• umbraroze@lemmy.world
    26·
    1 month ago

    My gosh that Reddit app icon is horrible. It looks like a terrible meme NFT or something. …Which was probably the aesthetic they were going for, to be clear.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    27·
    30 days ago

    I haven’t looked at the front page of Reddit since the exodus. I have used it to deshittify Google search results but that’s it. I imagine it’s absolute garbage by now.

    • LemUrun@pawb.social
      2·
      30 days ago

      I rarely touched that shithole called the front page. Mainly in Redditplanet for Windows Mobile, since you can’t login there.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      18·
      30 days ago

      Same. Unfortunately I still need to visit smaller subreddits to get answers on niche topics, but that’s my only use for it now. In and out; 10 minute adventure. Not spending all day on the front page like I used to. Any more time than that on the website, and I’ll just end up getting into an argument with some Gen Alpha idiot who feels the need to butt in and say something ignorant. 10-15 years ago you’d only see that kind of behavior during summer break. Now /r/SummerReddit is all of reddit.

      I hope that one day I can finally abandon that shithole for good.

      • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
        4·
        28 days ago

        I went and looked last night out of curiosity, and found absolutely vile racism on r/Canada talking about immigration. It was just shy of "deport them all’ in the comments.

        • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
          15·
          24 days ago

          Was it racist or did you just not like their opinion

          Do you understand how housing shortage with price gouging, wage suppression and deteriorating social services will result in people not like immigrations?

          Sounds like the regime fucked up and people expressing their political opinion on the issue.

          But nahh… Just call people racist 🤡

          • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
            3·
            24 days ago

            They were racist and all around bigots in that sub reddit years before the housing issues, seems like you are defending shitty people.

      • Hackworth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        30 days ago

        Even the smaller subreddits on niche topics seem to be dying. I suppose the lost good will (and loss of third party mod tools, or course) caused many of the superusers to leave.

        • vividspecter@lemm.ee
          5·
          29 days ago

          A number of the technical subreddits made their own forums on discourse, and the subreddits are either closed or in a zombie state.

      • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
        4·
        30 days ago

        Holy fuck, you’re right. They are all adults ish now. U nailed it with the /r/summerreddit take

  • Avieshek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 month ago

    What I used before leaving: copypasta

    (A bot allowed to replace all comments with an edit to avoid being farmed by reddit or sold to AI)

  • BigBenis@lemmy.world
    15·
    1 month ago

    Anyone remember The Button or r/place? That was peak reddit for me since it brought together the entire community. When they stopped doing stuff like that despite the community’s love for it is around when I started seeing the writing on the wall that they were ultimately there to make money and couldn’t waste engineering hours on “frivolous” community engagement.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      28·
      1 month ago

      I have a hard time not personally blaming this on spez, tbh. After he lied about Apollo’s dev’s (I don’t remember which app) phone conversation then they showed up with the damn recording to prove it wrong.

      Like, for real, the conversation was something like

      • dev: Or you could just buy me out for $X ha
      • spez: Are you threatening us?
      • dev: What? No, it was just a joke, because you said it costs $X for my app to hit your server
      • spez: oh, okay, I understand you now, I’m sorry.

      Later…

      • spez: This dev threatened us.
      • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 month ago

        The comment you are replying has “ass” censored with a 🫏.

        This is the first time I am seeing ass being censored in such manner. The more I ponder why the commenter did it, the funnier it gets – regardless of their intention.

        • lseif@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          30 days ago

          i thought the emoji was an insect, perhaps a mozzie (due to poor eye’s sight). knowing now its a donkey (also called an ‘ass’) i dont think its as funny.

  • Aeri@lemmy.world
    182·
    1 month ago

    I think the true cutoff for me with Reddit was when they perma banned me for commenting that I should in fact be allowed to punch nazis (pretty sure it was a mass report thing going on)

    • actually@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 month ago

      I was temp banned from all Reddit when I messaged the mods in a subreddit to complain about a post.

      I think thousands of people did the same thing that day, it was a really obnoxious comment section that ticked off many ; but someone had connections and they issued everyone who complained a three day ban site wide.

      • Aeri@lemmy.world
        4·
        30 days ago

        Reddit mods can be such shitstains about… Well, pick a topic! They don’t like what you did, banned, asking about your ban? Banned from communicating with them for a month.

