Reddit will become irrelevant. Long live Lemmy.
Just like Digg.
Time for an exodus.
This is my first comment on here as I just joined Lemmy. I want to see random posts about everything. It only seems like I get fed what they think I want and I don’t know what are bots anymore. It’s getting out of control.
Same brother. Adding my comment under yours to mark the moment!
“During October, we have seen that search traffic has dropped by more than 1 million referrals on average per week. If this rate of decline continues, current trends would suggest that total DAUqs [or daily active unique users] could fall in Q4, by a low-double-digit percentage from our current base of 130 million DAUqs,” Huffman wrote.
Weird that not allowing people to use your site would lower the number of people using your site.
“People aren’t coming to our website so we are going to make it harder for people to come to our website.” - The dumbest motherfucker alive (and he’s competing with Trump and Altman)
“by forcing people to come to our site by logging in, but making it hard for people to maintain thier prescence here.”
It’s just shitty that so much useful information is on reddit.
It’s ok. The AI companies will scrape it and spit it out for you.
It’s ok. The AI companies will scrape it and might spit it out for you.
Correction bolded, but it was sad that was my first thought too
The first result is always “Why are asking us when you can just google it?”
I am trying to stop answering questions that I think are quickly searchable with “you have the entire world’s knowledge in your pocket”. It’s been a long time since trustworthy information has been easy to find on the internet.
It’s like repeatedly hitting your genitalia with a wooden mallet and acting smug about it, if someone is asking for assistance.
The people that created that info can recreate it elsewhere
Maybe, but that’s a lot of work.
He’s so unbearably dumb…
And permanently banning anyone that says anything remotely like what the advertisers don’t like.
and those shadowbans has mostly forced people to just lurk. the serial ban evaders just adapt and make hordes of accounts as normal, although im hearing they are having a difficult time doing so.
And today in other news, more news at 8!
also trying to not saying the drop is actually openAI not referencing the site as much anymore because banning people that were producing content isnt as good anymore. plus only going after the lowest hanging fruit of bots/spammers.
And I’m moving to an always logged out experience.
Not affecting my usage at all.
I’ll continue not to use it.
It has affected mine. Sometimes a Google result suggested the only answer was in a reddit thread, and I would click to at least see. Now I get a 'log in" prompt and decide I didn’t need that information after all.
reddits trying to re-force a logged in one again. ironically they wanted people to read-only. but that just made people produce less content for google and open ai to scrape.
R.I.P. NSFW communities I guess.
I thought those weren’t visible without a login already, right?
reddit is moving to “a bot-only experiment”
ahh so a FACEBOOK clone
Reddit? Is that like digg?
In the sense it digged its own grave, yes.
There’s only one social media site that’s still the same as it was a decade ago. The only problem is that it was never good.
It’s not the same place it was 20 years ago 😂 I hate how old I fucking feel knowing I was an og /b/tard
How has it changed? I’m genuinely not familiar with it. I know of the spicy reputation it once had, but I rarely see it mentioned anymore these days. I assume censorship or something like it found its way there?
User posts are down, bot posts are up. Go to anything political or US, Israel or Iran news and all you will see are hundreds of homo erotic AI images of Trump posted by bots
the bots switch themes every day, one day it was all about posting BBC, the other gore and so it goes
Ugh, that does sound terrible. I liked Reddit reasonably well before 2016 turned everything and anything into politics. And then covid and the whole Ukraine situation turned everything to shit even further.
I really miss the 2000 internet when it was just nerd discussions and the occasional funny gif.
Check this out, it’s actually quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU7gCt-7kKk
Edit: and no, it’s not rickroll, even if it would have been very appropriate here.
Just because the people have changed doesn’t mean the platform has changed
Nah it changed, if you were there early on you know the vibe started changing by 07 and by 10 it was kinda what it is now. I’m pretty sure I fully left in 2011.
While yea alot was user base ageing out it was also leadership, rules, posting numbers, OC reduction, government actions.
ive been trying to post my experience-first video player on reddit and i can’t even post anywhere because everywhere requires i comment NINE TIMES FOR EVERY PERSONAL POST. fuck that man I’m trying to share something i made for free over 3 months I’m not fucking playing social media simp just for the privilege
Yeah, that shit made it really easy to abandon reddit when my account was banned. I briefly attempted to get back on with a new account but none of the communities I liked let you participate without an established account,
Even if it did let you post you would get shadow banned btw. So yeah Reddit is dead basically. Which honestly good riddance.
It’s crapitalism.
Anyone who still has an account there, I’d encourage you to use it to gently promote your favourite Fediverse website. There are a significant number of people asking about Reddit alternatives the last couple of days, and sending people directly to a specific suggested site (rather than just saying something like “Lemmy”) is more likely to get people to come over and check things out.
It’s a shame there’s not some big social engagement event going on here right now. Anyone want to start some kind of viral shitpostery?
Can we offer you some powdered milk in these trying times?
As long as it is from a good brand, like Nestle 😋
spez apparently snorted too much powder. good thing aliens are immune nose powder side effect.
They auto remove and ban anyone who mentions the fediverse. Or maybe they’ve backtracked on that?
They don’t. Not anymore, at least, if that was a thing. I’ve been mentioning the Fediverse there for years. Comments generally get reasonably high views, but low engagement because people on established platforms rarely want to do anything to fix their issues.
I only access Reddit (and Lemmy) through RSS so when they nuke that in two weeks, I’ll be gone, too.
My RSS feed already stopped sending me Reddit posts. Last ones were about 17 days ago. Ridiculous.
Lemmy is the best
No ads every few scrolls!
Long life lemmy!
Even though they require login to view nsfw subs, I found nsfw multireddits work without login, and they default to the old.reddit layout. Please keep this as a secret haha
Or get off Reddit and join FediNSFW.
I think they are getting off.
There is already a lot of fedisNSFW content on my All -feed here in lemmy, but the specific content that I like is only in reddit
That’s fair and understandable. I’ve got a few niche ones myself. Maybe think about pulling some of your fave vids and posting in FediNSFW anyway? Might find others who are into it as well and it’ll grow!
I’d have to make a community for that stuff, and honestly i’m not that interested in downloading a bunch of stuff on my computer haha but yea at some point I’ll have to contribute somehow
I thought this was already in place since September or so (maybe it’s explained in the article somewhere, I only skimmed it through - doesn’t really matter tho).
It was fun to see discussion on this on HN, where so many commenters shared the view of leaving reddit for good after lurking became impossible. As one of those people, can’t wait for that shithole to burn to the ground. Or even better, become just a steaming pile of botfest.
Yeah it’s been in place for some time. For those increasingly rare moments when a search lands on reddit, uBlock’s annoyances filter still blocks the login popup.