I know, I know, reddit sucks ass. I’ve been using firefox with ublock to read the best ofs for the unquenchable need for bullshit drama in my life.
But now it’s not just a pop up saying to use the app, but a full ass unpassable thing. Old Reddit still works, but that’s just another step for something that’s already so not worthwhile.
Welp…
I was on reddit every day for damn near 20 years, and if I’m being 100% honest, the fediverse is 10,000% better. The only problem is that not enough people interact. I’ve never seen a post with more than like 200 comments. It feels a bit empty here. But, on the other hand, 200 decent comments is better than 2000 shitty ones.
Once this place gets a few more users, it’s gonna be the GOAT.
Careful what you wish for, the larger the sample size the dumber it gets
Yep. Happened with bluesky. It was pretty decent and wasn’t getting any troll crap that was rampant on Twitter. Then there was some controversy on Twitter and Blue sky quickly went up in its new members and…yep, it just got all trolly and agro 🙄
Personally I just miss when we had individual sites for a topic like when I was a teenager. Grew up on forums for a certain artist and another different site for specific sports teams, books. Way less likely to get idiots if you actually have to actively find the specific website for an artist you hate.
I loved forums. I have a group of friends I met on a forum and we rarely talk about that subject anymore but we’re still really close.
Yeah I did too, only one or two I keep in touch with now but yep, made real life friends on forums and it was great!
Maybe it will go back to this. I say that because there is a comeback of personal web pages from 00’s
That’s really cool - I recently went to check out one where I used to go but unfortunately the rest of the page is there but no forum anymore.
This… People keep dreaming of reddit crashing and burning or going under but, realistically if that did happen a good portion of the existing userbase will filter into the fediverse somewhere, and thats a lot of inorganic growth. Currently there are a handful of popular topics, and some niche topics. Yes there are also reddit like mannerisms but, when people slowly filter in, the room can be read and the existing culture remains, when a mass intake happens (like what happend with the API debacle) the influx is faster than the adoption and the culture comes with it.
We’re already getting bots and trolls and the mods often do nothing about them.
ikr soon as this place gets too big I’m taking off to something else.
Fedi being way slower than Reddit was a godsend to me. It helped me detox from the endless content on Reddit because I was going loopy.
After the 5th scroll past the same boring hornypost I’m like “ugh I guess I’ll put the phone down and go to sleep.”
While I agree, there are plenty of chill subreddits that are full of interaction and the counterparts here aren’t very active. I know that it’s up to us to start creating the posts but I’m more of a lurker and replier.
i usually visit identifying unknown plant (it was fun since i was able to see people post rare and unusual plants that are very rarely seen by normally)and animal subs, because politics post is designed to get people to be angry and comment.
I need to find a client that does paginating instead of infinite scroll. It’s like a fucking vortex, I can’t pull myself away from it…
Hey man, we’re glad to have you and I 100% agree.
We just need our version of U/shittymorph
reddit was better before 2016, before trump took the white house the first time, almost as soon as took the WH, russia realized that reddit was a good place to use bots/propaganda, then we see sudden increase in politicl aposts, and then ban of “Questionable” subs. orignially because of this you would make different account for different niches to avoid a ban affecting other accounts.
I agree with you. Coming up on at least my second year here and I do love it, but I miss some parts of having the bigger crowd.
I’m new, came over a couple weeks ago. Others will come.
Welcome!
Its better this way. Limited content. You have to out the phone down and do something else
I think it’s fine as is. The worst part of reddit was opening an interesting post and finding the comments full of jokes and badly remembered quotes.
Edit: That was probably due to the awards creating perverse incentives but still, the more comments there are the more striking a comment needs to be to be on top
Onze this place gets enough users, it’s gonna be exactly the same.
I haven’t read a Reddit page since I switched from Protonvpn to Mullvadvpn.
Reddit seems to allow Proton but blocks Mullvad.
Another reason to appreciate Mullvad.
They only block some Mullvad servers, if I hit the change location button once or twice I always get through. At least on Swedish servers which I usually use.
