this just in: company enshittifies product and doesn’t give a fuck about you, only money. More at 10.
Fuck you, spez.
Someone contact the mods of that subreddit and tell them to point to https://join-lemmy.org/ instead of lemmy.world
I might if I could figure out how to log into their fucking app. Apparently you can’t log in with a username anymore?
Thank fuck I said goodbye to that place. A shame to see such a fantastic online community be murdered by capitalists try to squeeze money out of it, but probably inevitable.
Users do anything but stop using reddit
Many of us here stopped a while back. For me, it was the API thing a couple of years ago. But it’s still useful to check reddit website for info - there’s just so many answers to so many questions on there. But fuck using their app.
That’s my situation. I nuked my comment history with a script when it was obvious they wanted to profit off of ai scraping. I still look at old reddit.com in my desktop, but I don’t touch it on mobile.
Yeah I have looked at old a few times, reddit is shit but internet searches are often even shitter these days with so fucking many AI generated websites.
If I know a better source I will search for that. Started growing some of my own food recently so anything plant related I try and check RHS first.
I recommend the Kagi search engine. It’s excellent.
If you are still active on Reddit after all the enshitification, you are enshitified and getting furious is no longer an option.
Unfortunately it’s captured a lot of information and resources.
Think about crafting - I’m going to find a lot more knitting tutorials on Reddit than I will here. Lemmy is very like early Reddit, where it’s only really active on topics like politics and technology.
What do you need to craft in your life besides building the perfect Linux distro? /s
On a side note, how do you find Reddit vs Ravelry for knitting?
And a LOT of really odd niche stuff. The biggest nerds migrated to here.
I’m at the point where I only use Reddit on desktop while I’m stuck at work. And that’s only after I’ve got my fill of Lemmy. I only use old Reddit and have RES installed. If old Reddit goes or RES gets blocked or really if the platform makes any other bad decisions going forward, which their track record suggests they will, I think I’ll finally be done.
I’m also at the point where I just create a new account every day. It takes them a day or two to shadowban it, but on Reddit if you don’t leave a comment within an hour or two of something being posted, your comment will never be interacted with anyway, so there’s really no value in keeping an account beyond a day anyway, unless you care about your subs, which I don’t anymore.
The platform went to absolute shit.
Please tell me more about the daily new account strategy. I’ve been permabanned (my email address and IP address) for unintentionally accessing a subreddit with one account that another account had been temporarily banned from.
With a brand new account, I figure you are automatically shadowbanned or at least in most subreddits. Also, aren’t there quite a few subreddits who simply don’t let you participate until your Reddit quality score is high enough?
All I can do is outline what I do every day. This same process used to work to create a profile that wasn’t banned until I inevitably said some questionable stuff, typically to dipshit Trump supporters. So sometimes these accounts would last months. I think they’ve made some changes to tighten their grip on new accounts recently cuz I’m getting regularly shadowbanned after somewhere between 24-48 hours. Not temp or perma banned. Shadowbanned. Which you’ll know when you try to post and it says “you’re doing that too much, try again later”, or by going to the 3rd party Reddit Shadowban Tester site, or by just going to the Reddit appeal page and if you can submit an appeal, you’ve been banned or shadowbanned.
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I use Brave browser for Reddit. I know a lot of Lemmy users have problems with it. I don’t care. I only use it in Incognito/Private mode.
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I go into Brave browser settings and clear all data. All cookies. All of it. Reset it to factory default.
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I open Brave back up and open a private window. I create a new throwaway email account on Outlook.
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Go to Reddit. Create a new account. I make sure to create a username instead of using one of the auto-generated ones. I avoid words like platform, site, Reddit. I think they might have a method for looking for shit talking names like “Reddit_Sucks” or “This_Platform_Is_Trash”. I use a different password every time in case they have a method for banning accounts with passwords that have been used before. That would be dumb though cuz with that many users I’m sure a lot of accounts have the same or very similar passwords.
That’s it. I just spend like 3 minutes creating a new account every morning. I comment and get interaction throughout the day. Then the next day, or following day at latest, I discover I’m shadowbanned and start the process over again. I wouldn’t bother doing this if I wasn’t stuck at work. If I was anywhere else I’d find something better to do with my time than circumvent a trash platform.
I used to use a browser script to automatically re-add all my subs to a new Reddit account, but I had to set the script to only add one every 5 seconds, because if you did less it would detect you were adding too many subs too quickly and assume you’re a bot and ban the account. But now, with whatever new methods they’re using to shadowban me every day or two, I just gave up on the subs. Too much effort for a day or two. My subs were the only thing that really kept me caring about Reddit. So if they manage to restrict things even further and it gets harder for me to interact on the platform, I think I’ll be ready to finally just give it up. Reddit isn’t dying anytime soon, but it’s definitely on a downward trajectory. It’ll go the way of the dinosaur eventually.
Edit: Yeah, there are subs that don’t let you contribute if your account is too new, but they’re kind of few and far between. Doesn’t really affect me that much.
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I browsed a few minutes, seems to work fine in Firefox.
I’ve never used the mobile site but old.reddit.com works.
