I don’t know why they bitch…they’re just going right back. weak
I’m so glad I was permabanned with no possible way to ever login under any new or existing username ever again. That’s the only they could keep me away. It’s been healthy for me.
One thing I like about Lemmy is I’m less prone to doom scrolling. I just make a few comments a day and monitor the results. Their server limitations serve as an incentive to make a less addictive product.
same here, but there is a way to login, you just cant use the same IP/device, or browsers. more sophisticated ones you can run dozens of accounts on the same device(but this is more complicated. reddit is so oppressive it sniffs out alternatives ways to evade its filters.(this more for the spammers who drop thier OF ads/or driving people to thier own sites)
I’m in the same boat. I’ve had more productive conversations/debates with people on here in 6 months than 12 years on reddit.
I agree as far as politics, but for everything else I like - music, guitars, cats, animals - Lemmy is sadly lacking.
I agree. There are some extremely niche subreddits that I dearly miss & wish I could participate in.
Yep. I just got permabanned last week and for the most part don’t care. But I had created a small sub that I miss ☹️ very niche, won’t be able to do it again.
it takes some people mnay attempts to get out of an abusive relationship
The only thing reddit is good for these days is porn. and even that is questionable as more and more it’s becoming bots trying to fish for illegal shit.
I only use reddit via a web browser on a phone. I would never use some shitty app bloating the phone, tracking me, attempting to increase my engagement or shitting out a stream of ads. The same goes for all social media apps.
this just in: company enshittifies product and doesn’t give a fuck about you, only money. More at 10.
Anyone holding out as long as possible, old.reddit.com still worked for me earlier this week on mobile. Ymmv
LibRedirect addon allows one to change links to reddit’s and other sites’ mirrors instead.
I thrive on the
oldsubdomain, yeah. The new form with variable popup-like post frames depending on how you approached the content is barely even tolerable, and certainly much less appealing.By the way, Slide works really well (again); that’s the mobile app that I use. You just have to go through the steps to list yourself as an app developer and claim it’s your app, which the current Slide maintainer literally instructs you to do to use the app lol. It’s great and cuts through all the crap. However, I’m really trying to be more active here across Lemmy, all the same. If Old and the remaining mobile apps like Slide go, then I’m totally out.
I think they’re keeping it around as a dirty little secret that either leadership doesn’t acknowledge or they realize it’s the last bastion of their power user base.
To that end, I hope it sticks around for a while, but if they ever get rid of it, I think the only ones left would be noobs and bots.
Hello I would like to buy your competent product aaaaaand it’s gone.
They tried this before
Right? They didn’t have mobile experience before. It’s ok., I will only use desktop and spread the word of lemmy even faster
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 get this. I once worked in an abattoir where we had cattle chutes.
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.
Not only does the app look terrible, it’s able to collect much more juicy data from you.
RIF then Apollo, though Apollo really set the standard.
holy fuck, RIF was epic. RIP RIF.
I guess it died around the same time that its name became a false statement.
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.
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.
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.
👋 I stopped using reddit last week.
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.
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.
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.
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?
RedReader too.
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.
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.
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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.
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Don’t you worry, we’re here too :)
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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?
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.
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.
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).
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 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.
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?
Most of them on Reddit are bots dude.
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.
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.
Who on lemmy uses outlook???
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
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.
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.
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?”
https://redlib.nadeko.net/
thank me later.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.
This wouldn’t bother me at all if reddit didn’t appear at the top of almost every damn question I Google nowadays. Why are you pushing reddit for answers if you won’t let me see them?
DuckDuckGo. AI only if you ask for it. Actual results. It’s like 2007 google
Because they paid bank for a data deal with Reddit a little while back so they’re damn well gonna try to make that money back with your clicks.
Stop using google.
