along with the strong censoring that has occurred on reddit throughout the years, they have now removed r/all from the app and while using a desktop/laptop browser. instead of being able to stumble upon new subreddits you never knew existed, it wants to curate what you're allowed to see
It is somewhat sad to see slow death of such old platform.
I'm OK with it at this point. Its run its course.
Imagine if only Reddit wasn't a US company and had more chances of surviving the total eshittification happening in the whole country.
I'm imagining Lemmy.
They did it to themselves. Poor management.
Using a direct link stopped working today and redirects to your subscriptions. The only reason I looked at Reddit was to go to r/all and sort by new to see what was out there.
I was afraid of that. I still occasionally browsed r/all on my PC after work. I'm not interested in their latest or popular pages. I'm tired of algorithms deciding what I should read or watch.
Just let me discover stuff, damn. :(
The techbros: No.
Still working as of posting.
I selfishly hope they remove that too. I was booted from Reddit a few weeks ago and now I can only browse old /r. If there is no old /r, then there is no Reddit for me, which would end up being a good thing.
Can barely even run their bloated modern interface without my tablet browser crashing, old is the only reliable way to use it.
The modern web is so incredibly shit. I shouldn't need a high end device to browse a web page.
I shouldn’t need a high end device to browse a web page.
Some pages, maybe, I could understand. Perhaps an online game or something like google docs.
But you should NOT need a high-end device to browse a web page of a fucking forum. (Guys, the modern internet was a mistake, let's go back to phpbb.)
You’d better start believing in old Internet forums… you’re in one!
Which is why I like lemmy
Old Reddit is better.
In their path of killing their own brand, amazed they didn't yet fuck over Old Reddit's RSS feeds, or even ax those completely.
Not to worry, it's on their roadmap
The problem with old.reddit is that it had this Damocles sword hanging over it for almost a decade - it could stop working any day. Plus, many subs don't even cater to old.reddit anymore. It doesn't just magically take over sidebar blurbs, this has to be done manually by mods. Etc. etc.
Well, thankfully we're all here now.
It will be a slow and painful death. I abandoned Reddit last year because enshittification. However, some great stuff from there lands here in Lemmy.and my search engine seems to like Reddit info. Not going back, but sentimental thoughts exist.
Reddit and Microsoft, competing for the most anti consumer moves in a day. Hope they both lose their market shares.
It still works, but is convoluted. If you add r/All (rrmember to not use r/all, the capitalization matters) to your profile, it still goes there.
or.... just not use reddit. Both options work.
I've been banned twice this week (so far).
One for pointing out there will be a rise in terrorism against the US for their actions in the middle east.
Another one for saying Pam Bondi is such a hated public figure she's never going to be safe in public again.
Neither of these comments violate any rules. They are not calls to violence.
I know how to circumvent Reddit's methods for keeping banned users off their platform and I know how to check if I've been shadowbanned. Most people don't. So they're undoubtedly bleeding users at this point due to their automated bot banning garbage. People must be getting auto-banned left and right for things that are clearly not violating policy. And those people aren't going to come back. I know how to come back and I'm almost done with putting the minimal effort into it.
Reddit is crashing HARD. And I'm totally into it.
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I literally just went there to check it out. I'm on old reddit, and r/all is still in the "tabs" section on the top of the page. r/all is clickable, it brings up content, and the top post is just over an hour old (and I clicked through to verify the time on the post.
Old reddit receive changes in the last order. It may still have a functioning community for some long time but this community will not be accessible from from anywhere else(mobile platform, Reddit new, etc.).
I happened to look at their front page the other day and they were promoting their April Fool's thing, whatever it was (I don't remember). But they explicitly said that you had to either use the app or log in to new reddit to participate.
Reddit is the toilet of the internet.
That's 4Chan.
Still scales. It’s the public toilet of the internet. Not entirely clean, you might want to hover. FB is the toilet with diarrhea splatters all over the seat. Twitter is the one that didn’t flush and flooded the floor with turds. 4chan is the overflowing porta-potty at the county fair warming shit like it’s a greenhouse.
Reddit is bad, but as long as facebook, twitter and indeed 4chan is around, it is not yet the toilet of the internet. More like your kitchen sink drain of the internet.
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Intention driven media consumption is getting killed everywhere.
YouTube hides your subscriptions from you, the public broadcasting institutions from my country recently netflixified the experience (they try to tell you what you want to watch).
It's so stupid.
I had to revive RSS for myself to overcome this. My feed, my decisions!
For me it was the bots, rage-bait and doxing. I hope Lemmy stays niche, cuz' in my experience - popularity = trash community.
Even if you are trying to just look at your own feed fully half of what you see if just random ass subs absolutely loaded with bot accounts pushing right wing bullshit and product placement.
Mods here removed a quote from tropic thunder to describe Reddit.
Unfortunately the types of people that moderate community forms are overly sensitive losers and the word for slow in French.
This was a problem on reddit and is a problem here. The cancer that started there will recur as long as we have unaccountable unelected basement dwellers that want to play hall monitor online and can't get laid.
Fuck reddit. Fuck powertripping mods. Fuck hall monitor nerds that put their thumb on the scales of open dialogue on forums.
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