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Nothing to see here folks, just reddit continuing to dig its own grave.
i don’t buy this “continues to fight AI scraping” bullshit for a second. they literally ceased API access for regular users after they sold the rights to google to specifically scrape their site with AI.
Man I know I’m the minority here, but once I see a paywall, age verification, or logon block, I just move on with my life. It’s not that important… Or there are other sources.
I don’t think you’re in the minority here
Maybe not * here*
The day they blocked my old.reddit is the day I came over here. It honestly was easier than I thought, there are only a handful of communities I really miss, and those were all getting filled with AI bots anyways. It’s emptier here, but at least I’m talking to actual people.
Welcome aboard.
I came over well before that but I’d still land on the odd link from search or something. Then it asked me to sign in and now I ingore reddit links 🤷
What’s Reddit?
:(
Never got into new Reddit. It feels so charmless and soulless.
It’s optimized for pictures and videos and ads. The old layout works better for text and links and it shows. Old Reddit was perfect for quickly checking a niche subreddit - just skim the 20 or 30 headlines, open interesting links in a new tab or check some comments and you are informed about what is currently happening in that niche. Maybe you also read some text posts with questions. New Reddit is optimized to keep you scrolling and to put an endless stream of ragebait in your face.
Haven’t been on Reddit for over 2 years
It all went downhill when the government killed Aaron Swartz.
Not just that but it’s also spez hostile takeover.
Fuck Reddit.
Fuck Spez.
Again?
Fuck you, spez.
been banned on reddit for stating the truth already and tried many times to fix things. reddit is anti free speech on all accounts when it was nothing inflamatory just stating truth and their mods are mostly corrupt anyway for their industry agendas. lots of ai bots and spam. useless platform when it gets incorporated it becomes useless
At the end of the day that site is private property and at anytime the owners can boot anyone out they deem as “harmful”.
Same is true here. But with the fediverse, if you feel a instance youre on is shit, you can switch and still be on lemmy. No more searching for a new service. We are home. Even if the house burns down now and then we will rebuild in the same damn place.
In theory. Since the user mass is so low if your house burn, well even if you have sole other they arent place to live either. So this reddit mechanism still work here
Red-what? What the fuck is that?
Where you came from
Ohhh. The dark place. Botville. I hardly remember it at all now.
I have to say, this war on Old Reddit is doing wonders to curb my Reddit use.
Also the “you must use the app!!!” banner that appears after 30 seconds is fantastic on mobile, as they are actively preventing me to continue reading and doomscroll.
It’s like “no! Bad dog! You already got your info. Now close your tab and go back to Lemmy”
It’s actually amazing how quickly it killed my usage of the site. I deleted my account years ago but still lurked every now and then. Now I literally can’t go back, I won’t download the app and the new site layout is pretty much unusable for me.
I stopped commenting years ago. Old reddit changes stopped me browsing too.
I used Stealth for a while, and it was awesome, but it would go in and out, and a few months ago it just stopped working completely.
My friendship ended with Reddit. Now Lemmy is my friend. 🫂
Until a comment you makes pisses off a power tripping mod and then you are permabanned from like 16 communities.
Shits infected here too.
To everyone reading, you can check this person’s moderation history. Check out mine to, love that page!
All the communities with power tripping mods here are either minor or have significant viable alternatives.
Heck you can make your own instance (as others have) and do what you want!
You mean there are more options then posting cringe feudposts daily begging your instances admins to defederate from instances instead of blocking them yourself?
I wish that were true.
It is true. Did you even try?
Edit: why are you talking about being banned from 16 communities when the modlog only shows two bans? You wouldn’t be ban evading, would you?
I mean, you should have definitely been banned from the Seattle community for saying that Washington state deserved what was coming to it with ICE because they implemented gun control after mass shootings, but that didn’t happen to this account.
Mods can’t manage more than 5 communities by design.
Really? But I see plenty of posts like this that show mods managing dozens of comms? https://lemmy.world/post/48545685
Maybe each instance can override the number?
Never underestimate just how corrupting it is giving marginalized people any semblance of power.
They are basically taking out their frustrations on the family cat except we’re the cat.
Luckily, Lemmy is a place, where you can communicate with the actual human beings.
Reddit is gone move on
Was there for about 15 years. Been gone for over a year and I’m not looking back.
This is the modern reality of capital capturing digital communities.
More like deaddit amiright?
