I remain utterly discombobulated that 90% of redditors haven’t already migrated here. What exactly are they waiting for? Lemmy clearly is more than good enough already.
Because all the porn is still there
“and more protective of Reddit data”
It’s not Reddit data, it’s our fucking data, which, BTW, you have already sold.
The platform is yours and the shareholder’s, the data is ours.
Reddit is incredibly chaotic, and their systems frequently crash for no apparent reason. Plus, there are more ads than posts.
Such loss to the internet and every single guide over internet…
No more 7yo [removed by moderator] and [deleted by user] most precious tutorials, hints, guides, solutions.
As others mentioned, it’s been a bot-in-only experience. When bot posts are in a small sub of maybe 1000 people, heh they got rid of the counters, then maybe it’s a dead horse.
Vast majority of ‘old redditors’ still believe reddit is their home. Its not, there are so many more normies on reddit now, that it is legitimately a normie space. And making it a walled garden is the only way Reddit Inc can grow.
And age verification is a thing. I miss the excellent discussions. I don’t see them here. It’s a list of comments, no reactions.
What do you mean by reactions, like the badge things, or conversations?
The very reason I switched to Lemmy.
How funny, it’s been a logged out only experience for me for years now.
It’s been a nothing experience for me for years. I don’t miss it, honestly. Life goes on.
Is it “read only” experience?
Funny thing is that apple freezes the app (even if you are logged in) and pops up an “age verification” window. You can just close it and continue browsing.
(… At least for now)
Front page of the internet my ass
How the mighty have fallen.
For those of you who are interested and still want to go on Reddit for any reason, Redlib still works… kind of. My personal instance running Nachtalb’s fork still works, but not sure for how long
There are still a small shortlist of public instances that are up, and ppl are pushing fixes that circumvent whatever shenanigans Reddit is pulling. Although, some folks are suspecting that Reddit SWEs are monitoring the redlib project with close attention & trying to shut down any workarounds the redlib team finds
On mobile you can still use RedReader to browse reddit anonymously.
I had an old reddit account from before they required an email address. After I commented about the Chinese genocide of the Uyghurs, a hacker used failed login attempts to flag my account, which triggered reddit to demand an email address. I took that as my cue to leave the site altogether.
Haha, that just means you did something that stung them. Look at Mbappe now, he’s being completely sidelined and having his contract terminated.
Nobody cares about Reddit these days. The bots took it over years ago. Like so many things, there was a time when it mattered.
It’s been fucked since the leadup to the 2016 murican election. Wasn’t perfect by any means before that, obviously already had paid shills and astroturfing, but that seems to be when everyone realized how much you could use it to influence people. Really kicked into high gear then
To anybody who needs to use reddit (for answer to some weird question someone posted few years ago) and they are blocked by “sign in to continue”. Ublock origin works pretty well. I have fennec (fireflox clone) with ublock. Someone told me use the zapper of ublock when that pops up, it has worked for me well.
I was testing just now to see if it works and I haven’t got that pop-up. It is possible ublock has already leveled up or I just didn’t use reddit for long enough. It was without logging in.Instead of the zapper, use the dropper and make it a permanent rule in your ublock
No matter how I look at it, this will only hurt their user base. Where are they going to get new users? I’m no tech billionaire, but I struggle to see how this benefits the site in the long term. Even if they revert later, the damage will already be done and the site will lose any relevance it once may have had.
I’m not interested in Reddit per se, just curious why they’d think this is a good idea.
They are probably betting on Google still displaying reddit at the top of every search so that normies keep coming in. They seem to have ignored that Google searches now just give you a stitched answer of bullshit Gemini put together so that normies don’t ever click on reddit links.
This is the image of corporations shooting themselves in the foot while passing the same gun around 🤣
The thing with reddit, and why it used to be so much better than other corporate media, is that they’ve always under-monetized their users. Facebook and such earned at least an order of magnitude more per user.
If reddit loses half of its user base and doesn’t gain a single user, but 10x’s their revenue per user, well, they’re still making 5x more money.
Unfortunately that’s not how it works. Once you have a sufficiently large userbase, the network effects are enough to sustain them. A ton of people use facebook still and that has been a logged-in experience forever. Same with instagram.
You don’t have to be signed into Instagram at least to view things someone has shared with you. It’ll nag every now and then but it doesn’t stop you.
For me it stopped me plenty of times.
Yeah, plus, I have all Meta shit blocked in all my VLANs, which doesn’t help either.
I just use this on my phone with a VPN to download whatever it is, see it, and then delete it:
https://github.com/naicolas-dev/socialmedia-downloader
Has worked every single time. I think it works for TikTok, but that is something I’m not even willing to try.
That’s the thing with money and companies. The only thing that is important is gains in the current quarter. Nothing else matters
