Fuck you, spez.
With a dull, rusty, red hot spoon.
Whispering slurs from your mom’s basement don’t help.
Bros we need a better lemmy plan.
More content. And making spez super sad and poor.
Someone needs to build a Firefox extension to periodically poll best content from subreddits they like and automatically repost to lemmy. Automatically.
So there are tons more content on lemmy. U get it?Not self hosted docker - most people won’t bother setting up residential proxies and fight bans, no - just a real browser, simple extension and simple settings, with legit ublock and auto reposting to lemmy. This way people don’t have to do shit and content would just transfer.
It’s fair use because it’s for ai.
This will make spez sad and poorer. Let’s do this
“More bot spam!”
How bout fuckin no.
Get only the most upvoted content bro.
But the upvotes come from bots.
I get what you say, but people already mirror Reddit posts on Lemmy, and post Lemmy content on Reddit
I got permabanned this week for saying “Poor white people are being tricked into blaming black/brown/trans people for their problems instead of billionaires.”
Apparently it was promoting hate based speech and attacks.
Reddit was kinda neat 15 years ago, it’s a fucking cesspool now.
I read ghislaine maxwell is back as a moderator on world news … and why the hell isn’t america going after the youth obsessed model world full of predators? Hello its time for frickin regulations, oh wait america’s government is full of pedos they even made a pedo president twice
I thought Reddit broke their mobile site a long time ago.
Reddit is not dying fast enough
I got this a bit ago, so I just keep deleting my cookies and it works again.
Check redlib out as well: https://redlib.catsarch.com/ https://reddit.fsky.io/
If you just use Firefox strict privacy mode. That does that work for you. Recommend it for all sites
I’m not getting that pop-up but it’s probably blocked by my browser. I’ll still continue to use it in my browser while also using Lemmy. I hope more people are going to join the Fediverse due to this.
I find it does this off and on. If you change the user agent or open the site in desktop mode itvsuddenly goes away. They are still tryingbto push the app. And the app still looks terrible. Rif used to be my jam.
RIF then Apollo, though Apollo really set the standard.
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I guess it died around the same time that its name became a false statement.
Not only does the app look terrible, it’s able to collect much more juicy data from you.
Users do anything but stop using reddit
The way they are banning people for barely nothing, people will be stopping using it quickly
I used reddit for years. Made lots of comments, had original posts hit #1 many times. I was contributing to their site.
Then I said something bad about Musk and got banned. I think it was about Musk, they deleted a bunch of what I posted so I’m not entirely sure.
I still browse reddit from time to time. I use the old reddit site with adblock. Now I’m just a leech to them. I take but don’t contribute back.
I’m fine with that relationship.
there are too many hyper local subs on there to stop reading it entirely… I’d love to even get state level channels on lemmy, but there are only a few.
Yeah, there is one for my town and what I miss is that there were some really good local meteorologists in there. They’d call out storms or bad weather days before it came up on any weather feed and most of the time they were super accurate.
I kind of miss it, but after being banned for nonsense, I don’t think I can go back. It was fun while it lasted but everyone knew once they went public, it was going to change and it did.
Something else will replace it. Might be Lemmy, might be something else. I don’t really care of it’s a for-profit model, just don’t run it like assholes. There’s no reason it has to be so binary.
The only online local communities I am aware of for where I live are on facebook, so I just don’t get involved. Reddit does have a county wide one but that is pretty quiet. Oddly the city subs are more popular than the county one but I don’t live in either city. Might be because both have a fairly big uni.
Once again I am reminded of an old coworker. He’d talk a good game about caring about things, but when it came to the slightest inconvenience he’d dither and usually just do the basic thing. Still an avid reddit user, last I heard.
I stayed with them and bitched about them for quite some time. About the time they started cracking down on the API i went ahead and left because whatever inconvenience I was weathering would be 10x worse if I waited till the last minute to start over somewhere else.
Many of us here stopped a while back. For me, it was the API thing a couple of years ago. But it’s still useful to check reddit website for info - there’s just so many answers to so many questions on there. But fuck using their app.
The API thing was the final straw for me as well.
I would have switched sooner if I had known about lemmy, but been here over a year now.
It took time to get to this point. The software had to mature and a lot of people wouldn’t stay around with so few choices of communities, but you can count on /u/spez to keep enshitifying Reddit, so Lemmy stays growing.
