- cross-posted to:
- privacyguides@lemmy.one
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- privacyguides@lemmy.one
I left a couple of months ago. Couldn’t be happier.
The writing is on the wall. The leader thinks the Genius-with-hair-transplants is a superstar, despite destroying a globally recognised brand. Inspired by this, Spez is trying to get Reddit ready for an IPO. This means, maximise profits by any means.
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gentrification of reddit.
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If they are storing a this data anyway to make the thing work (so you can go and un-upvote the thing you upvoted five years ago), how is “privacy” reduced if they also have the as system decide to show you an ad because people who upvoted that thing tend to click on the ad?
No new people or businesses are being given any new information bout anyone. Is it because what used to be a passive database is now starting to think, and your privacy is infringed because the system itself is now looking at you when you didn’t expect it to?
I remember Reddit. It’s a shame what happened there. 🤷♂️
I never thought I’d be talking about Reddit in the past tense like when I talk about Digg.
wait, it’s all enshittification?
always has been
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Regardless. Fuck what Reddit has become. I really hope that people will see the light and move to Lemmy.
Amen.
This.
Haha! Reddit moment!
Yeah, my Comment was intended as a Parody
Seems people didn’t quite get that
Poes law. This isn’t Internet 101. Catch up.
Negative votes and no [deleted], what kind of knockoff parody is this!?
A testament to how important good legislation is… most—if not all—privacy issues that we face today are in large part due to legislative failures.
Legislation and enforcement. There are countless laws on the books that are not enforced. Generally speaking, they may as well not exist.
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I love GDPR so much, EU does not fuck around with that. I can’t remember when I last felt that my rights were being considered and protected by governmental entities., but that one sure warms my heart.
Yeah I gotta say, I make sure to vote in every election to the European parliament, and I have always voted for the representatives with the strongest privacy oriented agendas, and over the decades I have been blown away by some of the great legislation we have seen with regards to regulating the capitalist hydra trying to devour our freedom of speech and interaction online.
Holding gargantuan companies accountable like Google, Microsoft, FaceBook et al, dishing out serious fines, GDPR… EU may not do everything right, but these things alone makes me happy to be in it.
I mean, California bans this as well and they aren’t exempt despite being where Reddit is located. Spez doesn’t seem to care what is legal.
Finally made the jump and just deleted my account… Sad, but their own fault
You had to delete yours? All of mine were permabanned long ago.
I just tried to delete and I keep getting an error
I’ve thought a lot about this, and I’d like to say: “Reddit can kiss my entire ass.”
that’s a lot of kissing
I got a message from Reddit
https://old.reddit.com/r/u_cy_narrator/comments/16w4uzj/witness_the_carnage/
I still had my Reddit account just for posteroties sake. I don’t anymore now. I refuse to accept changes or rules that allow for them to steal all my data. I’ve not gotten to this point with Google or Microsoft yet, but they’re not far off the chopping block.
BTW, because I use third party apps all my wall posts got turned NSFW even though none of them are. I wonder if it is indeed the end of time.
But there is a second option, the one I plan to do with this current Reddit account and my Facebook account.
Dont delete, dont say you will delete. Just stop using. When its out of sight, it becomes out of mind. Maby deactivate Facebook account at most but I think it will be okay if it just stays there
I’ve wasted a lot of time. but not on reddit 🥀 These sites feel like the big 3 car co’s. future is hard. some looking to cash out
It’s a shame that so many people will still use it.
I still use it, just far less, only really for a couple of subreddits that just don’t have the same experience here. The mobile app is so shit though that it forces me not to use it on my phone!
Same for me. But I don’t use Reddit’s own app on mobile. I use Boost, because it’s still allowed for moderators, since Reddit’s app is shit for that. Doesn’t matter if you aren’t yet a moderator. Go there on a browser on a PC or Mac. Create a new subreddit. Great, now you’re its moderator. Then enter with Boost (on Android), and that’s it.
Anyway, the more people leave Reddit to cross the pond and get to Lemmy, the best.
Relay for Reddit still works
I still visit a few small subreddits for answers (for example, /r/unraid) but not made a single post since reddit effectively got rid of most third party apps.
Once Lemmy (or anywhere else) can cover the questions I look up, that will be 100% the end for me.
These days the only time I use reddit is when I’m searching for some obscure question and that’s the only place with an obvious answer. Otherwise, Lemmy is doing everything I needed reddit to do.
Unfortunately, the more noche your hobbies, the less lemmy is able to replace Reddit. Stuff like news, gaming, politics? Lemmy is great. Do you want a community for an obscure martial art? Then you go to old school forums or Reddit.
It’s true I lost out on some of the engagement for a number of my hobbies. I’m less in touch than I was.
