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Mildly Infuriating

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I know, I know, reddit sucks ass. I've been using firefox with ublock to read the best ofs for the unquenchable need for bullshit drama in my life.

But now it's not just a pop up saying to use the app, but a full ass unpassable thing. Old Reddit still works, but that's just another step for something that's already so not worthwhile.

Welp...

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[–] sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reddit perma banned me because I commented that someone should “yeet that dude (the ceo of palintir) into space” because he wants war crimes to be legal because it would be better for business.

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

I got permabanned for trying to evade a temp ban with a name of every-aita-mods-an-incel.

They got in their feelings about that one....

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 3 points 21 hours ago

Maybe try old.reddit.com?

[–] Watermark710@piefed.social 147 points 1 day ago (13 children)

I was on reddit every day for damn near 20 years, and if I'm being 100% honest, the fediverse is 10,000% better. The only problem is that not enough people interact. I've never seen a post with more than like 200 comments. It feels a bit empty here. But, on the other hand, 200 decent comments is better than 2000 shitty ones.

Once this place gets a few more users, it's gonna be the GOAT.

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Hey man, we're glad to have you and I 100% agree.

We just need our version of U/shittymorph

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Careful what you wish for, the larger the sample size the dumber it gets

[–] lifeinlarkhall@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yep. Happened with bluesky. It was pretty decent and wasn't getting any troll crap that was rampant on Twitter. Then there was some controversy on Twitter and Blue sky quickly went up in its new members and...yep, it just got all trolly and agro 🙄

Personally I just miss when we had individual sites for a topic like when I was a teenager. Grew up on forums for a certain artist and another different site for specific sports teams, books. Way less likely to get idiots if you actually have to actively find the specific website for an artist you hate.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I loved forums. I have a group of friends I met on a forum and we rarely talk about that subject anymore but we're still really close.

[–] lifeinlarkhall@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Yeah I did too, only one or two I keep in touch with now but yep, made real life friends on forums and it was great!

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

We're already getting bots and trolls and the mods often do nothing about them.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This... People keep dreaming of reddit crashing and burning or going under but, realistically if that did happen a good portion of the existing userbase will filter into the fediverse somewhere, and thats a lot of inorganic growth. Currently there are a handful of popular topics, and some niche topics. Yes there are also reddit like mannerisms but, when people slowly filter in, the room can be read and the existing culture remains, when a mass intake happens (like what happend with the API debacle) the influx is faster than the adoption and the culture comes with it.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I prefer the fewer comments here. Who want's to read 1200+ comments, 50% of which are the same tired jokes?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

When I started going through deleting my old comments that shreddit missed, I was surprised at how 90% of them never got any sort of response; I had never noticed before. Presumably I didn't post them within the first hour or so of the post going up, so I was shouting into the ether and nobody ever saw them. The majority of my comments here get upvotes, downvotes, and/or replies - that alone makes it far superior.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Fedi being way slower than Reddit was a godsend to me. It helped me detox from the endless content on Reddit because I was going loopy.

After the 5th scroll past the same boring hornypost I'm like "ugh I guess I'll put the phone down and go to sleep."

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

reddit was better before 2016, before trump took the white house the first time, almost as soon as took the WH, russia realized that reddit was a good place to use bots/propaganda, then we see sudden increase in politicl aposts, and then ban of "Questionable" subs. orignially because of this you would make different account for different niches to avoid a ban affecting other accounts.

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[–] DankDingleberry@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

same. this was literally the last straw. this and the effing bot posts and comments

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I haven't read a Reddit page since I switched from Protonvpn to Mullvadvpn.

Reddit seems to allow Proton but blocks Mullvad.

Another reason to appreciate Mullvad.

[–] ifalas@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

They only block some Mullvad servers, if I hit the change location button once or twice I always get through. At least on Swedish servers which I usually use.

Apart from when search engines take me there, I stopped Reddit cold turkey the moment they started giving warnings simply for upvoting comments that are hostile towards billionaires.

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

I'll give Sweden a try. I mostly use Canada. Thanks.

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Try an alternative fronted like redlib.catsarch.com for when you really need to view the page. Unfortunately, there is still too much valuable info there, which is surfaced by search engines

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Why can i still browse reddit on mobile Firefox with no popup... Is this only in America or something.

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 2 points 20 hours ago

They are doing a/b testing

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Supposedly, the message currently only targets people who use the mobile site a lot. Both clearing the cache and using incognito mode fixes it for a while.

[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Thanks for the tip

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe you're logged in with an account?

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago

No no, account was wiped over three years ago. :)

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

[–] Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

If it wasnt so toxic it would be nice.

[–] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I've been only using reddit on my phone in desktop mode on old reddit. The new reddit and the mobile interface was always trash.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 35 points 1 day ago (7 children)

It's a loss, but I've come to see it as just a part of the endless treadmill of 1. Go to where the cool people are 2. Uncool people show up 3. It gets bad 4. Look for the cool people. Feels like that's always going to be the way of it.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Always has been.

The Situationists even created new words to describe how radical ideas are co-opted by the mainstream in ways that reduce or outright removing radicalism from the ideas, making them more palatable for mainstream society. They called it recuperation. They also argued we needed to be doing the opposite, and taking the banal and making it radical, which they called détournement. This was often exemplified in the 80s/90s/early 2000s through subversion and revision of corporate advertising, often called "culture jamming."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9tournement

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[–] skuwubi@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

Problem is that it's still where so many people are. It's honestly such a shame that more people won't move to lemmy... Because in comparison there's barely anyone here. And the only reason these kinds of websites are useful is that there's a lot of people on them

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I've been seeing this for a long time now, as they blocked VPN and anonymous access, so I use a combination of cached pages and libredirect if I really want to bother going there.

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[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Majority of the posts on the popular subreddots are written by bots.

Don't get me started on the powermods. How to go on power trips online to distract from how much of absolute losers they are IRL. I used to know some of them back in my reddit days and holy hell they are some of the most insufferable fuckwits you'd ever interact with

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

the subs that allow pictures, and screenshots, and videos are the most obvious. you can tell they are reposting but they try to obscure when the "tweet' was posted by blacking out the date/time. pics during the election year was so obvious "biden genocide" pics, it wasnt pointing out what trump/gop were supporting too. luckily there was any sense in the mod prior to the massive purges, that it was removed.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 1 day ago

old reddit still works. I had to install an extension to auto redirect to the old.reddit URL the other day cuz I was troubleshooting something and the ONLY things about it were on Reddit and I noticed that bullshit app advertisement too.

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

Reddit doesn't like my VPN, so for the times when it comes up in my search or a buddy sends me something from there I have an extension in firefox now to redirect reddit links to redlib.

It's called libredirect. It's got a bunch of sites so you can avoid most of those shitty pop-ups if you set them up.

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