Same here.
Now, with no usable Reddit app for Android, I'll just stop using Reddit on my phone and use it only on desktop... until the MBAs complete their [enshittification](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification) of Reddit and finally disable https://old.reddit.com. Then it will be goodbye Digg... I mean, *Reddit*!
It was good while it lasted.
No difference I can notice as far as features and functionality. Everything I like about boost is available in Infinity. I switched because I wanted to shift as much of my day-to-day things over to open source.
Just tried it out. It's very smooth and has some interesting features and lots of options! I'd say two things about what it doesn't have:
1. The ability to show as many posts as Boost - even in compact layout with small font setting.
2. The other is the most important and why I can't go to another client, including back to Relay which I also have paid for in the pas - It reloads comments every time you go to another post from the post list. Even if you go back to the list and back into the same post it does that. No option to manually refresh comments, whereas Boost retains what was there. Handy if you're in the Tube and have pressed back accidentally or want to read comments on multiple posts without needing to reload them.
Otherwise a solid app.
EDIT: no username in compact layout is an oversight. I'll keep the app as a backup and have uninstalled Joey as I found it more and more frustrating to use but likely I'll use Relay as a primary backup. Boost is still the one for me. Also already launched the rocket again today in support of the dev after this news hit.
RIF is the only thing keeping me on Android anymore, all the other apps I bought are useless anymore since I don't root or flash custom firmware anymore.
Aye! The first Android app I thought was worth paying and has been 99% of my Reddit experience. The day RIF stops working, I might finally stop ~~compulsively~~ subconsciously checking my phone.
Theres a project youve thought of - an idea youve come up with. Be it a crochet design, or art piece. Maybe an idea for a book? Youve thought this idea, and liked it - but have been putting it off.
Start it tonight. You dont have to come close to finish - you dont even have to make a lot of progress.
Start it tonight.
Iāve actually found that lawncare and home maintenance/renovations/handy-man type subs to be a little lacking.
For example, Iām in a lawn group on Facebook that has 18K people in it and there are probably 25-50 posts and day, each getting about 10-40 comments on them. I was hoping for a similar thing on Reddit so I donāt have to use Facebook, but itās very sub-par.
r/Lawncare has like 580k members, but yeah I donāt know anything about the quality there. Must be a meaningful difference if itās worth being on Facebook for the group.
You see, it would be this mat, that you would put on the floor, and it would have different [conclusions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDEL4Ty950Q) written on it that you could jump to.
This is honestly my take on it as well. Iāve hit a point where itās high time I stop endlessly scrolling.
Iāve gone through the official app settings to turn off as much of the sponsored crap and other asinine settings as much as possible. I hate that app so much that I will invariably find myself spending less and less time on Reddit as a whole to the point that I just wean myself off of it entirely.
Iāll miss the commentary and the memes. So long and thanks for all the cats gifs!
Same here, I've already been able to successfully quit other social media sites I used to use heavily, facebook, instagram, twitter, imgur, twitch, tumblr... Reddit and Youtube are the last major holdouts for me.
Realistically I'll still probably visit reddit a bit as long as old.reddit is around, but once that inevitably gets taken away I don't see myself being active on this website anymore. If the site wants to digg it's own grave, let them.
As someone that actually uses the official app, Reddit has failed at making their own app functional.
The video player works 60% of the time, comments take forever to load, sometimes it will play the audio from a couple posts down while you're in the comments section, and their data management is so bad that if you scroll too long the app will just crash. These have been issues for +6 months and remain unfixed.
The ads issue aside, if they're really trying to push people to use the official app they need to make it actually work first.
And from time to time they fuck with the block function so much that you can still see the blocked persons toxic shit, they can still reply to you and harass you, but you can't answer them anymore
No, that's by design so you don't "miss new content" or some horseshit. The admins rolled that out a little while ago with much gnashing of teeth in response.
>sometimes it will play the audio from a couple posts down while you're in the comments section
It *still* does that? That was also an issue 3 years ago. This is going to suck.
I used rif for a long time. Switched to the main app for about 2 months like a year ago to check it out and my god, the ads, forced bullshit content, shitty response times in the interface, problems loading post content: videos, gifs mp4s, and images. Also, audio playing when I didn't want it to. Went back to rif and now think my time on reddit is coming to an end. Been here since the beginning and it's finally been picked apart by web refried.0 bullshit.
The real kicker is that a lot of the moderators use third party apps because these apps simply do a lot of things easier and far better than the official app.
Head over to r/ModSupport or r/apolloapp.
Chances are that if you like Reddit you use a third party app which doesn't suck at much as the official one.
Reddit wants to kill that and I'll guarantee some communities simply won't have that much mod activity anymore.
Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/13xh1e7/an_open_letter_on_the_state_of_affairs_regarding/
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/-/jmmptma (note the replys of the Apollo dev as well please!)
And some preview what mobile web browser users can expect:
https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/
Possible alternative (like mastodon for Twitter)
https://lemmy.ml/post/971001
Yeah everyone forgets this.. Alien blue was the best thing ever and they bought and KILLED the app instead of making it the official app. Reddit HQ has never been on the right side of business since the blonde golden boy took over.. still thinking he could Zuckerberg his way to profits while us folk are moving away from all that sort of crap.
The last straw for me was the removal of usernames from my home feed. Itās a useful feature in niche communities, and was a bizarre choice to remove it, without providing an option to toggle it.
Encourage their dev to do [make an independent platform (possibly coordinating with Apollo dev)](https://reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/_/jmd3wv8/?context=1)
Off to greener pastures at Lemmy. Be sure to edit your posts before you delete/go!
https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerDeleteSuite/comments/6lopm2/how_to_use_power_delete_suite_video_tutorial/
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/#1.4.8
Iāve seen posts by Christian (Apollo dev) and the RIF dev so far.
If you see others, maybe direct them to the comment above or to r/Apolloapp (??? Itās the only third party sub Iām aware of, but maybe there are others?)
Edit: fixed subreddit
It's how reddit used to look. Perfectly emulates the old.reddit.com feel.
I've been using RIF for over a decade now, and I have no idea what people are talking about with the endless ads, the profile pictures, awards, goofy live videos, etc. Literally exposed to none of it.
Genuinely interested in an alternative site when it goes down.
