Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPO::“Edit: Obligatory ‘F— Spez’ for karma.”
Fuck spez I used that reddit for years. However you can only be fucked over so much.
Fuck spez
Oh oh… can we look forward to another wave of reddit leavers after inevitable changes to the site to please investors?
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I think there might be another wave when old.reddit.com stops working, a number of people still access it that way, despite it not being well known by the modern reddit audience.
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Agreed, that band-aid needs to be ripped off, because the site is really dead anyway. (It only appears alive because of bots trolling for engagement.)
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Responding to like three of your comments at once. But I used RES since like 2010. Until June I, and I imagine many others, had zero idea what “vanilla” reddit even looked like.
But yes, I only do r/NFL because I haven’t found that in fediverse yet. When I’m there and the muscle. Memory kicks in and I click the logo and go to the home it’s… Bad…
I’ve popped in once or twice in the niche communities I used to do. There’s activity, but it’s stuff I would have called filler posts two years ago. Not bad just… Not good.
The fall of Digg didn’t happen in one single wave.
Lots of people just want to stay with what they’re familiar with, and it takes loss of critical mass of content/interaction before they’ll look at the door.
It took an annoying girl in Uni, who was like 6 years younger than me, pestering me why I would still used Digg when reddit existed. I finally checked it out and never looked back. Then a couple years later everyone else I knew was on here.
I mean it really was a single wave. V4 or whatever version it was fundamentally changed the way Digg worked in a big way overnight. It wasn’t even the same thing anymore. Sure there were some holdovers but it’s tough to compare the two like this.
With the exception of third party apps, Reddit still more or less works the same for the average user as it has forever.
Yeah, Digg v4 hit like a shockwave and site traffic plummeted as users immediately flocked to Reddit by the millions. Reddit spent the next week crashing like crazy from the influx of new users and had to temporarily suspend and then limit new user creation and new sub creation for weeks after to handle the strain. It was kind of similar to what happened when everyone rushed over to Lemmy for the first time, but that happened a bit more slowly, over a longer period of time. 
Honestly, dark theme is how they got me with that one. Haven’t used the site aside from search results since the API changes went live but I like to think I’d leave if a new redesign was worse.
I mean … that’s almost certainly what’s going to happen to some degree
As soon as copious amounts of money are involved, you see the change. I never even used the 3rd party Reddit apps, but when money made OG Reddit act like a dick towards them, I peaced out. Sorry Reddit, but I think you’ll eventually be Digg. And I have no interest in sticking around for that.
Maybe they should have spent some of the money they used on this questionable design update on improving their app or working with third party app developers.
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“we cant afford the API costs for 3P clients! we need that money for making our own open source font that no one asked for!”
You can’t polish a turd.
i still use reddit a lot of comunities havent left and my god the amout of bots now is insane entire threads are coppied with 1 year 6 month old acounts with zero history and what i think is ai spam from simualr acounts its a mess over there now what brainless idiot is letting this happen
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A friend of mine was talking about how they had blatant homophobia sent their way on an LGBT subreddit, which was upvoted. Went to check r/ApolloApp and someone critical of the dev (because he was selling merch) was being blatantly and casually homophobic with similar upvote behaviour.
I’m not an easily offended guy but, honestly, I’m glad I left that shithole.
Had a brief look at r/WorldNews yesterday. Every comment was blatantly disgusting Islamaphobia that I couldn’t believe hadn’t been deleted yet. I don’t ever remember it being that bad over there
Same, I remember r/worldnews not swinging that way whatsoever.
They did kick out a lot of mods during the protests and moderation has gone to utter shit since the api change
Yeah. I read an article (also on Ars Technica funnily enough) about how some moderators aren’t equipped to deal with things. I believe they singled out r/canning because of the potential for food poisoning, but r/ender3 had a sympathetic “mod” who only joined that subreddit as a moderator just to fuck with Reddit corporate when they were replacing the mods.
Reddit, predictably, did not respond, so whoever wrote that article did their job right.
Oh god canning I heard about the new mods haveing less than a clue about it christ that’s a massive fuck up
Yeah new moderation didn’t stand a chance because the good mod tools were all 3rd party.
So many good mod bots aswell all gone
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“I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it any more!”
Everyone here is on copium, not gonna lie.
Reddit isn’t going to die. Honestly it has 1000x more content than lemmy.
Lemmy has a place and so does reddit.
I still browse reddit, simply because the size of the communities I want to visit is much larger there. My browsing is however confined to the mobile page in Firefox, which is slow, clunky, and breaks frequently, which means my reddit usage is down by something like 99%. Lemmy has the sync app, and without the app I wouldn’t be here. Browsing Lemmy before it was awful.
