One of my favorite outcomes of the purge is when I occasionally look at Reddit, I’ll see an enthusiastically titled post from oldfreefolk, with ZERO replies. Are those goofballs over here anywhere, I’d love a bit more of bobbyb in my life.
They specifically mention open kettle canning as a bad practice. My friend and I were canning something and he wasn’t sure we were doing it right. He called his mom and she said she had always done open kettle canning (where you basically just pouring boiling temp food into hot jars and seal them). I guess experts have soured on the practice.
Either way, we made our cans the “right” way after lots of googling and none of the jars seemed to fail.
While I sympathize with the moderators, I would assume that historically most subs are not moderated by experts, but yes, a decrease in quality mods and mod tools will choke reddit to death.
Exactly. There was a time when using Reddit didn’t feel like you were giving Reddit the company anything for free. There was a transaction happening. They provided a platform to interact with like-minded people, and in return you used that platform, thereby drawing more traffic to their site.
I’ve recently found reddit less engaging. I used to post on various communities about interests of mine, but at the end of the day I can’t deny reddit is a profit based model which is ok all in all, but it really leaves a bad impression for the end user who just wants to get along in a community with like-minded individuals.
And that is the very aspect that used to make it a great place for end users. Contrary to twitter or youtube that incorporate recommendation algorithms, reddit and similar sites expect users to find their communities on their own and contribute on them altogether without the intervention of some centralized algorithm. The way in which it has evicted unofficial clients is quite a shame in that regard ; it makes the platform more aggressive towards users.
Yup. I had never heard of the fediverse and so glad I got introduced to it with the added benefit of many others doing so as well (so there is content and activity here).
Particularly the emphasis on the importance of decentralisation and setting it up right so never again do we have to go through that loss of community and platform. It really sucked in ways equally rational and emotional.
The platform of the fediverse may continue but the loss of community is still very much a possibility. All it takes is hostile actors manipulating their way into control of a particular community and then they can shutter it or steer it in a direction of their choosing. Every community on every server is like a Corp in Eve. It’s easy to start an alternative but the specific community will still be harmed. But that’s life.
Same. It’s about more than just the app to me. It felt like a betrayal of the social contract which brought me to Reddit in the first place, and which kept me there even as I slowly aged out of the main culture, as the site became a hot bed for shady viral marketing and information warfare, and then as the site became infested with fascist mind rot.
That contract was about building and curating your own experience, which was genuinely a radical idea in the forum world at one point in time. But killing off the API signalled to me that this was no longer the casem. Spez was building just another shitty walled garden, and that was taking precedence over the “build your own reddit” experience I’d come to know and love.
I think that’s a good way of putting it. I couldn’t be on Reddit any more afterwards and Spez being like, let’s just wait it out. It felt like a spit in the face.
If enough people program bots to repost to Lemmy, literally nothing. Right now, reddit’s only success over Lemmy is historical conversations/recommendations/tips.
No need for an account, you can still use old.reddit.com for the rare occasion you need to read something. If you’re on mobile, append .i to the end of the old Reddit URL (but before ? if there is one).
Sadly no. IIRC that used to be the “compact” view (available with .compact at the end), which also opened other links in the compact view. But that got removed half a year ago, and only .i is left as of now.
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One of my favorite outcomes of the purge is when I occasionally look at Reddit, I’ll see an enthusiastically titled post from oldfreefolk, with ZERO replies. Are those goofballs over here anywhere, I’d love a bit more of bobbyb in my life.
THANK THE GODS FOR BESSIE AND HER TITS
They specifically mention open kettle canning as a bad practice. My friend and I were canning something and he wasn’t sure we were doing it right. He called his mom and she said she had always done open kettle canning (where you basically just pouring boiling temp food into hot jars and seal them). I guess experts have soured on the practice.
Either way, we made our cans the “right” way after lots of googling and none of the jars seemed to fail.
While I sympathize with the moderators, I would assume that historically most subs are not moderated by experts, but yes, a decrease in quality mods and mod tools will choke reddit to death.
Thanks to Reddit i learned Docker and everything needed to self-host a lot of cool stuff - without even visiting Reddit.
Lul
Exactly, thanks to Lemmy, I now face a life dilemma of either scrolling the same posts for an hour or starting my day. Fuck.
i don’t understand why anyone voluntarily works for those dipshits
Because it used to be a nice stable free platform to build a community around your own interests
Exactly. There was a time when using Reddit didn’t feel like you were giving Reddit the company anything for free. There was a transaction happening. They provided a platform to interact with like-minded people, and in return you used that platform, thereby drawing more traffic to their site.
i understand the idea, i’m just not sure i can remember those days anymore on that platform… it’s a good idea…
Maybe you should UNBAN PEOPLE, like ME MAYBE!?!?!
