Cool, now do the API and I’ll consider not actively avoiding your website.
I won’t. They’d have to fire Steve with no golden parachute, then maybe.
Just let things die is my opinion. It’s much nicer here.
Nicer in many ways but also less active. I find myself posting a shit ton more just to make the activity I want to see. I made probably less than 50 posts on Reddit in my 11ish years before I left. Now I make that many every 48 hours
We appreciate your contributions :)
❤️
Same.
I’m not a huge fan of lemmy, but I do like it better than what Reddit has become. If I had to pick today’s lemmy or Reddit from 5-ish years ago, I’d go with Reddit every time. But that’s not the options in front of me, so I stick with lemmy.
I also post a lot, probably too much, because I want to see more content, especially higher effort content. I posted pretty rarely on Reddit, so this is certainly more exhausting to use. However, there’s enough people to make it worthwhile, so I’m still giving it the old college try.
Yea, I just wish more niche communities would come to Lemmy, but most of the interesting ones are actively not tech savvy en mass, and so are lucky to figure out reddit I guess. Or Discord maybe, which sucks as a reddit replacement.
Yeah, Discord is the worst for something where history is useful. It’s pretty decent for chat though, but that’s about it. But even then, I’d rather use Matrix.
Lemmy might be less active but doesn’t make you feel like every contribution is rewarding someone who actively insulted and disrespected you and ruined something you used to enjoy. Big plus.
I actually prefer Lemmy because it’s less active. I browse Lemmy’s version of r/All and I have more than enough content to keep me entertained for hours. Plus, when I find a popular thread, I can actually contribute to it and my comments aren’t buried under 10K other comments within a few hours. I feel like I can actually communicate with the community here, instead of shouting into the void like on Reddit.
Yup. On reddit, if you stumbled on a 13 hours old thread, commenting was just sending a bottle in the void.
Yeah, but I know your username. Because you’re the person posting all that stuff I read. So, thanks ;)
I’m famous!
Seriously, you are lol.
you da real mvp
Thank you for being you :)
Just imagine if all Reddit moves here if it dies.
Lemmy 2
I don’t really care how much Steve gets out of it, I just want a not-terrible platform. So I’m cool with a golden parachute if that’s what it takes to get rid of him and get someone better for the platform.
That’s not happening though, so I’ll just avoid the platform.
I don’t mind him having golden parachute- it is heavier and most likely won’t open.
So they can train openai on your comments? No thanks. Its done for good IMO.
The AI companies will do that shit on Lemmy also. At least there isn’t a far-right Nazi getting money on our user generated content tho, unlike reddit.
The profiteering and shitting on the community is what got me to remove my content and account. As an owner of the platform, they cant have it both ways.
The fediverse is an excellent place to find training data for AIs. I would just set up a bot that follows a bunch of people and let them send their data to me, then I don’t even need to bother with scraping.
The fediverse arguably has more bots, just not trying to hide the fact
They’re going to do that regardless, they’ll just scrape instead of using the API.
I want an open API so I can use third party apps. I’m totally fine with them requiring an API token or something with a sensible rate limit to limit abuse by parties like openai (they’ll have to go through a sales contract).
I’m done for good, myself. Moved to Lemmy and there are far fewer dimwitted Nazis here.
Fail shitlers
Users who had their coin balances removed will be given silver turds.
I hate the fact that I’m only about 90% sure you’re joking.
I’m not. It’s in the article.
Damn, they just can’t miss an opportunity to insult their users, can they?
Poe’s law hits hard sometimes.
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ"
GIVE TURD
BotW gave a gold turd as their “fuck you” reward, but reddit is too cheap even for that.
So, while awards are coming back, the phrase “thanks for the gold, kind stranger” is still effectively a retired piece of Reddit history.
Reddit is a retired piece of Reddit history
beloved features — like the ability to “gild” posts by donating a Reddit Premium subscription — are not returning.
That was like more than half the point of gold. Some random comment getting lots of gold would mean the recipient, in turn, could give out gold too.
Now…
“great, I got upvoted by reddit “blue” subscribers…this is so special :/” energy
Yeah, like the point wasn’t a “here’s how much i like it” it was “here’s a reward for providing such good content”. I would never give someone this, but old gold, maybe
I’ve got all the awards we need right here.
Lemmy Bronze: Hitting the little star on the post.
Lemmy Wooden Nickel: Upvotes
Would be nice if authors could see the amount of stars their content has.
Value!
People spend real money on reddit. What a bunch of loosers.
That’s what I thought when I first saw gold back in 2010…
While I’ve never given Reddit a penny, it was totally different back then. In those times, the site was much smaller, and buying gold got you r/lounge access and supported the site. They felt more community oriented and weren’t aggressively monetizing the service. Nowadays it’s like paying for Facebook or twitter, absolutely not.
buying gold got you r/lounge access
But that place was insufferable
Down to my bones I believe what happened to reddit was the plan all along. Yes back in the day there was more community that we made but it doesn’t change the fact the dbags were, are, and will be steering the boat… that said my first guided comment felt dope and going to the lounge was fun.
It’s hard to say. I think it was obvious they planned to use ads and gold to break even, but it took many years to begin monetizing aggressively. Once new Reddit and the app came around, and they started making noise about an IPO, it became obvious.
r/lounge was easily the cringiest community I have ever encountered on reddit.
