1y ago

Current state of Reddit

My friend sent me this, the current state of Reddit. (I left during the app issue and haven't looked back)

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Used to browse Reddit daily. Once Reddit is Fun closed, I only go on to search for an answer.
Now it is Lemmy daily.
- Yep, same. Multiple times daily, created posts, commented a lot.
  Deleted all my accounts.
  
  And if you deleted all your comments... they undeleted everything.
- The way Spez and the admins treated Apollo's dev was more than enough for me to leave Reddit, and that's before the shit he said about the vulnerable users of his site (essentially seeing them as dollar signs - I know CEOs are scummy but holy fuck).
  
  whats this about the vulnerable users?
- Open Lemmy, nothing new, close Lemmy. Open Lemmy again to check if something new. Nothing new.
  
  Live life, check back in six hours, all new.
  Everything top six hours is the best.
  
  That's the idea. Helps you not become a dopamine addicted mess.
- Same for me. Once RIF died my time with Reddit died as well. But i really try not tongo back, but sometimes some answers are only easily found there.
- I somehow was banned for “hate”. I literally have 0 idea what I could have possibly said. I appealed, of course nobody actually reads those and I am still perma banned. 10 years of history. Oh well. To Lemmy it is.
  
  Oh I remember saying something along the lines of Ron Desantis was a dirty diaper and should be thrown out in the trash on a conservative Reddit.
  The mods tried to have me banned over it and said I was harassing them. Unbelievable when all they did was talk smack about everyone. I learned when Reddit suspended my account over mods being butthurt that it was going down the drain.
- Same but with Sync for Reddit instead, now I use Sync for Lemmy.
- This. There’s a handful of subreddits that aren’t on Lemmy that I miss but generally speaking I’ve got everything I need on Lemmy. I’m also a lot more engaged here.
- And once I can figure out a better wildcare search for the fediverse, I won't visit Reddit at all!
- I used to check Reddit pretty often, at least once every other day. Now I've found I use Lemmy rarely. I use Reddit more often still but that's just to look up questions or get help with some issue. I mostly just use Discord now, and am only checking here because it's down.
  ~~u/K4sum11 on Reddit if you're curious~~

- That’ll be $49.99, pal.
  
  Um excuse me are you gonna pay for that?
  
  I hope people start posting pictures like this instead of paying for them
  
  Hold it. Hoooooold it.
- I love the vibrant colours of that vomit.
  
  I was just thinking the same thing. More than the usual amount of love went into that one, and most people probably wouldn't even stop to notice. The subtle fade-out at the top. That is some pleasing vomit.

... and I am starting to see user agent and VPN blocks now just within the last few days... It's officially over, so glad to be here. Been in the fediverse since the API shutdown. Bouncing between instances. First post on this one! Absolutely no regrets.
- Yeah I read they tried to play that off as an accident. You don't "accidentally" block VPN users. That just doesn't accidentally happen. They're obviously attempting to do it, just waiting to deploy it. The anonymous social network sure does seem like they want you to not be anonymous.
  
  Is that what happened? I occasionally check reddit at work since it's unfortunately still one of the better places for actual answers to things, and in the last few days I've needed to use old.reddit.com to get around getting blocked. VPN block explains a lot.

I am constantly amazed that anyone is still using that corporate dumpster fire of a website
- "See you next week," one user smugly commented to me on my way out.
  I haven't been back, and I haven't missed it.
  
  The overwhelming smugness was the very thing that finally got me to leave lol
  
  Lol I left with the APIcalypse, and I was an official app user, no regrets and never looked back. Why would anyone go to that shithole when you have the fediverse?
  
  To be honest, they were right as often as they were wrong. Plenty of folks who proclaimed they’d never return to Reddit returned within the month. Some of the most outspoken were the quickest. I find the mods who returned particularly giggle-worthy.
  
  Oh, I saw a lot of those lmao.
  
  Im sure Id have gotten said responses too, but ai kinda got my account suspended shortly before. The closest ive gotten on lemmy is that ive had some comments removed for valid reasons, and then their the fact that I think one of the world news mods has a grudge against me or their tools blanket remove comments.

God... I can barely remember the time before the top comment threads of every goddamned post were always lazy strings of circle-jerky jokes that you could predict before even clicking into the thread.
- I could barely remember too, then I took an arrow to the knee!
  