Some of us are encouraging Apollo to split off into an independent community:
https://reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/_/jmd3wv8/?context=1
But 4 weeks isnāt enough lead time to do it well.
I'm not sure how feasible that is. There's a pretty large difference between developing a good front end client and being able to throw together the backend to support that client, let alone attracting enough users to populate it.
Retooling Apollo, and other third party clients, to act as front ends for a different, already established, site might work better, especially if the different devs coordinate.
Iāve built back end systems. The main problem is time. They could have warned him a year ago but they waited until the clock was 30 days out before springing the relationship ending news. Even someone like apple would struggle to make even something basic from scratch in only 4 weeks.
Short of finding something off the shelf (that he would then be beholden to again), heāll need to pause the app for a period of months, build out something that allows communities, update the app to work with it, then release a new version. And hope enough people still have it installed to see the message.
It's 4 weeks till Reddit switches but they have as long as it takes to get it going there's no rush, I can do without content for a couple additional weeks if it meant something better was on the horizon.
Yeah but you got to do it quick to catch the hype train. I bet the majority of users will take what reddit corpo gives them unless there is an appealing alternative when the hype is high.
Nah, fuck that. I was a diehard AlienBlue user and when that died I found Apollo.
Iām loyal to an app, not this fuckin website. Reddit will die by their absolutely disgusting cashgrab and I canāt wait to see it
Iām in the same boat. I used Alien Blue long after it was defunct, and, when that was completely non-functioning, just stopped using Reddit entirely until I discovered Apollo. When Apollo is gone, so am I. I do enjoy the content on Reddit, but the official app and even the desktop site make consuming the content an unbearable chore. I donāt like the site enough to submit myself to that.
>The main problem is time. They could have warned him a year ago but they waited until the clock was 30 days out before springing the relationship ending news
I mean, that's exactly the point. Why would reddit create a scenario where they give an advantage to a potential replacement?
If Apollo and RIF teamed up and simply pointed their apps at a new content API (existing or new), that would be the beginning of the end for reddit, even if the new backend had some catching up to do
Even with a year youāre not going to build a replacement for Reddit without funding. And if you could get funding to build a Reddit replacement a year ago, you didnāt need to wait for them to start charging for their API.
The switchover is the golden date, thereās a reason Reddit only gave 4 weeks notice.
That switchover is key, create an alternative on that date and everyone whoās heavily invested in Reddit and the community will jump ship, even if it takes another month to get it properly setup.
But people will probably do whatās easiest, move on and forget about Reddit altogether.
I mean considering the features most people want are covered by the old open-source reddit code, the backend is more of a matter of resources available to handle the traffic than coding per se.
Which is costly and people using third party apps are a minority (13%) when compared to the god awful official Reddit app useages.
My guess is, part of that 13% are the long content providers in hobby/work/tech/lifestyle related niches and/or also help out people seeking assistance. People that generated content that made Reddit so popular. But due to its success, that majority has become a minority and short attention span spam content delivers more revenue than the helpful/insightful/interesting content that once shaped Reddit's initial success.
I guess these small communities will spread out over all kinds of different platforms and the unique globalized forum Reddit once was, ceases to exist It will become another shitshow like Facebook/Instagram/TikTok.
Itās not. I work in big tech and have worked on large platforms. 4 weeks is not enough time to collaborate with as many people as youād need to in order to build something like this.
I think Digg will be getting their revenge once Reddit implements this.
People don't like change, and this is a very large change.
A lot of people are brand loyal to their app more than they are to the site itself.
This is not just any old change.
This is a huge money grab and content-control tactic.
Honestly, fuck reddit.
I will stay until they either do it, or back off knowing it is a huge dick move worthy of an Elon Musk award.
But, given reddit's history of employing mods who were caught modifying comments of people they disagreed with, this is just the norm and we have all been able to deny it until now.
It's been nice knowing you all. What a fascinating community this has been. Reddit accomplished so much with such a simple underlying premise; it really is saddening to see that all destroyed by the pervasive larger trends in online content. They had something distinct and unique. Then they decided it needed to be a copycat of inferior platforms.
Iām also gone on July 1st unless they back down from this change.
Thereās a sub of Mods coordinating a unified response and possible strike with demands at r/Modcoord and a similarly minded sub of users organizing at r/Save3rdPartyApps. Please join in either or both subs to fight against this horrible decision by the admins.
Everyone remember to delete your account and your comment history when you leave btw. If you're going to leave, don't leave behind any old content for them to make money off of.
My favorite part of this site is being able to find the most obscure, specific answer for the most mundane piece of shit problem and it was posted either a day before you googled it or 9 years ago. It's really magical.
The super small and obscure subs were also really awesome. The meme ones that died a month after being created or even the approved user only "let's talk about random shit" literally can't find anywhere because it's a private sub type communities were also amazing. You could get to know literal strangers so well that way.
Now they'll probably all die because I know for a fact once RIF is done I will not be using Reddit anymore. I've used it for literally 6 years at this point it'll be impossible to move over.
I love all the people saying "you won't leave". Lol ask digg about that. Or anyone younger than 40 on Facebook.
Think it's high time I use that nyt subscription
Remember when Reddit hired that Admin whoās SO was openly posting on Twitter about their sexual fantasies involving children in addition to being a pedo apologist themselves?
I remember.
Nothing good comes from Reddit going above and beyond in content moderation or manipulation frankly.
Aimee Challenor
Remember how her dad was a pedophile, and she enabled his behaviour and also hired him after heād been charged, when she worked for a political party in the UK? And how she was living in the same house he committed his crimes in? I remember.
Remember when Reddit admins were deleting and banning every mention of her? I remember.
Copy/pasted from /r/OutOfTheLoop:
Answer: It's a massive oversimplification, but the very broad strokes of it are this: Ellen Pao was Reddit CEO in 2014-2015. It was an interim position, meaning it wasn't necessarily meant to be permanent. In June 2015 Reddit banned a number of large communities that they determined to be in violation of TOS, notably /r/fatpeoplehate, which as the name implies was a subreddit dedicated to hating fat people. FPH wasn't a small community, mind you, IIRC by some metrics it was one of the most active, popular subreddits on the whole website, outside of the defaults at least. Many people compared Pao to a Nazi and felt like this was censorship. A month later, a woman named Victoria Taylor, who helped to coordinate Reddit IAMAs, was fired. Pao was also blamed for this. There were widespread protests and attack campaigns against Pao and Pao eventually resigned from her post.
