The real story is buried in there:
Reddit is going to ask for a bit more identifying information from its users, too.
Yeah not going to happen.
Old reddit has been mentioned.
He’s definitely gunning on shutting it down
The only reason I’m here in the first place is because it’s ridiculously obvious that they’re killing old reddit soon. Every time they add some new bullshit feature it breaks our reddit just a little more and it becomes less and less usable. Meanwhile new reddit is also becoming less and less usable as they try to make it Facebook 2.0. It’s all getting enshittified very quickly.
If I may say that I hope more people support Lemmy. We need to get away from Reddit and it will be difficult. I’m kinda new to Lemmy and I plan on donating.
Welp good bye old reddit
My copium is that the website was initially built in a way where they can’t delete old reddit without breaking it.
I only stayed on Reddit as long as I did because of Old Reddit. New Reddit simply isn’t worth it.
I never cared about new reddit vs old reddit, because it always looked the same on Baconreader. I couldn’t continue after I lost that. I really wish there was a Lemmy fork of it, it was my favorite.
Connect is pretty good so far, not quite the same.
yup. New reddit is a cancer. Old reddit may be old and antiquated, but it’s a SHITLOAD better than new reddit. Not that i use either anymore
What a liar. I hope that pasty cat f***** suffers a slowly from feline AIDS. Seeing as he’s the reason the feline population even caught it.
time for me to take a shit out of my ass
I’m still using old reddit, but I’m very excited about the return of Digg and partnership of Kevin Rose and Alex Ohanian. Hopefully that scares Huffman and somewhere in the Great Beyond, Aaron Swartz is smiling.
Reddit is no better than Facebook, X, or Instagram these days. Out of control moderation with false accusations done for no particular reason. I hope they get rid of the sole reason people still bother with reddit. Maybe if they could figure out how to moderate without falsely accusing people of things, I’d care.
Does it only work on a desktop now? Even before I stopped using reddit regularly, the old.reddit domain stopped being in the old reddit format, and looks no different from just going directly to reddit.com.
There’s a browser extension that forces it.
Yes, it still works in browsers.
yet they’re keep making it harder to use. they removed the old login form for no reason lol (it still works if you add back the removed html so it’s obv no security bs)
if they said that about 3rd party apps 2 years ago i would never found Lemmy
Red Reader is an open source, ad free, third party Reddit app that has been allowed to continue free use of the API due to its usage amongst the disabled community.
I’ve been using it for nearly a decade & continues to get ignored by folks for some reason.
It’s also in the official Play Store, I believe.
I use RedReader sporadically for browsing Reddit. I like it’s compact UI style and customizability. Even when I had proper paid Boost for Reddit back in the day, somehow, the UI of RedReader made it more intuitive for me to use it.
I think one can technically use Boost still via patching it, but it’s a grey area and not worth going after when RedReader exists.
Either case, the official Reddit app has to be purposefully coded to be as unoptimized and useless as possible. The bloat, the wasted white space; it all stands testament to the travesty that is modern software design.
Boost still works as long as you patch it with your own API key
Its been 2 years already aye. I was so optimistic at the time. “Finally I’ll be able to stop doom scrolling”
How innocent I was
Yeah, these assholes made me engage with them!
Fuck you cunt (endearing) I’m on sm because I had to reply to your comment >:(
Can you reply to my comment as well, please?
I actually continued to use a 3rd party app up until a few months ago. I created a Lemmy account when all that happened 2 years ago, but I didn’t use it much. Glad to see it’s been improved, well until recently finding out the creators of Lemmy support Russia.
Who cares? Lemmy is open. There’s already many alternatives that are connected, mbin, piefed, etc.
Edit: I don’t agree with their views, but this platform is now bigger than them, and they designed it to be that way. I have to respect that.
Who cares what they support ? If their code is good, that’s all that should matter. Because that allows you to disagree with them on other instances even though their home instance is heavily moderated.
That’s the beauty of an idea, though. The worst people can have good ideas and good people can benefit from them. In certain cases, they can use the ideas against the creator themselves. I just consider it a fact of life and avoid giving those people my money directly where possible.
Yeah, it’s disappointing to know some of the things the Lemmy devs support but this being a federated platform means you don’t really have to be on Lemmy to interact with the posts and users here. Piefed and Mbin work just as well and are fully independent projects so you could try those instead.
It kind of makes that people with such strong/extreme views would have enough initiative to start it though. We need to remember that Lemmy development was going on for years before most us took notice.
I was aware since it was mentioned on /r/rust
Cool, it’d be nice if spez dies in a fire.
that’s the smile my friend gets when they’ve got their butt plug in…
Huffman will never know such pleasure.
he might - if he ever gets his head out of there
Hah. I got banned from /r/politics years ago for using that saying to a toxic rando.
That place was a shithole.
straight up propaganda network. same with /r/conservative - same with /r/interestingasfuck - same with just about any sub with more than a thousand subscribers. digg on fentanyl.
/r/Canada
totally. i’m not alone when i say that canada shouldn’t and wouldn’t have gone this way if it weren’t for the devil down below.
fuck you! i got banned from about a dozen subreddits because i told someone on /r/conspiracy that they said something stupid.
Oh yeah??? Well fuck you, I got banned from r/all
i just… how? i mean i was banned from the site, but that’s a whole new thing, right? edit - fuck yououuou!!!
Reddit let that sub be a global hub for dangerous anti-vaxx misinformation during the pandemic while going after everyone else. Made zero sense.
yeah, so it makes perfect sense to limit the people who point that out, right?
This vibe reminds me of the Reddit I enjoyed back in 2010. No, we can’t always be toxic af everywhere (sometimes it’s a fun little treat), but at the same time, not everything needs to be a goddamn bubble-wrapped “safe space.”
The before times. We were so innocent then. So cute.
