Well I was banned for saying there’s never a bad time to punch a nazi in the face in response to a screenshot of Indiana Jones doing just that. So good. Fuck reddit.
There’s never not a good time.
Good. Fuck spez.
I would be OK with Spez experiencing irreversible severe anal prolapse.
I hope when he gets canned they also ban him from the site itself.
Reddit Drives away Their entire user base.
Reddit - “oh no what happened to my user base?”
Fuck off reddit
1% of people actually contribute. Many of those 1% have left or were banned for criticizing the president and ICE. The comments I see lately are becoming more like instagram. Just easy observations and drivel. Some of them are like paragraphs of AI slop that hurts my brain trying to comprehend.
The more I use Reddit the more I feel like it’s a waste of time.
It’s all bots and influence ops over there anymore
The bots have doubled since companies figured out AI chatbots scrape the site and use its comments as gospel.
Bots for at least 10 years, the influencing and viral marketing has been going on since forever, though.
Lets try to keep the conversation related to Rampart.
Digg that.
Well yeah, everyone trained off the data there already. Reddit (or heck, any social media) is just the same old cyclical shit. The AI deals were not a sustainable long-term model, and I’m surprised no one at Reddit, or these companies selling their users data against their wishes, could see that. Like that was the shortest term cash flow they could’ve gone for, and now their reputation and trust is in shambles.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Stop perma banning people for bullshit reasons.
“I wonder what we did to drive away engagement.”
Better hire a consulting agency for $500k
I don’t think you can count on that level of introspection.
They have screwed it up so bad I literally find myself on Facebook more often then Reddit and that’s after being gone from Facebook for like 20 years lmao
I’m on Facebook as often per year as I am on Reddit these days. Hint: you can count it on one hand. F— both of those sites.
Let’s mods indiscriminately block users for arbitrary reasons; why do we keep losing users??
“please install our app to continue”
I don’t browse Reddit since I switched entirely to Lemmy the day the API migration happened, but I did still reluctantly have to reference reddit on occasion. Now I can’t even do that for niche issues I run into. I am so upset that millions of people donated their time and energy into making Reddit the place it was just to have all of that entirely gated off. I know we’re likely all in the same boat, but there really are no words for what spez did. He ruined a really great place for community and knowledge and turned it into a slop fest.
There are reddit front ends you can access. Won’t let you actually participate, but if you just need to access a page for info, they work.
My usecase is this: To see what both they, the people in power want us to see, and to see what users say in reaction to it. I see a lot of luigiposting on the comments, a lot of pro-socialism, a lot of pissed off reactions to bad corpodem takes, and I see way, far less pro-Trump or even middling takes on the front page, at least. I’m sure there are still righty/tankie subs, but it ain’t 2024 anymore.
You guys scarecly change your opinions, most of us are leftists, were when we got here and if we werent, we are now, in some shade at least. Reddit goes in flux a lot and seeing how much bluer their community is than 2024 does make me grin a little.
I learned that lesson with experts-exchange even before stack overflow. All sites will be bought out and enshittified.
but there really are no words for what spez did.
Profited. That’s the word.
Is this a real thing? I can still access both new and old reddit via both mobile and desktop without being logged in. FWIW, I’m hitting it with Firefox + uBlock Origin on both.
People have been reporting it quite a bit. If i were to guess A/B testing.
It depends on your location and who you are.
A while back, I did an experiment. Reddit started asking me to log in to scroll, so I closed the window and didn’t try again that day. Next day, I tried to scroll reddit and the login to view popup appeared again. So I closed the window and didn’t look at reddit for a week. After a week, I went on reddit and magically it no longer worried about me logging in…for about a month.
Its been hitting me. Can’t use old.reddit without logging in and new reddit is an abomination.
I can scroll comments for about a minute before that pop-up comes up saying you need the app. But I rarely visit reddit anymore unless it’s something I need some information on that I can’t find anywhere else.
I had that for a while. Then yesterday I got a lockout message.
CEO Steve Huffman said, “These deals aren’t binary. They have to make sense for Reddit, but there are many ways, I think, for the value to return to Reddit.”
lol - “The value has left Reddit”
-/u/spezWho could imagine when you piss off:
- third party devs who make the apps your best contributers use
- your unpaid content creators
- your unpaid moderators
…that the “value” would leave 🤣
I actually got an award as being in the top 1% of reddit karma earners for 2022.
In 2023 they banned me because I didn’t buy stock when it was being introduced.
You’d think they’d want me there. Creating content. For free. I’m sure they thought I’d just create a new account. Nope. I just came here.
Weird thing is, I’ve had two main running jokes for years. One is being obsessed with corn. The other is calling George Clooney a smug bastard.
I was also invited to participate in the IPO (in 2024) due to my “top tier” karma.
Didn’t get a ban for not participating but wouldn’t have given a shit if I did.
George Clooney really is a smug bastard.
OH NO! CAN’T CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT!!! ThAt’S bAn EvAsIoN!!! (autistic screeching ensues accompanied by excessive farting noises)
Reddit never was the same after the whole API/Mod fiasco. Many subreddits simpy died. Old users that made the site what it is left and there were new ones, but the whole vibe shifted.
The vibe is still similar in some places. I get a lot out of lurking on some of the trans subreddits for instance. But yeah, anything outside of small niche communities has been enshittified into another Instagram.
Yep, it was the API thing that finally did it for me, but looking back, I should have seen it coming after all of the other stuff.
For me it was the way they treated the Apollo developer Christian Selig leading up to the whole API thing. Absolutely heinous.
Same. Although I’m reading this on Voyager, which has borrowed heavily from Apollo
Remember when YouTube started having AI narrated posts from r/askreddit in its shorts? And how that slowly morphed into the AI generated slop stories about how one family member give the rest of them their comeuppance because the Henderson account valued results instead of random cheap business practices involving Sgt Menendez and his cheating ex girlfriend?
(This stuff is like candy to Boomers because it mirrors the reader write in sections of Reader’s Digest.)
I should have noticed this earlier, but it dawned on me a few weeks back.
Caught my father in law who’s addicted to youtube watching a video about some WWII pilot knew how to shoot at enemy fighters from his time hunting hogs in Kansas. It was entirely AI generated, the video, the voice, and the narrative. That person didn’t exist and it didn’t survive scrutiny if you know anything about guns. But damn the comments were just boomers gooning over military wank.
Third party apps made Reddit a dream on mobile, a big part of its success were the passionate people. And they showed us all the middle finger
I want that sticker!
Thanks!!
…wait its gone :( darn.
Sorry, was in a hurry to GTFO of work when I posted, but yes, it was a limited run on etsy. I’d reach out to the maker and ask for them to do another run though.
Have an awesome weekend!
Its all good, its great it exists. You too!
And continuously piss off 99.9% of your uses
It’s easy to see the effects of users moving to the fediverse. Reddit has been sad since it nerfed /r/All. In fact, it seems like a thinly veiled attempt to control what its users see under the guise of providing a more tailored user experience. For me, the overall effect is that it’s homogeneous, boring and I don’t want to be there anymore.
The moderation team is just not the same without Ghislaine Maxwell
They removed porn from r/all but if you browse enough you get naked drawn children. Fucking hell.
Ehh, I don’t know if we have that big of an effect on Reddit. I’d see more of their older, more traditional users going back to their ubb hobby boards for whatever their main interest is, which are very still out there.
I appreciate lemmy/Piefed being here as an alternative either way.