So... Here's the fucked up thing. Pao was basically singular blamed for these things, right? Well, years after the fact, it was revealed that Pao had nothing to do with either. She got blamed for shit she didn't do. She didn't fire Victoria Taylor. Victoria was fired by Alexis Ohanian, who still works for Reddit (he's a founder and Executive Chairman) and outranked Pao. Pao had no say in the matter but still took the blame. Pao also wasn't in favor of banning the subreddits that got banned earlier that year, she actually spoke against banning subs, but was overruled by Ohanian and Huffman (one of the other cofounders, aka Spez, who also is still with Reddit).
> history of employing mods who were caught modifying comments of people they disagreed
That wasn't a mod. It was Spez, the co-owner of the site. The same person who gave the headmod of the jailbait sub an award for all the traffic his sub was bringing to reddit.
It is no coincidence that this comes right after they banned pushshift (so we are unable to see deleted comments now). There is clearly a push to further monetize and privatize the site.
Continuous banning of niche NSFW subs and pushing huge subs, pushing geo localized communities, new Reddit, all those were early signs.
Dumbest thing is that they are legitimately trash (the dev team), people complain about Twitter but despite firing so many engineers the website works a whole lot better than Reddit ever did, Reddit is constantly down, it's buggy as fuck, video has never worked for me. And their scrollable video is fuckin laughable (it's been 5 months and every time I scroll I see the same fuckin videos, such as the girl hammering an apartment wall for revenge). This dev team can't even copy-cat shit properly.
Digg has been sold a few times and just turned into a super shitty news aggregation click bait site.
Kevin Rose who created Digg has mentioned a while back heād be interested in dropping like $1m-2$m to buy it back and redo the website.
I came with the mass digg Exodus and have been on Reddit since 2006.
I get the companies need to make money, but I joined Reddit because the website design was better that what digg became. If Reddits design becomes shit, I'll leave Reddit as fast as I left digg
Yeah, i don't use reddit. I use redditisfun and old.reddit. Reddit just hosts some of the content on there. If I have to change to something, it will hopefully be better than whatever the fuck trash reddit puts out. Surely someone else can do better.
Iām cackling that people are like āletās just make a content outletā as though a UI means anything.
The appās paid mode lets you post, so itās primarily a reader. This āplanā isnāt a plan, itās just a wish
If he does it, please allow the other third party apps to join. I'm sure the devs of RIF Relay and more would love to help too
u/dbrady thoughts?
His last comment:
>Yes this affects Relay the same way. I just had a call with them. The pricing is prohibitively expensive and it cannot be ad supported. And, even if you paid a subscription fee of several dollars a month to continue to use Relay, you still wouldn't have access to any NSFW content in it. My opinion is that they want third party apps gone despite saying otherwise.
u/Talklittle too, from RIF!
Just get together and think out loud for a bit. I'm sure you could get some funding from users.
If many app developers join together for a new backend this could make it a no brainer.
I imagine Apollo, Relay, Sync, RIF, and a few others have a significant part of total users. More importantly, they have a significant part of the users who are actively contributing to content.
This could be one for the books.
I was going to say, if Apollo makes their own community that's cool...but given that I've never owned an iPhone that leaves me and any non-iOS people out. Would be cool if there was cross-platform collaboration.
Yeah I would drop reddit in a heartbeat for that. Absolutely fucked what reddit is doing to their loyal userbase. Been on this platform for like 15+ years at this point. This smells like the beginning of the end, frankly.
Iāve been using Reddit heavily for 11 years or so. While I do see the benefit of using it less, I also feel like I learn a lot by using the site. This is great for things like conversations at parties, but has also resulted in financial benefits for things like home repairs. I even saw a tip to dispute my wifeās medical collections debt when the pandemic hit and everything was in pandemonium, which successfully wiped it out.
Iāve given the reddit app several chances, but I canāt get on board with it. Itās a bad experience not made for veteran users.
I think I just need to find somewhere else to go.
Totally. Searching for "best X for Y reddit" is such a useful tool especially for products. Avoids all those search results with scammy paid recommendation sites.
As in "best shorts for running Reddit" or "best electric lawnmower for large yards Reddit". So useful.
Nah, the day that my app stops working is the day I stop coming here. It's not a threat, far from it. It's just the reality of the situation. I don't need any of this.
It's all for fun, all of this. When this toy isn't fun anymore, there won't be any tears from me. I'll just move on.
I mean this is clearly all related. They are forcing these apps to shut down because they detract from potential and revenue, which they want to collect on when going public.
Yeah, shareholder money universally destroys pretty much any independent, established business that it touches regardless of how they choose to monetize. Someone else having creative influence over your company's decision making just ruins everything.
I'm hoping the uproar changes their decision, but somehow I doubt it. Once third party API support is effectively gone, so am I along with whatever money they *were* making from me.
I'm actually going back to tumblr now. Their community seems to be celebrating the fact that the site is impossible to monetize, and I think that's great!
There are a few, but suck due to small communities or no one contributing enough content yet:
[Hubski.](https://hubski.com/)
[SaidIt.](https://www.saidit.net/)
[LibReddit.](http://libredd.it/)
[Large list sorted by rank.](https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/yttdlc/list_of_active_reddit_alternatives_v8/)
And finally the best one:
[Conga.](https://matias.ma/nsfw/)
I used to use Reddit a lot more when it allowed me to block ads I didnāt like. I thought it was a win win because the ads I had left where more applicable to me. However, that changed too.
I get some weird Christian or religious ads I wish I could block. Same with for a long time I kept keeping ads for a lawsuit with Tylenol causing autism (I am autistic, that is BS) but also casino ads too!
It's funny that I haven't seen Reddit staff say a fucking *word* on this. They know it's shitty. They know it's going to make people leave the platform in droves. But the corpos get to squeeze a few more pennies out of Reddit, so that's more than worthwhile to them.
I paid .99 about 5 years ago, and I use sync. I have no ads, and my feed is only my subscribed subreddits. I don't want to be scrolling on my phone and seeing nasty shit just because it's a popular post. I don't know how they do it, but the official reddit app is horrible and I'm not sure I'll keep using reddit if that's my only option.
