My theory is that they realize that a significant number of power users on the site are still using old.reddit.com, so they are keeping it going because getting rid of it would turn the website into a ghost town. They will continue to push their app and new website because they can push more advertising through it to the people that are just there to consume.
I think it's just troll farms and bots. Every once in a while someone stumbles into the site and says something. THEN there is a whirlwind of answers/speculations/theories/lies.
A.I is running the show. If I use a certain word or phrase I get filtered. If I say the exact same thing without those "catch phrases" then I see a few votes.
I treat the site as a test site for trying language that gets PAST the trolls.
One thing I've noticed lurking on AITA is that there's suddenly more people casually talking about being religious. Not like overtly preaching like you'd see in the past, but more people referencing going to church or doing things for religious reasons.
It just seemed out of place and weird. Like the tone of that part of the internet suddenly changed. It's still more liberal than conservative, though that conflict seems to be mostly just not present, perhaps in part because of their rule against political topics, though even when some slip through, it does seem to lean more liberal or even progressive than conservative. Like plenty of abortion support, no broad support for tribal or hierarchical judgements. But it suddenly seems more religious. Christian, specifically.
As a history nerd there are a lot of pretty good facts in the bible, and there are lots of things that are actually historically accurate. So no I wouldn't say there aren't any good facts
I think it’s just troll farms and bots. Every once in a while someone stumbles into the site and says something. THEN there is a whirlwind of answers/speculations/theories/lies.
I guess it depends on where you look. All the subs I've been visiting where people actually hang out, rather than just a handful of karma farmers spamming, are still flourishing*, so I never fully switched to Lemmy, but use both 🤷 Reddit subs have a magnitude or two more people, so imho they're better for news, memes and technical advice, while for the past couple years Lemmy feels better for insightful conversations.
* my main subs are for specific games and apps, a few countries/regions, and r/BestofRedditorUpdates, so ymmv
I think the bot percentage is proportional to how big a subreddit is and how profitable influencing people browsing it is.
Niche community about how to proplift (stealing small cuttings to grow your own plants)? Zero or close to zero bots.
Crypto community with thousands of comments a day, where it's all speculation that can't be objectively disproven* so bots stick out like a sore thumb and tons of money flying around? You better believe the bots are all over that.
Of course there are redditors around; I'm another one of them. We frequent the cool subs like the very human /r/FreeGameFindings and ignore the rest of the noise. Milk Reddit for the best of what it has to offer and dismiss the rest. I see nothing wrong with this approach for as long as Lemmy is still budding, relatively speaking.
I can guarantee you the Argentina subreddit is heavily brigaded by the extreme right. That's the case I know, but it's easy to imagine it happening in a lot of not so popular subreddits
It really depends on the subreddits I think. It was starting to really go downhill before I was booted, but most of the issues floated around political, news and general subreddits from what I could tell.
Get into interests, like football or music and there seemed to be less rubbish and bot accounts so to speak. I guess this makes sense but that’s what I noticed going out the ban door as I was.
I haven't checked how big the ones that I still frequent there (like /r/manybaggers and /r/onebag) but they do still have organic real people posts. Anything news, tech, or politics, anything of that size, I just abandon any hope they're not troll infested and LLM bots. Not to mention meme subs and themed artwork subs. Just full of vote farming bots. I need the art source, you dinguses!
On the bright side, /r/sbcgaming have a comms here and can also tie into retrogaming
Idk the nish communities are really helpful, 3d printing, Photoshop help, all that kind of stuff. Hell I even was able to have my Dad's memorial pic photoshopped by somebody. It turned out good too
You are correct. I have been paying attention to this for a few YEARS now. It is just MY observation of events I have seen. It is NOT my opinion, it is MY direct observation.
Clearly more study is needed. By THIS administration? NEVERMIND!
Why do you think you're able to detect a bot by their Reddit comments? I strongly suspect you're assuming low-effort, poorly-written comments are bots, when in reality they're probably just dumb people.
Lemmy world does the same thing, but to a lesser extent. Since they have so much of the users on the fediverse, them controlling their front page really controls the votes and who sees what.
I know the vote model is here . You can see the logic here. It checks to see if the post is actually available in the community with other functions and other such checks. It doesnt ask any lemmy instance for totals (unless theres something im not aware of), it tallies based on real time data. Which can also include fediverse actions(not necessarily lemmy/piefed/mbin/etc... but also mastodon, gotosocial, and other such services).
One of the things piefed does a bit differently is it bunches up votes for sending to other instances. And there is a backfill operation when puling from new communities or users. I would argue its a bit better than lemmys system at least from a technical perspective. But its a VERY minor one. Its nice we have multiple ways of getting to the same result-ish.
Hope that helps! I dont know everything but I know a little bit.
If an instance has the most people and blocks those people from seeing your post, delays it from posting, or downgrades it as a source, it could easily be done. They have control over their own instance.
Can you elaborate? Arent blocks public via the admin logs in lemmy? In addition that info can be pulled from the api from any instance/fediverse protocol.
I can reproduce of need be since i have my own lemmy and piefed instance and have over 20 years of software development experience.
They* called it shadow banning on reddit, but I think of it more as shadow curating. I explain it a little more in other comments itt. Reddit does the curating as well.
IMO, you could do this live pretty easily. When I first started posting, the trolls would complain that I wasn't consistently online, lol.
You can read the code? I can't. It wouldn't even have to be a permanent code. It cold work for say an hour, take the post out of the running for the front page, and then disappear. The effects would be the same.
I think you are vastly underestimating the amount of people that only interact with social media through apps in this day and age. Even on Reddit I would be surprised if the old design is more than a few percent of the user base.
It honestly does raise the question of why they are still maintaining the old UI. It seems like it would be an annoying legacy product to keep alive for a tiny part of the user-base. Perhaps it’s used as an API stability canary or something though.
Not at all. I'm comparing the vast majority that only consume to a small minority that actually interact and provide the content that others consume. Without that minority all that would be left is bot comments.
Reddit pushes an ad and tracking infested app to make money off the consumers while doing the minimum to keep the content submitters on the site even if they make no money off them. I wouldn't be surprised if old reddit was a couple percent of users but 25% of the comments that aren't bots.
I have the same thought. I still use Reddit, 100% on Old Reddit and I think objectively you could say I contribute a lot in terms of comments and participation.
If old Reddit goes away, I'm done.
Sadly this is (very popular, according to comments here and on Reddit) copium. old.reddit.com visits are a rounding error, per the traffic stats of the normie subreddit I moderate:
Most people simply do not have the technical acumen and tenure on Reddit to know to type in that subdomain. As always, relevant XKCD (posted today on Lemmy, funnily enough):
I said it in another response, it isn't visits I'm talking about, it's about who generates content on the website and what percentage of those users use old.reddit.
It isn't copium either, we are speculating why Reddit keeps up the old version at all, after all this time they must have some analytics that it would significantly harm the site to disable it.
Reddit blocked third party apps but they didn't block personal-use API access. With the help of some apk-editing tools that I won't mention here, you could import your own API key into a third party apps and continue using it fully (including posting and commenting). I'm using Reddit Sync still.
My API key still works, but my understanding is Reddit recently blocked the generation of new keys. So at some point my key will probably die too. At that point, that's the end of Reddit for me.
wait recently blocked? did they end up reverting the change they did back when the API thing was done? that was one of the things they did then was restrict API key generation
Hydra works really well on iOS. It's not read only, full usage.
And it behaves and looks really similar to the Lemmy client I use (Voyager). Unsure if they share some of the codebase or if they both just try to imitate Apollo.
The main change was them charging for the API so you can simply make a developer API key for free and patch it into apps. I'm using Boost and it still works well.
I use stealth on android. It's limited. Gifs show as links. No where near as good as sync used to be. But still better than the website if I end up there via a google search.
I think there are still "read-only" clients. I haven't looked in awhile, but I know there were some available via F-Droid (alternative app store) long after the API was cut off. I assume they use standard web scraping for grabbing content.
