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[–] [email protected] 315 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just have to laugh.

Fuck reddit! I'm here now!

[–] [email protected] 148 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Right? The first few days I was worried it just wouldn’t be the same, but the slower upload of content here has made me browse when I want to without over browsing endlessly. The less active comment sections means I can interact with more people without being buried…it’s just better. And I’m excited to see it grow

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I’ve been afraid to comment on Reddit because I assume no one will read it or I won’t have anything novel to say. But I definitely agree that I like the smaller community here

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

I'm afraid to comment here because everyone will see it!

"According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy." ― Seinfeld

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[–] [email protected] 206 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a shame how shabbily reddit's board and u/spez (and his lackeys) have treated reddit's users and mods. They benefited enormously from free content and hours of unpaid moderation, yet they chose to throw it all away.

[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 year ago (13 children)

This screams “Please stop this and go back to doing work for free.” They keep threatening but know they need the free labor.

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If Reddit goes down, what articles will pcmag decide to write about then?

[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (19 children)

And what will people post on lemmy about?

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I mean sure posts about Reddit makes us seem like the bitter ex, but they are to be expected, since it's the only thing all Lemmy users have in common: Being ex-Redditors. It will stop naturally with time.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy is already busy complaining about meta

Don't worry we'll find something

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 year ago (2 children)

reddit is transforming itself from a social media platform into a history lesson at this point. I'd say don't feel guilty if you still browse reddit at all, but don't be shocked when it's gone either.

the attitude and behavior of the company towards the community is what's going to finish it off more than anything.

there's so other ways they could've monetized reddit without causing all this, but they seem hell bent on being obtuse. to that, i shrug and move on.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Honestly I've been addicted to reddit for several years, and it even had negative consequences for my life. When I was depressed I just used reddit all day and became obsessed with the subreddit moderated. I deleted that account and now I'm in a much better place but that constant urge to open reddit is still there.

Before July 1 my reddit usage was around 2 hours every day, now it's been 0 for 5 days.

So I'd like to Thank Reddit admins for this.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm disappointed how few subreddits are daring to call their bluff, or put their full weight behind migrating. It's clear they actually aren't able to replace moderators that easily.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

r/interestingasfuck still doesn't have moderators. It's been closed for 18 days now.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

“We are now stuck in a difficult position as we do not want the community to die”

Feels to me like they dug their own grave and now complain that the user's are problem.

What are they expecting after they remove moderators and remove the nsfw status? That the users keep posting? They aren't dumb and I could imagine that some or most people will probably stop posting there.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

or else what? They'll bring in paid moderators to do an actual job?

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's idiots lining up out the door to get a taste of fake power.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The quality of the work is not going go be the same though...

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Reddit admins writing warning letters like I title project files. lastlastLASTFINAL-v1.3forreal.doc warning

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago

"This is your final warning, please migrate to FOSS platforms"

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's amazing how fast Reddit went from my favorite place to be online to a trash heap

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (3 children)

TBH I Don't care about reddit now, I'm more into lemmy or squabble now. If its user base grows or declines I Don't care, I'm out of reddit and I'm not going back.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Reddit are past the point of no return for me. They could reverse all their API changes but I'm not going back. They've show their true colours.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They’ve show their true colours.

For me it was the CEO's comments.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (34 children)

The final warning was enough to cause the moderators for r/Military—a forum partly devoted to helping veterans—to stop operating as a NSFW subreddit. “We are now stuck in a difficult position as we do not want the community to die,” the moderator team wrote.

Cowards.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

I dont know what everyone was expecting. Enduring nonsensical rules, shitty working conditions and incompetent authority figures is about the most military thing there is.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Reddit is slowly dying. Major nerd communities like r/startrek migrated already. And remaining users will soon realize that their feeds are becoming more and more lifeless. Kinda like twitter feels since Elon.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago

this is sad when years of work, sweat and commitment wasted WITHOUT GETTING PAID to keep a community alive and full of information to get stamped and threatened by a dickhead

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

"It’s not OK to show people NSFW content when they don’t want to see it,”

You know what else isn't ok!!!!! Fucking over the entire population of reddit users to churn over some short term profits!

I hope spez buys a yacht or something!

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The grand majority of reddit users have more in common with tictok users than forum users. The lowest common denominator is the biggest user base.

They doom scroll and satisfy their addiction, many are kids, they really don't really care about information manipulation, quality content, discussion quality....etc

So they will stay, and the niche groups, those that care and contribute in quality ways, tend to be pushed out.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago

Get back to work or I'm going to give you more free time!

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The only thing reddit cant do it stop people just not using reddit. All these protests really arent that effective as people leaving reddit and going elsewhere (hopefully lemmy tho.)

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gotta love the ones that are actually NSFW that they want changed to not. Naked selfies is pretty much the tip of the iceberg with Cyberpunk, with a lot of gore and violence and sex underneath. And there's some truly fucked up shit that I don't even want to describe that's there too, as a side quest continuation of main story events.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The reddit app is only marked PG and not 18+ in the Google Play store - maybe someone should let them know about the content that's not behind nsfw filters any more?

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Isn’t this the admins like third final warning?

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Funny but Reddit actually has executed entire mod teams, and will continue to do so

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wonder if public freakouts was told to remove the NSFW tag. That sub definitely should have been NSFW all along.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I only go to Reddit now because of one or two forums that don't exist on here yet, But the more I see stories like this, the more I'm inclined to just say screw it and nuke my account.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol i think reddit is fucked

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t really care what they do anymore tbh.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (15 children)

We should direct everyone on Reddit to Lemmy. Then, (this is copy pasted, I'm not a bot) add an option to the third party apps for Lemmy so you can opt in to ads that support your instance and the platform. Force me to use your bullshit app so you can make more money? Fuck you. I came here from Reddit. But I'd opt in to ads to support something that is clearly better.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (10 children)

No ads, ads are evil.

Feed me a donation link.

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