  • bunchberry@lemmy.world
    112·
    30 days ago

    I don’t really understand why reddit pretty much succeeded in killing off all other forums. People love the format of reddit so much that even after killing off all the supporting apps it hasn’t really done much at all to cause people to go back to traditional forums. I’ve personally always found reddit far worse than a traditional forum because of the like system. This place has it as well, although I’m not sure how it compares to reddit’s in terms of algorithm.

    Traditional forums did not have it. You just saw posts sequentially. There was also no character limit. This meant on traditional forums everyone’s position was not only presented equally but you could also go into as much detail as you wanted. If the topic is complex you could write basically an essay if you wanted, which in reddit you have to break up into multiple posts. Reddit’s like system also tends to facilitate echo chambers because popular opinions show up first while unpopular opinions show up last and can even be hidden, and it encourages people to misrepresent you and not act in good faith because they’re looking for an “own” to farm likes rather than a real discussion.

    Sure, there might be sometimes when a person’s opinion is so out there and disingenuous you don’t even want to take it seriously and have a real discussion, but I’ve never once in my entire history of using reddit had a decent conversation with someone. Even things as benign as like /r/nintendo, I say I enjoyed a game and I got a bunch of people shitting on me calling me a bad person for liking a particular game. No matter how benign and non-serious the topic is, people always find ways to turn it into an attack to “own” you to farm upvotes.

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
      2·
      29 days ago

      This meant on traditional forums everyone’s position was not only presented equally

      No, the earlier web forums based on phpbb or vbulletin or whatever prioritized the most recent posts. That means that plenty of good content was drowned out by fast moving threads, and threads were sorted by most recent activity, which would allow some threads to fall off quickly unless “bumped.”

      It was inherently limited in scale. The votes made such a difference for the forums that implemented it (slashdot, hacker news, eventually reddit) that it could make the more popular stuff more visible, rather than the most recent stuff more visible. And whatever the local site culture was could prioritize the characteristics that were popular in that particular place. That’s why tech support almost entirely switched to reddit or similar places, because the helpfulness of a comment was generally what drove its popularity.

      And the biggest problem with the older forums was that they didn’t allow for threading. Any particular comment can spawn its own discussion without taking the rest of the thread off on that tangent.

    • spamellama@lemmy.world
      4·
      30 days ago

      The subreddits like sewing were pretty fab.

      I recently received a reddit warning (and was threatened with a ban if it repeated) for “language” in a private message that was not reported. The message said AI identified it and a human reviewed it. The message was not reported to them.

      Which I guess I knew could happen but you typically don’t assume mods are reading PMs. Anywho I haven’t been back but still need to delete my shit.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      30 days ago

      If a forum gets too popular finding all the posts you like in sequential order like that gets hard. I remember during the height of Wil Wheaton’s forum days in '04-'05 or my Fark days of '08-'13 I had a hard time keeping up with it due to the limitations of the platform. If it could give me them ranked based on interactions I could find the ones that most of my friends were posting in, and then make sure to participate. Instead I had to go to every new thread just to see if there was something interesting posted.

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
      5·
      30 days ago

      I agree with your point about the vote system. The single change Lemmy made that I think makes it much healthier is that you have no profile total up or down votes. There is no reason to chase imaginary internet points, while giving the court of public opinion the tools to tell you your wrong.

      For example, Youtube became a much more unreliable place when it removed the dislike button. So much so that third party plugins now are what people have to use to decide, at a glance, if something is worthy of other peoples time.

    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      30 days ago

      tbh forums are annoying af. Perhaps I’m too used to modern day intuitive UI but they all seem to assume you know your way around. Btw if you want that ‘community’ feeling join a discord server. They’re great! I’ve been particularly interested in a twitch streamer/YouTuber "dougdoug"s server for about a year but it gets a tad too fast sometimes haha

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
    16·
    30 days ago

    Why the fuck are they using a 3D voxel banana as a hat for Snoo?

    And why does Snoo look AI generated?

    • DeeDan06@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      30 days ago

      reddit recap logo. and because for some reason they want to do the exact opposite of what every other company does with their logos. (I’m a lemmy and reddit dual user)