• AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        The comment you are replying has “ass” censored with a 🫏.

        This is the first time I am seeing ass being censored in such manner. The more I ponder why the commenter did it, the funnier it gets – regardless of their intention.

        • lseif@sopuli.xyz
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          16 days ago

          i thought the emoji was an insect, perhaps a mozzie (due to poor eye’s sight). knowing now its a donkey (also called an ‘ass’) i dont think its as funny.

      • dev_null@lemmy.ml
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        17 days ago

        Which is how I learned about Lemmy. I opened Boost one day and was like… Wait, something’s off. : )

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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      17 days ago

      I miss Apollo. Voyager is nearly as great and is open source so it’s not all bad. Still miss it though…

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          17 days ago

          Interesting. Just looked at Mlem for a minute and for some reason the Voyager UI agrees with me more.

          The funny thing is Mlem offers higher contrast between different UI elements yet it is easier for me to differentiate between those elements in the lower contrast way that Voyager presents them.

    • ggppjj@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      The writing was on the wall when reddit restricted buying awards in anything but the official app. For some reason, I even have a vivid recollection of where I was in the world when that went down.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Jerboa is similar enough in my head. Though, if I could time travel and get the 2023 experience then I might see that I’m misremembering.

      I was hoping RiF’s dev would make an app for Lemmy. They did make one for Tildes though called three cheers for Tildes. I believe their username is talklittle.

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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        16 days ago

        Jerboa was real bad back then. Like, bad enough that I shelled out cash money to purchase Sync for Lemmy, which was another different old reddit front-end that now pivoted to Lemmy.

        Overall though I’m now actually a big fan of Sync. It’s a good app. Does all that it needs to and not much more.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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    17 days ago

    So, did Reddit lose a considerable amount of user base since then or not?

    • can@sh.itjust.works
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      17 days ago

      Depends on what you mean by that. A small fraction left but it was sizable enough for Lemmy to become my home.

    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      From a statistics standpoint, definitely not.

      As of Q4 of 2023, reddit claimed 36.4 million logged-in ‘daily active’ users. An increase from Q3 of 2023 with a count of 34.7 million. Not sure of the accuracy of user counts for lemmy, but good estimate is about 450,000 total users over it’s entire lifespan, if every single one of those was a reddit convert, we’d still be a minor blip. I don’t know if we have 2024 numbers that are comparable, but most stats indicate that reddit is likely still growing.

      Spez predicted what would happen in that protest with almost 100% accuracy and most mods involved didn’t follow through and backed down. Some are trying to build something new and that’s worth pursuing but we lost that fight.

      • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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        17 days ago

        I do have to wonder how many of those millions of users are bots. Browsing /r/all, you can find plenty of weird pseudopornographic subreddits like /r/ReallyGorgeous, which are populated by literally thousands of bots upvoting and commenting on fake selfies posted by the most obviously stolen accounts. Report these accounts all you want, the admins don’t care.

        • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          16 days ago

          Probably a big number, but also probably not that many in terms of user count when compared to the overall count.

          I don’t think we have good data on reddit, but a lot of fairly smart people have been trying to figure that out with twitter/x. Key you have to remember is that the average user only consumes content, they don’t contribute in any fashion. So, you can have 10 or so bot accounts being more visible than 10,000 ‘active’ users and still be posting things at a rate that would seem reasonable for an average human. They’ll just come across as a highly engaged user until someone looks closer.

      • Wahots@pawb.social
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        17 days ago

        Lol, I blacked out my sub and then never returned. Not sure what happened to it, but reddit is so god awful I don’t even bother trying to check.

        • Forester@yiffit.net
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          17 days ago

          Oh it’s really simple. You will have been removed as a moderator for defacing Reddit content. Reddit will then ban you. Aunt reinstate their authority and make sure that their user base has full access to their content . Remember next time to not be a pesky little shit . How dare you try to block spaz and his followers from accessing content that you created but they own . /S Ask me how I know

    • Zetta@mander.xyz
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      17 days ago

      Not really. They’re sort of succeeding. They just became profitable, I think, for the first period ever.

      Got more users on Lemmy though, including me, so that’s a win in my book.

    • scottywh@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Despite it seemingly not having a significant impact on the “user” numbers the overall quality has gotten considerably and quite noticeably worse so it’s not unreasonable to think that bot activity has been continually increasing.

    • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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      17 days ago

      No. Too many users were used to the trash official app because that’s how many of them came to find Reddit because of the app’s release.

      Can’t know what you’re missing if you never experienced it.

      But honestly that’s partly why Reddit was going down the tubes when all these Facebook folk started coming to “that new app Reddit” and treating it like Fb 2.0 so it was for the best for the rest of us to leave and find alternatives.