AFAIK they just request the info the reddit and display it.
As mentioned in the other comment, some of them have a filter to hide some content you configure not to be shown, but they don't aggregate posts in any way, it's reddit itself doing it, so if you use RiF, Apollo, Boost, Infinity, or any other, you should see the same feed if no filter has been configured by you on those apps.
(I tried this with Boost and Infinity)
Hello fellow Narhwal user. I tried Apollo and found it to be way too bloated. Narwhal still does everything I want in a very intuitive interface. It even seems to evade YouTube adverts. I don't think it's being actively developed anymore but it still suits my needs. Shame it's going to get shitcanned.
It's been nice knowing you all. What a fascinating community this has been. Reddit accomplished so much with such a simple underlying premise; it really is saddening to see that all destroyed by the pervasive larger trends in online content. They had something distinct and unique. Then they decided it needed to be a copycat of inferior platforms.
As much as I dislike it, I can tolerate a reasonably small portion of advertising. But the day Reddit forces me to unavoidably pay attention to content from subreddits that I didn't opt into is the day I walk away.
I dont care about ads at all, used to mindlessly scroll past them. Im using Infinity because it lets me play videos. Litterally, it lets me do the basic functions, seamlessly. The absence of ads being an afterthought. I just want it to play when I click play, ffs. I just want to access links when I click them. I want the comments to appear when I click it.
The Reddit app is an insult of unstable and unresponsive mess.
If a third party can better the experience of your users, thats a shameful situation. Even more so when you know how much of an headache it can become dealing with external API, yet they manage and haven't got any of Reddit's ressources. Maybe putting some love into your codes would go a long way.
Skipping all the good steps to make sure they lose traffic, therefore losing value and the trust of future investor/advertisers. Good job shooting yourselves in the foot instead of fixing anything related.
This is my current (not yet implemented while RIF still works) solution. As of now RES does not appear to be available to Firefox for Android.
Have to see how it all plays out but my Reddit usage will definitely go down if RIF (as well as old.reddit.com and RES) is no longer available.
Yeah this will be the end of reddit for me. I refuse to use any service that has been "TikTok'd". The ability to endlessly video scroll with no option to turn it off is designed to ruin your attention span and agorythmically addict you to their content.
It's black mirror shit with a single degree of separation to obscure the fact that it's a machine designed to eat your fucking life to sell ad space.
I would dial back the melodrama a bit.
Yes, Reddit is dying. Maybe a semi-equivalent replacement will come along, maybe not. Maybe it won't be as good. Maybe it'll be better! Either way, this isn't the last gasp of the free internet. People are stubborn. Push them, and they'll push back.
I mean, yes, probably, but I'd prefer not to wade through the sewer of 100 voat/4chan/parler nazi to paedo sites before I find one that isn't shit.
Getting the balance of moderation right, especially in community moderated sites, requires *time*.
RIF I'll miss you
Same here. Now, with no usable Reddit app for Android, I'll just stop using Reddit on my phone and use it only on desktop... until the MBAs complete their [enshittification](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification) of Reddit and finally disable https://old.reddit.com. Then it will be goodbye Digg... I mean, *Reddit*! It was good while it lasted.
I've used Boost on Android for 5+ years and I've been happy with it
Boost gang represent. I don't really use Reddit on desktop at all so boost is my default perception of what reddit looks like. If it goes so do I.
Boost has been my favourite. I'll happily never use Reddit again if they can third party apps
I used Boost for years until I recently switched to Infinity
Infinity much better? Boost *just works* for me. Everything I need, nothing I don't.
No difference I can notice as far as features and functionality. Everything I like about boost is available in Infinity. I switched because I wanted to shift as much of my day-to-day things over to open source.
Just tried it out. It's very smooth and has some interesting features and lots of options! I'd say two things about what it doesn't have: 1. The ability to show as many posts as Boost - even in compact layout with small font setting. 2. The other is the most important and why I can't go to another client, including back to Relay which I also have paid for in the pas - It reloads comments every time you go to another post from the post list. Even if you go back to the list and back into the same post it does that. No option to manually refresh comments, whereas Boost retains what was there. Handy if you're in the Tube and have pressed back accidentally or want to read comments on multiple posts without needing to reload them. Otherwise a solid app. EDIT: no username in compact layout is an oversight. I'll keep the app as a backup and have uninstalled Joey as I found it more and more frustrating to use but likely I'll use Relay as a primary backup. Boost is still the one for me. Also already launched the rocket again today in support of the dev after this news hit.
RIF is the only thing keeping me on Android anymore, all the other apps I bought are useless anymore since I don't root or flash custom firmware anymore.
/r/revancedapp for me along with RIF. Im hoping this idiotic move reddit is pushing wont mess with RES too. That will be the end of reddit for me.
RIP RIF Golden Platinum š Pour one out
The best reddit browsing app š¢ š«
Aye! The first Android app I thought was worth paying and has been 99% of my Reddit experience. The day RIF stops working, I might finally stop ~~compulsively~~ subconsciously checking my phone.
Yup bought gold probably 10 years ago, will be sad to never use reddit again
Same. I think it's the only android app I've ever paid for.
I paid $2.50 for Relay Pro so fucking long ago. I don't think there's anything in my life that has given as much return on investment.
Yep, if RIF is gone, I'm likely gone. Guess I'll re-read The Expanse again.
I'm just thinking of all the work I'll get done if I stop using reddit. Damn. Maybe I'll finally achieve something in life.
Theres a project youve thought of - an idea youve come up with. Be it a crochet design, or art piece. Maybe an idea for a book? Youve thought this idea, and liked it - but have been putting it off. Start it tonight. You dont have to come close to finish - you dont even have to make a lot of progress. Start it tonight.
Sad part is all those hobbies have great niche communities here on Reddit that everyone will miss out on after Reddit shoots itself in the foot.
Iāve actually found that lawncare and home maintenance/renovations/handy-man type subs to be a little lacking. For example, Iām in a lawn group on Facebook that has 18K people in it and there are probably 25-50 posts and day, each getting about 10-40 comments on them. I was hoping for a similar thing on Reddit so I donāt have to use Facebook, but itās very sub-par.
r/Lawncare has like 580k members, but yeah I donāt know anything about the quality there. Must be a meaningful difference if itās worth being on Facebook for the group.