Turns out I can manage like that just fine, though, so…
Niche gaming is really rough too. I sim race, there’s maybe a million people worldwide who consistently engage with the hobby. The subreddits were already quiet, and on Lemmy there’s like 4 active users over the last few months.
I’ve found myself on Reddit a lot more recently cause I want to be in the know about what’s happening.
Not my fault stuff i’m interested in isn’t moving here
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On a second thought, maybe let’s not move stuff I like in a place with people so rude and obnoxious.
Not the one you’re replying to, but sometimes you’re just a follower of some community, because you lack the knowledge to be more than that even when you are interested in the subject. To create/moderate a community, or even to be quite active in it, isn’t for everyone, I guess. No need to insult someone because they can’t do more than they’re able to.
In my opinion, that is.
I was kind of with you until saying they’re “being a fucking idiot.”
Encouraging someone to help out? Great.
Browbeating someone for voicing the viewpoint or experience a lot of users are facing? We can do better than that.
Move it here.
Who is still on reddit?
Bots and thots
The website got flooded with Facebook-types years ago. A lot of the audience are just Facebook mums and dads that found out their anti-vaxx rants weren’t being heard anymore, and TikTok kids who just laugh the cat pics and upvote blindly without commenting.
I go there to watch war videos and porn but 100% of my commenting has moved to Lemmy.
People who don’t know how to sign up to sites that don’t have “Log In with Facebook”.
This time of year, I really miss the college football sub, but I have not succumbed to temptation.
theres only one type of content lemmy has yet to master compared to reddit
and i use reddit results for google searches still otherwise reddit is ass the app is embarrassing
Bots?
normies.
A lot of people. Many just don’t care that much about where they get cute cat pics from.
Me, none of my niche communities are over here
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Well make it
They “technically” exist but no one is active and have no posts usually
Step 1: reanimate your old reddit account
Step 2: post inane borderline degen shit
Step 3: get every former redditor on lemmy to upboat your post
Step 4:???
Step 5: get rich
Step 4.5: Use the money to help fund Lemmy
whats wrong with personalized ads? is it much different from booking different TV channels for different audiences?
Personalized ads would be fine if it had a checklist or tag/category feature. This is straight up data mining.
Ars and Reddit are under the same parent company, conde nast or however that’s all structured. I also have noticed ars seems to write very frequently about Reddit, even if it is usually in a critical light.
I get mixed feelings about articles like this one.
They’ve been separate for more than a decade now
It’s at the bottom of the article:
Advance Publications, which owns Ars Technica parent Condé Nast, is the largest shareholder in Reddit.
No they got bought back a few years later. They’re majority owned by the same parent company as Ars. Tencent also has some pretty big investments in Reddit.
I wouldn’t say they have a disproportionate amount of Reddit coverage, spez’ shenanigans are well within their usual scope. Before the api-pocilipse I don’t remember the last Reddit column they put out.
It think the editorial direction follows the interests of the kind of readers they get. Not so many Facebook or Tiktok stories unless there’s particularly egregious behaviour. Their readers are too young to care as much about the former and too old to care about the latter.
Out of all the social media, xitter gets the most, but then every day is clownshoes there. As Reddit started aping them, they got more coverage.They spell the correct relationship out clearly in the article:
Advance Publications, which owns Ars Technica parent Condé Nast, is the largest shareholder in Reddit.
They haven’t been trustworthy in years! Reddit is heavily astroturfed by government agents. Ft Elgin was the “most reddit addicted” city and it’s also where they conduct propaganda ops. They quietly scrubbed that fact. If you like reddit you must be waiting for your pension from uncle sam otherwise you’re a zuck style dumb fuck
Don’t act like Lemmy can’t be immediately astroturfed as well.
True, yet it still isn’t, as far as I can see.
It absolutely is, even if your particular instance hasn’t been. Lemmy.world probably takes the brunt of it.
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You don’t need to, you only need to go after the large ones. I’m already on my third instance, and having to move is such a giant pain in the ass, I don’t think I’d do it again.
What motivated you to switch instances? Did your early ones fill up with junk posts etc? I was thinking that since I use a reader app (Boost for Lemmy) and everything is federated it wouldn’t matter much if I joined one of the large and general-purpose instances.
Or was it more about performance issues… service/instance traffic overload leading to slow response time?
Performance issues, which of course is the issue with federation. Sometimes it was my instance having issues, other times it was the instance I was posting too. One of them defederated from a large one and didn’t allow downvoting, which I would forget via a third party app and it would hang before erroring out.
Thanks for the info! Yeah, it’s going to take the fediverse in general some time to get smoother. I’m excited to watch it improve even if the pace is slow.