Then there’s some of us who simply got kicked out of the Reddit realm altogether
That’s my situation. I nuked my comment history with a script when it was obvious they wanted to profit off of ai scraping. I still look at old reddit.com in my desktop, but I don’t touch it on mobile.
Yeah I have looked at old a few times, reddit is shit but internet searches are often even shitter these days with so fucking many AI generated websites.
If I know a better source I will search for that. Started growing some of my own food recently so anything plant related I try and check RHS first.
I recommend the Kagi search engine. It’s excellent.
👋 I stopped using reddit last week.
I’d imagine ublock origin could forever close that pop-up.
It happens in mobile browser only so ublock is not an option, at least on iphone. It’s also not even a pop up. It freezes while you’re scrolling like a paywall on a news site. Seems like desktop mode may help and there could be other workarounds, but it’s such an obnoxious move by Reddit that it will cause a mass exodus.
Thankfully ublock works just fine in Firefox for android and its derivatives. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t use the mobile web either without it, and then my phone would exist only to mfa things at work.
Yeah this is one thing i really miss about android. Im suprised Apple users have just raw dogged the internet for so long? Why does apple allow adblock?
If you don’t intend to post/comment, Stealth is a decent read-only Reddit client.
RedReader too.
An other decent option is Infinity For Reddit https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit I really like it
That was my go-to back when I used Reddit, and stopped when the API restriction was announced. As this is not just a read-only client, how does this get around the API restriction? Are users required to take steps to create a developer API key or whatever?
If you don’t want to host it yourself, https://redlib.catsarch.com/ is an alternative.
I use libredirect for both Twitter/X and Reddit. And I only use libredirect for websites that are unfriendly if I don’t use their app or aren’t signed in.
You don’t have to host an instance of the Stealth server in order to use the Stealth client. It is awesome that you have that option if you want/need to, but the flagship public instance works just fine:
stealth.cosmosapps.orgRedlib is for web browsers when I accidentally navigate to reddit. Stealth is a full android app you have to install.
If you are still active on Reddit after all the enshitification, you are enshitified and getting furious is no longer an option.
I mean yeah, if i can’t browse reddit on my mobile browser I guess i’ll just have to find something else to do but i just checked then and it still worked
I like lemmy but there is just not enough content, it’s like if reddit was youtube, lemmy is dailymotion, there’s just not enough content for me to stick just here
the main comm I use on reddit is /c/nrl and it’s completely dead here :\
If browsing is all you need, I’m quite content with Stealth.
I like lemmy but there is just not enough content, it’s like if reddit was youtube, lemmy is dailymotion, there’s just not enough content for me to stick just here
Well, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” - Ghandi. Keep cross-posting stuff from there to here. It takes real work to build up massive, highly active communities. Lemmy is a nonprofit so it doesn’t have the marketing power of Reddit. We have to grow it ourselves and usage is the biggest way.
i have nearly 3000 comments, this is the same number of comments as i made on reddit in 15 years, i have over 1000 posts which is 990 more than i made on reddit
in 2 years the population of aussie.zone has gone from 158 daily active users to 155
it is what it is
Dang… That sucks… Pin a paper saying “Leave Reddit for Aussie.zone” to community bulletin boards over there, maybe lol!
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“I stole my girlfriend’s dog and emptied her bank account without her knowledge and now she’s mad at me for some reason. AITA?”
“My (25F) bf (61M) burned down my house after he got mad at me for ‘not being servile enough’. I asked him to please consider thinking about a plan to try not to do this again, but he won’t promise. This seems wrong but I’m not sure. AIO?”
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With posts like that, I’m sure you are approached a lot.
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I’m new and enjoying the rarity of morons compared to Reddit.
Don’t you worry, we’re here too :)
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Current outlook issues are currently being talked about at length over on r/Outlook, and last I searched no one had even mentioned it on Lemmy.
There are definitely some legit reasons people still go there.
I view Reddit for that kind of stuff, still. But don’t participate.
At risk of posting a long list of grievences, well, I’m not giving them my engagement. And for reference/issue stuff, you largely don’t need it.
Who on lemmy uses outlook???
My job requires it.
Same… though I guess the alternative would just be Google anyway…
Literally anyone who works at a company they don’t own with more than 20 employees.
