• agent_nycto@lemmy.world
    163·
    2 个月前

    It really broke my heart. I loved Reddit, I was on it on RiF one my phone when I didn’t use my computer. It was great for finding all sorts of new stuff and it was genuinely fun. I’d had a few accounts for like a decade or something, but when they killed the alternate programs I just left and never looked back.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      83·
      2 个月前

      I miss RIF, but it’s for the better. Lemmy moves too slow for me to doomscroll it forever, so I’ve started putting my phone down more.

      I’ve started reading books again, even in public, when I’m waiting for someone or something. My mind is slowing down and getting more peaceful.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
      38·
      2 个月前

      Yeah, i didn’t realize how much i relied in Reddit to keep me informed on sports. I barely know what’s going in with my favorite teams, let alone the leagues anymore. But i couldn’t use anything other than RiF to browse Reddit, so i was done as soon as they axed the third party apps.

      • theangryseal@lemmy.world
        18·
        2 个月前

        This is me on many topics. I am so uninformed over the last year.

        I love Lemmy, but I’m in a smaller bubble than I was before too. There are a lot less political opinions on here. People are outright hostile to anything that doesn’t fit in a narrow window, and though I mostly agree with what passes through that window, my idea of the world is off because of it. (Example, my wife uses Facebook. We both voted for Harris, but she was certain Trump would win. She was seeing what everyone was saying and I wasn’t. Imagine my surprise when she lost the election so terribly. My little bubble had me convinced he didn’t stand a chance.)

        I try occasionally to open Reddit. I know that Lemmy hates stock traders, but Reddit is where you get the best info on that. I’m a stay at home dad who contributes entirely by trading so I need to look at what people are researching from time to time.

        I just can’t stand the Reddit app. I can’t stand clicking on ads without realizing it because of how they blend it in.

        I can’t stand the kind of greed that led to the decision that killed third party apps.

        I miss it, but not bad enough to have a subpar experience on there. That, and I believe in a federated social media future. Tech companies are garbage.

        • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          10·
          2 个月前

          I am so uninformed over the last year

          Being uninformed is ok as long as you pair it with knowing you’re uninformed.

          Our Stupid Monkey Branes aren’t designed to be filled with doom all day long, they’re designed to know a handful of people in our tribe. It’s not healthy the way we chase after trying to know everything about everything in order to satisfy ourselves that we’re informed.

        • ultranaut@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 个月前

          If you’re trading stocks based off Reddit info you should really know WTF you are doing and have additional sources of info to back up any decisions you are making because you are playing a very dangerous game. Unless you’ve already been investing for years and have a sizeable portfolio I would encourage you to reconsider the path you are on and build up some capital and knowledge before attempting any kind of active trading.

          • theangryseal@lemmy.world
            7·
            2 个月前

            I don’t waste money I don’t have. I don’t follow anyone blindly.

            I’m disciplined. If I’m not where I want to be, I wait. I wouldn’t risk everything I have.

            I appreciate your concern, but if I lost every penny I have invested right here, right now, it would only hurt my feelings. I’ve already pulled out 10x what I’ve invested and I don’t get sad over big misses. I could have scooped up 200 free dollars this morning, but I didn’t.

            It’s small time. I’m poor, I have no debt, and I wouldn’t risk a penny more than I can handle. I never break my own rules, so I’m good.

            Seriously. I appreciate you.

            • ultranaut@lemmy.world
              3·
              2 个月前

              That’s good to hear, I hope you’re able to keep it up. I’m sure you’ve heard this before but just in case, if you haven’t you should really consider also running a long term buy and hold portfolio. Fund that Roth IRA every year if you can. It’s a whole lot easier than active trading so it really shouldn’t take up much time and when you’re an old person you will be glad you’ve got that pile stashed away.

              • theangryseal@lemmy.world
                3·
                2 个月前

                I’ve already messed up at this point haha. I spent my whole life allowing myself to be exploited for a promise that never came. I mean, I guess it still could (not really, but in a sense I guess). I’ve been instructed to go get some cash when so and so dies, and though I’m sure it’s still there, new obstacles have entered the fold.

                I don’t know. If I can make enough to live today and buy a few beers I’m good.

                I’ve been an idiot all of my life.

                I’m going to take your advice though. I promise. Gonna get on that tomorrow. I recently made enough to increase my investing amount by 60%, which would be amazing for someone with actual money haha. I’ll throw that extra 60% into an IRA.

        • GNUTup@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          2 个月前

          I’ve only recently made the switch to Lemmy, and for what it’s worth, I’ve been using Apollo for Reddit the entire time. It’s fairly easy to set up if you check out r/sideloaded or r/apolloapp over on Reddit. Might make your money-job a bit less frustrating to work on :)

  • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
    67·
    2 个月前

    For a lot of the OGs on Reddit it got worse after the whole AMA Victoria thing. That was really when Reddit went downhill. Before that Reddit was amazing with AMAs that kept you refreshing constantly to be live in the chat, and posts that were funny and discussion that felt a bit more meaningful.

      • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        2 个月前

        I’m pulling all of this from memory, so YMMV… Victoria was a paid person from Reddit who worked on the AMA subreddit only. Her job was to basically go around and get celebrities and other interesting people to do AMAs and then would help schedule them and coordinate the whole thing. In some cases even helping to type out answers. If I’m recalling correctly Reddit just got too corporate and decided to terminate her out of the blue. The community fought back, but nothing big ever changed or happened. After she went away AMA basically turned into a shitshow of no one actually doing anything. She was legitimately a powerful tool at Reddit but they just got rid of her.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    643·
    2 个月前

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    love and waffles,

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      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        6·
        2 个月前

        The original meme has the person’s name as “katy”, and Boxxy’s real name is Catie, so whoever wrote the original might well have been parodying her.

        Edit: After a bit more research, there’s the tiniest sliver of a chance it might have been based on her pre-Boxxy online activity, because it pre-dates her use of the name, but it’s probably nothing to do with her.

          • palordrolap@fedia.io
            5·
            2 个月前

            So I checked a bit more and pre-Boxxy Catie and the copypasta both appeared online in 2006, so it’s probably not a parody of her specifically, just girls like the Boxxy character Catie created. Funny coincidence about the name though.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    58·
    2 个月前

    For me it’s not the app ecosystem. Reddit used to feel like it was a platform run by its community now its very company run and controlled.

    • humble peat digger@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      2 个月前

      Reddit made it unusable on mobile again.

      I use Firefox + unlock, but naturally it’s just slower and less convenient than rif.

      I use reddit a lot less now. Practically don’t use it on mobile as I noticed.

    • Baggie@lemmy.zip
      8·
      2 个月前

      Represent. I do miss it sometimes, but it’s probably better that I don’t spend as much time online.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 个月前

      Relay for Reddit will always be my favorite. It had a nice tablet mode and the “swipe to do everything” interface was nice.

      I have yet to find a decent replacement for it. Voyager is alright but I swear that it was designed to maximize unintentional button presses. It’s so easy to accidentally go to the community or the user’s profile when I just wanted to click on the post. And I can’t even count the number of times I accidentally collapsed a comment when I was trying to edit or upvote it instead. This is why the swiping interface was so nice. Made it almost impossible to unintentionally do the wrong action.

      I miss Relay so much, but unfortunately the developer decided to play by Reddit’s rules and start charging people to use the app. So it’s never coming to Lemmy.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        2 个月前

        Oh God yes, I feel you on the Miss-clicks

        Oh let’s look at the comments, downvote, ohh shit I need to, collapse, fuuuuck, uncollapse, inadvertently scrolls up now that it expanded, Hunt down the exact right one, swipe to upvote, miss, back to zero, sigh, carefully swipe over to upvote, tap for comments, end up in user’s profile… It’s not really an app that you can surf until you’ve had your coffee.

      • ebolapie@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 个月前

        Have you tried Thunder? I’ve been using it since I finally got around to moving over here (admittedly not very long) and I’ve found that Thunder gets a lot right. It’s open source, ad-free, cross-platform, and nice to use. It doesn’t have quite as much polish as Relay but the design language is similar enough that it doesn’t feel like a huge departure.

        • Psythik@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 个月前

          I tried it a year ago; felt very much like an unfinished project. Too many missing features. Has it improved a lot since then?

          • ebolapie@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 个月前

            I’ve only been on lemmy for like a week, so I have no point of comparison here. It doesn’t feel janky to me, but then I’m not a power user. It works well for what I like to do, which is view posts and comment. Images display well, I haven’t noticed any problems with video. I haven’t tried embedding images in comments yet, let’s try it with a photograph of the richest man in Indiana:

            the richest man in Indiana.

            Give Thunder a second shot, or don’t. I’m not your boss, I’m just some drunk guy on the Internet.

    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 个月前

      I still have it on my phone n open it’s corpse all the time out of habit when looking for sync. I should uninstall it.

      • Baggie@lemmy.zip
        4·
        2 个月前

        I have the client for animelab which hasn’t existed since they got absorbed into crunchyroll. Maybe I’m just holding a grudge but I think there’s value in remembering what they took from you.

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
    35·
    2 个月前

    I pay the yearly subscription for Sync Pro, and I consider it a donation more than anything. I’ve gotten so many years out of that app, and the developer choosing to repurpose it to Lemmy made my transition here almost seamless from reddit.

    • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      2 个月前

      Wait, Sync for Lemmy is a subscription and not a one time purchase? Boost’s dev did a similar transition but only standard one time purchase there.

      • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
        7·
        2 个月前

        There’s a one time purchase to remove ads and a subscription for features like machine translation or importing/exporting your communities. It’s $17 yearly or $100 lifetime

    • EnderMB@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 个月前

      I’m the same, and had paid for it during the Reddit days of the app. I’m hesitant to pay a subscription this time around, though, since the creator has always left for months and come back with a flurry of updates - which is entirely up to them, but a turn-off for something I’ll pay for periodically.

      Sync is still my daily driver, and IMO few Lemmy clients come close.