Also, I'm not sure if it still works, but I think you can still use open source clients that rely on the API, you just have to compile/build them yourself using your account's own personal API key.
I haven't looked into either of these in a while and definitely not an expert on the topic, but I'm sure if you're interested there's enough info out there to find a solution that works for you.
I keep seeing people saying that Reddit will be dead when this or that happens. I've seen a handful of those things come to pass already and reddit it doing just fine.
Most people don't care. They will continue using it. It will survive.
Reddit is doing fine and Reddit is fine are two different things.
Most users complain consistently about it. That's not a good sign for them.
Their popular posts don't get as many upvotes/comments as they used to. There's definitely a decline in usage.
It's being overrun by bots.
Tons of people are getting bot banned off the platform.
It's not like it's going to just disappear anytime soon. But I've seen this many times before. It's a dying platform. But it'll be a slow death. And by death I mean it'll just become irrelevant compared to other platforms. It'll probably never actually go away. No one I know uses Facebook anymore. It used to be HUGE. We ALL used it. Now it's a ghost town on my feed. I've messaged people and never got a response and run into them at a birthday or something months later and "Oh sorry, I don't check it anymore". It's still there, but may as well not be. That's Reddit's future.
Two things I noticed was most subreddits that weren't front pagers are getting way less traffic than they used to across the entire site.
The other is why I left: I saw a front page millions of subscribers subreddit go out of their way to temporarily bot purge during the IPO* drama. Upvotes went from 10k+ to...hundreds. Posting frequency fell off a cliff. It was so disturbing I left because I saw that in conjunction with Benn Jordan's video estimating how much of xshitter was bot traffic which he estimated to be a full third of all traffic on xshitler a year ago.
I'm not defending reddit, nor care if reddit dies, but you are saying shit as if it is fact and not providing any sources to back up anything you are saying, and it might as well be reading nonsense from a Facebook MAGA boomer
I'm not entirely sure what this does? It automatically creates a copy of a post to lemmy when you post on reddit?
I wonder if a plugin that does the opposite would be helpful? Something that automatically creates a link post on the relevant reddit community when you post on lemmy.
Sadly this is (very popular, according to comments here and on Reddit) copium. old.reddit.com visits are a rounding error, per the traffic stats of the normie subreddit I moderate:
Most people simply do not have the technical acumen and tenure on Reddit to know to type in that subdomain. As always, relevant XKCD (posted today on Lemmy, funnily enough):
Not just of reddit but also for some reason Google (at least for me) often recommends reddit and ranks reddit posts quite highly, so this enshitifies google too.
Google's demise due to socialmedia walled gardens was kind of understandable, but their decision to lean into Reddit and make themselves extra vulnerable to the whims of a corporation they don't own, is entirely in them.
i think you have reddit and googles position reversed, reddit is pretty much dependant on google almost entirely, they put thier search bar on the top, allows reddit to use its v3 captch3 to catch "bots/ban" , and then thier sudden appearance of using AI to moderate the site.
It will get different, of course, with more people. But it won't suffer the worst curse of Reddit and Digg: unaccountable, fascist corporate admins. If the admins hadn't become politically captured ban-happy assholes, I'd still be there.
To be fair, I didn't know anything about the fediverse until I got banned from Reddit. I had tried all the other platforms you listed but none had the interactions the same as Reddit. Too bad we can't get more publicity somehow.
Maybe its too on the nose to say so on Lemmy, but fuck Reddit right in the earhole. Their pearl-clutching, risk-averse, pro-corporate moderation-bot and tattle-tale system was the last straw.
There are still Lemmy users who go to reddit and reddit users who are exploring alternatives.
Onboarding onto Lemmy isn't the best experience and a lot of existing redditors are already afraid of change and don't want to learn a new thing.
I don't know if there is a website dedicated to making it easier for folks to jump ship but I can say that the amount of content on Lemmy now is much higher than it was when I joined.
"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.
I'm surprised they haven't yet. I only go on reddit for specific TV show subreddits, but even that is mostly filled with people clearly hate watching the show.
Because there is an actual user base for niche interests. Lemmy is great but doesn't have nearly enough users to support communities for a lot of topics.
In fact you don't even have to get too niche to find that a topic is non-existent on lemmy. Sports for example.
I had to go back to get Pokémon Fire Ash working on my R36 emulator. That was literally the only place I could find any information and I still had to do a bunch of debugging after getting the starting point. Then I interacted helping another set of people stuck at the same spot. Only found it through startpage, not Reddits search
the problem with reddit is that it used to be amazing, and is still the best place to ask questions (though with the number of bots this is slowly becoming less and less true).
i still vividly remember the time when i spent 2 weeks messaging microsoft support that insisted that i need to replace the device i just bought, even though i repeatedly told them the device works fine with a different machine so something must be wrong with my PC. so i got frustrated and asked the same question on reddit, within a few hours someone diagnosed exactly what was wrong, and gave me tips on how to fix it (or well, in that case i needed to walk around the issue rather than fix it)
and even now whenever i look up tech issues the first results that actually have thought behind the words (instead of sponsorships for whatever driver updating software company bought the article) it's usually on reddit
it's such a shame it's been aggressively going down hill, it could've truly stayed the front page of the internet for decades. all it had to do was not get worse for the user
The first people asking on reddit couldn't just look up an old thread. And they may have waited days for an answer.
But someone answered, and then everyone else with that we just had to search. And the knowledge spread.
If you just search reddit...
You do understand how that's not helping anything, right?
Like, you could even just make a post here and post the solution you found too. But the only way to fix your complaint is asking questions on lemmy....
Do Lemmy threads ever show up on search engines (the way Reddit threads do)? I don't think I've ever had Google or DDG point me toward any fediverse thread or post.
To be perfectly clear, "Make fedi better for the future by hopping aboard and contributing today" is fine, I don't object to that. But is that envisioned future, where a search for "Why doesn't my [X] work with my [Y]" points to the fediverse, even possible in principle? I genuinely do not know the answer.
yeah man but when i have an issue i want a solution to that problem
I understand that and even explained what someone like that would do ahead of time...
you could even just make a post here and post the solution you found too
After you find the answer, you could make a post about the issue and the fix. Preserving that knowledge on Lemmy. If others do that as well, then eventually it will have a base of knowledge.
Which means more people coming here for answers, more people viewing those communities, answering and asking new questions.
Like, if you're just lazy and don't want to contribute anything, cool...
Lots of subcultures I care about exist only on Reddit. Queer ones, crafting ones, comics, art, science, etc. So when I got banned, it was a bit of a kick in the gut. Lemmy does not have the breadth of content yet, but it does have the queer, and importantly, the ability to talk politics again that I did not have any more on Reddit.
No idea. When I got booted, I deleted my account and haven’t been back other than random internet searches.
I have enough personal experiences I can draw on for rubbing one out. What was really good were the OF people dropping their enticers for people to sign up. They’re good at what they do, the porn is realistic.
Same, I sometime go to redgifs if the wife isn't up to it, and the content there is quite good but you gotta dig for it in the niches. The front page is filled almost entirely with immediate full frontal dildo fucking with ahegao and I'm so fucking not into that.
I need buildup, some romance, some passion. Otherwise it's boring.
I hate reddit. They blocked all of my accounts for no reason. And they're so vague explaining why, and when I tried to appeal, the whole site crashed. Literally joined Lemmy yesterday.
i dont see a large migration like with last year, it was only due to them purging so many users. reddit realized that they PURGED way too much which would just make the bots obvious, and lower engagment, i think they step off the pedal a bit, but still shadowbanning people though. they just arnt doing straight up bans(which notifies the users)
I haven't been able to post to reddit in years now, because I refuse to browse it without a VPN, and while it still lets me in, any account that I make immediately gets shadowbanned as soon as I make a post or a comment.
I can't tell if it's because their bot filter is just terribly implemented, or because they don't want me on their platform if I don't surrender my public IP address.