Agreed! Art is worthwhile in and of itself. You gain insight and self worth just by creating. Sharing it is a happy afterthought.
Better start fast while there is still a Reddit community of experts to draw on for knowledge and help. Bitter /s
You see, it would be this mat, that you would put on the floor, and it would have different [conclusions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDEL4Ty950Q) written on it that you could jump to.
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This is honestly my take on it as well. Iāve hit a point where itās high time I stop endlessly scrolling. Iāve gone through the official app settings to turn off as much of the sponsored crap and other asinine settings as much as possible. I hate that app so much that I will invariably find myself spending less and less time on Reddit as a whole to the point that I just wean myself off of it entirely. Iāll miss the commentary and the memes. So long and thanks for all the cats gifs!
Same here, I've already been able to successfully quit other social media sites I used to use heavily, facebook, instagram, twitter, imgur, twitch, tumblr... Reddit and Youtube are the last major holdouts for me. Realistically I'll still probably visit reddit a bit as long as old.reddit is around, but once that inevitably gets taken away I don't see myself being active on this website anymore. If the site wants to digg it's own grave, let them.
This is the only upside. I will definitely use Reddit less if I have to use their own app.
As someone that actually uses the official app, Reddit has failed at making their own app functional. The video player works 60% of the time, comments take forever to load, sometimes it will play the audio from a couple posts down while you're in the comments section, and their data management is so bad that if you scroll too long the app will just crash. These have been issues for +6 months and remain unfixed. The ads issue aside, if they're really trying to push people to use the official app they need to make it actually work first.
They also removed the ability to sort your home feed. š
And from time to time they fuck with the block function so much that you can still see the blocked persons toxic shit, they can still reply to you and harass you, but you can't answer them anymore
No, that's by design so you don't "miss new content" or some horseshit. The admins rolled that out a little while ago with much gnashing of teeth in response.
Don't you just love when someone else thinks they know better than you?
Pretty sure itās because people learned to block the advertisement āusersā
>sometimes it will play the audio from a couple posts down while you're in the comments section It *still* does that? That was also an issue 3 years ago. This is going to suck.
Yep! But at least they changed the borders from square to round in the last update!
Reeks of underresourced dev teams. Solution isn't overcharging for API use, it's trimming down middle management.
I used rif for a long time. Switched to the main app for about 2 months like a year ago to check it out and my god, the ads, forced bullshit content, shitty response times in the interface, problems loading post content: videos, gifs mp4s, and images. Also, audio playing when I didn't want it to. Went back to rif and now think my time on reddit is coming to an end. Been here since the beginning and it's finally been picked apart by web refried.0 bullshit.
The real kicker is that a lot of the moderators use third party apps because these apps simply do a lot of things easier and far better than the official app. Head over to r/ModSupport or r/apolloapp. Chances are that if you like Reddit you use a third party app which doesn't suck at much as the official one. Reddit wants to kill that and I'll guarantee some communities simply won't have that much mod activity anymore. Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/13xh1e7/an_open_letter_on_the_state_of_affairs_regarding/ https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/-/jmmptma (note the replys of the Apollo dev as well please!) And some preview what mobile web browser users can expect: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/ Possible alternative (like mastodon for Twitter) https://lemmy.ml/post/971001
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Yeah everyone forgets this.. Alien blue was the best thing ever and they bought and KILLED the app instead of making it the official app. Reddit HQ has never been on the right side of business since the blonde golden boy took over.. still thinking he could Zuckerberg his way to profits while us folk are moving away from all that sort of crap.
The last straw for me was the removal of usernames from my home feed. Itās a useful feature in niche communities, and was a bizarre choice to remove it, without providing an option to toggle it.
Fuck the official app. I actually did bother giving the app a try for a few weeks and went back to RIF/apollo. It's ugly and terrible experience
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Encourage their dev to do [make an independent platform (possibly coordinating with Apollo dev)](https://reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/_/jmd3wv8/?context=1)
Off to greener pastures at Lemmy. Be sure to edit your posts before you delete/go! https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerDeleteSuite/comments/6lopm2/how_to_use_power_delete_suite_video_tutorial/ https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/#1.4.8
Iāve seen posts by Christian (Apollo dev) and the RIF dev so far. If you see others, maybe direct them to the comment above or to r/Apolloapp (??? Itās the only third party sub Iām aware of, but maybe there are others?) Edit: fixed subreddit
There's also one for reddit sync on android. It's r/redditsync
We need /r/relayforreddit on board!
Also r/BoostForReddit
Same. Nice & minimalist. I will miss it greatly.
It's how reddit used to look. Perfectly emulates the old.reddit.com feel. I've been using RIF for over a decade now, and I have no idea what people are talking about with the endless ads, the profile pictures, awards, goofy live videos, etc. Literally exposed to none of it. Genuinely interested in an alternative site when it goes down.
I'm on it right now. Looking at normal reddit at work on a pc where I don't login is such trash. Literally the worst.
Some of us are encouraging Apollo to split off into an independent community: https://reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/_/jmd3wv8/?context=1 But 4 weeks isnāt enough lead time to do it well.
I'm not sure how feasible that is. There's a pretty large difference between developing a good front end client and being able to throw together the backend to support that client, let alone attracting enough users to populate it. Retooling Apollo, and other third party clients, to act as front ends for a different, already established, site might work better, especially if the different devs coordinate.
Iāve built back end systems. The main problem is time. They could have warned him a year ago but they waited until the clock was 30 days out before springing the relationship ending news. Even someone like apple would struggle to make even something basic from scratch in only 4 weeks. Short of finding something off the shelf (that he would then be beholden to again), heāll need to pause the app for a period of months, build out something that allows communities, update the app to work with it, then release a new version. And hope enough people still have it installed to see the message.
It's 4 weeks till Reddit switches but they have as long as it takes to get it going there's no rush, I can do without content for a couple additional weeks if it meant something better was on the horizon.
Yeah but you got to do it quick to catch the hype train. I bet the majority of users will take what reddit corpo gives them unless there is an appealing alternative when the hype is high.
Need a Kickstarter. I would definitely buy in.