  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    It really broke my heart. I loved Reddit, I was on it on RiF one my phone when I didn’t use my computer. It was great for finding all sorts of new stuff and it was genuinely fun. I’d had a few accounts for like a decade or something, but when they killed the alternate programs I just left and never looked back.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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      17 days ago

      Yeah, i didn’t realize how much i relied in Reddit to keep me informed on sports. I barely know what’s going in with my favorite teams, let alone the leagues anymore. But i couldn’t use anything other than RiF to browse Reddit, so i was done as soon as they axed the third party apps.

      • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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        17 days ago

        This is me on many topics. I am so uninformed over the last year.

        I love Lemmy, but I’m in a smaller bubble than I was before too. There are a lot less political opinions on here. People are outright hostile to anything that doesn’t fit in a narrow window, and though I mostly agree with what passes through that window, my idea of the world is off because of it.

        I try occasionally to open Reddit. I know that Lemmy hates stock traders, but Reddit is where you get the best info on that. I’m a stay at home dad who contributes entirely by trading so I need to look at what people are researching from time to time.

        I just can’t stand the Reddit app. I can’t stand clicking on ads without realizing it because of how they blend it in.

        I can’t stand the kind of greed that led to the decision that killed third party apps.

        I miss it, but not bad enough to have a subpar experience on there. That, and I believe in a federated social media future. Tech companies are garbage.

        • GNUTup@lemm.eeEnglish
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          7 hours ago

          I’ve only recently made the switch to Lemmy, and for what it’s worth, I’ve been using Apollo for Reddit the entire time. It’s fairly easy to set up if you check out r/sideloaded or r/apolloapp over on Reddit. Might make your money-job a bit less frustrating to work on :)

        • ultranaut@lemmy.world
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          16 days ago

          If you’re trading stocks based off Reddit info you should really know WTF you are doing and have additional sources of info to back up any decisions you are making because you are playing a very dangerous game. Unless you’ve already been investing for years and have a sizeable portfolio I would encourage you to reconsider the path you are on and build up some capital and knowledge before attempting any kind of active trading.

          • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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            16 days ago

            I don’t waste money I don’t have. I don’t follow anyone blindly.

            I’m disciplined. If I’m not where I want to be, I wait. I wouldn’t risk everything I have.

            I appreciate your concern, but if I lost every penny I have invested right here, right now, it would only hurt my feelings. I’ve already pulled out 10x what I’ve invested and I don’t get sad over big misses. I could have scooped up 200 free dollars this morning, but I didn’t.

            It’s small time. I’m poor, I have no debt, and I wouldn’t risk a penny more than I can handle. I never break my own rules, so I’m good.

            Seriously. I appreciate you.

            • ultranaut@lemmy.world
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              16 days ago

              That’s good to hear, I hope you’re able to keep it up. I’m sure you’ve heard this before but just in case, if you haven’t you should really consider also running a long term buy and hold portfolio. Fund that Roth IRA every year if you can. It’s a whole lot easier than active trading so it really shouldn’t take up much time and when you’re an old person you will be glad you’ve got that pile stashed away.

              • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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                16 days ago

                I’ve already messed up at this point haha. I spent my whole life allowing myself to be exploited for a promise that never came. I mean, I guess it still could (not really, but in a sense I guess). I’ve been instructed to go get some cash when so and so dies, and though I’m sure it’s still there, new obstacles have entered the fold.

                I don’t know. If I can make enough to live today and buy a few beers I’m good.

                I’ve been an idiot all of my life.

                I’m going to take your advice though. I promise. Gonna get on that tomorrow. I recently made enough to increase my investing amount by 60%, which would be amazing for someone with actual money haha. I’ll throw that extra 60% into an IRA.

        • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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          17 days ago

          I am so uninformed over the last year

          Being uninformed is ok as long as you pair it with knowing you’re uninformed.

          Our Stupid Monkey Branes aren’t designed to be filled with doom all day long, they’re designed to know a handful of people in our tribe. It’s not healthy the way we chase after trying to know everything about everything in order to satisfy ourselves that we’re informed.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      I miss RIF, but it’s for the better. Lemmy moves too slow for me to doomscroll it forever, so I’ve started putting my phone down more.

      I’ve started reading books again, even in public, when I’m waiting for someone or something. My mind is slowing down and getting more peaceful.

  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
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    17 days ago

    Nowadays I barely use Reddit, but sometimes you end up forced to use an app, so I use Infinity with a custom API key

    • TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de
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      16 days ago

      I still user reddit alot, but I use sync. Unfortunately there are still many useful subreddits in reddit that have never moved to Lemmy. For example Usenet subreddit or Fan sub Reddit for tv show and games, and let us not forget anime_titties.

  • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    For a lot of the OGs on Reddit it got worse after the whole AMA Victoria thing. That was really when Reddit went downhill. Before that Reddit was amazing with AMAs that kept you refreshing constantly to be live in the chat, and posts that were funny and discussion that felt a bit more meaningful.

      • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        17 days ago

        I’m pulling all of this from memory, so YMMV… Victoria was a paid person from Reddit who worked on the AMA subreddit only. Her job was to basically go around and get celebrities and other interesting people to do AMAs and then would help schedule them and coordinate the whole thing. In some cases even helping to type out answers. If I’m recalling correctly Reddit just got too corporate and decided to terminate her out of the blue. The community fought back, but nothing big ever changed or happened. After she went away AMA basically turned into a shitshow of no one actually doing anything. She was legitimately a powerful tool at Reddit but they just got rid of her.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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      17 days ago

      We can look at a million things over the years and say this is when it went wrong. It’s all hindsight 20/20. The reality is that we’re here now, and, at least for me, I enjoy it here. 💜

  • bunchberry@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I don’t really understand why reddit pretty much succeeded in killing off all other forums. People love the format of reddit so much that even after killing off all the supporting apps it hasn’t really done much at all to cause people to go back to traditional forums. I’ve personally always found reddit far worse than a traditional forum because of the like system. This place has it as well, although I’m not sure how it compares to reddit’s in terms of algorithm.

    Traditional forums did not have it. You just saw posts sequentially. There was also no character limit. This meant on traditional forums everyone’s position was not only presented equally but you could also go into as much detail as you wanted. If the topic is complex you could write basically an essay if you wanted, which in reddit you have to break up into multiple posts. Reddit’s like system also tends to facilitate echo chambers because popular opinions show up first while unpopular opinions show up last and can even be hidden, and it encourages people to misrepresent you and not act in good faith because they’re looking for an “own” to farm likes rather than a real discussion.

    Sure, there might be sometimes when a person’s opinion is so out there and disingenuous you don’t even want to take it seriously and have a real discussion, but I’ve never once in my entire history of using reddit had a decent conversation with someone. Even things as benign as like /r/nintendo, I say I enjoyed a game and I got a bunch of people shitting on me calling me a bad person for liking a particular game. No matter how benign and non-serious the topic is, people always find ways to turn it into an attack to “own” you to farm upvotes.

    • spamellama@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      The subreddits like sewing were pretty fab.

      I recently received a reddit warning (and was threatened with a ban if it repeated) for “language” in a private message that was not reported. The message said AI identified it and a human reviewed it. The message was not reported to them.

      Which I guess I knew could happen but you typically don’t assume mods are reading PMs. Anywho I haven’t been back but still need to delete my shit.

    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      16 days ago

      tbh forums are annoying af. Perhaps I’m too used to modern day intuitive UI but they all seem to assume you know your way around. Btw if you want that ‘community’ feeling join a discord server. They’re great! I’ve been particularly interested in a twitch streamer/YouTuber "dougdoug"s server for about a year but it gets a tad too fast sometimes haha

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      I agree with your point about the vote system. The single change Lemmy made that I think makes it much healthier is that you have no profile total up or down votes. There is no reason to chase imaginary internet points, while giving the court of public opinion the tools to tell you your wrong.

      For example, Youtube became a much more unreliable place when it removed the dislike button. So much so that third party plugins now are what people have to use to decide, at a glance, if something is worthy of other peoples time.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      If a forum gets too popular finding all the posts you like in sequential order like that gets hard. I remember during the height of Wil Wheaton’s forum days in '04-'05 or my Fark days of '08-'13 I had a hard time keeping up with it due to the limitations of the platform. If it could give me them ranked based on interactions I could find the ones that most of my friends were posting in, and then make sure to participate. Instead I had to go to every new thread just to see if there was something interesting posted.

    • PhAzE@lemmy.ca
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      16 days ago

      I’ve been using it since the purge just fine. Revanced. Just make sure to get the 2nd last sync version, as the latest one has a nag that you can’t disable.

    • scarrtt@lemm.ee
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      16 days ago

      It’s been patched for ages. I’ve certainly been using it daily since around August or September of 2023 including all day today.

      Revanced is your friend

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Why the fuck are they using a 3D voxel banana as a hat for Snoo?

    And why does Snoo look AI generated?

    • DeeDan06@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      16 days ago

      reddit recap logo. and because for some reason they want to do the exact opposite of what every other company does with their logos. (I’m a lemmy and reddit dual user)