I'm pretty sure they just use a "how many different accounts under the same public IP" type of logic, because even if I create an account on a 4G network (no VPN) and post, this happens. Cellular networks often use double NAT (unique internal/carrier IP, shared public IP) to avoid allocating a public IP to each mobile device.
I've given up a long time ago. My only exposure to reddit now is when a search results page links me to a post. The most helpful stuff is usually from a decade ago or earlier.
I left when my last account got banned because I suggested a way for dealing with billionaires may or may not include removing their head from the rest of their body.
If you're on Firefox, download a user agent plug in and change your your browser to say it's a tablet or windows pc. Problem solved. I already do this when their page locking pop-up started bothering me lol
If you're on Android then use the Nora app from F-droid.
If you've got a home server then self-host Redlib. I run this through Gluetun VPN and it has the added benefit of not needing age verification (UK) and imgur working properly and needs no account for making a list of subscribed feeds.
I just got banned for saying that I look forward to watching leopards eat James Comey's face. They took it as a literal call for violence. The only thing that doesn't make it perfect is that it wasn't on r/leopardsatemyface.
I would say reddit has fully gone to shit, but somehow I think it still has a ways lower to sink.
I would love to be 100% Lemmy but there's still a lot more users and discussions on Reddit. It's getting better, but it's not yet at critical mass for me
I don't visit Reddit out of principle. I don't care that there are more discussions and more fun content and game dev updates and stuff there that I'm missing. I mourn the loss, but I will never go back and visit Reddit. Mustn't give them traffic.
How does that work? I thought Reddit effectively banned third-party apps by forcing API usage fees?
Either way, I wouldn't browse Reddit now even if they reneged on the API scandal. Bridge has been burned, and the political landscape there seems horrid nowadays.
I read somewhere (who knows where) Red Reader focuses on visual impaired accessibility features so Reddit Corp waives the api fees. I assume it's cheaper for them than developing accessibility features into the official app.
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.
If you paste this into your my filters tab on Ublock Origin, it'll block the element blocking you from the page, but yes that's why I made a Lemmy account, because fuck reddit.
This was happening to me but then stopped and I'm not sure why.
I already deleted Reddit from my bookmarks and started adding -reddit.com into my Google searches. If there was an easy way to default -reddit.com into every search then I would do it.
Create a custom search provider. Search URL should be like:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%25s+-ai+-reddit
You can just keep stringing the additional terms that you want excluded. I'm sure there's some limit but you probably won't hit it
Edit: apparently either lemmy or boost doesn't like percent signs. Or URL encoding for that matter. The first part should be (percent character)s, and the plus signs should be (percent character)20. Though the + will probably work as-is depending on how your browser does things
Better use the actual -site:domain function to filter out by domain directly. You can in example search everything about Reddit, without results from Reddit itself:
Using an app means more bloat, more ads, more notifications, more forced engagement and more tracking. Since the site very clearly works through a mobile browser there is no technical reason for doing this. It is about forcing people to doom scroll this shit rather than check in from time to time.
Read-only and not as polished as some of the older commercial versions, but https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.cosmos.unreddit/ also works. They have different access methods like web scraping. Works well enough for lurking when Reddit isn't blocking my VPN, which they seem to block/unblock at random.
So much information will be lost by locking it behind an app. I hope lemmy is ok answering 20 years worth of reddit questions because we are going to need to document all that information somewhere.
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
Not the first time, they seem to do that like once a year in my experience.
On my (Android) device, the recent blocking is already gone again, having lasted about two weeks.
It is a common strategy: first fix them on, then make life inconvenient for them to push for the next stage (be it app installation, more screen time or paying for stuff).
Seems like Reddit has moved on to the next "fixing on" stage again.
Every time they make a change, users shift/leave. I now use Chrome instead of the app. Once they block it on chrome to force people back to their enshittified app, then I just won’t use it anymore.
it works on firefox. but reddit on the browser with ironfox fork, it does something wierd, everytime you backspace out of a thread, sub it automatically refreshes the page and puts you at the top of the feed.
Unsurprising. The complete lack of concern from spez for the backlash to the appocalypse was the main reason I left. It signaled both that he is a condescending douche and that there's likely to be more.
God, and the app actually sucks such a bag of dicks. I use it as infrequently as I possibly can because it actively fights me trying to get what I need from it.
Maybe I'm old but I browse link aggregators by opening a bunch of tabs then going through them, I'd your app doesn't support tabbed browsing what's even the point?
They're still doing it? When I accidentally click a reddit link I don't get the paywall anymore.
Or maybe they saw that it was a 100% bounce rate from me and then reverted the behavior (like a cookie with a counter, after 20 bounces don't show the paywall anymore?)
rdx for IOS works fine for browsing/lurking. Obviously you can’t log in because of the API shit, but it works fine if you just need to look up something.
I'm using a patched infinity but it kind of depends if you ever made an api key or not I think. Morphe I think can patch the official reddit app but I wouldn't want to use it even patched if I'm honest.
The interesting thing is that it does not look like a permanent/always thing. A couple of days I also got these Pop-Ups (which you can circumvent by using "Desktop-Mode" in your mobile Browser) but I do not get them anymore.
Is some kind of A/B testing ongoing or did they remove the changes?
Perfect, I might even set my UA for reddit to mobile then, I need an "excuse" to keep on using it less. I still browse it without an account but I should lose the habit.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social · 398 pts · 116d
It will well and truly be dead and gone once old.reddit.com stops working. It remains the one good way to view the site, regardless of device.
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca · 189 pts · 116d
My theory is that they realize that a significant number of power users on the site are still using old.reddit.com, so they are keeping it going because getting rid of it would turn the website into a ghost town. They will continue to push their app and new website because they can push more advertising through it to the people that are just there to consume.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 65 pts · 116d
You think there are still redditors around?
I think it's just troll farms and bots. Every once in a while someone stumbles into the site and says something. THEN there is a whirlwind of answers/speculations/theories/lies.
A.I is running the show. If I use a certain word or phrase I get filtered. If I say the exact same thing without those "catch phrases" then I see a few votes.
I treat the site as a test site for trying language that gets PAST the trolls.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 116d
One thing I've noticed lurking on AITA is that there's suddenly more people casually talking about being religious. Not like overtly preaching like you'd see in the past, but more people referencing going to church or doing things for religious reasons.
It just seemed out of place and weird. Like the tone of that part of the internet suddenly changed. It's still more liberal than conservative, though that conflict seems to be mostly just not present, perhaps in part because of their rule against political topics, though even when some slip through, it does seem to lean more liberal or even progressive than conservative. Like plenty of abortion support, no broad support for tribal or hierarchical judgements. But it suddenly seems more religious. Christian, specifically.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 28 pts · 115d
While church attendance is NOW declining rapidly?
I suspect a Christian troll farm at work here. They NEED to indoctrinate at an early age to survive.
They can't use FACTS, their bible doesn't have any good ones.
darkstar@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 113d
As a history nerd there are a lot of pretty good facts in the bible, and there are lots of things that are actually historically accurate. So no I wouldn't say there aren't any good facts
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 113d
Good facts for indoctrinating youth.
I could have been a bit clearer. My bad.
kazerniel@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 116d
I guess it depends on where you look. All the subs I've been visiting where people actually hang out, rather than just a handful of karma farmers spamming, are still flourishing*, so I never fully switched to Lemmy, but use both 🤷 Reddit subs have a magnitude or two more people, so imho they're better for news, memes and technical advice, while for the past couple years Lemmy feels better for insightful conversations.
* my main subs are for specific games and apps, a few countries/regions, and r/BestofRedditorUpdates, so ymmv
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 115d
I think the bot percentage is proportional to how big a subreddit is and how profitable influencing people browsing it is.
Niche community about how to proplift (stealing small cuttings to grow your own plants)? Zero or close to zero bots.
Crypto community with thousands of comments a day, where it's all speculation that can't be objectively disproven* so bots stick out like a sore thumb and tons of money flying around? You better believe the bots are all over that.
kazerniel@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 114d
Makes sense!