  Something something narwhal bacon
  
  I understood that reference!!!!!!!
- Don't you love it when they're not even made by humans, but it's just bots copying the top comment from the last time it got posted
- I was hoping when I came over here it would be more like the good old days of reddit. And i think it is, but barely. Plenty of the low quality shit made the jump as well.
  Just look at this thread. Sort by top. The top post is circle jerking about people left reddit for here. The next top post is a vomiting emoji. A fucking emoji. I haven't even been here that long and the comments in this thread were predictable in the same exact way.
  
  I feel like that's more of the state of how we communicate with eachother. Verbal communication is increasingly low effort and low quality just like any social media platforms I've been on. The only exception is hyper niche communities who's main focus is on the actual INFORMATION. Ultimately, low importance/helpful post are going to have low importance/helpful responses.

ngl I haven't been back to reddit since the exodus, but my youtube watching has gone up waaay too high.
- Honestly, same. Between the algorithm throwing wild but entertaining YouTube shorts and me starting to watch longer more educational content, I find myself going on the reddit mobile site very rarely.
- I'm in this exact same boat and I don't love it. I don't know if my ADHD is acting up or if YouTube has made my productivity take a nosedive (got fired a month ago due to it), but I can't help myself from watching hours of YouTube a day. I feel like reddit was at least easier to disengage from in order to be productive.

I can't even open reddit on a phone nowadays, cause my preferred sub have 18+ posts and reddit don't let you access that if you not logged in. Also, there a notification, that I need to use shitty official mobile app. Also, there notification to login via google. Also, there a notification... Nope, I not using this shit ever again.
- For the occasional time where I’m troubleshooting something and Reddit has the only solution on an “unmoderated sub” or one with 18+ posts, I just change the “www” in the URL to “old”, and get the old, non mobile friendly UI. It lets you bypass the other app popups, etc. Sometimes when you go into a post you’re back in the new UI, and might get another pop up, but backing out or changing the url to “old” usually solves it in my experience.
- Firefox mobile now has a full suite of extensions, including old reddit redirect to bypass all that bs. It's the only way I access reddit anymore for answers/the last few niche communities that haven't been built up on lemmy yet.
  
  I thought about doing that but then I decided that I don't care about the opinions of people who somehow put up with all that shit
- What's your favorite sub (asking for a friend)

Lmao they removed their somewhat unique award system with charm and replaced it with colored arrows

On another topic, what kind of complete nonsense is that comment section?
It reads like if my phone's autocomplete decided to go haywire one day and start spitting out random associated phrases: "Pablo Escobar... Colombian Drug Lord... District of Columbia...hungry hungry hippo..."
I don't even know which is worse, that these are all bots, or there are actually multiple people who thinks posting these in public is a good idea.
- Pablo Escobar lived in Columbia and owned hippos.
  Just because you don't get a joke doesn't mean it was written by a bot, you goon.
  edit - I just realized that I called esteemed character performer Margot Robbie a goon. Many apologies. I respect your dedication to the craft.
  
  I get all the references, but making a chain of references without any jokes isn't exactly funny.
  Meta comedy is overused to the degree that it is difficult to do it well.
  
  He lived in Colombia*, which I assume is how D.C. snuck into the comments. Took me a sec to follow that jump.
  
  I just realized that I called esteemed character performer Margot Robbie a goon. Many apologies.
  What's wrong with her posting on Something Awful?!
  
  I just realized that I called esteemed character performer Margot Robbie a goon. Many apologies. I respect your dedication to the craft.
  You should do an AMA. How did it feel being touched by god?
- Maybe they're bots that don't know they are bots

Audacity aside, wtf is the difference between the $1.99 and 3.99 gold???
- ´⁠◔⁠‿⁠ゝ⁠◔⁠`⁠)⁠━⁠☞ $2
- It's "3D"
- You lose more money
- One flat and the other is 3D
- $2 is flat (apart from its rounded edges). $4 rises to a raised ridge in a line down the middle.
- Slight definition on the $4 one
- How much the “designer” moved the Inner Bevel slider to the right.
- Electrolytes.
  
  It’s what plants crave
- Afaik, it's multiples. So it goes 2 gold, 3 gold, 5 gold, etc. This means nothing to the vast majority of users, but a tiny minority may possibly get some of that money passed onto them if they fulfill Reddit's myriad of requirements to be part of the "Contributor Program" .

Each of those arrows is uglier than the last

Fifty bucks? Are the bits made of gold?
- It's only there to make the other ones look cheap.
  
  It didn't succeed.

