I love that! Just like how Netflix would lose subs over their previous decision and instead they increased. It’s almost like they know better than some armchair forum posters?This is borderline ........ Just to get reactions out of people I think - despite having one of the most downvoted posts I've ever seen on this forum. Some people get off on this. Hey, keeps the world interesting, eh?
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I figured you love it.
Hey, I'm happy you're happy. Great way to start off the week.Re: Reddit being down - it happens frequently enough, figured it was just normal Monday stuff.
Thanks!I figured you love it.
Next tell me how well those Twitter competitors are doing? Did everyone leave Twitter for Mastadon or Ketchup or something? My sub count went down a little bit, and tweets are less, but people are still
Using it regardless of Musk being a total idiot.
Just like Redditors. They’ll mostly all be back with an influx of “new users” come mid July after deleting their account.
Twitter is a far cry from Reddit. It has way more users and is already public. Then went private. This means they aren’t accountable to the SEC for an IPO. We will see how it plays out.
I'm staying on Reddit and I'll keep using the official app just like I have been for the 5 years or so, anniversary coming up in August.
I stayed on Twitter because that's where people are and will always be. Never even once went to Mastodon and I don't wan to. It will be a boring week without Reddit.
I stayed on Twitter because that's where people are and will always be. Never even once went to Mastodon and I don't wan to. It will be a boring week without Reddit.
I was never a Twitter user before Musk took over Twitter. I left all social media back in 2016 because I couldn't really stand it. I prefer a good book if I am allowed the time.
I was a fairly heavy reddit user (reader/not poster) only because it was more of a forum experience, I often could find answers to my questions, and find people who had similar hobbies.
To answer your question: The Twitter situation is very different - Musk bought the company and made changes. Definitely agree with you that the Reddit side of the house thinks that they will come out of this unscathed. There is a chance of that happening. Companies have long been devaluing the customers that build them up over the last decade. So I would hope this has a bit more of an impact because I believe Reddit to be in the wrong by attacking those who made it great (despite them being a small %).
As far as those other choices - choice is always a good thing but historically the chance of their success or being as popular is very low.
Official app is much better with every revision. Cough up the dough and go away.
Then who will moderate those subreddits? It will still be a sh*t storm with no mods.
Social media is an addiction (and not a healthy one), as you so eloquently put. Best choice is never try it in the first place.
Luckily I didn't have any attachment to reddit nor twitter, and deleted both sometime in December or November. Only one I still use regularly use is Instagram, and it's better than Reddit for my main hobby, rock-climbing/bouldering...I also only follow people I personally know.
Maybe I'll ditch it, too.
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Yeah, tons of people will enjoy being bombarded with ads, spambot, and literal Nazis. The platform doesn't generate value, they've said it themselves. The actual value of reddit is the users and the community, which if left unmoderated quickly goes to hell.
What is Lemmy and do they have non-political conversations? Like I want to talk about Baseball, is there a place on Lemmy to do that (Even though I admit Baseball has gotten a little political too).
Think we can get spez to moderate r/jailbait like he used to back in the day? That'd be neat
I hate that it has had to come to this and wish I was warned. That said, Hopefully, a 48-hour 'Blackout' will be long enough to make the point. If not, let's hope (like a strike) they are prepared to stay dark indefinitely until Reddit caves in.
I may sound like an old man here sitting on his porch screaming "I miss the old internet." But its exactly what I am doing.. Greed and cost of server space has caused the internet to just be a spam filled, advertisement, and subscribe to this world. So long internet...
I genuinely look forward to lowering my screen time and spending less time on my phone. There is zero chance I'll use the official app, so Apollo leaving just means I'll drop Reddit entirely (outside of search results when I google something specific and the best answer seems to be in a Reddit thread)
Dunno if anyone has replied to this yet (catching up on posts) but the Ukraine subreddit is still up and running, since they're covering a war and all.
If those results even work. Most of the results point to private forum entries.
This is great but it needs to be longer than 48 hours. It need to last until Reddit reverses course.
They plan on it. Most of the 90% subreddits that are private or at least not allowing posting say a permutation of what r/music says:
r/Music
Closed Indefinitely for Reddit API Policy Change Protest - The musical community of reddit
A lot of Reddit has felt - in content (lots of large groups with broad appeal, tons of specialized groups serving focused and enthusiastic communities, and a lot of people helping each other) if not in structure (obviously, here it's all been running under one centralized roof, rather than cooperatively flooding between thousands of separate independently owned servers) - it has felt a whole lot like a descendent of Usenet. You can subscribe to a wildly diverse set groups (subreddits) matching your personal interests, and sort of keep your finger on the pulse of what is going on in the world.
Apollo has not shut down yet - that happens at the end of the month. I go back and forth between Apollo (on my iPhone and, mostly, my iPad) and the web interface (the old web interface, though not using old.reddit.com) on my Mac, and occasionally on my iPad. I can do without Apollo, though I'd prefer not to. If a concerted effort were made to move the groups I follow, to some other platform (the Reddit equivalent of the Twitter to Mastodon move), I'd gladly make that jump - it's not about the name on the building, it's about the communities - which is something Reddit-the-company doesn't seem to understand. All those unpaid moderators can just as easily work for free for some decentralized not-for-profit Reddit replacement.
The newer Reddit web interface is hot garbage, designed to "drive engagement", rather than to be useful to the users - spends a lot of time trying to interest you in other content they hope you might be interested in, rather than the content that you actually indicated that you are interested in, by, you know, clicking on it - you click into a thread and they'll actually show you the first couple of comments and a "click for more" button, fer chrissakes, along with a bunch of other thread titles to fill up all that "wasted" space on the page. How hard is it to figure out what the user means by "show me the entirety of the topic I clicked on"?
If they were to get rid of the "old.reddit.com" web interface (I effectively use that one, but not by that URL - if you click the "opt out of new interface" button enough times in the settings, you end up getting the old interface by default)... if they dropped that, which is their next logical move after killing third party apps, I'll be looking for similar replacement communities on other platforms (I hear "Lemmy" is promising), rather than staying on Reddit.
The funny thing is, if they had said, "look, we're currently making about 12 cents per month per user [calculations based on their published numbers bear this out], but you as an individual user can have access to our API for use with whatever app you want, for, say, $2 per month", I would have cheerfully taken them up on that, and paid $24 a year for Reddit access through Apollo - I get a lot of benefit out of Reddit, and it's entirely fair for them to get compensated for that, to keep the lights on and make a modest profit. $2/mo would be something like 15 times what they've been making from having me as a user.
But no, they have an IPO coming up, and they want to have solid gold toilets and garages full of yachts, and they're going to drive Reddit into the ground in the process of trying to get that. And now the most common comment on Reddit (I've seen literally thousands of different users say this during the past week) is "**** /u/spez" (the CEO of Reddit, who has been documented in the past to have edited user's comments that are critical of him).