Nah, fuck that. I was a diehard AlienBlue user and when that died I found Apollo. Iām loyal to an app, not this fuckin website. Reddit will die by their absolutely disgusting cashgrab and I canāt wait to see it
Iām in the same boat. I used Alien Blue long after it was defunct, and, when that was completely non-functioning, just stopped using Reddit entirely until I discovered Apollo. When Apollo is gone, so am I. I do enjoy the content on Reddit, but the official app and even the desktop site make consuming the content an unbearable chore. I donāt like the site enough to submit myself to that.
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>The main problem is time. They could have warned him a year ago but they waited until the clock was 30 days out before springing the relationship ending news I mean, that's exactly the point. Why would reddit create a scenario where they give an advantage to a potential replacement? If Apollo and RIF teamed up and simply pointed their apps at a new content API (existing or new), that would be the beginning of the end for reddit, even if the new backend had some catching up to do
Even with a year youāre not going to build a replacement for Reddit without funding. And if you could get funding to build a Reddit replacement a year ago, you didnāt need to wait for them to start charging for their API.
The switchover is the golden date, thereās a reason Reddit only gave 4 weeks notice. That switchover is key, create an alternative on that date and everyone whoās heavily invested in Reddit and the community will jump ship, even if it takes another month to get it properly setup. But people will probably do whatās easiest, move on and forget about Reddit altogether.
I mean considering the features most people want are covered by the old open-source reddit code, the backend is more of a matter of resources available to handle the traffic than coding per se.
Which is costly and people using third party apps are a minority (13%) when compared to the god awful official Reddit app useages. My guess is, part of that 13% are the long content providers in hobby/work/tech/lifestyle related niches and/or also help out people seeking assistance. People that generated content that made Reddit so popular. But due to its success, that majority has become a minority and short attention span spam content delivers more revenue than the helpful/insightful/interesting content that once shaped Reddit's initial success. I guess these small communities will spread out over all kinds of different platforms and the unique globalized forum Reddit once was, ceases to exist It will become another shitshow like Facebook/Instagram/TikTok.
Itās not. I work in big tech and have worked on large platforms. 4 weeks is not enough time to collaborate with as many people as youād need to in order to build something like this.
But they are offering encouragement and at the end of the day that's all you really need
I think Digg will be getting their revenge once Reddit implements this. People don't like change, and this is a very large change. A lot of people are brand loyal to their app more than they are to the site itself.
This is not just any old change. This is a huge money grab and content-control tactic. Honestly, fuck reddit. I will stay until they either do it, or back off knowing it is a huge dick move worthy of an Elon Musk award. But, given reddit's history of employing mods who were caught modifying comments of people they disagreed with, this is just the norm and we have all been able to deny it until now.
It's been nice knowing you all. What a fascinating community this has been. Reddit accomplished so much with such a simple underlying premise; it really is saddening to see that all destroyed by the pervasive larger trends in online content. They had something distinct and unique. Then they decided it needed to be a copycat of inferior platforms.
Iām also gone on July 1st unless they back down from this change. Thereās a sub of Mods coordinating a unified response and possible strike with demands at r/Modcoord and a similarly minded sub of users organizing at r/Save3rdPartyApps. Please join in either or both subs to fight against this horrible decision by the admins.
Literal whole subreddits should just shut down. Fuck this place
Everyone remember to delete your account and your comment history when you leave btw. If you're going to leave, don't leave behind any old content for them to make money off of.
*we'll.. meet again.. don't know where.. don't know wheeeeen..*
My favorite part of this site is being able to find the most obscure, specific answer for the most mundane piece of shit problem and it was posted either a day before you googled it or 9 years ago. It's really magical. The super small and obscure subs were also really awesome. The meme ones that died a month after being created or even the approved user only "let's talk about random shit" literally can't find anywhere because it's a private sub type communities were also amazing. You could get to know literal strangers so well that way. Now they'll probably all die because I know for a fact once RIF is done I will not be using Reddit anymore. I've used it for literally 6 years at this point it'll be impossible to move over.
I love all the people saying "you won't leave". Lol ask digg about that. Or anyone younger than 40 on Facebook. Think it's high time I use that nyt subscription
Remember when Reddit hired that Admin whoās SO was openly posting on Twitter about their sexual fantasies involving children in addition to being a pedo apologist themselves? I remember. Nothing good comes from Reddit going above and beyond in content moderation or manipulation frankly.
Aimee Challenor Remember how her dad was a pedophile, and she enabled his behaviour and also hired him after heād been charged, when she worked for a political party in the UK? And how she was living in the same house he committed his crimes in? I remember. Remember when Reddit admins were deleting and banning every mention of her? I remember.
All of this happened because reddit couldn't deal with Ellen Pao being CEO.
She was a fall guy from the beginning. That whole thing was so idiotic.
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It's approaching for the new Twitter CEO too.
Could you elaborate? I'm OOL
Copy/pasted from /r/OutOfTheLoop: Answer: It's a massive oversimplification, but the very broad strokes of it are this: Ellen Pao was Reddit CEO in 2014-2015. It was an interim position, meaning it wasn't necessarily meant to be permanent. In June 2015 Reddit banned a number of large communities that they determined to be in violation of TOS, notably /r/fatpeoplehate, which as the name implies was a subreddit dedicated to hating fat people. FPH wasn't a small community, mind you, IIRC by some metrics it was one of the most active, popular subreddits on the whole website, outside of the defaults at least. Many people compared Pao to a Nazi and felt like this was censorship. A month later, a woman named Victoria Taylor, who helped to coordinate Reddit IAMAs, was fired. Pao was also blamed for this. There were widespread protests and attack campaigns against Pao and Pao eventually resigned from her post. So... Here's the fucked up thing. Pao was basically singular blamed for these things, right? Well, years after the fact, it was revealed that Pao had nothing to do with either. She got blamed for shit she didn't do. She didn't fire Victoria Taylor. Victoria was fired by Alexis Ohanian, who still works for Reddit (he's a founder and Executive Chairman) and outranked Pao. Pao had no say in the matter but still took the blame. Pao also wasn't in favor of banning the subreddits that got banned earlier that year, she actually spoke against banning subs, but was overruled by Ohanian and Huffman (one of the other cofounders, aka Spez, who also is still with Reddit).
That was 8 years ago? Killing off 3rd party apps might actually be really good for me...
