LPT: Don’t use reddit because it’s a fucking dumpster fire.
You think we’re any better?? I think the whole internet is a dumpster fire, and that’s the way it should be.
Yes: Dumpster fire or not, Lemmy is definitely better than reddit. No question.
It’s more of a recycling bin fire
Compost fire (yes they can ignite).
I used to work in the waste sector - been to a lot of dumps. Let me tell ya, public sector dumps were literal dumpster fires compared to their private counter parts. Inefficient. Years behind in technology. Weighted down by nepotism and typical government employees.
It was such a relief when I knew I was assigned to a private sector dump where things just fucking worked because people just let it work.
It isn’t about being better trash, it’s about who controls the dump. I want to be able to view all trash in the way I choose. Not certain piles of trash that I’m forced view in a way that I can’t choose on my own.
Yes!! We’re not perfect but we’re MILES better
I haven’t been back to Reddit in months, and maybe Reddit’s gotten worse since then, but Lemmy’s far worse than Reddit was when I left it. I stay here because I like the idea of the Fediverse, but this community is absolute garbage.
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Look if reddit has the most useful information on a google search then reddit it is. Doesn’t mean I’m actively browsing it.
Yep, right now, using a search engine with Reddit in the query is still the best option to find an answer to something. Maybe Lemmy fits that in time, but until then, Reddit it is.
I still start my search with site:reddit.com when looking for an answer. I just prefer opening the cached hits so that traffic doesn’t go to reddit but Google instead. Not like there weren’t problems with Google, but this is the closest I can get to “punishing” Reddit but also getting an answer to my question.
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I went from 100+ subs down to just 9, but some communities simply don’t exist in lemmy.
I relapsed when I found out you can patch in your own key to still use third party apps 😬
Can I use RIF?
If you moderated a sub before the API ban and used the Boost app, then Boost still works for you. Thank god for my tiny sub.
Most of the niche subs don’t have equivalents here.
Same. Their reasoning and the warning in general make no sense. Why would it be safer to view “unreviewed content” (wetf that means) in their app vs a browser?
Because the app is so packed with ads, you won’t be viewing any content anyways.
I despise whoever made new Reddit. You can only view comment chains two levels deep in new Reddit, then replies at one level, which means you need to constantly keep loading a new page and ads to see each reply in a thread.
Who the hell thought of that? It’s a horrible UX.
Lol that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. But I can tell you who thought of it, easily. The people optimizing the ad revenue. UX isn’t their focus, but boosting profits is.
Is it going to boost profits though? This sort of thing is always presented as an easy way to boost ad revenue but when you’re selling ads at the volume reddit is I would have thought click-through rate would be king and it’s going to decimate that.
I’m sure if there’s one thing they’ve really gotten the hang of, it’s optimizing advertising profits. They explicitly said they’re killing third party apps because they want to sell user data. (In so many words). I can’t imagine they hadn’t thought of what makes them money. I imagine, actually, it’s what 95% OF their focus has gone toward recently.
I remember the redesign feedback subreddit. Any small suggestion was attacked by dozens of bootlickers. And here we are now.
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Changes to reddit are what brought me here. Once old.reddit.com disappears I will be completely done with it.
There’s also beta.reddit.com
What’s the differences here?
What’s the differences here?
I was not able to use it 2 or 3 days ago. I assumed they killed already but it was probably an issue with the work’s firewall then
Lol you went back for the porn
If Lemmy was better for Porn Reddit would’ve been abandoned by now.
Give them a break, porn on the internet is notoriously difficult to find.
The sad thing is that this is the reason they’re planning to shut down oldreddit
I stopped using reddit on mobile after the api debacle. Once old reddit is done, I won’t be visiting on my desktop either. The redesign is and always has been trash.
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Tbh i was surprised that it is still up. Aren’t they affected by the API pricing or something
old.reddit is just the official website with the old layout from before they redesigned their front end ui. It’s part of Reddit’s official website that they kept around because so many people hate the redesign, it’s not a 3rd party and therefore not affected by any pricing policies.
Thank You, kind stranger(s)
I literally predicted that old.reddit.com would shut down in 6 months after u/spez said it’s not going anywhere, just like Apollo. I wasn’t sure how seriously to take this but I think I will be pretty close.
What’s sad about it? Reddit is garbage. Get off it and stop using it.
The day they kill old reddit will be the end of reddit for me.
The day they kill old reddit will be the end of reddit itself. A lot of moderators depend on the older interface (along with RES) to manage their communities. Imagine trying to mod with reddit’s current interface.
Why is it not the end already? Drop it, move on, you will be better off for you might even realise how much of a problem you have
Thanks mom, I will.
Your mental health matters dear. Eat plenty of greens and no more reddit!
Can you get me some Capt’n crunch on your way back home? Pretty please??
Wtf does “unreviewed” even mean? Are they waiting for some board to approve communities now?
It’s basically corporate speak for “fuck you use our app”
I usually see that on subreddits with LGBT focused content.
A big part of getting you to use their app is to data mine EVERYTHING about you. Unlike a web browser with an ad-blocker, an app can collect your location, location history, your call logs, your contact list and serve up unlockable ads.
google ads can easily be dns blocked, about reddit ads… yeah.
there’s a reason why I’ve been using an unofficial client.
Don’t visit their stupid website
Stop using reddit
Tell that to all the amateur porn creators! Lemmy is severely lacking content in that category unfortunately
https://lemmynsfw.com is growing pretty quick, though the number of reposts is pretty high.
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We don’t go to Ravenholm.
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what’s the difference between old.reddit and reddit? and why does reddit support old.reddit?
one is the old, better, unrestricted ui (old) normal reddit is the new ui, with intrusive ads, mobile app popups, age restrictions etc
Why they support it still is truly a mistery with all the API stuff and so on… It’s a miracle it’s still available.
Rumor has it some of the higher ups don’t like the new UI either.
Old Reddit has good formatting.
Old.reddit is reddit from a time when it was designed with user experience in mind, rather than trend chasing and maximizing ad placement.
I’ve heard that the reason old.reddit is still supported is because new reddit can’t run without it. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if the developers of new reddit were pushed to rush something out to meet demands from higher up, and therefore didn’t make something clean and severable. I mean, we’re talking about a site whose video player wants to load every resolution at once on every video you scroll past in an infinite feed, my expectations aren’t terribly high.
