Leave Reddit. Why is anyone still there.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2024
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Reddit is terrible as a website. But it still has the communities that developed there over years, and they are an invaluable resource. They are definitely positioning themselves to pull a Digg, but until the Reddit-killer comes along with a mass exodus (and it doesn't look like it's gonna be Lemmy unfortunately) access to those communities will entail dealing with reddit.
I still look at Reddit from time to time, but I don’t see a need to sign in at all. There’s no use contributing anymore
what does "pull a Digg" mean?
To rapidly lose your userbase to another platform, due to controversial changes to the website.
Named after Digg, which lost most of its userbase to Reddit and is now a shell of its former self.
Digg (a link aggregator very much like Reddit) started pulling similar shit and everyone left for the alternative, which was Reddit at the time.
After everybody left Digg, Reddit became the default and after about 15 years they are doing the same things that drove people away from Digg
Professional communities, local communities, niche hobby communities, each of which don't have critical mass here (yet)
I'm doing my best to grow stuff here, but I recognize that there's still stuff there that people find helpful for other parts of their life.
Decades of solved programming issues.
I don't post there anymore, though.
r/locksmith
r/lockshop
r/[local area]
r/sw5e
These communities either don't exist or don't have critical mass here.
And if you recommend Discord as an alternative, it's not the same
Also: Search results that take me to Reddit threads with actual answers
And if you recommend Discord as an alternative, it's not the same.
I keep seeing people recommend discord as an alternative but it's just chat rooms, If it's an alternative for anything it's ICQ.
Right!? gO To oUr DiScOrD. Like bitch please, I've got ADHD, i will never find what i need in a discord chat
And even now that they kind of have a form of* threads they're still hard to access and not indexable. Whenever someone recommends discord as a reddit alternative I wonder if they really understand why we're seeking an alternative in the first place. I have no interest in setting up camp somewhere I'll have to abandon in a few years again.
lot of subreddit doesn't move yet. Move a communities is not easy. If the community is your business (game, company specific, or fandom, movie, ...) moving is lot more difficult.
Because you can search it with google
Removing old.reddit will push more people away than locking down the API did.
They just need to slowly cripple it and make it run slow so people with willingly switch
sshh … just be quiet about it
It's also working fine
It's back
Did this just happen within the past hour or two?
One of the other sub's here had something about it earlier, I can't find it of course.
Some people seemed to be redirected, others reported no problems.
Some users were also reporting that a Gmail address was now required for new signups, others said no.
Seems like probably an A/B test.
I no longer have an account there, I still use Stealth (Android) for search redirects and have no issues, others say Stealth doesn't work at all.
Odd that Gmail specifically would be required.
They did make a $60 million deal recently with Google, so maybe it’s related to that?
Stealth works, but you have to do a fresh install for some reason.
I experienced this yesterday, maybe 12 hours ago? So not just in the last few hours.
It is possible to use Reddit without having to log in and deal with the shit mods and community. Apps like RedReader (similar to old school RiF) allow you to bookmark subreddits locally if you need to access the site as a source or whatever. I haven't logged in to participate for months and I havent missed it at all.
If you must use Reddit still, then it’s pretty easy to sign up for an email alias service. Or just make a trash email and send everything for social media to that. There’s also plus addressing, although that doesn’t protect your privacy, simply makes it easier to filter out spam and see who is selling your email.
Aren't most throwaway email services already blocked by Reddit?
Idk, I use Proton and mine worked fine. It’s super easy for services to keep adding new domains, so it would be a lot of work for Reddit to keep up. Not to mention money, since most services don’t list all their domains to the public, you have to pay to see them.
Just make a disposable email (use 10 minutes email) and sign up with a random name.
It worked for now until they block 10 tmp email .