That sounds like a work problem on the work computer for the work IT people to fix. Don’t get tricked into fixing the boss’s electronics for free on your own time!
but I AM the work IT people and I DON’T understand it EITHER!!!
Good news! 70+% of the exorbitant costs your company is paying for these services are strictly for the benefit of having a big, prominent 3rd party to blame and throat to choke.
Make Microsoft fix it! That should be fun.
Loving FOSS and being able to use it are different things - plenty of people are required to use outlook at work.
I use Outlook for work, but it will be a cold day in hell when you catch me reading an Outlook subreddit
I understand why people on lemmy look at the outlook subreddit. Sometimes they have to use it at work, and outlook breaks in difficult to understand ways. Poor chaps
Theres only so much one man can do to prop up a community. Reddit is still where you have to go for anything even remotely niche, since Reddit is thousands of times the size of the Fediverse. For example, if you wanted to get an alternative to the Dota 2 subreddit, you’d need a community maybe a 10th the size of Reddit’s Dota 2 community - equivalent to 5% of the Fediverse posting on a weekly basis. Right now, its roughly 0.0004% of the Fediverse, for reference.
Is this platform the best alternative?
I genuinely miss having discussions with Maga people. Even though the conversations are rarely productive, I still have hope that my comments will sometimes give that person (or a Maga lurker) some food for thought that could potentially get the ball rolling for them to eventually find rationality and basic decency.
However, I haven’t found any places to have those types of civil conversations on here.
Most of them on Reddit are bots dude.
Let me try to help.
Listen up, blue hair, soy boy, beta cuck. I’ll gladly pay out the ass for gas so trans people don’t get to place 4th place in college badminton that I was previously unaware of.
Does that do it for you?
Unfortunately it’s captured a lot of information and resources.
Think about crafting - I’m going to find a lot more knitting tutorials on Reddit than I will here. Lemmy is very like early Reddit, where it’s only really active on topics like politics and technology.
What do you need to craft in your life besides building the perfect Linux distro? /s
On a side note, how do you find Reddit vs Ravelry for knitting?
Two toooootally different formats.
Ravelry is a archive (want to know the attributes of any yarn or errata on any pattern ever?), project journal, occasionally interactive (imo the forum/groups can be dead).
Knittit is just FO’s and chat (chat good for exchanging technique knowledge).
And a LOT of really odd niche stuff. The biggest nerds migrated to here.
To be fair, I was totally lost even as a Reddit veteran, for quite a while, which is why my adoption to Lemmy was slow. It took me a very long time to really start to understand how the federation worked, and I still would not say I’m an expert in any way.
I still need to use mobile apps’ auto-fill features to help myself properly tag users and communities on other instances, an issue I never one had on Reddit.
Just search on one of the AIs that scraped Reddit.
I’m sorry were we not just talking about trying to get back on Reddit?
Enough with the anti-AI bs, it’s cringe.
Enough with pretending AI is useful for looking things up, it’s cringe.
It’s a lot more than using Reddit’s search engine.
You’re willing to use Reddit but not AI?
I’d rather use Reddit than AI, yes.
If someone says something incorrect on Reddit there’s a good chance there’s someone pointing it out. AI will insist it is correct when it tells you “strawberry” has 2 “R’s”.
If someone says something incorrect on Reddit there’s a good chance there’s someone pointing it out.
There’s a very small chance of someone pointing it out. There’s a better chance they’ll be downvoted. There’s an even better chance someone right will be downvoted and someone pointing out their mistake, incorrectly, will be upvoted.
You can’t be serious if you’re telling me you’re going to use Reddit comments as a reliable source of information, but then ideologically object to the idea of using an LLM for the same purpose.
AI will insist it is correct when it tells you “strawberry” has 2 “R’s”.
Have you used AI in the past year?
You can’t be serious if you’re telling me you’re going to use Reddit comments as a reliable source of information, but then ideologically object to the idea of using an LLM for the same purpose.
I’m saying Reddit is more reliable than AI. I agree with you that you shouldn’t just trust Reddit as a reliable source of information, I just trust AI much less.
Have you used AI in the past year?
Yes yes, someone has hard-coded a fix for the strawberry thing. It’s still an excellent example of the root issue:
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it was a thing everybody knew was incorrect and they could see how AI dealt with it: guessing, and then insisting it made no mistakes.
