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    • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
      753·
      4 个月前

      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.

      • School_Lunch@lemmy.world
        251·
        4 个月前

        Yep, unfortunately I still have to go to r/television on reddit to find good recommendations because the television community here is dead.

      • SyntaxTerror@feddit.orgDeutsch
        27·
        4 个月前

        This is only half serious, but reddit is usually part of LLM training Sets, so you could try your luck with ChatGPT et al.

        • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
          51·
          4 个月前

          Yeah… I don’t want to die eating something poison because some Reddit trained AI told me it was fine to eat.

          Thankfully that’s not the kind of information I look for so chances of that happening are slim.

          • capital@lemmy.world
            42·
            4 个月前

            Unless you’re the type to microwave your phone to charge it on 4chan’s recommendation, I think you’re probably fine.

    • IllNess@infosec.pub
      6·
      4 个月前

      I use Libredirect extension on Firefox with Redlib instances turned on. When a post doesn’t load, I switch instances. It works like 95% of the time. Enough for me to not visit reddit ever again.

    • schema@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 个月前

      I just read something about them trying to paywall some subs. That would not be a step, bit be a giant leap for a lot of people to abandon that shit hole.

  • net00@lemm.eeEnglish
    150·
    4 个月前

    “There are no plans to get rid of Old Reddit.” - reddit

    Completely expected this, technically they are not removing it, just making it so shit no one would use it. Same move done by twitter when muskrat took over

    The redesign doesn’t really work, it just tells you to use their horrendous app or login to see any “unverified” content. What that is only they seem to know…

    Anyone still relying on reddit’s user generated data should use something like a redlib instance

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
      17·
      4 个月前

      “There are no plans to get rid of old reddit…”

      Makes old reddit more and more user unfriendly…

      “User numbers for old reddit have steadily dropped, they prefer our app or the new reddit site, so we no longer see it worthwhile to maintain old reddit. We’re shutting it down.”

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
    92·
    4 个月前

    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).

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      281·
      4 个月前

      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.

      • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
        39·
        4 个月前

        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.

      • Rexios@lemm.ee
        4·
        4 个月前

        I have that bot blocked. Those posts have little value here since no one seems to comment on them.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17·
      4 个月前

      Yeah, old.reddit is good for porn. Otherwise new reddit wants you to use the app and login for porn. That’s weird as fuck. Don’t track what I’m baitin’ to.

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
      81·
      4 个月前

      I’m curious, never used reddit for porn. Why would you use it for porn? Just go on other websites dedicated to porn.

      • TommySoda@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 个月前

        There’s a lot more amateur content. Places like r/gonewild have a massive amount of daily posts. Plus there’s a subreddit for pretty much every fetish you could have with communities built around them. It’s an entirely different vibe than just going to Pornhub and picking videos. And if you’re into things that are drawn, reddit is overflowing with that kind of content.

    • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      4 个月前

      I use it for r/sysadmin and niche/hobby stuff still but am pretty happy that the fediverse is here: It’s only going to get better as time goes on at this point.

  • Blue@lemmy.world
    761·
    4 个月前

    Colour me surprised

    Every time i accidentally enter new.reddit i revolt with how awful the UI is

    • Psychodelic@lemmy.world
      2612·
      4 个月前

      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

      • derpgon@programming.dev
        521·
        4 个月前

        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.

        • goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          241·
          4 个月前

          Beyond that, it also just runs way worse; new.reddit takes at least twice as long to load a page than old.reddit. And when your entire business model is based on exploiting my stunted attention span to trick me into reading advertisements, you can’t give me that extra two and a half seconds to realize maybe I don’t give a shit about half the garbage I just mindlessly scrolled through, or else I’m gonna just go, like, fly a kite or something. And I don’t wanna do that, where do you even get a kite?

          And hell, it’s entirely possible this rate limit isn’t just restricted to old.reddit, but nobody’s noticed yet because new.reddit is too slow to make 100 requests in a measly 10 minutes.

        • Psychodelic@lemmy.world
          10·
          4 个月前

          I don’t think you understood my comment. Sorry I wasn’t clearer

          I wasn’t referencing the UI at all. I was specifically referring to the feeling of revulsion. I personally get that feeling whenever windows rolls out something new

          I’m definitely not shilling for the new UI or all the fuckin ads, that’s for sure. lol

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
        14·
        4 个月前

        Change is only good if it’s an improvement. New Reddit is objectively a worse experience than old Reddit. At least as far as I can tell in the brief times I’ve tried powering through just looking at it when I get there from google or something. There’s a longer delay opening shit (or at least more noticeable because it has a stupid spinning reddit logo instead of blank space or whatever old reddit does), comments are less densely packed. It inserts recommendations to other posts within the comments of the one you’re currently looking at. It’s just terrible.