Mountainaire@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 115d
Of course there are redditors around; I'm another one of them. We frequent the cool subs like the very human /r/FreeGameFindings and ignore the rest of the noise. Milk Reddit for the best of what it has to offer and dismiss the rest. I see nothing wrong with this approach for as long as Lemmy is still budding, relatively speaking.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 115d
It's mostly the most frequented subreddits that are being brigaded and farmed.
FisicoDelirante@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 115d
I can guarantee you the Argentina subreddit is heavily brigaded by the extreme right. That's the case I know, but it's easy to imagine it happening in a lot of not so popular subreddits
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 115d
I just left last month, I'd say 30% users and rest bots
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 115d
It really depends on the subreddits I think. It was starting to really go downhill before I was booted, but most of the issues floated around political, news and general subreddits from what I could tell.
Get into interests, like football or music and there seemed to be less rubbish and bot accounts so to speak. I guess this makes sense but that’s what I noticed going out the ban door as I was.
JayGray91@piefed.social · 4 pts · 116d
I haven't checked how big the ones that I still frequent there (like /r/manybaggers and /r/onebag) but they do still have organic real people posts. Anything news, tech, or politics, anything of that size, I just abandon any hope they're not troll infested and LLM bots. Not to mention meme subs and themed artwork subs. Just full of vote farming bots. I need the art source, you dinguses!
On the bright side, /r/sbcgaming have a comms here and can also tie into retrogaming
As well as flashlights.
mangobanana@discuss.online · 4 pts · 115d
Idk the nish communities are really helpful, 3d printing, Photoshop help, all that kind of stuff. Hell I even was able to have my Dad's memorial pic photoshopped by somebody. It turned out good too
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 115d
Honestly I find the website borderline unreadable.
On mobile website you haven’t been able to view and replies for a long time. On desktop it’s just so fucking stupid.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 115d
Well, there it is. I don't have a phone.
Clearly my experience is NOT the norm.
(I do have a device at my house that uses VOIP to "act" like a phone)
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 115d
There's no objective data to confirm or dispel your suspicion that there are
zerofew human Redditors (your hyperbole aside).There's definitely tons of bots posting and voting (and likely always has been), but I really doubt a large percentage of commenters are bots.
- A non-bot redditor
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 115d
You are correct. I have been paying attention to this for a few YEARS now. It is just MY observation of events I have seen. It is NOT my opinion, it is MY direct observation.
Clearly more study is needed. By THIS administration? NEVERMIND!
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 115d
Why do you think you're able to detect a bot by their Reddit comments? I strongly suspect you're assuming low-effort, poorly-written comments are bots, when in reality they're probably just dumb people.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 115d
I am 72 years old and I have been on Reddit for 20 years.
I can tell when key words are suppressed by posting the same thing without using those key words.
I'm not just watching what they say, I'm watching what they do, and how FAST they do it.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 114d
I've been on Reddit for decades too, and I disagree with you.
Assuming that a post wasn't made and made visible because it has key words that were censored isn't based on logic; you're guessing.
I type fast enough that to a 72 year old it might look like magic or a bot.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · -14 pts · 116d
Lemmy world does the same thing, but to a lesser extent. Since they have so much of the users on the fediverse, them controlling their front page really controls the votes and who sees what.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 14 pts · 116d
How would that work?
We are all on different instances. With different algorithms, technology, and differing filters. The code doesnt support what your saying.
cadekat@pawb.social · 1 pts · 115d
I know nothing about Lemmy's architecture, but how does my instance tally votes on a post from another instance?
Does it trust that instance? Does it only take into account votes cast on itself? Does it ask every federated instance for their vote totals?
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 4 pts · 115d
Good questions. Its been a bit since ive looked at lemmys code so im going to dive in again.
Here is the docs for the votes themselves. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/blob/main/src/users/03-votes-and-ranking.md
You can see this in action here: https://lemvotes.org/ if I recall.
I know the vote model is here . You can see the logic here. It checks to see if the post is actually available in the community with other functions and other such checks. It doesnt ask any lemmy instance for totals (unless theres something im not aware of), it tallies based on real time data. Which can also include fediverse actions(not necessarily lemmy/piefed/mbin/etc... but also mastodon, gotosocial, and other such services).
One of the things piefed does a bit differently is it bunches up votes for sending to other instances. And there is a backfill operation when puling from new communities or users. I would argue its a bit better than lemmys system at least from a technical perspective. But its a VERY minor one. Its nice we have multiple ways of getting to the same result-ish.
Hope that helps! I dont know everything but I know a little bit.
cadekat@pawb.social · 2 pts · 115d
That's quite interesting, thank you! So for an instance to manipulate votes, they'd have to stream a bunch of fake events.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 116d
If an instance has the most people and blocks those people from seeing your post, delays it from posting, or downgrades it as a source, it could easily be done. They have control over their own instance.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 2 pts · 116d
Can you elaborate? Arent blocks public via the admin logs in lemmy? In addition that info can be pulled from the api from any instance/fediverse protocol.
I can reproduce of need be since i have my own lemmy and piefed instance and have over 20 years of software development experience.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 116d
They* called it shadow banning on reddit, but I think of it more as shadow curating. I explain it a little more in other comments itt. Reddit does the curating as well.
IMO, you could do this live pretty easily. When I first started posting, the trolls would complain that I wasn't consistently online, lol.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 114d
Yeah, but it would be pretty obvious they were doing it.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 116d
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 7 pts · 116d
I dont understand. Can you point to where in the code it has this? The algorithm/stack is open to anyone.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 116d
You can read the code? I can't. It wouldn't even have to be a permanent code. It cold work for say an hour, take the post out of the running for the front page, and then disappear. The effects would be the same.
I know this is happening, I have no idea how.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 116d
Old reddit still has screens and moderation tools that haven't been rebuilt. It's kept on life support for mods right now.
SirHaxalot@nord.pub · 20 pts · 116d
I think you are vastly underestimating the amount of people that only interact with social media through apps in this day and age. Even on Reddit I would be surprised if the old design is more than a few percent of the user base.
It honestly does raise the question of why they are still maintaining the old UI. It seems like it would be an annoying legacy product to keep alive for a tiny part of the user-base. Perhaps it’s used as an API stability canary or something though.
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 116d
Not at all. I'm comparing the vast majority that only consume to a small minority that actually interact and provide the content that others consume. Without that minority all that would be left is bot comments.
Reddit pushes an ad and tracking infested app to make money off the consumers while doing the minimum to keep the content submitters on the site even if they make no money off them. I wouldn't be surprised if old reddit was a couple percent of users but 25% of the comments that aren't bots.
limer@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 115d
I would like to agree that most of the original contributions on Reddit today come from people who use old Reddit.
I know this because while I have not had an account there for a while; when I was there, I networked with others to know trends of how they connected
I don’t think this preference has changed , and probably even more use old now
unglueclass23@programming.dev · 19 pts · 116d
old.reddit.com on mobile is a bit rough but otherwise yeah
Mountainaire@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 115d
Use the Slide fork!
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 116d
from what I heard and saw from some mods (who can see the statistics on the old.reddit usage), it's less than 10%, sadly.
the vast majority is using the shitty new design
frongt@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 116d
Or the app exclusively, and probably aren't aware of the web interface at all.
Reddit went full Facebook by making it more accessible to the general public, with the predictable Eternal September results.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 115d
I have the same thought. I still use Reddit, 100% on Old Reddit and I think objectively you could say I contribute a lot in terms of comments and participation. If old Reddit goes away, I'm done.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 115d
Sadly this is (very popular, according to comments here and on Reddit) copium. old.reddit.com visits are a rounding error, per the traffic stats of the normie subreddit I moderate:
Most people simply do not have the technical acumen and tenure on Reddit to know to type in that subdomain. As always, relevant XKCD (posted today on Lemmy, funnily enough):
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 115d
I said it in another response, it isn't visits I'm talking about, it's about who generates content on the website and what percentage of those users use old.reddit.