If I can’t trust it for basic information I can double check myself then why the fuck would I trust it for information I can’t verify myself? -
everytime something like this comes up it gets “fixed”, sure. Someone hard codes a correct answer to the specific question that everyone can easily see is incorrect. Why the fuck would I assume that’s happening for some obscure thing that I don’t immediately know is incorrect?
Sure, it’s probably not telling people to put glue on pizza anymore, because everyone who reads that knows it’s a bad idea. How do I know it’s not suggesting something equally stupid when I ask it how to rewire a thermostat, something that the majority of people won’t immediately clock as “that will burn your house down”?
LLMs are really good at sounding smart to people who don’t know when it is very wrong.
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That’s our intellectual property! For various values of “intellectual”.
Is someone who has been enshitified an enshitiphile?
Wouldn’t that mean someone who likes enshitification? Which is what OP implied. But using the term enshitified means the person themselves has gone through the enshitification process. Maybe then one implies the other?
There’s also people who are and have been involved in interests for a long time that are well covered by discussion on Reddit and Facebook.
We like to give these networks shit and justifiably so but unfortunately there are no genuine alternatives for things like Marketplace, Facebook groups and subreddits in terms of complex discussion.
I buy used all the time and once never used fb marketplace. I promise you it’s easier to replace than reddit.
You know I was a multi time a day user, I had lot of favorite subreddits, I accidentally posted in a sub that I had been “banned” in from my other account (for making a comment that was not particularly political and they said it was), it was not malicious, was not intentional, was not trying to “get around their ban” just accidently posted from the wrong account. Didn’t notice what sub I was in. Then 4 months later I did the same thing not, I was just not paying attention to what sub I made a casual offhanded comment in. I ALSO happened to be using a VPN. And BAM! IP banned, all 8 of my accounts banned even my business account. I was so so so upset. But now a month later, I still get kinda upset that I can’t use it to ask questions. but man what a fucking time suck it was. My brain was just rotting away there. That whole IP banning thing is total bullshit.
The problem is Lemmy is still really small in comparison
That whole IP banning thing is total bullshit
Got my entire office banned that way. People have to work now.
Ditto. Had multiple accounts for anonymity and different algorithms lol. I was talking about a “murder suicide” true case and that got flagged as “threatening violence” and I got permanently banned 😅 jumped on a different account and…perma banned. And yep, instantly took out all 5 accounts 🤷♀️ hence why I’m here lol.
And I get the whole it’s their business and they can do what they want but when it’s a monopoly basically, they should not be allowed to IP ban people.
yep. not to mention the laughable appeals process. Their entire help section is essentially just two people and an automod.
Having 8 Reddit accounts is so goddamn funny and normal.
Aaron Swartz is probably rolling in his grave for what Reddit has become.
Just toggling desktop mode on your mobile phone should still work. I use that trick all the time to get around the, you must download the app to view age-restricted posts on mobile. Literally, if you just turn on desktop mode, you can skip past the prompt instead of downloading the app.
Redditt is becoming more and more difficult to use on the web over the last couple of months or so. They know that there are browser extensions that filter out unwanted elements, and also that trackers and fingerprints are increasingly being blocked.
You can’t be tracked as easily with a properly configured browser and I suspect that this is what the change is all about. I will continue using Reddit on the browser, for now, but am happy to ditch it if it becomes a problem.
There is a lot of AI and Human slop posted these days - I am getting fed up with having to decipher posts from people who simply cannot string a coherent sentence together. I am also getting fed up with people using expletives and profanities and just wish people would communicate properly.
That’s what this has always been about.
The shutdown of third-party apps and the “API exodus” was all because of reddit wanting people on the first-party platform where they have control.
Breaking the mobile web client is the same deal - they want people in app, because app is the most intrusive and least blockable, and where reddit can really monetise you.
Glad I bailed on reddit when I did.
Well, old.reddit.com still works fine on Safari mobile anyway. Just tested it out of curiosity. Wonder how long until they try and lock that one down too?
That’s literally what I’ve been doing. If I have a question and reddit pops up as the source of an answer I just change the URL to add .old.reddit.
Fuck reddit though.
Old Reddit Redirect is one of the essential addons I install on a fresh Firefox.
Gotta pinch zoom on everything though
Double tap the thing you want to read and it’s usually big enough to manage.
Spez specifically said they’ll never depreciate old Reddit.
So look for it to vanish in the not too distant future.
fuck u/spez
