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Haven’t been on Reddit for over 2 years
It all went downhill when the government killed Aaron Swartz.
Man I know I’m the minority here, but once I see a paywall, age verification, or logon block, I just move on with my life. It’s not that important… Or there are other sources.
The day they blocked my old.reddit is the day I came over here. It honestly was easier than I thought, there are only a handful of communities I really miss, and those were all getting filled with AI bots anyways. It’s emptier here, but at least I’m talking to actual people.
I came over well before that but I’d still land on the odd link from search or something. Then it asked me to sign in and now I ingore reddit links 🤷
Red-what? What the fuck is that?
Where you came from
Ohhh. The dark place. Botville. I hardly remember it at all now.
Fuck Reddit.
Fuck Spez.
Fuck you, spez.
So if I understand this right… people who left because they were mad, won’t have an old reddit to ever come back to if they ever decide to go back and haven’t logged in for awhile?
yes, around 6 months or you can become a moderator
So just make your own sub is enough?
It likely will only work for that sub. Betchya Redit will still block users from subs you don’t actively moderate
been banned on reddit for stating the truth already and tried many times to fix things. reddit is anti free speech on all accounts when it was nothing inflamatory just stating truth and their mods are mostly corrupt anyway for their industry agendas. lots of ai bots and spam. useless platform when it gets incorporated it becomes useless
At the end of the day that site is private property and at anytime the owners can boot anyone out they deem as “harmful”.
Reddit is mostly ai bots, & bots, and maybe a few genuine users.
I had my 18yo account 0erma-banned by ai. Then, ai reviewed ai … … ai said ai was correct but would send it up for further review… … by another ai. Who sent it to a human… … and the human sent me an apology. “Sometimes, we get things wrong. Your account has now been fully re-instated. We are sorry.” … and then ai stepped in and overrode the humans mods.
HAL 9000 is not fiction.
Lemmy are also bots.
Yeah and all they’ve been trained on are Linux distros and Star Trek forums.
Old.reddit still works fine on firefox on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 8+ but my PC, pixel fold, and every other device only lets me view the old style when browsing multiple subreddits. If I want to see an individual subreddit I append the address with a banned sub e.g. old.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales+narcofootage.
It was good while it lasted. Join Digg and geocities I guess. Reddit In Peace
My thoughts exactly
Reddit is gone move on
Was there for about 15 years. Been gone for over a year and I’m not looking back.
This is the modern reality of capital capturing digital communities.
More like deaddit amiright?
I have to say, this war on Old Reddit is doing wonders to curb my Reddit use.
Also the “you must use the app!!!” banner that appears after 30 seconds is fantastic on mobile, as they are actively preventing me to continue reading and doomscroll.
It’s like “no! Bad dog! You already got your info. Now close your tab and go back to Lemmy”
It’s actually amazing how quickly it killed my usage of the site. I deleted my account years ago but still lurked every now and then. Now I literally can’t go back, I won’t download the app and the new site layout is pretty much unusable for me.
I stopped commenting years ago. Old reddit changes stopped me browsing too.
I used Stealth for a while, and it was awesome, but it would go in and out, and a few months ago it just stopped working completely.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
We know RSS has been a beloved part of the open web for a long time, and we’re grateful to everyone who used it to stay connected to Reddit,
It’s like they aren’t even listening to the words they are saying themselves
Its a good thing Aaron isn’t alive to see the thing he created being stripped away from the other thing he created.
Eh, Aaron didn’t create Reddit. He came in after a year or so
Oh God they are dumping RSS too? Fucking hell that’s the only way I even use that platform anymore since it means getting a handful of news updates on some games without going there.
Yeah, last nail in the coffin for me. Fucked if I’m gonna wade through more than titles to sort through the bullshit. Maybe RSS-Bridge can save us, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Wonder how bad their real user numbers will tank.
Yeah, they actually said the quiet part out loud.
