They took my RiF. The CEO seems like an absolute bastard. It got more and more toxic over the years. I can take some abuse but this was a bit too much. If it continues to be popular I’ll use it for information gathering just like always, but they wont get any content, interaction or ad revenue from me.
This blackout thing, while surely sending a message, will be pointless in the end imo. The bosses have decided how they want to proceed and that’s that.
It ain’t pointless. The message is what get me here in lemmy.
Yeah. I meant pointless in the sense of “we as the reddit community want to change the companies business strategy shortly before an IPO”.
You being brought here (same as me) through the backlash-posts is great. But unless certain highly frequented subs go dark PERMANENTLY I dont see much that could sway the reddit leadership towards a more community friendly approach.
The CEO is an absolute bastard. He’s twisted the words of his “friend” Aaron Swartz, the real founder of the site, and bastardised his creation while trashing his legacy.
The blackout isn’t pointless, it’s just not yet enough. Reddit needs to die, and the blackout is a step towards that. It started as a way to try and get admin to change, and in that respect it has and will fail, but it is the first step to reddit going the way of digg.
Better than every user from Reddit coming to Lemmy, for a few reasons:
- servers would crash
- the reddit “hivemind” would move to Lemmy
- the shitty jokes would continue here
- just check r/redditmoment, do you want that to become c/lemmymoment?
- right now the community here is big enough that there are enough posts to keep us entertained, but small enough to get to interact multiple times with the same people and not get drowned in a sea of posts/comments
- the Lemmy community rn is also formed of at least mildly tech-savvy people (that could figure out the whole instances thing), that isn’t the case for Reddit
I don’t really agree on the whole tbh. Specifically, the one thing that’s still keeping my Reddit account alive is that there’s a bunch of communities that don’t exist on any other platform because they’d need enough of a “critical mass” of users for it to make sense; and they’re too niche otherwise.
A huge influx of users certainly comes with… Challenges, I do not deny that. But I’d also love to not have to use Reddit anymore solely because of its active user count. And new Lemmy users are unlikely to come from Twitter or something; as it’s a different kind of format.Also, I think the sentiment of “the Lemmy community rn is also formed of at least mildly tech-savvy people […]” is kind of exclusionary for no real reason, I don’t think you have to be tech-savvy to have a good perspective on things, make a good joke or all in all be a positive person to interact with.
the shitty jokes would continue here
You’re posting in a meme community lol. Are memes not shitty jokes?
No. Shitty jokes like “I also choose this guy’s dead wife”
And the puns. My god the puns.
I just wanted more info about what’s going on in a video, and now I have to wade through hundreds of low effort puns. And most of them the exact same dumb joke repeated over and over.
The best of subreddit, where it was just a quote from a random Redditor, really annoyed me due to it’s uselessness
I’ve been around long enough now to know that that sort of thing is unavoidable long term (and with popularity). The good thing about Lemmy is it’s pretty low-friction to set up a new community on a different instance if need be.
As an Apollo user I can at least say I won’t forget
I’ve just finished deleting the past 9+ years comment and post history on my account, I’m just waiting until I have copied some of my saved stuff elsewhere then I’m deleting my account. Fuck Reddit and the cesspit it has become.
Louis Rossmann really made some great points that a 2 day blackout doesn’t mean anything in his recent video. People need to understand that it won’t hurt Reddit at all of subreddits just start functioning normally after 2 days.
Well… a bunch of them are shutting down indefinitely. Plus who’s gonna be happy modding for reddit after they see how spez respond to everyone’s concerns?
Lmao responded? More like just ignored thousands of questions and copy pasted some answers.
I won’t… I primarily use Reddit through SyncPro, I won’t be downloading the Reddit app as it’s a steaming pile of garbage. My Reddit use has already dropped by 90%, as I do sometimes use it from my PC.
No
Laughs in Power Delete Suit
Power Delete Suite is still limited by reddit. I ran it and it got a lot of stuff, however I was still finding comments older than a few months with 50 or less karma that it missed.
The issue isn’t with PDS, though, it’s with how many comments reddit will show you. When I go into my profile there are no comments, however there are still some out there.
I’m wondering if anyone has made a script that will edit + delete comments based on the csv files from a GDPR request? That actually gives a comprehensive list of comments (with links) with which to work from, better than the user account page.
I personally used Redact, and deleted all comments from my last two reddit accounts. 2500+ comments gone! felt a little sad, but had to be done. I never want to support those ppl ever again
I agree, the majority will go back to Reddit but maybe that’s a good thing, hopefully all the good people stay here and it doesn’t become as toxic as reddit
Boost app stops working -> I delete Boost and never use Reddit again.
It’s simple
I’m still waiting for an announcement from the dev of Infinity. But things don’t look any better. The only one I feel bad about is them. Spez can eat shit while watching his platform meet the same fate as Digg.
This might be true if they didn’t kill the main way I interact with the app. It’ll be a constant reminder everytime I try to use reddit.
I may not be a major player, but if this network continues to grow, I would love to be a part of it from the “of sorts” beginning.
They’ve just today killed old reddit for users not logged in, now you get a “you broke reddit screen”. It still works if you’re logged in, but the days are counting down.
I’m just waiting for the day they take over the subs that have closed down, reopening them as part of the powermod’s “projects”. That should be a real show. /popcorn
Spez that fucking rat JUST said 2 days ago “old reddit is going no where”. Lying by omission, especially when he had to have known this would be implemented days after his comment
Old.reddit still seems to be working for me. Maybe they’re A/B testing by IP now?
It’s working fine for me, too. I’m spending the next week or so pulling my saved content but even if old Reddit stays I don’t think I can anymore.
I won’t use Reddit until they enable third-party apps again.
Same. I still might but not on the daily. I’m not using their shitty app.
Well they can have fun, but no FOSS apps means no me, so I won’t. Long live infinity.