It isn't copium either, we are speculating why Reddit keeps up the old version at all, after all this time they must have some analytics that it would significantly harm the site to disable it.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
I don't have any evidence either way as far as who uses old.reddit to submit versus who doesn't, and I don't think there is any.
biscuit@lemdro.id · 3 pts · 116d
Wonder how they feel about people like me, who use a third party Reddit app on Android? They get no ad revenue from me, and I don't contribute either.
arctanthrope@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 116d
how are you still doing that, I thought they all shut down like three years ago with the whole API debacle
biscuit@lemdro.id · 7 pts · 116d
Reddit blocked third party apps but they didn't block personal-use API access. With the help of some apk-editing tools that I won't mention here, you could import your own API key into a third party apps and continue using it fully (including posting and commenting). I'm using Reddit Sync still.
My API key still works, but my understanding is Reddit recently blocked the generation of new keys. So at some point my key will probably die too. At that point, that's the end of Reddit for me.
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 115d
wait recently blocked? did they end up reverting the change they did back when the API thing was done? that was one of the things they did then was restrict API key generation
graynk@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 116d
Hydra works really well on iOS. It's not read only, full usage.
And it behaves and looks really similar to the Lemmy client I use (Voyager). Unsure if they share some of the codebase or if they both just try to imitate Apollo.
Rod_Orm@piefed.world · 3 pts · 116d
On android you can using redreader for free. I'm still using it for anonim read only reddit
pycorax@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 116d
The main change was them charging for the API so you can simply make a developer API key for free and patch it into apps. I'm using Boost and it still works well.
CluckN@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d
AFAIK there are a few, “read only” apps. iOS has RDX, not sure about Android.
graynk@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 116d
I've answered to a sibling comment, but I'll duplicate here. Hydra is not read-only and works really well on iOS.
Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 116d
I use stealth on android. It's limited. Gifs show as links. No where near as good as sync used to be. But still better than the website if I end up there via a google search.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 116d
I think there are still "read-only" clients. I haven't looked in awhile, but I know there were some available via F-Droid (alternative app store) long after the API was cut off. I assume they use standard web scraping for grabbing content.
Also, I'm not sure if it still works, but I think you can still use open source clients that rely on the API, you just have to compile/build them yourself using your account's own personal API key.
I haven't looked into either of these in a while and definitely not an expert on the topic, but I'm sure if you're interested there's enough info out there to find a solution that works for you.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 115d
Well they certainly are driving more people to it by removing /r/all except on the old subdomain.
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 30 pts · 116d
I keep seeing people saying that Reddit will be dead when this or that happens. I've seen a handful of those things come to pass already and reddit it doing just fine.
Most people don't care. They will continue using it. It will survive.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 115d
Reddit is doing fine and Reddit is fine are two different things.
Most users complain consistently about it. That's not a good sign for them.
Their popular posts don't get as many upvotes/comments as they used to. There's definitely a decline in usage.
It's being overrun by bots.
Tons of people are getting bot banned off the platform.
It's not like it's going to just disappear anytime soon. But I've seen this many times before. It's a dying platform. But it'll be a slow death. And by death I mean it'll just become irrelevant compared to other platforms. It'll probably never actually go away. No one I know uses Facebook anymore. It used to be HUGE. We ALL used it. Now it's a ghost town on my feed. I've messaged people and never got a response and run into them at a birthday or something months later and "Oh sorry, I don't check it anymore". It's still there, but may as well not be. That's Reddit's future.
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 115d
I've read this exact comment a hundred and one times before you just wrote it. The average end user does not care. We are a vocal minority.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 115d
It takes time for the comment to bear out in truth. I’d back it though, it’ll be a slow drip but they’ll all be over here in a few years time.
BurgerBaron@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 115d
Two things I noticed was most subreddits that weren't front pagers are getting way less traffic than they used to across the entire site.
The other is why I left: I saw a front page millions of subscribers subreddit go out of their way to temporarily bot purge during the IPO* drama. Upvotes went from 10k+ to...hundreds. Posting frequency fell off a cliff. It was so disturbing I left because I saw that in conjunction with Benn Jordan's video estimating how much of xshitter was bot traffic which he estimated to be a full third of all traffic on xshitler a year ago.
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social · 2 pts · 115d
I'm not defending reddit, nor care if reddit dies, but you are saying shit as if it is fact and not providing any sources to back up anything you are saying, and it might as well be reading nonsense from a Facebook MAGA boomer
sanitation@lemmy.radio · 9 pts · 116d
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 116d
I'm not entirely sure what this does? It automatically creates a copy of a post to lemmy when you post on reddit?
I wonder if a plugin that does the opposite would be helpful? Something that automatically creates a link post on the relevant reddit community when you post on lemmy.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 116d
It died for me the day they got rid of .compact
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 37 pts · 116d
It was the third party apps for me. I never browser Reddit on their site itself.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 116d
Yup.
I'm down to only using Old Reddit on desktop while I'm stuck at work on weekdays. No time for that shithole on weekends.
If Old Reddit goes, that'll be it for Reddit for me.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 115d
Sadly this is (very popular, according to comments here and on Reddit) copium. old.reddit.com visits are a rounding error, per the traffic stats of the normie subreddit I moderate:
Most people simply do not have the technical acumen and tenure on Reddit to know to type in that subdomain. As always, relevant XKCD (posted today on Lemmy, funnily enough):
Thaurin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d
I found the Artemis app and it’s surprisingly close to Apollo and Voyager with Liquid Glass aesthetic and works just as well.
TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 116d
I use OldLander and old Reddit Redirect browser extensions
HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 116d
100%. For any fans of old out there whose Lemmy instance doesn't support it, you can use https://o.opnxng.com/ as a proxy.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d
Agreed
Naich@piefed.world · 0 pts · 116d
biscuit@lemdro.id · 194 pts · 116d
The enshittification continues.
giacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 49 pts · 116d
until morale improves, right?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 44 pts · 115d
Wildone@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 115d
Phantaloons@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 115d
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 116d
Not just of reddit but also for some reason Google (at least for me) often recommends reddit and ranks reddit posts quite highly, so this enshitifies google too.
Google's demise due to socialmedia walled gardens was kind of understandable, but their decision to lean into Reddit and make themselves extra vulnerable to the whims of a corporation they don't own, is entirely in them.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 115d
i think you have reddit and googles position reversed, reddit is pretty much dependant on google almost entirely, they put thier search bar on the top, allows reddit to use its v3 captch3 to catch "bots/ban" , and then thier sudden appearance of using AI to moderate the site.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
When I search for something I often get suggestions for "search term" reddit.
Google have chosen to send people to reddit If reddit make those results unusable that a big fuck up.
MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social · 1 pts · 114d
Yeah i can't see Google keep sending mobile users to reddit.
The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world · 153 pts · 115d
That dumbass app was enough reason why I'm here.
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 115d
I'd say it's responsible for at least 75% of us being here!
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 115d
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.
skankhunt42@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 115d
RedReader still works and isn't all that bad.
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world · 128 pts · 115d
I will not install their app. Period.
DrSoap@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 115d
I hope it ends up pushing more people here!
fizzbang@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 115d
👋 hello it’s me
greenb@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 115d
More people
DrSoap@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 115d
Welcome!! :)
FisicoDelirante@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 115d
At the same time, I'm worried the community will worsen. I feel this is the only place left that feels like old internet.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 114d
It will get different, of course, with more people. But it won't suffer the worst curse of Reddit and Digg: unaccountable, fascist corporate admins. If the admins hadn't become politically captured ban-happy assholes, I'd still be there.
DrSoap@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 115d
I hope not. New fear!
nullify3112@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
I think that people leaving Reddit will go to Bluesky, Instagram and Discord…
Like anywhere but on the fedi.
mangobanana@discuss.online · 4 pts · 115d
To be fair, I didn't know anything about the fediverse until I got banned from Reddit. I had tried all the other platforms you listed but none had the interactions the same as Reddit. Too bad we can't get more publicity somehow.
