I was on reddit every day for damn near 20 years, and if I'm being 100% honest, the fediverse is 10,000% better. The only problem is that not enough people interact. I've never seen a post with more than like 200 comments. It feels a bit empty here. But, on the other hand, 200 decent comments is better than 2000 shitty ones.

Once this place gets a few more users, it's gonna be the GOAT.

It's a loss, but I've come to see it as just a part of the endless treadmill of 1. Go to where the cool people are 2. Uncool people show up 3. It gets bad 4. Look for the cool people. Feels like that's always going to be the way of it.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

I've been seeing this for a long time now, as they blocked VPN and anonymous access, so I use a combination of cached pages and libredirect if I really want to bother going there.

I haven't read a Reddit page since I switched from Protonvpn to Mullvadvpn.

Reddit seems to allow Proton but blocks Mullvad.

Another reason to appreciate Mullvad.

old reddit still works. I had to install an extension to auto redirect to the old.reddit URL the other day cuz I was troubleshooting something and the ONLY things about it were on Reddit and I noticed that bullshit app advertisement too.

I know, I know, reddit sucks ass. I've been using firefox with ublock to read the best ofs for the unquenchable need for bullshit drama in my life.

But now it's not just a pop up saying to use the app, but a full ass unpassable thing. Old Reddit still works, but that's just another step for something that's already so not worthwhile.

Welp...

Problem is that it's still where so many people are. It's honestly such a shame that more people won't move to lemmy... Because in comparison there's barely anyone here. And the only reason these kinds of websites are useful is that there's a lot of people on them

I got permabanned this morning. Made a joke that automod thought was inciting violence (said people who don't punch their ponies in their face make me sick - not even my joke or a joke but a reference to someone else's joke - in response to someone calling horses disgusting) and all my alts were banned too. Which is fine but I miss my TV show communities a bunch. I like to discuss my stories!

Reddit perma banned me because I commented that someone should “yeet that dude (the ceo of palintir) into space” because he wants war crimes to be legal because it would be better for business.

Reddit doesn't like my VPN, so for the times when it comes up in my search or a buddy sends me something from there I have an extension in firefox now to redirect reddit links to redlib.

It's called libredirect. It's got a bunch of sites so you can avoid most of those shitty pop-ups if you set them up.

Majority of the posts on the popular subreddots are written by bots.

For research purposes use a frontend like redlib

Better late than never!

That's why I just left. You can use the redirect to old Reddit extension, but this is just so fucking dumb.

It's like an extra step, to get access to their ads too. No idea why anyone was paying for ads on Reddit before, but seems more pointless now

If it wasnt so toxic it would be nice.

It's really bad when you start to see how many bots and astroturfing there is. Accounts with thousands of posts a year stirring up shit in all the contentious threads.

same. this was literally the last straw. this and the effing bot posts and comments

Welcome to the dark side for good and yes, it is better... overall. I've been on Lemmy now since the first mass exodus when I deleted my reddit account of 15+ years.

While Lemmy is now my 'home', I do occasionally visit 3 reddit subs that have no equivalent elsewhere. It just happens and I see nothing wrong with the occasional view. It's not like /u/Spez can monitize my VPN anonymous visit. So don't feel bad if you end up doing the same, Lemmy just doesn't have the same volume.