“These users are already familiar with Reddit and we’ve seen that the experience is much better for them in the app. The app offers a more personalized experience and users can more easily find communities that match their interests.”
Lmao. The personalization is exactly what I don’t want, so fuck off. Also, it’s pretty easy to circumvent. I’m sure there’s multiple ways, but I just go to old reddit.
They’ll kill old Reddit eventually
And then the site will effectively die
I wouldn’t mind if they did it soon tbf. That way I would find other ways to pass the time at work
That sentiment reminds me of this:
“I Like Money” ~Reddit’s shareholders
Oh I love personalization. When I am the one doing it and not an algorithm doing what it “thinks” is better for me.
“Here’s a bunch of lies. We are going to track the fuck out of your dumb ass.”
Good.
The more of this they do, the more people move to federated sites.
old.reddit works fine~
This also worked for me for the longest time. I recently stopped using Reddit (as we all should) but if you gotta use it at least use old.reddit.com/r/subredditname
The second old.reddit goes away, I have a feeling a lot of people will jump off reddit. Probably why they haven’t killed it yet
They know they can’t kill old.reddit directly yet thats why theyre pushing all of these new features like removing mail for live chat etc.
I am curious, do you know why they can’t kill it? The only reason I can think of is that “new” reddit requires access or something?
Huge PR nightmare for little gain
I will be shocked if that works forever. Maybe it’ll be five, maybe it’ll be ten years, but I bet they will kill that eventually.
I’m glad the fediverse exists. People really ought to move on from Reddit and big tech in general … Where possible.
Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to Lemmy Instead
I’ve corrected the headline for you. Thank me later, alligator.
Noticed that a couple weeks ago. Does it for Duckduckgo and Firefox but not for Chrome.
About the same time they killed r/All and sorting by top/hour.
I float back and forth between reddit and lemme since the mass exodus but this is probably going to be the end of reddit for me.
Reddit is a rigged game. Dealing with Instance moderators on lemmie is taxing, especially when people on Lemmy worlds are in League with Israel which by the way lemme world is taking over by Zionist and influence agencies, nevertheless Reddit Administration is worse. Because of the top-down nature that matters more than some fascist moderators on lemmy here, on lemmyworld.
old.reddit.comis unaffectedThe few times I click a link to a Reddit post I immediately change www to old. That new monstrosity is unusable.
For more general usage, you can try Redirector.
You just add a rule like
Redirect: https://www.reddit.com/*
To: https://old.reddit.com/$1It allows to redirect to alternative frontends, and redirect other webs like YouTube too :)
That dumbass app was enough reason why I’m here.
I’d say it’s responsible for at least 75% of us being here!
I’m pretty of the other 25% who came here because we got banned for saying something that offended someone’s feefees. I honestly couldn’t be happier.
RedReader still works and isn’t all that bad.
iphone lol
I don’t even bother with reddit anymore
Lol
They never learn.
learn what? they’re more successful than they’ve ever been. Their profit is up, their users are up. What exactly do they need to learn? Yes, you and I and most people reading this comment are pissed off at them and left their platform. But 99% of people didn’t bother. This will annoy people but ultimately it won’t drive users away in any substantial numbers. They do it because they know they can and most people will do what they’re told and get the app instead. You say that as if you expect them to be shooting themselves in the foot, but people being annoyed at them does not reduce their profitability.
The average moron decides the rest of our fate. The average moron decided to sell our privacy wholesale and ask for seconds . Let’s face it, intelligent people are just on the moron boat ride, and there is nothing we can do about it.
They are failing and they know it. You talk about money, but the rest of us talk about legacy and longevity. Reddit is dying.
Of course it’s different now. that’s why you and I left. but dying? dying means failing, and objectively they’re doing better than ever. I hate that they’ve cashed in their goodwill/“legacy” and enshittified, but I can’t argue that they haven’t been successful in doing so. I seriously doubt they care about legacy when the line is going up.
Objectively their business is doing well. Their social network is clearly dropping off like most others. Real people are posting much less across the board, Reddit is turning into a passive AI fueled entertainment platform.
How many are bots?
Its like facebook. Engagement is up, audience is increased, but, its likely by a small number of people. I started noticing that in the Aussie subs, that every week, near the weekend (right before night), there were obvious lobbyist posts, which suddenly shot up (stuff like pro guns, pro- one nation etc). At this point, our local racism party was clearly doing heavy lobbying on the platform (despite losing 30 years of elections, based on reddit, you’d think they were #1).
Like facebook, a lot of people are switching off now, and trying to find alternatives.
Moderation has also gotten really bad recently. I had an account for 14+ years, never got banned. Made a new account, and within a few months, I got a temp ban for apparently being racist (despite the fact, I spent a lot of time arguing AGAINST racism).
On facebook in fact, on the heatpump posts, I actually noticed 1 or 2 names pop up on almost all the adverts saying they were an engineer, and that heatpumps don’t work, etc (with bad info). Reddit allows infinite accounts, and no doubt, it is not much better there
IKR, I left reddit a couple of years ago when they did the API thing, and even then it felt like there were a lot of bots around. I can only imagine that’s increased massively with Gen AI having become so ubiquitous. If I were an advertiser or investor, that’s a question that would worry me.
Advertisers and investors are drinking the same coolaid. It’s the customers of those advertisers that need to be questioning their ad space purchases.
They have learned being evil makes a lot of money
enshittification gets shittier
Once it became the place to go to find knowledgeable answers (for free) it had to be destroyed.
f*ck reddit but i miss the steam and steam deck subreddits