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 114d
I deleted it a long time ago
Arrandee@lemmy.world · 99 pts · 116d
Maybe its too on the nose to say so on Lemmy, but fuck Reddit right in the earhole. Their pearl-clutching, risk-averse, pro-corporate moderation-bot and tattle-tale system was the last straw.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 34 pts · 116d
You forgot to mention their being the cuckold of Israel, or perhaps the Gimp. Fuck Reddit better dead than Reddit is a username says on here.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 116d
There are still Lemmy users who go to reddit and reddit users who are exploring alternatives.
Onboarding onto Lemmy isn't the best experience and a lot of existing redditors are already afraid of change and don't want to learn a new thing.
I don't know if there is a website dedicated to making it easier for folks to jump ship but I can say that the amount of content on Lemmy now is much higher than it was when I joined.
baizi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 116d
I just want 2009 - 2015 Reddit back, or a place that resembles it. It was just a pleasant time.
albbi@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 115d
Ah yes, right around when Gislane Maxwell was a power user and mod on Reddit.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 115d
i heard she came back recently, but its uncofirmed.
albbi@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 115d
I guess that would line up with her getting transferred to minimum security.
Zombie@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 115d
https://join-lemmy.org/
https://jointhefediverse.net/
https://joinfediverse.wiki/Welcome_to_the_Fediverse_Quickstart_guide
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 115d
i think alot of them go back because of the lack of content, and the federation, plus when an instance vanishes they likely go back in the end.
searabbit@piefed.social · 65 pts · 115d
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.
BigBrownDog@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 115d
"Here's a bunch of lies. We are going to track the fuck out of your dumb ass."
JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 115d
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
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 115d
That sentiment reminds me of this:
searabbit@piefed.social · 1 pts · 115d
I'm surprised they haven't yet. I only go on reddit for specific TV show subreddits, but even that is mostly filled with people clearly hate watching the show.
Syrc@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 115d
Oh I love personalization. When I am the one doing it and not an algorithm doing what it “thinks” is better for me.
Wyb@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 115d
"I Like Money" ~Reddit's shareholders
Naich@piefed.world · 59 pts · 116d
It's pushing this user to not use them any more.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 116d
The best kind of death in cases like this is self inflicted.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 116d
Why do you still go back to it?
Like,every valid reasons (there's lots) to not use it, doesnt matter on the amount of use. Engaging with it or not is the deciding factor.
So I'm genuinely curious why you just reduced usage
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 116d
Because there is an actual user base for niche interests. Lemmy is great but doesn't have nearly enough users to support communities for a lot of topics.
In fact you don't even have to get too niche to find that a topic is non-existent on lemmy. Sports for example.
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 17 pts · 116d
Especially hyper local communities.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 114d
Yep. Not a lot of call for Loud Bang or Penis Owl memes on Lemmy.
ell1e@leminal.space · 9 pts · 116d
Lemmy is great and that's the only place I'm posting.
But yeah, if I'm looking for a past conversation on a niche topic, I'll probably find something to read on reddit.
billbasher@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 115d
I had to go back to get Pokémon Fire Ash working on my R36 emulator. That was literally the only place I could find any information and I still had to do a bunch of debugging after getting the starting point. Then I interacted helping another set of people stuck at the same spot. Only found it through startpage, not Reddits search
Naich@piefed.world · 7 pts · 116d
Boredom. If I get bored enough I'll have a look at the old cess pool.
shneancy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 116d
the problem with reddit is that it used to be amazing, and is still the best place to ask questions (though with the number of bots this is slowly becoming less and less true).
i still vividly remember the time when i spent 2 weeks messaging microsoft support that insisted that i need to replace the device i just bought, even though i repeatedly told them the device works fine with a different machine so something must be wrong with my PC. so i got frustrated and asked the same question on reddit, within a few hours someone diagnosed exactly what was wrong, and gave me tips on how to fix it (or well, in that case i needed to walk around the issue rather than fix it)
and even now whenever i look up tech issues the first results that actually have thought behind the words (instead of sponsorships for whatever driver updating software company bought the article) it's usually on reddit
it's such a shame it's been aggressively going down hill, it could've truly stayed the front page of the internet for decades. all it had to do was not get worse for the user
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 116d
If you have a question, ask it on lemmy then...
The first people asking on reddit couldn't just look up an old thread. And they may have waited days for an answer.
But someone answered, and then everyone else with that we just had to search. And the knowledge spread.
If you just search reddit...
You do understand how that's not helping anything, right?
Like, you could even just make a post here and post the solution you found too. But the only way to fix your complaint is asking questions on lemmy....
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 3 pts · 115d
Do Lemmy threads ever show up on search engines (the way Reddit threads do)? I don't think I've ever had Google or DDG point me toward any fediverse thread or post.
To be perfectly clear, "Make fedi better for the future by hopping aboard and contributing today" is fine, I don't object to that. But is that envisioned future, where a search for "Why doesn't my [X] work with my [Y]" points to the fediverse, even possible in principle? I genuinely do not know the answer.
shneancy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 116d
yeah man but when i have an issue i want a solution to that problem, i'm not thinking about the engagement strategies of social media environments
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 116d
I understand that and even explained what someone like that would do ahead of time...
After you find the answer, you could make a post about the issue and the fix. Preserving that knowledge on Lemmy. If others do that as well, then eventually it will have a base of knowledge.
Which means more people coming here for answers, more people viewing those communities, answering and asking new questions.
Like, if you're just lazy and don't want to contribute anything, cool...
But why bother arguing about this?
Why is this more important to you?
shneancy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
man, imagine calling people lazy for not wanting to do double the work just so a social media platform has more content
why don't you start archiving all tech issues from reddit since you have so much free time?
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 114d
Lots of subcultures I care about exist only on Reddit. Queer ones, crafting ones, comics, art, science, etc. So when I got banned, it was a bit of a kick in the gut. Lemmy does not have the breadth of content yet, but it does have the queer, and importantly, the ability to talk politics again that I did not have any more on Reddit.
Zacryon@feddit.org · 50 pts · 115d
You guys are still using reddit?
drath@lemmy.drath.ru · 12 pts · 115d
For porn, exclusively
lordziv@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 115d
This man gets it 👆
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
Yep
I have a bit of a following there for the stuff I create
Lemmy just doesn't compare
mangobanana@discuss.online · 3 pts · 115d
I did too, until they ip banned me for using a vpn
victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 115d
Surely there are better sources? What kinda kinks you got? Lots of furry shit?
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 115d
Yeah it’s actually pretty top notch for that across the board, kinks or otherwise.
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
They blocked NSFW content for users who aren't logged in last I checked. Still the case? I refuse to test it by visiting their cancer site.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 115d
No idea. When I got booted, I deleted my account and haven’t been back other than random internet searches.
I have enough personal experiences I can draw on for rubbing one out. What was really good were the OF people dropping their enticers for people to sign up. They’re good at what they do, the porn is realistic.
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
Same, I sometime go to redgifs if the wife isn't up to it, and the content there is quite good but you gotta dig for it in the niches. The front page is filled almost entirely with immediate full frontal dildo fucking with ahegao and I'm so fucking not into that.
I need buildup, some romance, some passion. Otherwise it's boring.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 114d
Reality is important to me with it. This contrived created stuff you see with professional work, its just not real.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 115d
They've fucked the interface with redgifs for countries that require age verification
I'm verified, because I'm a content creator, but reddit doesn't recognise it
They'll probably fix it quickly given how heavily they rely on porn traffic
markon@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 115d
The T&A need to come this wayy
DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 115d
I use reddit to lurk in niche communities that have zero to no presence here.
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 115d
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 116d
Reddit is a shit hole.
Karmanopoly@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 115d
Reddit needs to die like digg did
diplomatic_immunity@lemmy.zip · 42 pts · 115d
I hate reddit. They blocked all of my accounts for no reason. And they're so vague explaining why, and when I tried to appeal, the whole site crashed. Literally joined Lemmy yesterday.