Seriously they’re basically Gazpacho in that one episode of Chowder
And now the racist incels from reddit are over here
Just what we didn’t need
I’ve recently found reddit less engaging. I used to post on various communities about interests of mine, but at the end of the day I can’t deny reddit is a profit based model which is ok all in all, but it really leaves a bad impression for the end user who just wants to get along in a community with like-minded individuals. And that is the very aspect that used to make it a great place for end users. Contrary to twitter or youtube that incorporate recommendation algorithms, reddit and similar sites expect users to find their communities on their own and contribute on them altogether without the intervention of some centralized algorithm. The way in which it has evicted unofficial clients is quite a shame in that regard ; it makes the platform more aggressive towards users.
It saddens me that this same post on the reddit instance is more poplar than this one posted at the same time.
Instance or community?
Community, im stupid forgive me ser.
Shouldn’t it be more popular here then? Most relevant community?
As with traditional Reddit PR: Reddit will comment when there’s correction to be made. Since Reddit made no correction, the article is 100% accurate.
Companies seem to over estimate how many people are willing to do certain kinds of work.
Did Spaz think a thousand mods were just waiting in the wings that would not have similar concerns as the first group?
He unironically probably did.
He also modded the jailbait subreddit, in case you were unaware.
A real stand up guy
What’s this? Oh no! The consequences of my actions!
Actually so grateful for how things have played out. Discovered Lemmy, Tildes, Lobste.rs, RSS feeds for the rest. Ya, I’m over it now.
Yup. I had never heard of the fediverse and so glad I got introduced to it with the added benefit of many others doing so as well (so there is content and activity here).
Particularly the emphasis on the importance of decentralisation and setting it up right so never again do we have to go through that loss of community and platform. It really sucked in ways equally rational and emotional.
The platform of the fediverse may continue but the loss of community is still very much a possibility. All it takes is hostile actors manipulating their way into control of a particular community and then they can shutter it or steer it in a direction of their choosing. Every community on every server is like a Corp in Eve. It’s easy to start an alternative but the specific community will still be harmed. But that’s life.
Which is the best? I like Lemmy but havent tried the others you listed. Are they on par with Lemmy or more populated??
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Anyone got a Tildes invite they could spare ? It looks very interesting.
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Thirteen years of Reddit and I left with the ourge. I found lemmy and anever looked back.
All hail Lemmy!
Slava Lemmy!
Same! The day the cut off the apps I never looked back. Reddit was a huge addiction.
Lemmy doesn’t have as much content but at least I get a bit of a fix, and can stick it to Spez
I gotta say it has more than enough for me and it’s growing
Same. It’s about more than just the app to me. It felt like a betrayal of the social contract which brought me to Reddit in the first place, and which kept me there even as I slowly aged out of the main culture, as the site became a hot bed for shady viral marketing and information warfare, and then as the site became infested with fascist mind rot.
That contract was about building and curating your own experience, which was genuinely a radical idea in the forum world at one point in time. But killing off the API signalled to me that this was no longer the casem. Spez was building just another shitty walled garden, and that was taking precedence over the “build your own reddit” experience I’d come to know and love.
I think that’s a good way of putting it. I couldn’t be on Reddit any more afterwards and Spez being like, let’s just wait it out. It felt like a spit in the face.
They never found the right people in the first place, theres just a lot of dice rolls, luck and fragmentation.
Most mods were never experts.
They lost a lot of their more level-headed reditors as things started getting more toxic though
What the fucks a reddit?
If enough people program bots to repost to Lemmy, literally nothing. Right now, reddit’s only success over Lemmy is historical conversations/recommendations/tips.
Someplace that never learned from Digg.
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Fucked off everyone who did the work from a place of passion and knowledge and replaced them with power-hungry shills WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG
I’m sure I speak for all of us when I express my utter shock at this unforeseen turn of events.
Delete your account
www.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku
Wow. They want me to install the app to read this.
Reddit sucks
Kill your old reddit self
https://old.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku
Spez said they’re not killing Old Reddit, but he also said they weren’t going to pull an Elon either.
Same with any NSFW content. Lame
I ended up creating a new account with a throwaway email because my old accounts got banned
With the stealth app available on f-droid you can view all content without an account.
Its what i use for occasionally reddit browsing and viewing nsfw content on there.
No need for an account, you can still use old.reddit.com for the rare occasion you need to read something. If you’re on mobile, append
.ito the end of the old Reddit URL (but before?if there is one).Woah I didn’t know about the
.ithing. Do you know what it’s meant for?Sadly no. IIRC that used to be the “compact” view (available with
.compactat the end), which also opened other links in the compact view. But that got removed half a year ago, and only.iis left as of now.Legetimately that was so frustrating for them to kill off, I thought it so novel to browse compact Reddit on an iOS 6 device.
Since deleting my account on July 2, I just don’t care enough about Reddit to create a burner account or download their app.
They’ll ban your new account too once you post something.