You messed up worse than just getting rid of awards.
Ok, we are not coming back anyway
Oh, they’re being cute with this. You need to pay money to get what reddit is calling “gold” (formerly known as coins), which you can use to give awards with. But one of the old awards you still can’t give is the old-style reddit “gold” (premium). So they want ever more money without even giving the minor account boost you used to get, just for some skin for a comment. Fuck those guys.
Why have a thriving community when you can kill the nice and/or helpful ones with a lead pipe and then try to squeeze money out of the remaining morons?
I almost thought that closing awards, taking the money, then opening awards was a scam to defraud people of their money.
Then I realized awards was a scam all along.
It’s okay, Reddit. I don’t post anymore.
Deleted my 15 year old account. I’m not going to let that weasel spez make $3 a year off my time. I hope something else can take over that is not for profit someday. A reddit like link sharer is important for the health of the Internet.
I’d delete my account, but then people wouldn’t see my advertisement for Lemmy in my profile. Plus my repeated 'FUCK REDDIT’s.
Meh, it’s just another publicly traded company now, it’s just trying every PR trick going after stonks signals.
Have you seen the abomination that is the layout for reddit now? https://www.reddit.com
Thankfully you can still access the old “new” layout at https://new.reddit.com , and of course https://old.reddit.com still exists too.
I only go there for a few communities that don’t exist here, but that is where we are at, at this point.
Wow they are actually copying what digg did, and expecting a different outcome.
Edit: Changed DIGG to digg for correctness.
I’ll have to believe you, I don’t know what DIGG is! I’ll presume its just another media online outlet.
Digg messed up and made a bunch of user-punishing changes and the entire internet all at once moved to Reddit, which was brand new, effectively killing Digg.
Digg has been the high example of what Reddit isn’t, so we’re all very confused whenever Reddit copies things Digg did that were universally hated.It’s basically the life cycle of the internet. A thing is created for the people, it’s beautiful and loved, it is not profitable at all, they use their newfound user base to generate money, they abuse their user base to generate even more money, a new “for the people” alternative springs up, mass migration.
Skype, digg, and MySpace sort of followed that trend. Now reddit is completing the cycle. YouTube should be next, but it’s significantly more expensive to make an alternative. But I remember when making money from YouTube was a south park punchline. Those were better days.
Don’t forget that before Digg we were all on slashdot. Its like the cylons: What happened before will happen again. Or we’re living in a horrible simulation.
It used to be to reddit what reddit is to lemmy now, very broadly speaking. At least there was a great migration at some point because Digg got enshittified (perhaps one of the earliest examples of modern software enshittification)
Digg was reddit, and reddit was lemmy. This is back in like 08 or 09 i think. Reddit is only big because digg fucked up and everyone went there as the alternative
I’d generalize it as Reddit was for people who read the article, and Digg was for people who didn’t. There were other sites for different communities at the time as well like the Chive and their Bill Murray worship.
Notably, Digg updated which also involved a worse interface and didn’t have an “old Reddit” interface you could access. Going to a site that was like the old interface involved leaving Digg and joining Reddit.
That is likely why you can now access older Reddit interfaces. They feel that many people will stay if they can find a way to use the new interface (and they may be right about that). The Digg approach of forcing all to use the new interface was a step over the line for Digg and Reddit likely fears a similar thing could happen to them.
I gave away something on Reddit recently and found out that DMs aren’t the same between new and old Reddit. I got a reply on old Reddit and thought was the only interested person and latter logging in on a different browser found more messages that I didn’t see on old. The messages from old didn’t show up on the new site as well. What a mess.
Sorry digg.
Dude I can’t even run the website anymore. It lags, won’t click links, can’t even get into my settings. I thought I had malware but it was exclusive to every time I opened a reddit link.
I get lags too. Interestingly (and not relevant to the topic) I can access reddit okay (but it has huge pause on initial load) on Windows with Chrome (or Opera), but reddit fails to load correctly when I am using Linux with Chromium. Tried other browsers too, reddit seems to not like Linux at all (well my install of Linux anyway). I can’t even log in successfully.
I’m not sure the old new one is that much better than the new new one tbh. I always found it to be bloated af, especially with time it got worse and worse. Also, why are both sites so slow?
I’m no html type code expert, but I do code a lot in other languages. I used f12 on a browser to look at what was going on, on the reddit sites and I have never seen such spaghetti code and layers upon layers of adjustments. I have no idea what they are using behind the scenes (php/js etc, again not my expertise) but it has to be an absolute shitshow.
On old old, and old new, I used to use an element picker in uBlock origin etc, to just remove all the bullshit that annoyed me. This actually sped things up! But its not perfect.
Oh this reminds me, if you are trying to get to new.reddit, for the old-new page, I had to delete all those elements as well, then goto new.reddit fresh and sign in. Then do the element pick again.
Quiet falls around the boardroom table. One analyst breaks the silence. “Well, you see, you have investors now. And, well, they’ve kind of noticed that quality of your content is contrastically downhill over the past couple of years”. An unnamed C staffer blurts out “I told you getting rid of reddit gold was a bad idea, let’s just break it back and everyone will come back and contribute again!”
“Genius! Who would’a thought? 10,000 extra shares in your bonus this year!”
I hate it when I’m punished for good ideas.
10 000 x 0 is…
“rrred-dit”… that sounds familiar… 🤔