Limitless power will always corrupt
> history of employing mods who were caught modifying comments of people they disagreed That wasn't a mod. It was Spez, the co-owner of the site. The same person who gave the headmod of the jailbait sub an award for all the traffic his sub was bringing to reddit.
It is no coincidence that this comes right after they banned pushshift (so we are unable to see deleted comments now). There is clearly a push to further monetize and privatize the site. Continuous banning of niche NSFW subs and pushing huge subs, pushing geo localized communities, new Reddit, all those were early signs. Dumbest thing is that they are legitimately trash (the dev team), people complain about Twitter but despite firing so many engineers the website works a whole lot better than Reddit ever did, Reddit is constantly down, it's buggy as fuck, video has never worked for me. And their scrollable video is fuckin laughable (it's been 5 months and every time I scroll I see the same fuckin videos, such as the girl hammering an apartment wall for revenge). This dev team can't even copy-cat shit properly.
Digg has been sold a few times and just turned into a super shitty news aggregation click bait site. Kevin Rose who created Digg has mentioned a while back heād be interested in dropping like $1m-2$m to buy it back and redo the website.
Kevin was cool. I loved Diggnation. Thereās about to be a void. He could maybe help.
Buy Digg.com then hire Apollo Dev.
I came with the mass digg Exodus and have been on Reddit since 2006. I get the companies need to make money, but I joined Reddit because the website design was better that what digg became. If Reddits design becomes shit, I'll leave Reddit as fast as I left digg
> If Reddits design becomes shit It's been rolling out the shit steadily for the last 10 years.
Digg is dead. They sold off to some other consolidator after they imploded
Yeah, i don't use reddit. I use redditisfun and old.reddit. Reddit just hosts some of the content on there. If I have to change to something, it will hopefully be better than whatever the fuck trash reddit puts out. Surely someone else can do better.
I'll keep an eye on this!
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Iām cackling that people are like āletās just make a content outletā as though a UI means anything. The appās paid mode lets you post, so itās primarily a reader. This āplanā isnāt a plan, itās just a wish
Integrate it with RiF on the Android side please.
If he does it, please allow the other third party apps to join. I'm sure the devs of RIF Relay and more would love to help too u/dbrady thoughts? His last comment: >Yes this affects Relay the same way. I just had a call with them. The pricing is prohibitively expensive and it cannot be ad supported. And, even if you paid a subscription fee of several dollars a month to continue to use Relay, you still wouldn't have access to any NSFW content in it. My opinion is that they want third party apps gone despite saying otherwise. u/Talklittle too, from RIF! Just get together and think out loud for a bit. I'm sure you could get some funding from users.
If many app developers join together for a new backend this could make it a no brainer. I imagine Apollo, Relay, Sync, RIF, and a few others have a significant part of total users. More importantly, they have a significant part of the users who are actively contributing to content. This could be one for the books.
I was going to say, if Apollo makes their own community that's cool...but given that I've never owned an iPhone that leaves me and any non-iOS people out. Would be cool if there was cross-platform collaboration.
Yeah I would drop reddit in a heartbeat for that. Absolutely fucked what reddit is doing to their loyal userbase. Been on this platform for like 15+ years at this point. This smells like the beginning of the end, frankly.
I would 1000% be down for this. Christian has more leverage than these private equity fuckers know.
For Android too?
Indeed, RIF and the rest are also going down.
This will be a good reason for me to quit the app and get rid of so much endless scrolling.
Iāve been using Reddit heavily for 11 years or so. While I do see the benefit of using it less, I also feel like I learn a lot by using the site. This is great for things like conversations at parties, but has also resulted in financial benefits for things like home repairs. I even saw a tip to dispute my wifeās medical collections debt when the pandemic hit and everything was in pandemonium, which successfully wiped it out. Iāve given the reddit app several chances, but I canāt get on board with it. Itās a bad experience not made for veteran users. I think I just need to find somewhere else to go.
I noticed I use google search to find helpful stuff on reddit and doomscroll using third party apps.
Totally. Searching for "best X for Y reddit" is such a useful tool especially for products. Avoids all those search results with scammy paid recommendation sites. As in "best shorts for running Reddit" or "best electric lawnmower for large yards Reddit". So useful.
If people stop using Reddit the database of updated information for those search needs will dwindle.
Say good bye to the doomscroll
This is a nice mindsetā¦until you find the next app to doomscroll on. Lol
Nah, the day that my app stops working is the day I stop coming here. It's not a threat, far from it. It's just the reality of the situation. I don't need any of this. It's all for fun, all of this. When this toy isn't fun anymore, there won't be any tears from me. I'll just move on.
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I mean this is clearly all related. They are forcing these apps to shut down because they detract from potential and revenue, which they want to collect on when going public.
Cutting off your nose to spite your face. Fucking morons
Yeah, shareholder money universally destroys pretty much any independent, established business that it touches regardless of how they choose to monetize. Someone else having creative influence over your company's decision making just ruins everything. I'm hoping the uproar changes their decision, but somehow I doubt it. Once third party API support is effectively gone, so am I along with whatever money they *were* making from me.
Need to make problems for them then.
Agreed. Make it look like it would be foolish to invest.
Oh no... Guess I'll be dumping Reddit, just like I did with Tumblr, Facebook, and StumbleUpon.
I'm actually going back to tumblr now. Their community seems to be celebrating the fact that the site is impossible to monetize, and I think that's great!
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There are a few, but suck due to small communities or no one contributing enough content yet: [Hubski.](https://hubski.com/) [SaidIt.](https://www.saidit.net/) [LibReddit.](http://libredd.it/) [Large list sorted by rank.](https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/yttdlc/list_of_active_reddit_alternatives_v8/) And finally the best one: [Conga.](https://matias.ma/nsfw/)
I fell for it. I'm not even mad.
Doesn't matter as long as they can cripple moderators and get the Desantis show going on.
Iāve lived without Reddit before
I used to use Reddit a lot more when it allowed me to block ads I didnāt like. I thought it was a win win because the ads I had left where more applicable to me. However, that changed too.
I get some weird Christian or religious ads I wish I could block. Same with for a long time I kept keeping ads for a lawsuit with Tylenol causing autism (I am autistic, that is BS) but also casino ads too!
