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Do it, please, the subreddits need to migrate here
You’re gonna pay the mods then, right?
Right?
no
More ads? There's already a bunch of them mixed with posts and comments. What more, force people to watch an ad before loading pages?
There are ads in comments now?
Yep, ads masquerading as comments. It's awful. I'm so glad I moved to Lemmy.
Yeah, people like me and I assume you, who used to browse reddit via a third party app or with RES + an adblocker on pc did not see it but it's a bit insane how much ads there's already on reddit right now. I migrated to GNU and firefox last week and forgot to add the extensions as I was just looking for some information in the Endeavour subreddit and I was shocked at the state of "default" reddit.... I'm glad I left and I hope most of the userbase will...
Yea ads have been in comments for at least a year now
They snuck them in during some AB testing like 5 years ago, they didn't stick though obv
Ok tidy up this place. We have visitors coming soon.
The announcement is why I created a username here. I doubt I'm coming alone.
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fuck /u/spez
I'm not on Reddit much these days but every time I am and I see threads with people discussing these Reddit policy changes Lemmy gets mentioned. Usually with people complaining they already tried or couldn't figure it out or that it isn't good enough...
I think as the enshittification marches on they'll be some more exodus from Reddit but generally I think everyone is just getting used to all online social media being a total corporate disaster.
I just joined yesterday because of this article. Honestly I feel like I’m using Apollo to access Reddit again. My Reddit account was 12 years old and I deleted it.
This is a cool guide for starting https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
Thank you! I literally signed up 30 mins ago after seeing Lemmy mentioned a few times on Reddit. I'm at the 'what the heck is this, where am I' stage but feel like I understand how it works a bit better now!
Oh god, you’ve out me down a rabbit hole. Thank you!
Welcome friend. :)
Thank you!
It's not that everyone's getting used to the current hellscape of the internet. Kids born today have never experienced a world without it. I watched my niece playing on my dad's phone, and she was just blasting through every single ad, interacting with every ad until it took her to the install page, and then she moved on to the next ad. People were upset about the tiktok ban cause they didnt care about their data. Shit like that is wild to me, coming from the early internet era.
Unless countries step up with better tech laws, I only see it getting worse from here.
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Hi, I think I’m doing this right. Just joined Lemmy lol because of this. Can people see my comment?
I'm glad I jumped ship back during the ban on 3rd party apps. That was it for me.
I don't even use any apps and was just planning on boycotting it for a few days in solidarity. Then Greedy Little Pigboy made his statement about how everyone will come crawling back and that was that.
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I just left, deleted my account of 15ish years tonight, no regrets. Happy to be here.
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Can't wait to see the mental gymnastics subreddit moderators will perform to defend this!
It was wild how spineless most of them were when the API stuff happened, and it showed how attached they are to their little bubble of power.
And some of them acted even more pathetic with virtue signaling.
Like the r/de mods allowed memes for a full week in "protest". Such rebels... they sure showed spez with that one...
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Just came to lemmy again after learning this shit!! mass exodus coming soon
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Is there anywhere I can find a complete scrape of Reddit threads and comments from before the 3rd party app apocalypse? There was a lot of useful info shared on there, but I don't want anything to do with what that site has become. I'm happy just to CTRL+F a big dataset. It'll probably still work better than either Reddit or Google does nowadays. Without media I imagine I could fit it somewhere.
Also, Spez is a greedy little pig boy.
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What's Reddit? A clone of Lemmy?
imagine charging for displaying content you didn't even make.
the balls are astounding, but this ain't gonna go well for them.
Digg: "join us reddit..."
We all float down here 💩💩💩
I haven't had an account since the Apollo purge but fuck Spez.
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