My friend sent me this, the current state of Reddit. (I left during the app issue and haven’t looked back)
Current state of Reddit
Submitted 5 months ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/pictrs/image/5c038f46-d4d4-4ea4-8bda-5b5e2e0d3a93.png
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RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 5 months ago
BunnyKnuckles@startrek.website 5 months ago
cm0002@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Um excuse me are you gonna pay for that?
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 5 months ago
I hope people start posting pictures like this instead of paying for them
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hold it. Hoooooold it.
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I love the vibrant colours of that vomit.
Nepenthe@kbin.social 5 months ago
I was just thinking the same thing. More than the usual amount of love went into that one, and most people probably wouldn't even stop to notice. The subtle fade-out at the top. That is some pleasing vomit.
mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
… and I am starting to see user agent and VPN blocks now just within the last few days… It’s officially over, so glad to be here. Been in the fediverse since the API shutdown. Bouncing between instances. First post on this one! Absolutely no regrets.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 months ago
Yeah I read they tried to play that off as an accident. You don’t “accidentally” block VPN users. That just doesn’t accidentally happen. They’re obviously attempting to do it, just waiting to deploy it. The anonymous social network sure does seem like they want you to not be anonymous.
laffytaffer@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Is that what happened? I occasionally check reddit at work since it’s unfortunately still one of the better places for actual answers to things, and in the last few days I’ve needed to use old.reddit.com to get around getting blocked. VPN block explains a lot.
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
On another topic, what kind of complete nonsense is that comment section?
It reads like if my phone’s autocomplete decided to go haywire one day and start spitting out random associated phrases: “Pablo Escobar… Colombian Drug Lord… District of Columbia…hungry hungry hippo…”
I don’t even know which is worse, that these are all bots, or there are actually multiple people who thinks posting these in public is a good idea.
lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Pablo Escobar lived in Columbia and owned hippos.
Just because you don’t get a joke doesn’t mean it was written by a bot, you goon.
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I get all the references, but making a chain of references without any jokes isn’t exactly funny.
Meta comedy is overused to the degree that it is difficult to do it well.
dvlsg@lemmy.world 5 months ago
He lived in Colombia*, which I assume is how D.C. snuck into the comments. Took me a sec to follow that jump.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I just realized that I called esteemed character performer Margot Robbie a goon. Many apologies. I respect your dedication to the craft.
You should do an AMA. How did it feel being touched by god?
Klear@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I just realized that I called esteemed character performer Margot Robbie a goon. Many apologies.
What’s wrong with her posting on Something Awful?!
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Maybe they’re bots that don’t know they are bots
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I am constantly amazed that anyone is still using that corporate dumpster fire of a website
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 5 months ago
“See you next week,” one user smugly commented to me on my way out.
I haven’t been back, and I haven’t missed it.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Overwhelming smugness was the very thing that finally got me to leave lol
ThankYouVeryMuch@kbin.social 5 months ago
Lol I left with the APIcalypse, and I was an official app user, no regrets and never looked back. Why would anyone go to that shithole when you have the fediverse?
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
To be honest, they were right as often as they were wrong. Plenty of folks who proclaimed they’d never return to Reddit returned within the month. Some of the most outspoken were the quickest. I find the mods who returned particularly giggle-worthy.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Oh, I saw a lot of those lmao.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Im sure Id have gotten said responses too, but ai kinda got my account suspended shortly before. The closest ive gotten on lemmy is that ive had some comments removed for valid reasons, and then their the fact that I think one of the world news mods has a grudge against me or their tools blanket remove comments.
dmention7@lemm.ee 5 months ago
God… I can barely remember the time before the top comment threads of every goddamned post were always lazy strings of circle-jerky jokes that you could predict before even clicking into the thread.
rckclmbr@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I could barely remember too, then I took an arrow to the knee!
Lionel@endlesstalk.org 5 months ago
I understood that reference!!!
MBM@lemmings.world 5 months ago
Don’t you love it when they’re not even made by humans, but it’s just bots copying the top comment from the last time it got posted
EatATaco@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I was hoping when I came over here it would be more like the good old days of reddit. And i think it is, but barely. Plenty of the low quality shit made the jump as well.
Just look at this thread. Sort by top. The top post is circle jerking about people left reddit for here. The next top post is a vomiting emoji. A fucking emoji. I haven’t even been here that long and the comments in this thread were predictable in the same exact way.
27myths@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I feel like that’s more of the state of how we communicate with eacher. Verbal communication is increasingly low effort and low quality just like any social media platforms I’ve been on. The only exception is hyper niche communities who’s main focus is on the actual INFORMATION. Ultimately, low importance/helpful post are going to have low importance/helpful responses.
Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ngl I haven’t been back to reddit since the exodus, but my youtube watching has gone up waaay too high.
ItsGatorSeason@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Honestly, same. Between the algorithm throwing wild but entertaining YouTube shorts and me starting to watch longer more educational content, I find myself going on the reddit mobile site very rarely.