      • Blue@lemmy.world
        9·
        4 个月前

        It’s worst when I feel the UI has been engineered to make it harder finding the information I am looking for and/or make it slower.

        I joke that I’m actively turning boomer in my ripe ol’ age of mid 20’s…

        And if that means I’ll be kicking and screaming down the road of enshittification of the internet then so be it

        • Psychodelic@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 个月前

          No, I agree the enshitifcation is real. I guess part of that is it makes me feel crazy enough to doubt myself

          It’s like, I know the internet was for sure better before, but you know what if maybe the 10,000th seemingly unnecessary change that YouTube makes that piss me off is actually a pretty ok or even great thing and I’m all against it like boomers were with computers or how they are now with clean energy or how they are with whatever they’re cranky about any given day?

          I guess keeping in mind their goal is to squeeze us dry and profit til infinity, it’s clear these apps will just get as shitty as we’ll put up with

      • RandomStickman@kbin.run
        7·
        4 个月前

        Maybe a little bit of both. I do feel a strong urge to resist change a lot of the time. Some times I get used to the new thing and it isn’t so bad actually, some times the more I experience the new thing I hate it more. Just keep an open mind and give the new thing an honest shot I think we’ll be ok.

        • Psychodelic@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 个月前

          Yeah, I think giving things a fair shot is big. I tend to hate everything windows rolls out with a passion but then I’ll see people that don’t care at all just using the same things I’m making a big stink about

          • RandomStickman@kbin.run
            4·
            4 个月前

            Weeelll Windows specifically falls into the “the more I use the more I hate” camp personally. I got a brand new Win10 laptop like 5 years ago that made me made the jump to Linux and I haven’t looked back since.

      • _bcron@midwest.socialEnglish
        6·
        4 个月前

        For me it’s not so much that as it is the old layout being easier to work with when mostly browsing text-only subreddits. I think Reddit should be more appreciative of the things that made Reddit this big in the first place, including the design of the site at the time. It’s very much an “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” scenario

  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
    48·
    4 个月前

    I remember a while back Reddit removed comments about Lemmy. Like if a subreddit recommended migrating to Lemmy, it would suddenly disappear.

    Still happening or nah?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    46·
    4 个月前

    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.

  • julysfire@lemmy.world
    40·
    4 个月前

    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.

  • Makeshift@sh.itjust.works
    29·
    4 个月前

    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.

  • Rusty 🦀 Femboy 🏳️‍🌈@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    25·
    4 个月前

    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.

    • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
      8·
      4 个月前

      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.

      • Rusty 🦀 Femboy 🏳️‍🌈@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        8·
        4 个月前

        That’s a great point! After October 7 and Israel’s genocide, I was surprised how little attention r/Palestine got compared to r/Ukraine after Russia’s invasion. If you look at the top posts of all time on r/Palestine, the top post only has 10k upvotes and was before October 7, while the top post on r/Ukraine has nearly 200k upvotes and it was right after Russia invaded. It feels like r/Palestine is being silently censored, or I guess you could say being partially shadow-banned.

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
    23·
    4 个月前

    like for xitter they’re so obsessed in blocking scrapers that they’re blocking also many users

    To think how many free content i gave to them 🤮 (now deleted)

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    19·
    4 个月前

    I wonder how long before they remove the commenting feature, like Digg did.

    • Chozo@fedia.io
      10·
      4 个月前

      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.

    • Cyyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 个月前

      to my knowledge this limit existed already for a long time. it’s intented to prevent scraping and automatic bots. They basically want prevent people from using bots who act as a browser instead of using their API (where they can limit them) to do stuff on reddit.

      They also have a automatic system detecting when too many clients access them with similar or “odd” characteristics (weird useragents, referers, amount of requests, weird headers in the request etc.) - if they detect such a case they usually limit you and then completly block you for hours, days or months. I couldn’t open reddit on my chrome app anymore because that as an example (i was developing an reddit client and they detected my useragent browser name as “too old”… so they just banned my browser while others worked fine )