This is presumably because they've been boosting their anonymous agitator account with their profiles set to private, and there are tools out there that reveal said hidden comments like arctic-shift which I assume utilise old.reddit. They are trying so desperately to curate a rightwing majority narrative that simply isn't true.
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I regret every time I revisit Reddit. Them shutting down old.reddit will certainly keep me from ever going back. It'll be a blessing in disguise for me.
I was addicted to reddit for over 10 years when they shutdown the RIF app. At first I felt like an addict detoxing and it hurt. but now I can look back at those times and say good riddance to Reddit.
I still enjoy this format of social media, and therefore use Lemmy a lot. It's clear there's no algorithm or bots upvoteing trying to make me angry or keep me on the site. There's less bots here trying to steer the conversation or promote their product. I'm happy with Lemmy. Fuck reddit to death.
Honestly, Lemmy has been good for me in some ways because it isn't as popular and doesn't have the deep niche communities reddit has that I was super active in.
I get more accomplished now because I essentially "finish" my Lemmy browsing and move on, whereas reddit always had something else for me to dive into.
I'm the same with you. I was on reddit nearly since the beginning. It was my entire social life, well, mostly. As soon as they killed off TPA, I don't bother anymore. obligatory, fuck spez.
Enshitifcation everywhere!
No need Reddit, in the moment to verify my ID, delete Reddit.
They want your ID because they're legally forced to. A VPN will fix it.
ive been saying they want to become facebook, Full ID(DRIVERS license) and facial recognition. eventually. plus they want to train googles ai models or openail.
I have FB but not use, IG not use and no like the full control…
I got shadow banned like for been 2 months still I am and can't even get karma up as people won't see my comments so I just use that red alien for surfing and watching people comments that's it 👾
yeah, this is the first of several steps to killing old reddit. And good riddance. I hope the whole company burns.
It was a long time coming, but when old reddit dies, I will have a cold beer for all the "good" times and then I'll be on my way onto new adventures elsewhere.
Fuck you spez.
What a sad day. The platform that exposed me to overseas opinions. 🫡
It was ICQ for me but this ain't a grumpy old timer contest
We really need a firefox addon to block reddit from google results automatically
uBlacklist
It works for those SEO spam sites too. You visit such a site, go back in history to your search engine, and in the result's top right corner block the website. It's neat. It doesn't work by default with Qwant and you need to add some line in the settings that's in one of the GitHub issues.
uBlacklist
looks like for Chrome (if that even supports plugins anymore, who even knows anymore) and Firefox.. looks like it could work
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