    • Kurroth@lemmy.world
      210·
      2 个月前

      Hadn’t seen the variation of pasta before. Feels like the perfect X years later of the original

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    27·
    2 个月前

    I haven’t looked at the front page of Reddit since the exodus. I have used it to deshittify Google search results but that’s it. I imagine it’s absolute garbage by now.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      18·
      2 个月前

      Same. Unfortunately I still need to visit smaller subreddits to get answers on niche topics, but that’s my only use for it now. In and out; 10 minute adventure. Not spending all day on the front page like I used to. Any more time than that on the website, and I’ll just end up getting into an argument with some Gen Alpha idiot who feels the need to butt in and say something ignorant. 10-15 years ago you’d only see that kind of behavior during summer break. Now /r/SummerReddit is all of reddit.

      I hope that one day I can finally abandon that shithole for good.

      • Hackworth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 个月前

        Even the smaller subreddits on niche topics seem to be dying. I suppose the lost good will (and loss of third party mod tools, or course) caused many of the superusers to leave.

        • vividspecter@lemm.ee
          5·
          2 个月前

          A number of the technical subreddits made their own forums on discourse, and the subreddits are either closed or in a zombie state.

      • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 个月前

        I went and looked last night out of curiosity, and found absolutely vile racism on r/Canada talking about immigration. It was just shy of "deport them all’ in the comments.

        • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
          16·
          2 个月前

          Was it racist or did you just not like their opinion

          Do you understand how housing shortage with price gouging, wage suppression and deteriorating social services will result in people not like immigrations?

          Sounds like the regime fucked up and people expressing their political opinion on the issue.

          But nahh… Just call people racist 🤡

          • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
            4·
            2 个月前

            They were racist and all around bigots in that sub reddit years before the housing issues, seems like you are defending shitty people.

      • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 个月前

        Holy fuck, you’re right. They are all adults ish now. U nailed it with the /r/summerreddit take

    • LemUrun@pawb.social
      3·
      2 个月前

      I rarely touched that shithole called the front page. Mainly in Redditplanet for Windows Mobile, since you can’t login there.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
    25·
    2 个月前

    My gosh that Reddit app icon is horrible. It looks like a terrible meme NFT or something. …Which was probably the aesthetic they were going for, to be clear.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    2 个月前

    So, did Reddit lose a considerable amount of user base since then or not?

    • Zetta@mander.xyz
      522·
      2 个月前

      Not really. They’re sort of succeeding. They just became profitable, I think, for the first period ever.

      Got more users on Lemmy though, including me, so that’s a win in my book.

    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      2 个月前

      From a statistics standpoint, definitely not.

      As of Q4 of 2023, reddit claimed 36.4 million logged-in ‘daily active’ users. An increase from Q3 of 2023 with a count of 34.7 million. Not sure of the accuracy of user counts for lemmy, but good estimate is about 450,000 total users over it’s entire lifespan, if every single one of those was a reddit convert, we’d still be a minor blip. I don’t know if we have 2024 numbers that are comparable, but most stats indicate that reddit is likely still growing.

      Spez predicted what would happen in that protest with almost 100% accuracy and most mods involved didn’t follow through and backed down. Some are trying to build something new and that’s worth pursuing but we lost that fight.

      • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
        13·
        2 个月前

        I do have to wonder how many of those millions of users are bots. Browsing /r/all, you can find plenty of weird pseudopornographic subreddits like /r/ReallyGorgeous, which are populated by literally thousands of bots upvoting and commenting on fake selfies posted by the most obviously stolen accounts. Report these accounts all you want, the admins don’t care.

        • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 个月前

          Probably a big number, but also probably not that many in terms of user count when compared to the overall count.

          I don’t think we have good data on reddit, but a lot of fairly smart people have been trying to figure that out with twitter/x. Key you have to remember is that the average user only consumes content, they don’t contribute in any fashion. So, you can have 10 or so bot accounts being more visible than 10,000 ‘active’ users and still be posting things at a rate that would seem reasonable for an average human. They’ll just come across as a highly engaged user until someone looks closer.

      • Wahots@pawb.social
        10·
        2 个月前

        Lol, I blacked out my sub and then never returned. Not sure what happened to it, but reddit is so god awful I don’t even bother trying to check.

        • Forester@yiffit.net
          17·
          2 个月前

          Oh it’s really simple. You will have been removed as a moderator for defacing Reddit content. Reddit will then ban you. Aunt reinstate their authority and make sure that their user base has full access to their content . Remember next time to not be a pesky little shit . How dare you try to block spaz and his followers from accessing content that you created but they own . /S Ask me how I know

    • can@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      2 个月前

      Depends on what you mean by that. A small fraction left but it was sizable enough for Lemmy to become my home.

    • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
      9·
      2 个月前

      No. Too many users were used to the trash official app because that’s how many of them came to find Reddit because of the app’s release.

      Can’t know what you’re missing if you never experienced it.

      But honestly that’s partly why Reddit was going down the tubes when all these Facebook folk started coming to “that new app Reddit” and treating it like Fb 2.0 so it was for the best for the rest of us to leave and find alternatives.

    • scottywh@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 个月前

      Despite it seemingly not having a significant impact on the “user” numbers the overall quality has gotten considerably and quite noticeably worse so it’s not unreasonable to think that bot activity has been continually increasing.