Nothing to see here folks, just reddit continuing to dig its own grave.
Digg its own grave? (sorry)
😂
Man I know I’m the minority here, but once I see a paywall, age verification, or logon block, I just move on with my life. It’s not that important… Or there are other sources.
I don’t think you’re in the minority here
Maybe not * here*
The day they blocked my old.reddit is the day I came over here. It honestly was easier than I thought, there are only a handful of communities I really miss, and those were all getting filled with AI bots anyways. It’s emptier here, but at least I’m talking to actual people.
I came over well before that but I’d still land on the odd link from search or something. Then it asked me to sign in and now I ingore reddit links 🤷
Welcome aboard.
i don’t buy this “continues to fight AI scraping” bullshit for a second. they literally ceased API access for regular users after they sold the rights to google to specifically scrape their site with AI.
Fight AI scraping by anyone who hasn’t paid them for the privilege.
I have to say, this war on Old Reddit is doing wonders to curb my Reddit use.
Also the “you must use the app!!!” banner that appears after 30 seconds is fantastic on mobile, as they are actively preventing me to continue reading and doomscroll.
It’s like “no! Bad dog! You already got your info. Now close your tab and go back to Lemmy”
It’s actually amazing how quickly it killed my usage of the site. I deleted my account years ago but still lurked every now and then. Now I literally can’t go back, I won’t download the app and the new site layout is pretty much unusable for me.
I stopped commenting years ago. Old reddit changes stopped me browsing too.
I used Stealth for a while, and it was awesome, but it would go in and out, and a few months ago it just stopped working completely.
It all went downhill when the government killed Aaron Swartz.
And now the oligarchs behind the big AI firms ingest pirated scientific papers at enormous scale to build their products, and they see fuck all consequences for it. It’s quite plausible the very papers Swartz was hounded to his grave over ended up in the training data. Justice is a fucking rare thing.
Not just that but it’s also spez hostile takeover.
My friendship ended with Reddit. Now Lemmy is my friend. 🫂
Until a comment you makes pisses off a power tripping mod and then you are permabanned from like 16 communities.
Shits infected here too.
All the communities with power tripping mods here are either minor or have significant viable alternatives.
Heck you can make your own instance (as others have) and do what you want!
You mean there are more options then posting cringe feudposts daily begging your instances admins to defederate from instances instead of blocking them yourself?
I wish that were true.
Luckily, Lemmy is a place, where you can communicate with the actual human beings.
That’s a feature. every instance gets to set and enforce their own rules. The users get to decide which communities (and their attendant rules and admins) they participate in. Humans don’t suddenly become more immune to the follies of power, but power is more distributed and (so far) are less likely to be captured by monied interests.
If you’re waiting for humans to suddenly stop falling for the temptation to abuse of power, I think you’ll be waiting a while. I think it’s a significant improvement on the centralized corporate model.
We know RSS has been a beloved part of the open web for a long time, and we’re grateful to everyone who used it to stay connected to Reddit,
It’s like they aren’t even listening to the words they are saying themselves
Oh God they are dumping RSS too? Fucking hell that’s the only way I even use that platform anymore since it means getting a handful of news updates on some games without going there.
Yeah, last nail in the coffin for me. Fucked if I’m gonna wade through more than titles to sort through the bullshit. Maybe RSS-Bridge can save us, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Wonder how bad their real user numbers will tank.
Its a good thing Aaron isn’t alive to see the thing he created being stripped away from the other thing he created.
Just absolutely pissing on the grave or Aaron Schwartz.
:(
Never got into new Reddit. It feels so charmless and soulless.
It’s optimized for pictures and videos and ads. The old layout works better for text and links and it shows. Old Reddit was perfect for quickly checking a niche subreddit - just skim the 20 or 30 headlines, open interesting links in a new tab or check some comments and you are informed about what is currently happening in that niche. Maybe you also read some text posts with questions. New Reddit is optimized to keep you scrolling and to put an endless stream of ragebait in your face.
just skim the 20 or 30 headlines, open interesting links in a new tab or check some comments and you are informed about what is currently happening in that niche
I think this is a big part of why they’re trying to kill it. They want to trap you in an endless doom scroll. They don’t want you to be able to quickly see there’s nothing new and get out. Everything you look at needs to be another attempt to ensnare you and shove ads in your face.
Fuck Reddit.
Fuck Spez.
Reddit is mostly ai bots, & bots, and maybe a few genuine users.
I had my 18yo account 0erma-banned by ai. Then, ai reviewed ai … … ai said ai was correct but would send it up for further review… … by another ai. Who sent it to a human… … and the human sent me an apology. “Sometimes, we get things wrong. Your account has now been fully re-instated. We are sorry.” … and then ai stepped in and overrode the humans mods.
HAL 9000 is not fiction.
most of the news, politics subs are botted, and any sub that talks about politics.
Lemmy are also bots.
Yeah and all they’ve been trained on are Linux distros and Star Trek forums.
What’s Reddit?
“In the next few months, we’ll further limit access for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months (which covers the vast majority of all Old Reddit users),”
really? you expect me to believe the majority of old reddit users are old reddit users?
they want to completely eliminate old reddit, to force them to use nEW reddit.
Fuck you, spez.
I have no sympathy for those who suckle at the corporate teat.
existing users who haven’t used it for six months will also be barred.
Wow, that really is awful. If I don’t use Reddit every six months I’m permanently kicked out of it? (Am I reading that right?)
I rarely go there, but when I do want to look up something I like to have the option.
(pls don’t pretend like new reddit exists, thx)
