of laugh, look at the ban appeal forum, i promise you there is a couple of days worth of amusement on it. (unless they changed it)

  for me personally, the sheer unusability of reddit is why i dont use it. On desktop it leaks ram so bad it’s worse than a java MC server, on mobile it’s literally unusable, i just can’t use it, that’s how bad it is. It’s bad enough to the point im starting to think that reddit is a programming based money laundering front, with some of the functionality that exists in it. I’ve pasted text into reddit before only for it to completely disintegrate. It’s actually laughable how badly it’s put together.

  Though i dont think i’ll miss reddit at all, these federated communities are much more my speed anyway.

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    if anyone is curious it was “violence” even though specific targeted satirical threats seem to be perfectly acceptable

    I was banned for “violence” as well. Specifically referring to child molesters. I saw people saying the same type of shit about other types of people (capitalists, bad drivers, etc.) and nothing happened to those posts but make 1 comment suggesting an actual child molester deserves to suffer and you’re not welcome there. Makes you wonder why the admins are so concerned about protecting them… Anyway fuck that website.

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    • S_204@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I made a comment about punching a Nazi… got banned. Meanwhile, some of the most virulent Antisemitic shit I’ve ever seen was getting posted and some of it hit the front page.

      That platform is going to follow twitter into the shitter in short order.

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    • Saltblue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Easy, you advocated violence against reddit mods.

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    • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I moved to Reddit during the great Digg exodus.

      Last year I had the exact same experience with the same subject in a r/Europe forum. I decided after the temporary ban that I wouldn’t use Reddit. Deleted my beloved Redditisfun App and never looked back.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Technical tweaks”

  Omg, understate much?

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  • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s like the camel that was crushed due to a single piece of straw, who knew just one little bit of straw could break a camel’s back.

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• Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve cut down on my Reddit use by a lot since the protests. I only occasionally browse the site, and I don’t comment on any subreddits save one niche one that hasn’t moved over to any other site.

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  • VolunTerry@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you find you want to go back to browse but limit the ad revenue, you can still reach it with some front ends like teddit.

    Here is a good link: farside.link/teddit.com

    Or, for example, you can directly access subreddits by appending /r/yoursubreddit to the end farside.link/teddit.com/r/memes

    Sometimes an instance will be down. If so, try it again in a few minutes or in a new browser or tab.

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• fne8w2ah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Anyways spez will go down as one of the innumerable examples of greedy hurensohns.

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• bykdd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Front page of the Ai bots.Not even feeling real some comments.

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep; other then forgetting blind people exist, that was one of my main reasons for leaving. There were all these weird numbered accounts that were definitely just bots regurgitating someone else’s comment or post. I’m disappointed that wasn’t mentioned in the article.

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• MedievalGamer@lemmyhub.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t like reddit and I never have. Their whole platform is designed to be anti speech and pro corporate. Once Swartz was out of the picture it was over for good. It has become a cesspit of corporate shills and anti free speech. It’s a platform that should be avoided by anyone who values freedom.

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  • chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know the exact timeline but it seems like when they fired Victoria and brought in Ellen is when it went to shit, but it’s been a while

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    • alex@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dude, that era was so tumultuous. And then Unidan turned out to be a POS??? He was my first reddit hero :'( lmao

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• the_of_and_a_to@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it’s like that old digg site

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    • satanmat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Digg. Lol. Yeah. Good times, like 2006 again

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Deaddit?

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  In June, thousands of Reddit communities plunged into darkness – making their pages inaccessible to the public in a mass protest of corporate policy changes.

  With rumors of an imminent IPO swirling, the company is under pressure to make money – and CEO Huffman has acknowledged as much, stating at the time of the change: “Reddit needs to be a self-sustaining business, and to do that, we can no longer subsidize commercial entities that require large-scale data use.”

  Stevie Chancellor, an assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota who has studied Reddit for years, echoed these sentiments.

  “It bothers me that social media companies are increasingly restricting our abilities as researchers who care deeply about these sites and who believe they can provide many benefits for people,” Chancellor said.

  Reddit’s corporate overlords were ultimately unmoved by the massive blackout, and most of the thousands of dark subreddits went back to normal after a few weeks.

  Users who have long been dedicated to the site, some of whom have spent countless unpaid hours working to make it better, are exhausted and resentful – and many have simply left.

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  The original article contains 1,685 words, the summary contains 195 words. Saved 88%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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• madnness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How does one simply incite viral popularity of an alternative like Lemmy? And what is reddit doing to hinder that?

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• chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Biggest issue with reddit are the abusive mods with no oversight.

  That place has become nothing but a propaganda mill for whoever is in charge.

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  • Clinic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    no oversight and ability to permaban your account from the whole platform through the automated anti evil bot

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• DytallixB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have been permanently banned from it hahaha

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• vsh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lemmy is radicalized. It won’t be even 20% as popular as Reddit. Keep projecting your false premises. A normal person won’t even consider getting into an environment full of tankies.

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  • pyrflie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    [deleted]

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    • vsh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The problem lies deeper. I see this shit even lemmy.world. I’ll be changing instances soon, to something that filters this trash out for me.

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• tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Deleted my account but end making another just for … (work-safe material, if you work in it). Maybe it actually hasn’t changed due to the protest but it seems worse. Maybe it’s just changed as those people moved to … (if you don’t use water cooling in your computer you would use)

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I miss /SuspensionPorn

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Be the change you want to suspend.

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• aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Rocked” … notice it’s in past tense.

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• BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  im only on reddit for 1 single subreddit that is a very small community

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• astray@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reddit is just like Digg to me now.

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• NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I requested my data (because your regular comments page only goes up to 1k comments) and replaced all my data with something semi-negative (generated by ChatGPT, because I’m lazy like that).

  I really should just delete my account, but I somewhat still like the programming subreddit - about the last bastion that hasn’t completely gone to shit over the years.

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• Gazumi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Company entirely reliant upon an army of hard working volunteers makes some noise about listening. Noise is just air vibrations.

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• Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well…clearly the guardian does get paid under the rocks to STFU about Lemmy and Raddle.me and I never "donated to them because I don’t got much money but used to on common dreams(fuck them and Jake for not listening to obvious solutions and gripe with no answers I have) and when I get paid enough, prolly in February, I’ll be donating a little bit to Grist. Now, never will it be to theguardians.

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• Hylactor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I left Reddit to call their bluff. I stay away from Reddit because I want to help grow the fediverse. It’s already better than when I joined. And I believe, perhaps naively, that it will continue to get better. I’d rather be the part of the beginning of something great than lingure around as a great thing rots.

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• VolunTerry@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For those in the thread who say it is hard not to go back for specific content, if you want to go back to browse but limit the ad revenue and clicks, you can still reach it with some front ends like teddit.

  Here is a good link: farside.link/teddit.com

  Or, for example, you can directly access subreddits by appending /r/yoursubreddit to the end farside.link/teddit.com/r/memes

  Sometimes an instance will be down. If so, try it again in a few minutes or in a new browser or tab or clear the cache so another loads.

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• Ilgaz@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I remember reddit was constantly advertised by their users as a more “elite” platform and everyone was moving to it at digg 2.0 times. What I seriously started getting curious about is: Did the collective IQ level drop on Reddit, way before the API golden shot? I sometimes share my opinion there and very interesting things happen. They clearly “don’t get it”. The scene of my native language (Turkish) went totally hopeless. Think like Storm Front for Turkish audience. It all happened in 3–4 years, they say, after Bitcoin madness.

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