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except in select countries.
something's telling me it's the countries that make being able to opt out of profiling a legal requirement. praise be GDPR.
It's an enshittification speed run
is it, though? I'd say the redesign was when things started going seriously downhill, and that's been introduced about 5 years ago. not much of a speedrun.
What redesign?
- 3rd party app & old.reddit.com user since forever
RES gang rise up
Had Reddit Enhancement Suite on desktop and exclusively third-party apps on mobile since 2011. Saw the redesign for the first time earlier this year and was mortified.
Anyone still using reddit is a lost cause
Somehow coming to the Reddit sub Lemmy feels like the "Reddit recovery group" 😁
... Hi, I'm ConstipatedWatson and I've not used Reddit for the past 4 days!
The problem is that 99,9% are using reddit, and we are the 0,1% that don't.
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The majority aren't dissatisfied enough to do anything about it, despite complaints. However, I'm hoping that some future action from Huffman will affect them adversely enough that it'd push them over that threshold and decide to do something about it—quit that site. I doubt a lot of them will make their way over here, so just them quitting is good enough for me.
That's how it worked for Mastadon. People come over in waves each time it gets slightly shittier, or so I've heard.
Meanwhile, I just installed Boost for lemmy, immediately paid to remove ads, and am having a great time.
Voyager has no ads 🥰
That's cool too. I used Boost for Reddit, so I'm happy to support them in this burgeoning era of fediwhatever. 😉
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Neither does Jerboa. 👍
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I have an old account that I wiped 9 times, but used to post the spez getting railed by busty Garfield meme, that of course were deleted by an admin. It’s lately getting harassment PM’s/comments regarding older posts that were reactivated despite multiple deletions. It’s like they’re trying to bait me back into an argument lol, it’s weird and really sad for the communities.
Who in the actual fuck keeps all this garbage alive? Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, all gone to shit, why do people insist on staying with them?
Are you familiar with 
?
The central limit theorem?
Because all their friends are there, and redditors do not belong outside reddit.
Because my day isn't shitty enough, I went over there to see what's the vibe. Sure enough, people are complaining. There's also a surprising amount of bootlickers who parrot the "argument" that people have been saying things have been going downhill, but Reddit still is popular so it can't be going downhill. As if shitty things can't be popular.
I've seen a couple of people who saw this as the last straw, which is better than nothing, but I feel that those remaining in that site, no matter how they kvetch about it, deserves to be frog stew (as in that boiling frog metaphor). I'd love to be proven wrong though.
This is not going over well in Reddit's comments section.
I hope Lemmy can capitalize on this and convince more users to switch.
The problem is Lemmy has completely squandered this time between waves of new users. There's improvements in the pipeline but it may be too late at this point.
Nah, word of mouth is powerful. I've been enjoying my time, and started to tell friends about it. Many are already bitching about reddit and their many poor decisions over the years, and at least in my social circle, others turn to me for what I use and recommend. I'm certain of course that there are many, many more like me.
It doesn't need to be a landslide, it just needs visibility with trusted friends using it to grow organically and easily.
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No one squandered anything. The devs have been working full time, as well as third party contributers / third party apps & frontends. There's only so much work they can do. They're not a multil-million dollar company. Good things take time
Squandered how? It feels waaaaay more stable now.
I really hope so, or at least make some users decide enough is enough.
May I suggest editing this link to old.reddit.com?
As some of the comments point out, they already have a precise list of interests per user.
The subreddit lists. Yet they aren't using that data. Although I suppose the "why not" is that they maybe don't want advertisers knowing all of the subreddits.
I still moderate on Reddit, and will continue to do so (the community is in the process of migrating over, and the community members are important to me)
I'm going to stop upvoting, downvoting, and joining/leaving communities. Already wasn't doing much of the later.
Screw this change
eat my fucking ass spez
Cool, I use Firefox with ublock and a script that stops reddit pop ups asking me to download and the app so I'll see no changes at all.
And yet another reason why I am glad I left over the summer.
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