Another step closer to never using Reddit again
Unfortunately there’s still a lot of good, helpful documentation on Reddit that I wish was somewhere else. Even if I deleted my account last year I still have to rely on some Reddit posts to find solutions to certain problems.
Yep, unfortunately I still have to go to r/television on reddit to find good recommendations because the television community here is dead.
Every time you look for something on Reddit, make a post about your findings here. Don’t link the Reddit, copy/paste or make an original post. This is how communities get traction.
Exactly!
I made a point to post here before trying a post there. Often what I’ve found is that while Reddit has a bigger userbase, the level of helpfulness is about the same. Reddit posts got more comments in total, but the number of helpful comments was about the same if not lower.
I’ll have to start posting here when I look something up on Reddit as well
Genius. I’ll start doing that now every time I have to Google an obscure software issue that only reddit had the answer too.
Yep! I do this too!
And so it ends.
Was waiting for them to do something like this for a while, since ads were way less intrusive on old.
I’ve run into this already multiple times. It’s why I finally made the jump over here. I don’t use new Reddit and won’t. The enshitifcation of Reddit has really ramped up.
Yep, same attitude I have!
Remember to welcome the new users to Lemmy!
Just quit Reddit a few days ago and haven’t looked back. I remember when there was no viable alternative to Reddit, with all other platforms being very sparely populated, but a lot has changed since I recently got into Lemmy as there are actually people here!
After switching to Lemmy I’ve noticed I’ve been feeling a lot happier. Maybe that’s just because of how social media companies design their service to be as addicting as possible, and they do so by making you feel angry. Everything here feels much calmer and more peaceful.
I think it goes deeper than that, and that Reddit has only expanded the hidden moderation so that comments from certain users are seen over those of other users well beyond karma calculations, and that a significant part of the effort to do so is to promote the message they want or are paid for to promote. It’s not a wanton sellout, but with certain topics and in certain subreddits, it’s quite evident that they want to push and promote meme stock, crypto, and neozionist messaging, which look at that, has a close correlation to the interests of its CEO. This has pushed out comments and posts that promote it over sane discussions, which tends to erode into emotionally divisive drivel.
I wonder how long before they remove the commenting feature, like Digg did.
They might as well at this point. Look at the top comments in any of the main subs these days, they’re all LLM posts. Just bots having conversations with each other. Half of them you can tell because the bot author used a very minimal prompt so they’re all formatted like every basic ChatGPT response.
And those are just from the ones I can recognize from playing around a bunch with GPT. Gotta wonder how many are going completely undetected. The default subs have been absolutely ruined with bots.
Drive your users away. It’s a great idea.
They don’t give a fuck about the site longterm. They got their IPO. Now they’re after monetization at all costs to justify it to the shareholders. That the site goes to shit and falls apart in the long run is not their concern.
Oh good, I wasn’t going crazy the last few months.
They cannot make me download their shit app, and when old.reddit dies then that’s when I stop going even my current once a month.
Imma be honest, the only thing I use reddit for is the porn. Things are starting to pick up over here a bit, but for a while it was almost nothing.
Basically what I’m saying is that I don’t really care what happens to Reddit anymore. I left with the exodus about a year ago and never looked back (except for the porn).
Unfortunately that “picking up” here looks to mostly be a bot that is grabbing reddit posts so it’s still mostly reddit. There really aren’t that many people on Lemmy so I wouldn’t expect to see much of that stuff made specifically to post here.
I believe it will happen. In only 1 year, this place went from ghost town to 30+ comments on most posts. Give it a few more years of people spreading the word and reddit continuing to make people go elsewhere, and it will almost be the same.
Colour me surprised
Every time i accidentally enter new.reddit i revolt with how awful the UI is
You ever feel like that’s a personal limitation? I start feeling a bit like a boomer when I get a strong urge to resist change
That said, fuck Reddit’s admin team/corporate leaders
Personal limitation? I mean, the UI is worse. Bloated, confusing, and doesn’t look any better. It has extra ads that look both like posts and comments. Fuck that.