Are reddit paying contributors, moderators or people creating posts¿? If no then how are they claiming that buying a golden upvote supports contributors
- About 3 months ago? They killed off the old award system. Gold, platinum, ternium , and the 100 other things you could add to posts or comments with reddit coins were Thanos snapped out of existence.
  Now theres golden up votes where somehow if I spend real money and give something a golden upvote, the writer could receive real money (only for some countries). Don't know all the details as I figured I wouldn't be receiving any and wasn't going to be giving any.
  
  Reddit embracing tipping and gig culture.
- Very good point!
  I am not a lawyer but isn't this something that is technically illegal? Or perhaps not, do donations need to be truthful in plain terms of how the funds are used ?
  The only way I can see donating to reddit could be argued as helping/supporting contrubiters by having the platform and audience available.
  
  do donations need to be truthful in plain terms of how the funds are used ?
  I think in 2023 parlance the claim is probably plain enough to be "truthful".
  Giving gold supports the contributors you love
  It's pretty well established that receiving gold on reddit is perks like... a gold star or something, rather than actual real gold.
- Exposure Ü

Very MTX-heavy mobile game aesthetic.

Hopefully the fact that they felt the need to do this means they're doing badly financially (and hopefully this doesn't help with that)

These arrows look like they were AI generated. "Make the arrow look more golden"
- Now says it's more bots than humans, only small subs have more real humans IMO.

LMAO, imagine paying someone for content and then having a Reddit bot (or human) to copy it here for Lemmy.
Is this the new NFT lol?

This has gotta be the stupidest (and honestly ugliest) alternative to Reddit awards.
Thanks for the crudely gold-colored-brass up vote, kind stranger.

This entire screenshot looks horrible.

Giving Gold supports the contributors you love
Is... is this implying the person who got gilded gets a cut? Huh?
- Yes
  
  Interesting how they never say how much real money gold and upvotes are worth to these contributors
- Or they funnel it all to GallowBoob or whoever his replacement is.
  
  I've never had so much irrational hate for an online person than I did for that guy.

Anyone remember Kai’s Power Tools for Photoshop? Those arrows certainly do.

r/todayilearned
Well, today you learned that this is the current state of Reddit.

What a garbage place.

Mildly hilarious

Has no one here heard of redreader
Its still up due to an exemption iirc
- Yep. Still not interested.
  
  Reddit wouldn't exist without the third-party clients. The state of Reddit is already being doomed to fail.
  
  Oh okay 👍
- When I need something, I go through my self-hosted libreddit instance.
  I've also set up autoforwarding in case I accidentally click a Reddit link in the wild.
- QuantumBadger's RedReader for Android was the way I used Reddit for 6 years because the official app was hot trash and it still is shit.
  I still stopped using Reddit entirely after July, because it that site sucks donkey balls. Lemmy all the way, baby.
  Don't forget the fact that Redditcorp was treating RedReader along with the rest of the app developers with a "put up or shut up" attitude, despite them eventually caving and providing an exception from the blackout. There are still some good communities there I'm sure, but the site as a whole has lost my trust, so they don't get my contributions anymore.
- Re-dreader? What a strange name.
  I too dread going back to that site.

I thought Reddit killed off gold earlier this year?
- That was old gold. This is NEW gold. You can tell the difference by how much more NEW this NEW gold is.
  
  And they killed the original gold years ago when they added platinum which turned into the orgy of trophies
  
  This is why I only bother with latinum, gold is worthless.
- This is "New Gold", soon to be replaced with "Gold Classic"

Reddit was always this way.

It would be great if Lemmy's devs implemented loosely based (for fair use) copies of these and gave them for free :)
- I want them to be banana stickers
- (yoinked from elsewhere in this comment section)

Hahahahahahah holy shit holy fucking shit

Heh, money buying people's upvotes. Good grief

spez is hungryyyyy [insert The Idiot's Lantern Doctor Who episode monster]

Never heard of that website

So you can't get that gold thing to go away?

If you use the official app that's on you.
- There's no other apps anymore. Which of course is the whole point.
  
  Redreader
  
  Of course there are. I'm still using Infinity.
- "You people who use the Reddit app that Reddit recommends you use after shutting down almost every other app that you can use to check Reddit? You people are idiots!"
  
  Yes, mainly for still using Reddit at all.

You whiners are funny. Circlejerk just as bad as Reddit but think you're different.
- Yeah but I'm not out here paying $50 to put some pixels on someone else's post. Cry more

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