I’m not spending much time on Reddit these days but in no way is this the end for Reddit. The VAST majority of the user base just doesn’t care. We may see more users trickling in and Lemmy is sure more ready now than ever but people are so used to being advertised to, that this won’t be a big issue long term. People are dumb.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
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Idk man, literally asked a bunch (3) of friends how reddit is lately who had no idea what was going on this summer with the API changes and didn't care when I told them. Here are there responses:
"They've gotten really bad at putting relevant shit in front of me"
"Been a ton more ads lately"
And
"dude thank you for telling me reddit had porn lol"
“dude thank you for telling me reddit had porn lol”
There's what now?!
I always wondered if there were people oblivious to porn on reddit. It always seemed like common knowledge those days.
It's not the usual manufactured porn by companies, it's usually people showcasing a video of themselves.
A lot of people's approach to social media is
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login an absolute total of times equal to one, on an app, and never again, that session better last
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do zero content curation, what comes is what you eat
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most scroll past shit, don't interact, don't produce
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maybe click on a navigation link once or twice once a month
So of course they don't know there's porn. They're basically only seeing their feed (so basically, r/popular) and the default subs, which doesn't have porn by default ever since reddit removed its ability to show up on default feeds.
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The hope is that the non-dumb people will leave for here, and that they're the ones who make quality content.
I came here from Reddit and all I've done is bitch about politics and show people my asshole. Just sayin'.
All I've done is shown people my politics and bitch about assholes!
I can't find the asshole post.
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Reddit users will be reposting Lemmy content for real money gold by 2025. Fucking spez...
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This is for sure the final nail, it's going to collapse just like Facebook and Google did after all that ad stuff. Profiting off a user data is clearly a failed business model and we see that time and time again.
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No opt out? Expect trouble from the EU.
They did mention the options with different in some locations.
does Reddit still have a .onion site? I feel like perhaps you can use the .onion site and be able to escape this. the tor browser was specifically modified from Firefox to avoid fingerprinting.
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you underestimate people's complacency and inertia, in no way this is end of reddit
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I'm new here. I left Reddit yesterday. No looking back.
SAME. Relay for reddonk stopped working, needed updating, and came back with an unavoidable subscription model suggesting i should pay 5.99/mo to continue "enjoying" reddit at my pace. Some people probably would, "oh, what's that one banana a month"? I don't sign in, thus I don't post, comment, vote, reward. This is just me being charged to lurk on a website that forked in ungodly amounts of profit over a reward system they trash canned. Reasonably so because they didn't really reward the user as much as it was just micropaymemts to reddit, and people were noticing. Instead we are "rewarding all 3rd party users by letting them pay to use our content".
Mind you this is on top of reddit recent announcing that they will no longer give you the option to not be tracked, instead replacing it with "tires of ads you can opt out from"
SMH
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This would've resulted in my leaving if I hadn't left in June.
Saved me 3.5 months.
the announcement was finally the one that made me leave. better late than never i guess!
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Right? I hope more and more people leave. It’d be great if more users came to lemmy, but I’d be content just seeing people leave that putrid site
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Is this even legal in the EU?
No.
I deleted my reddit accounts and signed up to lemm.ee today b/c of the advert policy change.
Noice. I still use Reddit on desktop occasionally, but haven’t touched mobile since the api change.
If you wanna keep your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) that you're subscribed to before deleting your Reddit account, I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.
It's called Reddit Account Manager, and it's 100% free.
You can also use it to manage your Lemmy account(s), of course.
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Looking at Twitter/X, this won't be the final nail. People stick to the platforms they're on as long as it doesn't directly Negative impacts them too much.
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Nobody who remains there gives a fuck.
It's only just begun. That's what they said about Xitter ages ago as well, but if it can get worse it absolutely fucking will
Sounds like it violates gdpr
They reset all my notification settings. I deleted the app.
This is just the continuation of the instagrammification if reddit. They want to turn it into a influencer platform where people are desperately trying to make money so that they can take a big cut of it.
I don’t think this will move the needle at all
Reddit mods had a chance to migrate but decided to sit and wait thinking they could change Reddit
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Obligatory fuck spez the hurensohn.
The new update is horrible. They are blocking critical comments and gaslighting users too.
Sadly it's not even close to the final nail. The largest reason being there isn't anything to take its place. While I love Lemmy, there are still too many hurdles and roadblocks to getting started compared to other social media platforms and all of those established ones are doing similar moves to Reddit's nonsense. But just like why Mastodon hasn't topple Twitter is that the ease of use and user base isn't there.
Until someone can offer the same(ish) experience that almost fully featured and super easy to get start. Most users won't break their habits. They only other way is to offer something that is better than the other platforms (since this can be wildly subjective) again ease of use and standardized features are incredibly important.
Will Twitter, Reddit and Facebook go the way of MySpace? I'm sure at some point. But only until something can truly replace or pull users.
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I had been using Relay for Reddit Pro until today, the API finally switched over and it doesn't work without updating and paying a subscription.
I had already been 50/50, now I can only access the terrible Reddit application on my phone, so I guess Lemmy is all I have on mobile.
wow, it really is just slow erosion of our rights, huh?
extremely disappointed that we are all fighting for our basic fucking human rights (e.g. privacy) instead of, i dunno, fighting climate change? There's little hope that we can do what we did with the ozone layer again...
The problem is you (and many others, not singling you out here) believed you had rights on a privately controled web platform.
This has never been the case.
In the past reddit said and had "terms of service" that suited their business goals at the time. In the past, those goals were: Use VC money to grow the platform as large as possible as fast as possible.
Now that Reddit is looking to go public with an IPO, those goals have changed.
The goal is now. Generate as much revenue as possible from the user-base created with the VC money.
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I just deleted my reddit account and signed up here as well. Fortunately, I don't know anyone else who still has an account. Most of my friends and family left a long time ago.
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As a mod on reddit (who only reacts to pings these days) I would like to post an undramatic message „here‘s what happened, if you‘re interested to join our lemmy mirror, here‘s the link.“
Anyone got something I could use which will not set off reddit stans or get me replaced and the message deleted?
I found that the best approach is to just have the link in the sidebar. This was how several communities first started introducing discords when it was basically an unknown piece of software. It became normalized without anyone noticing when.
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ah yes, just like how the oh so mighty mods pissed their panties with the blackouts, really killed reddit too that one huh
I mean, yeah. Have you been on reddit since the API stuff? It's absolutely flooded with bots trying to make up the difference. Which is like, reddit playbook 2009. The broken links are pretty prolific too at this point.
It's not going to like, close its doors, but it certainly isn't in the position it was just a few months ago.
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refunds for people who spent memory on Reddit coins
Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhh all of your points are valid but if anyone ever spent money on coins, it’s all in the trash anyway
Apollo let me turn awards off and it was one of the best features. So much cleaner.
Its good I don't use reddit anymore
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