JGrffn@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m in this exact same boat and I don’t love it. I don’t know if my ADHD is acting up or if YouTube has made my productivity take a nosedive (got fired a month ago due to it), but I can’t help myself from watching hours of YouTube a day. I feel like reddit was at least easier to disengage from in order to be productive.
de_lancre@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I can’t even open reddit on a phone nowadays, cause my preferred sub have 18+ posts and reddit don’t let you access that if you not logged in. Also, there a notification, that I need to use shitty official mobile app. Also, there notification to login via google. Also, there a notification… Nope, I not using this shit ever again.
shuzuko@midwest.social 5 months ago
Firefox mobile now has a full suite of extensions, including old reddit redirect to bypass all that bs. It’s the only way I access reddit anymore for answers/the last few niche communities that haven’t been built up on lemmy yet.
shasta@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I thought about doing that but then I decided that I don’t care about the opinions of people who somehow put up with all that shit
rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 5 months ago
For the occasional time where I’m troubleshooting something and Reddit has the only solution on an “unmoderated sub” or one with 18+ posts, I just change the “www” in the URL to “old”, and get the old, non mobile friendly UI. It lets you bypass the other app popups, etc. occasiojally when you go into a post you’re back in the new UI, and might get another pop up, but backing out or changing the url to “old” usually solves it in my occasional experience.
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
What’s your favorite sub (asking for a friend)
Zink@pawb.social 5 months ago
Lmao they removed their somewhat unique award system with charm and replaced it with colored arrows
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Fifty bucks? Are bits made of gold?
MacedWindow@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Each of those arrows is uglier than the last
clearedtoland@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Audacity aside, wtf is the difference between the $1.99 and 3.99 gold???
PervServer@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ $2
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s “3D”
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 5 months ago
You lose more money
penquin@lemm.ee 5 months ago
One flat and the other is 3D
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 months ago
$2 is flat (apart from its rounded edges). $4 rises to a raised ridge in a line down the middle.
Goferking0@ttrpg.network 5 months ago
Slight definition on the $4 one
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How much the “designer” moved the Inner Bevel slider to the right.
tja@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
These sites look like they were AI generated. “Make the arrow look more golden”
Sentau@feddit.de 5 months ago
Are reddit paying contributors, moderators or people creating posts¿? If no then how are they claiming that buying a golden upvote supports contributors
grte@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Very MTX-heavy mobile game aesthetic.
turbowafflz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hopefully the fact that they felt the need to do this means they’re doing badly financially (and hopefully this doesn’t help with that)
kratoz29@lemm.ee 5 months ago
LMAO, imagine paying someone for content and then having a Reddit bot (or human) to copy it here for Lemmy.
Is this the new NFT lol?
willya@lemmyf.uk 5 months ago
This entire screenshot looks horrible.
liquidparasyte@pawb.social 5 months ago
This has gotta be the stupidest (and honestly ugliest) alternative to Reddit awards.
Thanks for the crudely gold-colored-brass up vote, kind stranger.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Anyone remember Kai’s Power Tools for Photoshop? Those arrows certainly do.
kraftpudding@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Giving Gold supports the contributors you love
Is… is this implying the person who got gilded gets a cut? Huh?
MECHAGIC@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Has no one here heard of redreader
Its still up due to an exemption iirc
Octopus1348@lemy.lol 5 months ago
r/todayilearned
Well, today you learned that this is the current state of Reddit.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 5 months ago
Mildly hilarious
Moops@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What a garbage place.
Thanks4Nothing@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It would be great if Lemmy’s devs implemented loosely based (for fair use) copies of these and gave them for free :)
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I thought Reddit killed off gold earlier this year?
ZOSTED@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Hahahahahahah holy shit holy fucking shit
rivr@lemmy.world 5 months ago
spez is hungryyyyy **
yimo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Heh, money buying people’s upvotes. Good grief
Otakulad@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Used to browse Reddit daily. Once Reddit is Fun closed, I only go on to search for an answer.
Now it is Lemmy daily.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 5 months ago
Yep, same. Multiple times daily, created posts, connected a lot.
Deleted all my accounts.
Numpty@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
And if you deleted all your comments… they undeleted everything.
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 months ago
The way Spez and the admins treated Apollo’s dev was more than enough for me to leave Reddit, and that’s before the shit he said about the vulnerable users of his site (essentially seeing them as dollar signs - I know CEOs are scummy but holy fuck).
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 5 months ago
whats this about the vulnerable users?
JCreazy@midwest.social 5 months ago
Open Lemmy, nothing new, close Lemmy. Open Lemmy again to check if something new. Nothing new.
Speculater@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Live life, check back in six hours, all new.
Everything top six hours is the best.
rckclmbr@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That’s the idea. Helps you not become a dopamine addicted mess.
Pheonixdeath@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Same for me. Once RIF died my time with Reddit died as well. But i really try not tongo back, but sometimes some answers are only easily found there.
Municipal0379@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I somehow was banned for “hate”. I literally have 0 idea what I could have possibly said. I appealed, of course nobody actually reads those and I am still perma banned. 10 years of history. Oh well. To Lemmy it is.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh I remember saying something along the lines of Ron Desantis was a dirty diaper and should be thrown out in the trash on a conservative Reddit.
The mods tried to have me banned over it and said I was harassing them. Unbelievable when all they did was talk smack about everyone. I learned when Reddit suspended my account over mods being butthurt that it was going down the drain.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Same but with Sync for Reddit instead.
governorkeagan@lemdro.id 5 months ago
This. There’s a handful of subreddits that aren’t on Lemmy that I miss but generally speaking I’ve got everything I need on Lemmy. I’m also a lot more engaged here.
ImpishCook@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And once I can figure out a better wildcare search for the fediverse, I won’t visit Reddit at all!
K4sum1@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I used to check Reddit pretty often, at least once every other day. Now I’ve found I use Lemmy rarely. I use Reddit more often still but that’s just to look up questions or get help with some issue. I mostly just use Discord now, and am only checking here because it’s down.
u/K4sum11 on Reddit if you’re curious