I predict old reddit is going to go away soon.
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#12Curious what people have left reddit use now?
HN scratches that itch pretty well for me. It is also more useful and less toxic.
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#13I predict old reddit is going to go away soon.
I predict reddit is going to go away soon.
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#14I predict old reddit is going to go away soon.
I hope so. Old Reddit is how my internet addiction thrives, if it goes away I might be rid of this electronic demon for good.
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#16Good. 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.
It was one of the only tools that heavily-raided subs had to deal with raids of hate-speech/illegal content.
Basically every LGBTQ+ subreddit, for example.
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#17Curious what people have left reddit use now?
Books, podcasts, HN, the Fediverse. Occasionally Tildes.net.
Reddit at best was marginally useful for content discovery. There are many alternatives now.
Discussion quality had nearly always been abysmal, except on the very smallest subs. I've commented on this on HN many times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>.
As David Weinberger noted, "conversation doesn't scale": https://dweinberger.medium.com/the-social-web-before-social-...>.
"Wisdom of crowds" is proving to have been hugely overly-optimistic.
High-quality information tends to associate more with expertise, whether the result of long study or on-the-ground first-hand knowledge. Neither are prevalent in large-scale discussions.
Reddit's own gamification, trivialisation, AI-dragon-feeding, cozying up to Google, and exclusion of other search engines (I use DDG, recent Reddit content is largely absent AFAICT), are all highly negative developments.
It may well be that Reddit as conceived cannot survive without taking this route. But in that case, it should be permitted to die. This is a worse fate.
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#18Curious 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.
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#19Curious what people have left reddit use now?
Discourse. A hosted instance at $50/month with the FOSS discount. Not everyone moved but it's far more pleasant.
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#20Curious what people have left reddit use now?
It's been tricky, but for the most part I've tried to stop needing the validation of saying something clever or helpful and seeing a number go up in validation.
It's been hard, especially on days when other hobbies or tasks feel un-startable.