Who tf still uses Reddit? It’s all bots and power tripping mods nowadays. Lemmy is a million times better imo.
I felt that way till the influx of redditors came to get their little dopamine kicks via the rate buttons and bickering on bs topics.
Exactly lol. I literally get banned from subs for no reason, and i once got banned for literally posting a meme in a meme sub, like wtf
To go along with your shitty AI written articles!
Wow all 8 of their non-bot users will surely be very disappointed.
Redditor staged a coup and overthrew the CEO once before, why isn’t it happening again?
I first read that as ceo nonce. Which makes sense.
Because it was Russia overthrowing the CEO to install Spez.
Because Ellen Pao (the unpopular CEO who was ousted) was set up as the fall guy. Her entire purpose was to be at the helm while Reddit implemented (at the time) unpopular measures that angered the “free speech absolutists”. Once that was done, she was cast aside so the anointed pigboy they have today could claim his promised seat on the throne and not have to walk back anything.
While I do miss the subs with thousands, and the very obscure subs for my specific interest, this shit makes me glad I got out
What makes me sad is how a lot of niche communities moved from websites to Reddit, and now they are going to die.
Do you think they will move to lemmy?
No. Most of those communities are dwindling away. The guitar forums on Reddit are all AI shit repost bots. Luckily there are a few good YouTube channels to still get information, but there is no discussion.
Don’t worry, won’t be long for thousands join Lemmy when Reddit tries the Musk way of running a company into the ground :)
“Reddit CEO teases new ways to damage and eventually kill Reddit”
Thanks, I hate it
Can’t wait to pay for the privilege of visiting /r/sinkpissers
good luck with that
what a goddamn shithole. the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it. it’s where the most users and content are. so many communities were completely erased during the mod strike and it didn’t matter. they knew they would be completely fine. the future is an authoritarian world effectively governed by companies like this.
the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it
That’s what many social media companies have said, lol.
But the sad thing is many communities will (and already have) move to Discord. Which is even worse, as Discord is a siloed information black hole.
Yeah as soon as I am directed to discord for anything , I move on with something else in life instead.
I’m getting closed to hosting an XMPP server and getting the fuck off discord. They can rot in hell
Discord is such a piece of fucking shit
I still don’t know how that works. Discord seems like the worst possible substitute for reddit. It doesn’t work at all the same way and search sucks.
Yah, I don’t get this. So I log into Discord to ask a question, and the only people that will see it are the ones that are currently on at the time. The likelihood of it being seen by the person that can answer it are low, and it’s not like it’s going to be visible for when that person logs back in. This is all besides the fact that I could probably have answered it myself with a search of old questions on some platform that can be indexed. It’s utterly bizarre.
If you’re running a FOSS project or a community that needs support, you have rocks in your goddamn head if you think Discord is how to do it.
The one thing Discord is good at is engagement, aka pinging people on their phones, repeating conversations that have been answered a million times, getting people drawn into rambling discussions…
Yeah it’s kind of a nightmare lol.
Exactly instead of a bunch of publicly searchable information silos we have a whole bunch of fragmented private ones with absolutely no overlap and far less useful. We need a publicly funded site of some kind.
They’re not private. Advertisers have full access and that’s what actually matters.
It’s the most popular alternative, simple as that. There’s (sadly) no where else obvious the average community knows to go.
The future?
The present, but also the future, too.
Don’t forget the past
Mods are probably asking for paid subs. They would view it as an easy tool to prevent new spam accounts.
Wouldn’t private subs solve that?
Fuck Spez!
Fuck Spez!
Steve Huffman is a whiny little piss baby
LOL paid subreddits. ok, yea–let me PAY YOU for the privilege of providing content FOR YOU. LOL
get fucked. reddit is a toxic rotting husk of what it used to be. good riddance
Wasn’t that whole the concept behind that reddit gold exclusive subreddit? I’ve never been on there but I heard it was pretty barren anyway.
gold exclusive subreddit
i’ve been in there, and yea…how many posts about “yay we have gold and we have a subreddit only for us because we’re special” does it take before you start to think “this is about the most pointless thing ever…”
It was a wholesome way to fund the site before they sold out. There was nothing wrong with it being mostly pointless. In fact, it’s better that way. Money gated subs outside of that one meme seems pretty terrible.
I was in the century club on there, it was actually a pretty nice group of folks. Far less toxic.
I also got added to that sub. I still don’t… Understand what it was
basically /r/CasualConversation for people with too high post/comment karma for their own good. I’ve made a bunch of good friends over there, but the place has become watered down over time as it became so much easier to get the required amount of points.
i was in there for a minute. my one post was “what is this” and then i was replaced a week later. not my thing i guess
It was not an impressive sub
It was a “I got gold” circle jerk.
Like century club but somehow worse
I was gifted gold once. The subreddit was mostly Austin Powers Goldmember memes at the time.
That sounds like the only acceptable use of that sub to me.
I’m sorry? I don’t speak freaky-deeky Dutch
There are two things I can’t stand in this world: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures… and the Dutch.
I bought Gold when that was the only perk to it, back when they were supposedly trying to independently fund the site.
I deeply regret doing so at this point.
You shouldn’t. Reddit was a different place then.
You supported it when it was good, and abandoned it after it sold out. You can be a little proud of that.
The Lounge is where you were given access. That subreddit was ok on its own but really it was a good place to hang out, be friendly and helpful which sometimes resulted in being invited to other private sections of Reddit.
Some of those private subs have a true sense of community who are truly kind, respect each other and fun to interact with. Before the awards went away there were many games with prizes and multi-day parties with lots of engagement and fun. Not anything like the regular Reddit.
Those places still exist but activity has declined since most third party apps and the awards/coin system were taken away. That decision not only damaged the public Reddit subs but also the private ones.
I think he already got pay-to-search and AI-infiltrated subreddits.
He’s just trying new combos.
Don’t post reddit ads on lemmy thanks.
Honestly, I think it’s pretty hard to call this an ad lol
“Lemmy CEO teases users with cookies and free subs” would be removed from reddit in 1 second
Yes, because one is saying positives and the other is saying negatives. “Trump promises project 2025” isn’t a trump ad even if “Harris promises a fucking break from whatever weird bullshit trump said today” wouldn’t be allowed on truth social
Ads are about exposure too. The word “lemmy” is probably banned on reddit because they don’t want you to even mention a competitor or people would know.
When the frontpage is all about trump/harris any party that isn’t them lose because they get 0 coverage.
Americans need a run off vote system if they want third parties to be relevant
Problem is the ones people currently trust to organise, run, certify, and implement the elections do not want third parties to be relevant. Existing powers entrench against any changes that might result in a more fair system because the unfairness is the reason why they are on top.
Would it? I think 90% of us heard about Lemmy on reddit.
I’m pretty sure lemmy links were autoremoved at same point
I haven’t looked back since they killed Apollo, the only headline I want to see is bankruptcy
And the CEO in prison for insider trading.
I miss apollo. It was so good and the reddit app is so shit!
Use Voyager and Lemmy instead
That is what I’m doing