Lexam@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 116d
I expect another migration from reddit to lemmy. I'm not saying we are going to explode, but expect some new people in the next few weeks.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 116d
September comes early
BigBrownDog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 115d
There's not a lot of people here and I expect it to stay that way. I do not foresee the Fediverse growing that much, but I could be wrong.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 115d
too many people scattered on lemmy, piefed,,,etc. after .ee fell it got less people.
BigBrownDog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 115d
It's all the same platform though, right,?
captchacrunch@piefed.social · 3 pts · 116d
I'm on piefed, seems good!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 115d
i dont see a large migration like with last year, it was only due to them purging so many users. reddit realized that they PURGED way too much which would just make the bots obvious, and lower engagment, i think they step off the pedal a bit, but still shadowbanning people though. they just arnt doing straight up bans(which notifies the users)
MithranArkanere@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 115d
Good.
The more of this they do, the more people move to federated sites.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 116d
Fuck u/spez
morto@piefed.social · 34 pts · 116d
Next, they will stop allowing to register with random email without confirmation
Edit: jut found out they already did it lol. Then next step will be to require phone number for all new accounts
frongt@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 116d
They used to not require email at all. Did that change?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 116d
A long time ago now, literally years and years ago.
moakley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
So that's at least four.
morto@piefed.social · 4 pts · 116d
Yes. They have been turning more and more restrictive
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 116d
Yeah they did that a while ago, I think they even block temp emails (unsuccessfully)
TheMuffinMan@piefed.world · 5 pts · 115d
I haven't been able to post to reddit in years now, because I refuse to browse it without a VPN, and while it still lets me in, any account that I make immediately gets shadowbanned as soon as I make a post or a comment.
I can't tell if it's because their bot filter is just terribly implemented, or because they don't want me on their platform if I don't surrender my public IP address.
I'm pretty sure they just use a "how many different accounts under the same public IP" type of logic, because even if I create an account on a 4G network (no VPN) and post, this happens. Cellular networks often use double NAT (unique internal/carrier IP, shared public IP) to avoid allocating a public IP to each mobile device.
I've given up a long time ago. My only exposure to reddit now is when a search results page links me to a post. The most helpful stuff is usually from a decade ago or earlier.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 115d
nahh, next is age verification :)
mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 33 pts · 115d
Welcome Reddit refugees! (Dumb assholes, bots and shills notwithstanding.)
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 115d
That first part is notwithstanding a very high percentage of us!
oldwoodenship@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 115d
I left when my last account got banned because I suggested a way for dealing with billionaires may or may not include removing their head from the rest of their body.
Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip · 33 pts · 116d
Reddit? The porn site?
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 115d
Yeah. It's a shame, I heard there used to be some great porn material there.
suburbanl3g3nd@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 115d
If you're on Firefox, download a user agent plug in and change your your browser to say it's a tablet or windows pc. Problem solved. I already do this when their page locking pop-up started bothering me lol
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 9 pts · 115d
If you're on Android then use the Nora app from F-droid.
If you've got a home server then self-host Redlib. I run this through Gluetun VPN and it has the added benefit of not needing age verification (UK) and imgur working properly and needs no account for making a list of subscribed feeds.
SupraMario@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
Just wanted to say, Nora is awesome! It's trillian for social media crap.
victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 115d
It even supports Threads, huh
googleplusigotthatshit.mpeg
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 115d
I just installed Nora, and it blew me away! Thanks, friend!!
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 2 pts · 115d
Very pleased to have blown you. Enjoy.
fodor@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 115d
sanitation@lemmy.radio · 27 pts · 115d
AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 115d
I don't understand what it does, is it for easier reposting?
sanitation@lemmy.radio · 4 pts · 115d
sevenoverthree@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 114d
I just got banned for saying that I look forward to watching leopards eat James Comey's face. They took it as a literal call for violence. The only thing that doesn't make it perfect is that it wasn't on r/leopardsatemyface.
I would say reddit has fully gone to shit, but somehow I think it still has a ways lower to sink.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 115d
enshittification gets shittier
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 115d
Once it became the place to go to find knowledgeable answers (for free) it had to be destroyed.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 115d
Fuck you spez.
Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 115d
webkitten@piefed.social · 24 pts · 115d
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 115d
Day they do that is the day I never go back to Reddit.
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
That day should've come and gone my friend. Actively avoid it!
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 115d
I would love to be 100% Lemmy but there's still a lot more users and discussions on Reddit. It's getting better, but it's not yet at critical mass for me
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
I don't visit Reddit out of principle. I don't care that there are more discussions and more fun content and game dev updates and stuff there that I'm missing. I mourn the loss, but I will never go back and visit Reddit. Mustn't give them traffic.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 114d
I don't blame you. I'm not quite at that point yet, but I'm not far off.
If they kill or nerf Old Reddit I'll probably be done.
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 113d
Understandable. It's a big step to take.
It's liberating though. Like a recovering alcoholic able to say they are sober without relapsing. 😄
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 113d
I don't have a problem! I can stop whenever I want! :P
Thing is- I don't use reddit for 'scrolling', mainly for participation in various discussions. That makes it a lot harder to replace...
dhruv3006@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 115d
They never learn.
AlJones@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 115d
Thats why I'm back here 🐱
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 115d
Welcome home 😌
Phantaloons@piefed.zip · 22 pts · 115d
Good idea, Reddit.
opens redreader
victorz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 115d
How does that work? I thought Reddit effectively banned third-party apps by forcing API usage fees?
Either way, I wouldn't browse Reddit now even if they reneged on the API scandal. Bridge has been burned, and the political landscape there seems horrid nowadays.
Monstrosity@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 115d
I read somewhere (who knows where) Red Reader focuses on visual impaired accessibility features so Reddit Corp waives the api fees. I assume it's cheaper for them than developing accessibility features into the official app.
daddycool@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 114d
That's correct. The only restriction is that you can't see NSFW posts.
victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 115d
Wow, interesting. I'm conflicted about how to feel about that.
46_and_2@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 115d
Maybe like Boost for Reddit - it can be patched with Revanced and you can still use it
Pistcow@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 116d
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.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · -6 pts · 116d
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.
deathbird@mander.xyz · 22 pts · 114d
It's just websites. I'm not downloading your shitty app to look at your website. That's what a browser is for.
Samsy@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 116d
user_aready_exists@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 114d
If you paste this into your my filters tab on Ublock Origin, it'll block the element blocking you from the page, but yes that's why I made a Lemmy account, because fuck reddit.
reddit.com#?##app-upsell-blocking-bottom-sheet-seo:remove() reddit.com#%#//scriptlet('prevent-addEventListener', 'touchmove', 'preventDefault') reddit.com#%#//scriptlet('remove-class', 'rpl-scroll-lock|scroll-is-blocked', 'html, body', 'asap stay') reddit.com#$#html, body, shreddit-app { overflow-y: scroll !important; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch !important; touch-action: pan-y !important; overscroll-behavior: auto !important; }
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 116d
More Lemmy signups incoming.
bequirtle@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 115d
the humble "request desktop site" button
MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 115d
I'm using this to suggest that Lemmy is better. Sneaky but fun.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 115d
My default use of mobile browsers
WhisperingEye@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 115d
This was the push I needed to delete my reddit account and I did it yesterday
404found@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 115d
This was happening to me but then stopped and I'm not sure why.
I already deleted Reddit from my bookmarks and started adding -reddit.com into my Google searches. If there was an easy way to default -reddit.com into every search then I would do it.
h0rnman@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 115d
Create a custom search provider. Search URL should be like:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%25s+-ai+-redditYou can just keep stringing the additional terms that you want excluded. I'm sure there's some limit but you probably won't hit it
Edit: apparently either lemmy or boost doesn't like percent signs. Or URL encoding for that matter. The first part should be (percent character)s, and the plus signs should be (percent character)20. Though the + will probably work as-is depending on how your browser does things
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 115d
Better use the actual
-site:domainfunction to filter out by domain directly. You can in example search everything about Reddit, without results from Reddit itself:PrejudicedKettle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 115d
I don't know of a way with Google, but with Kagi, I can block, penalize, or promote domains from my search results.