Also, I kinda like that Lemmy is smaller. There’s much less noise, less of an algorithm feel to browsing. It feels slightly more like the internet I grew up with in the 90s and 00s, and I kinda missed that.
The throwback feel really is an intangible value add that means it might not catch on for younger folks but damn it does feel good.
honestly I think the opposite. from what a younger sibling has told me, old is new and the current trends in TikTok and stuff seem to be younger people wanting physical media, non flat design back, the old internet and etc. gives me hope at least.
I go back for sports communities because they’re still active enough on reddit for back and forth during live games, but literally yesterday on the hockey sub people were talking about how there’s less content. API changes meant less autoposted game highlights and it even seems there’s less back and forth on the game day threads. Now it depends a lot on the team these days.
Size has some pretty big advantages.
In particular, it feels like lemmy is mostly memes and news.
While on reddit, you can have productive discussions about the internals of the Haskell compiler, or ask questions to actual historians. Niche subreddits having a quorum of experts to actually have discussions about stuff was always the best part about reddit. And that part has always been sadly lacking from lemmy because of size.
Honestly it has 1000x more content than lemmy.
So steal the content and post it here. At least the good stuff.
There aren’t any laws preventing you from doing that.
The good content on reddit isn’t the shitty-ass memes, it’s the discussion by experts on niche subreddits. Kinda hard to steal that…
What if you told you you can take a screenshot of those and share that here…
What if I told you that you could copy and paste text instead of taking a photo?
It’s kinda how these sites function at all nowadays lol. Wasn’t reddit text posts only a long time ago?
Send us the text posts to replace all the people posting fuckin YouTube videos instead of articles here!
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Everyone? Those people who say these companies are sinking ship are probably so addicted to them they have to mention it anytime anything vaguely relates to it. Normal people use both and don’t give a shit where their meme comes from.
TIL not supporting businesses you don’t agree with = being on copium.
Guess I better go buy Nestle products again.
No I think that’s fine, it’s just I see people thinking that reddit is literally dying, which is just not the case.
I didn’t leave Reddit and join Lemmy because I want to read about Reddit. Fuck Reddi. it’s yesterday’s news.
Nobody’s forcing you.
How do you know? Maybe he’s tied up mechanical orange style?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Reddit also said the font has “large x-height for readability and disambiguated letterforms for rapid identification” and improved accessibility.
On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that Reddit is “holding talks with potential investors” for a 2024 IPO filing.
The top comment on Acidtwist’s post announcing the branding refresh reads: “My love of old.reddit.com continues to grow.”
Another reply pokes fun at the Reddit marketing video shared that encourages people to “think of something you like or enjoy.”
And after Huffman reportedly warned employees to “be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public,” due to potential backlash in June, maybe a new look was necessary.
Advance Publications, which owns Ars Technica parent Condé Nast, is the largest shareholder in Reddit.
The original article contains 797 words, the summary contains 117 words. Saved 85%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
do the germans have a word for super schadenfreude? or is that dumb 'cuz if i new german i could just stitch it on to the front or something?
Überschadenfreude…if that isn’t it, then the Germans are wrong.
Der überfreuteste Schaden den ich je die Freude hatte live mitzuerleben. Der Kapitalismus frisst sich selbst, danke!
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They killed .compact a while ago.
Up until day one past IPO.
And that’s the day I completely stop using the site.
I’ve still been using it for technical stuff, because there’s a absolute shitload of extremely valuable and informative content on a bunch of engineering- and tech-oriented subs, but a lot of the users who were involved with that seem to be switching here, and a lot of THOSE users have applied scripts to nuke all comments on their account, so it’s steadily becoming less valuable and more out of date. That said, it’s a bummer that that the knowledge base contained in those communities are largely going to seed.
What if we, “the users”, contributed to a decentralized platform and built that knowledge base up instead?
This allows us to place the R word as basically an archive of the time period as it shouldn’t have much more intellectual growth.
That’s exactly what I was alluding to when I said a lot of the users in those Reddit subs were migrating here
Well you can put lipstick on a pig …but its still a pig. And that 3D snoo head looked creepy.
Honestly the past two iterations of Snoo before this logo were pretty good. Wish it wasn’t attached to an awful website but, eh.
See, we made the holes in the d’s look like little talking bubbles. We’re not evil. We’re cuuuuuute. Money please!
Reddit: I’ve done nothing wrong, ever, in my life.
At least Spez said racism and hate speech are allowed on the platform
Which Spez claimed Reddit used to be against so character growth I guess
