Curious what people have left reddit use now?
Nothing.
I hard quit Reddit the day they killed RiF (along all 3rd party clients), never to come back.
It was surprisingly easy to do so.
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#32Good. Going private is a ridiculous nuke button for mods to have at their fingertips. Years of history becomes lost once a subreddit goes private. It's not even useful as a protest, since the admins will just undo it the moment your protest gains traction. Hopefully, next they change the "unmoderated subreddit" punishment from going private to restricted submissions and locking comments.
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#33Curious what people have left reddit use now?
Left reddit during the API fiasco. HN replaced only part of reddit's niches for me. I tried using Lemmy for the other parts but it seems its federation model just gave more power to exactly the kind of moderators that made me dislike Reddit in the first place.
Same. Left then. And then when the AI training drama came along I found a script that edited all my posts then emptied them then deleted them.
I was amazed how many people on HN get very pissy when hearing about that, and act almost as if you have an obligation to keep that content up (much like Stack when they started limiting people’s ability to delete their own posts…)
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I predict reddit is going to go away soon.
Why? Not only have the masses remained since last year, they showed how docile they are and how much further mistreatment they'll tolerate.
I have mostly left. You can tell that the website is not at all the same since the protests. There are measurably fewer contributors and the quality of the content and discussions suffered. The bots have taken over. The front page is unbearable.
Perhaps it still scratches an itch when you have a few minutes to kill, but it only survives because nothing else really replaces it. This can’t go on forever.
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#35Curious what people have left reddit use now?
It was summer. I just went outside. It helped me on my quest to make my computer a quiet tool instead of a dopamine casino. When I am on the train I read HN, articles queued in Instapaper, RSS feeds and books. I am part of the great logging off.
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#36Curious what people have left reddit use now?
4chan and I'm not ashamed of it. Even though it is anonymous you really feel a sense of community. Approach it as a creative writing exercise or as being part of a hive-mind and you'll find enjoyment in it.
The amount of authentic and inspired posts is incredible. And yes it has it's ugly parts, they don't get a lot of traction though. I guess that part of its unattractiveness is deliberate. No advertisers want to touch it and that is probably why it survived for so long.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://old.lemmy.world/ works
I didn't know about the old subdomain. That's so much better than the standard lemmy ui.
it's a 3rd party extension https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym that some instances have enabled. i do wish this was integrated into lemmy though
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#38For what it's worth, we've stopped moderating our subreddit for the month of October.
Reddit fundamentally cannot figure out the role of moderators - we're either robber barons, or we're useless, or we're actively out to sabotage the company.
What we certainly are is unpaid volunteers, so we're kind of done. The reporting feature will allow users to remove posts and comments that blatantly break the rules; let someone else volunteer for awhile.