Apart from when search engines take me there, I stopped Reddit cold turkey the moment they started giving warnings simply for upvoting comments that are hostile towards billionaires.
I’ll give Sweden a try. I mostly use Canada. Thanks.
Try an alternative fronted like redlib.catsarch.com for when you really need to view the page. Unfortunately, there is still too much valuable info there, which is surfaced by search engines
I’ll keep that in mind, thanks.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Reddit perma banned me because I commented that someone should “yeet that dude (the ceo of palintir) into space” because he wants war crimes to be legal because it would be better for business.
I got permabanned for trying to evade a temp ban with a name of every-aita-mods-an-incel.
They got in their feelings about that one…
It’s a loss, but I’ve come to see it as just a part of the endless treadmill of 1. Go to where the cool people are 2. Uncool people show up 3. It gets bad 4. Look for the cool people. Feels like that’s always going to be the way of it.
Yes. That’s a good thing.
It’s almost like we’re suppose to build and guard our communities and interest against tho… sorry I meant do nothing and complain.
Support your local federated instance, hold mods and admins to task, get to know people in your community, report trolls and push to defederate instances run poorly or in bad faith. If that ends up not being enough, fuck I dunno.
get to know people in your community
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same. this was literally the last straw. this and the effing bot posts and comments
Maybe try old.reddit.com?
I’ve been seeing this for a long time now, as they blocked VPN and anonymous access, so I use a combination of cached pages and libredirect if I really want to bother going there.
I always thought that once I moved here, I might still visit reddit but I almost never do. And much of the reason is those fucking stupid cartoon mascots. "snoo"s iirc? FML.
reddit blocks people who use vpns, or will shadowban you if it somehow evades this page. they are too aware of it now. new devices, proxies, anti-detect browsers+ proxy intergration, new browser, fingerprinting are usually the only other way of getting around it(this method can be pricey if intend to make money off of reddit). apparently some vpns do get through reddit, but you probably shouldnt use the cheap or free ones, or the highly abused ones.
I’ve hit that and just switched IPs on the same VPN. The other VPN I use has never hit the screen.
They did that about a year or so after I blocked reddit via DNS. No idea why, I don’t use a VPN for reddit, and I hadent given them any traffic outside the once and awhile checking a tech support post, but something about my network triggered it.
No big loss.
Why can i still browse reddit on mobile Firefox with no popup… Is this only in America or something.
Maybe you’re logged in with an account?
No no, account was wiped over three years ago. :)
Problem is that it’s still where so many people are. It’s honestly such a shame that more people won’t move to lemmy… Because in comparison there’s barely anyone here. And the only reason these kinds of websites are useful is that there’s a lot of people on them
If it wasnt so toxic it would be nice.
Majority of the posts on the popular subreddots are written by bots.
the subs that allow pictures, and screenshots, and videos are the most obvious. you can tell they are reposting but they try to obscure when the "tweet’ was posted by blacking out the date/time. pics during the election year was so obvious “biden genocide” pics, it wasnt pointing out what trump/gop were supporting too. luckily there was any sense in the mod prior to the massive purges, that it was removed.
Don’t get me started on the powermods. How to go on power trips online to distract from how much of absolute losers they are IRL. I used to know some of them back in my reddit days and holy hell they are some of the most insufferable fuckwits you’d ever interact with
I know, I know, reddit sucks ass. I’ve been using firefox with ublock to read the best ofs for the unquenchable need for bullshit drama in my life.
But now it’s not just a pop up saying to use the app, but a full ass unpassable thing. Old Reddit still works, but that’s just another step for something that’s already so not worthwhile.
Welp…
Reddit doesn’t like my VPN, so for the times when it comes up in my search or a buddy sends me something from there I have an extension in firefox now to redirect reddit links to redlib.
It’s called libredirect. It’s got a bunch of sites so you can avoid most of those shitty pop-ups if you set them up.
I’ve been only using reddit on my phone in desktop mode on old reddit. The new reddit and the mobile interface was always trash.