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 115d
Their app performs worse than running their website on Firefox. That's a technical feat of its own.
BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 114d
Reddit really sucks. Once you get one temporary ban, the automated system really fucks you at any point in the future.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 116d
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
orclev@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 116d
Libredirect, that is all.
sanitation@lemmy.radio · 1 pts · 116d
arc99@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 115d
Using an app means more bloat, more ads, more notifications, more forced engagement and more tracking. Since the site very clearly works through a mobile browser there is no technical reason for doing this. It is about forcing people to doom scroll this shit rather than check in from time to time.
oldwoodenship@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 115d
Yeah I’m not using their app. I don’t want my information and data harvested so they can learn how to better sell useless shit to people.
jiggerbyte@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 115d
f*ck reddit but i miss the steam and steam deck subreddits
ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 114d
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 115d
I've corrected the headline for you. Thank me later, alligator.
sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 115d
Read-only and not as polished as some of the older commercial versions, but https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.cosmos.unreddit/ also works. They have different access methods like web scraping. Works well enough for lurking when Reddit isn't blocking my VPN, which they seem to block/unblock at random.
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
Really nice design in that app. Looks very polished actually. 💎
Auth@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 115d
So much information will be lost by locking it behind an app. I hope lemmy is ok answering 20 years worth of reddit questions because we are going to need to document all that information somewhere.
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 115d
It's crap like this that's the reason why I started looking for alternatives like Lemmy. Reddit is getting a little too big for their britches.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 115d
Well - I guess I'll just skip the occasional visit to their site then. Had no account anymore anyways. gfys spez
BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 115d
gilokee@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 115d
old.reddit works fine~
Zetta@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 115d
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.
Neural_drift@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 115d
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
SupraMario@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 115d
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
drmoose@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 115d
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.
Neural_drift@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 111d
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?
drmoose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 111d
Huge PR nightmare for little gain
Thegreatface@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 114d
lemmy is way better than reddit
lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 115d
If only Lemmit accepted new subreddits, this would have been a no-issue…
I’ll miss some subreddits 🤷♂️
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 116d
Not the first time, they seem to do that like once a year in my experience.
On my (Android) device, the recent blocking is already gone again, having lasted about two weeks.
It is a common strategy: first fix them on, then make life inconvenient for them to push for the next stage (be it app installation, more screen time or paying for stuff).
Seems like Reddit has moved on to the next "fixing on" stage again.
EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 116d
Every time they make a change, users shift/leave. I now use Chrome instead of the app. Once they block it on chrome to force people back to their enshittified app, then I just won’t use it anymore.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 115d
it works on firefox. but reddit on the browser with ironfox fork, it does something wierd, everytime you backspace out of a thread, sub it automatically refreshes the page and puts you at the top of the feed.
mintiefresh@piefed.social · 7 pts · 116d
I'm glad the fediverse exists. People really ought to move on from Reddit and big tech in general ... Where possible.
kepix@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 115d
iphone lol
schuelermine@leminal.space · 7 pts · 115d
Both the Reddit app and the Reddit website are absolute travesties
iuseasahibtw@ani.social · 6 pts · 115d
The Reddit manchild fanbase are just grown up tablet kids at this point. Makes sense to push them to an app on their phone.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 116d
Unsurprising. The complete lack of concern from spez for the backlash to the appocalypse was the main reason I left. It signaled both that he is a condescending douche and that there's likely to be more.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 115d
he made his 250mil package, he doesnt care.
MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 116d
God, and the app actually sucks such a bag of dicks. I use it as infrequently as I possibly can because it actively fights me trying to get what I need from it.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 116d
Does it even support tabs yet?
Maybe I'm old but I browse link aggregators by opening a bunch of tabs then going through them, I'd your app doesn't support tabbed browsing what's even the point?
EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 115d
Good, makes it easier to leave that garbage heap of a website.
homes@piefed.world · 6 pts · 116d
lol
(I can still access it, but still…)
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 116d
So it
beginscontinues...zeroConnection@programming.dev · 5 pts · 115d
Are there still people on Reddit?,
Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 116d
lmao the single use case I have for reddit, searching (thing) reddit is gonna go away. probably for the better
northernlights@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 116d
Good timing, I just deleted my account last night.
JenitalJouster@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 115d
haven’t seen any issues yet on ios? using the reddit site with sink it for reddit and it’s been fine so far, albeit slow with a vpn at times
drmoose@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 115d
old.reddit.comis unaffectedzerofk@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 115d
The few times I click a link to a Reddit post I immediately change www to old. That new monstrosity is unusable.
rojoverano@leminal.space · 5 pts · 115d
This app has been going to shit but the fact that they shut Apollo down and permabanned me for criticizing the USA government sealed the deal
lol_idk@piefed.social · 5 pts · 115d
If you must…
Sink it for Reddit on iOS
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id6449873635
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 4 pts · 116d
Oh no. Guess I will continue to not go to that enshittified dumpster fire of a website.
Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 115d
ITT, "I hate reddit" x Infinity, lulz
berno@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 114d
Fuck Reddit, fuck spez, fuck all the mods on that site. Nuke it from orbit
Bristlecone@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 115d
Hilarious
Onlykievv@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 116d
It's a shame that reddit got more restrictive with his api...
Before you could use third-party clients without problems, apart from that the app is a complete trash
realitista@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 116d
Jokes on them, i use neither.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 116d
Those nazi lovers really are just going to do it themselves.
teslasaur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 114d
Starts? They've done it since long before the api prize increase.
chahn.chris@piefed.social · 3 pts · 116d
I love this for them.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 115d
They're still doing it? When I accidentally click a reddit link I don't get the paywall anymore.
Or maybe they saw that it was a 100% bounce rate from me and then reverted the behavior (like a cookie with a counter, after 20 bounces don't show the paywall anymore?)
Eh_I@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 114d
Can you use the app without a login? It would suck to not be able to access twenty years of troubleshooting help for everything.
scytale@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 116d
rdx for IOS works fine for browsing/lurking. Obviously you can’t log in because of the API shit, but it works fine if you just need to look up something.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 116d
Works for Android too though
scytale@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 115d
Oh I just didn’t know it had an android counterpart.
henfredemars@lemdro.id · 3 pts · 115d
I figured out that it always works for me if I only ever visit the site with private browsing, clearing everything on exit.
But seriously, if they cut me off, I’m just not going. It’s barely worth it as it is.
Elilol@fedinsfw.app · 3 pts · 116d
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 116d
Starts? Didn't this happen like a month or two ago?
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 115d
I don't even bother with reddit anymore
MrKoyun@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
I saw this recently, it had an X button to close for me.
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 115d
RDX is the only way I view reddit now, when I have to.
Teknikal@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 115d
I'm using a patched infinity but it kind of depends if you ever made an api key or not I think. Morphe I think can patch the official reddit app but I wouldn't want to use it even patched if I'm honest.
Opal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 115d
I'm still using a patched Boost.
herculeskan@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 114d
I hate the close source softwares and I definitely hate the anti-christ
sakphul@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 113d
The interesting thing is that it does not look like a permanent/always thing. A couple of days I also got these Pop-Ups (which you can circumvent by using "Desktop-Mode" in your mobile Browser) but I do not get them anymore. Is some kind of A/B testing ongoing or did they remove the changes?
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 116d
What is reddit?
Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 116d
Famous porn site.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 115d
Fedinsfw ftw
thechosen2nd@piefed.social · 1 pts · 115d
Lol
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 116d
Proxy the full website through a remote session then. My phone can hit the site off a pc at home easy enough.
boogiebored@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d
no
lithiumground@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 114d
True !
utopiah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 115d
Perfect, I might even set my UA for reddit to mobile then, I need an "excuse" to keep on using it less. I still browse it without an account but I should lose the habit.
Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 115d
When I can no longer use Boost to access reddit, I'm totally done with it (which I expect is pretty soon)
daggermoon@piefed.world · 0 pts · 116d
They've been doing this forever.