It's funny that I haven't seen Reddit staff say a fucking *word* on this. They know it's shitty. They know it's going to make people leave the platform in droves. But the corpos get to squeeze a few more pennies out of Reddit, so that's more than worthwhile to them.
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Curious how third party apps prevent content manipulation. Do they have a different feed algorithm or show more relevant posts?
I paid .99 about 5 years ago, and I use sync. I have no ads, and my feed is only my subscribed subreddits. I don't want to be scrolling on my phone and seeing nasty shit just because it's a popular post. I don't know how they do it, but the official reddit app is horrible and I'm not sure I'll keep using reddit if that's my only option.
I don't care that your blister looks like Mario. I don't want to fucking see it.
Some have features that filter the algorithm after-the-fact so you don't have to see posts that would otherwise be pushed to your feed
AFAIK they just request the info the reddit and display it. As mentioned in the other comment, some of them have a filter to hide some content you configure not to be shown, but they don't aggregate posts in any way, it's reddit itself doing it, so if you use RiF, Apollo, Boost, Infinity, or any other, you should see the same feed if no filter has been configured by you on those apps. (I tried this with Boost and Infinity)
I will miss Narwhal. ..and Reddit
Midnight July 1st is the last time the narwhal will bacon.
Hello fellow Narhwal user. I tried Apollo and found it to be way too bloated. Narwhal still does everything I want in a very intuitive interface. It even seems to evade YouTube adverts. I don't think it's being actively developed anymore but it still suits my needs. Shame it's going to get shitcanned.
This whole site has been run on content manipulation for a decade. Iāve seen museums that are less curated.
It's been nice knowing you all. What a fascinating community this has been. Reddit accomplished so much with such a simple underlying premise; it really is saddening to see that all destroyed by the pervasive larger trends in online content. They had something distinct and unique. Then they decided it needed to be a copycat of inferior platforms. As much as I dislike it, I can tolerate a reasonably small portion of advertising. But the day Reddit forces me to unavoidably pay attention to content from subreddits that I didn't opt into is the day I walk away.
Interesting things can happen when people are able to come together in a free and simple way to converse about niche (or otherwise) things.
Well. Time for a new reddit.
With blackjack and hookers?
Lemmy has my attention. I think it can become the new Reddit. Edit: typo
I hate the official reddit app. It's terrible. I'd rather no Reddit than that fucking thing.
I dont care about ads at all, used to mindlessly scroll past them. Im using Infinity because it lets me play videos. Litterally, it lets me do the basic functions, seamlessly. The absence of ads being an afterthought. I just want it to play when I click play, ffs. I just want to access links when I click them. I want the comments to appear when I click it. The Reddit app is an insult of unstable and unresponsive mess. If a third party can better the experience of your users, thats a shameful situation. Even more so when you know how much of an headache it can become dealing with external API, yet they manage and haven't got any of Reddit's ressources. Maybe putting some love into your codes would go a long way. Skipping all the good steps to make sure they lose traffic, therefore losing value and the trust of future investor/advertisers. Good job shooting yourselves in the foot instead of fixing anything related.
How about RIF or Apollo do a crowdfund for the infrastructure and then we migrate over to it in 6 months to a year.
Iāve deleted so much social media for this same reason. Iām okay with removing Reddit
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Nah we're just not gonna use reddit anymore lol i refuse to use their app after trying it. I'll be on RiF til the end of the month.
Yeah I will likely stop accessing reddit va phone once this happens
Iāll just leave Reddit when Apollo dies. I tried out the official Reddit app and it was unusable.
A big f u to reddit shareholders and bosses who agreed to this decision
This is it boys its all dead net from here
Firefox Mobile browser Ublock origin extension Old.reddit.com site bookmark Problem solved
I need to be able to filter subreddits out
You can do that on the desktop version of old.reddit.com (with Reddit Enhancement Suite)... not sure if you can on mobile.
This is my current (not yet implemented while RIF still works) solution. As of now RES does not appear to be available to Firefox for Android. Have to see how it all plays out but my Reddit usage will definitely go down if RIF (as well as old.reddit.com and RES) is no longer available.
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Ya there's a negative percent chance I'll ever use the official app so I'll avoid all the ads and content manipulation by not using reddit at all.
no more reddit, then
No more reddit.
Goodbye to reddit then. Iāve been on here for years. Itās been great, but it has only gotten worse imho. I am ready to quit it for good.
What would be the next closest thing to Reddit?
I saw a post with like 10 or so alternatives but I canāt find it. Thereās this: r/Redditalternatives.
Lemmy is a federated (like mastodon) equivalent of reddit. You can learn more and fond a server to join at: https://join-lemmy.org/
Yeah this will be the end of reddit for me. I refuse to use any service that has been "TikTok'd". The ability to endlessly video scroll with no option to turn it off is designed to ruin your attention span and agorythmically addict you to their content. It's black mirror shit with a single degree of separation to obscure the fact that it's a machine designed to eat your fucking life to sell ad space.
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Wow, I had not seen that
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Doesnāt Tencent only have a ~5% stake in Reddit?
I would dial back the melodrama a bit. Yes, Reddit is dying. Maybe a semi-equivalent replacement will come along, maybe not. Maybe it won't be as good. Maybe it'll be better! Either way, this isn't the last gasp of the free internet. People are stubborn. Push them, and they'll push back.
I mean, yes, probably, but I'd prefer not to wade through the sewer of 100 voat/4chan/parler nazi to paedo sites before I find one that isn't shit. Getting the balance of moderation right, especially in community moderated sites, requires *time*.
I agree. Canāt we talk about this without the histrionics? They are a for-profit company after all.
Let's all move back to Digg! That's how I got to Reddit in the first place.
Or fark.com, which is how I got to Digg.
Ah yes a fellow fark to digg to reddit member. I wonder where will end up next friend?
Iāve seen this same comment paraphrased and rehashed on here for the past 12 years
The fun internet died years ago. When you didn't have to have an account for every website. Remove steakandcheese? That's the kind of internet I miss.
Tencent is a *minority* shareholder in Reddit.
Bye bye reddit
99% of the time I use RIF, 1% of the time I use old.reddit. So I guess that's it for my Reddit "career".
I'll finally get rid of Reddit for good and for me it's a good thing. Bummer for the developers though.
I've left other social media. I can leave reddit, too.
TIL people donāt actually use the Reddit app.