Why??? I will tell you my non expert opinion.
Reddit makes money by selling data to advertisement companies. Users that aren’t logged in are probably hard to track. They probably have a bunch of untargeted data they can’t sell for much.
Reddit does not actually care about the end users experience. They want you to use their site enough to provide them with sellable data. It’s like Facebook. Facebook could show you your friends posts in chronological order everyday but instead they throw in all this spam on your feed to keep you on the app. They can see what you’re interested in. If all you do is ‘like’ your friends baby pictures then that data would be hard to sell.
My favorite part about Reddit is they have ongoing contracts with google and open ai to scrape all their content live for training
But the fediverse can be scraped for free
I’m sure they are already running lurker instances with custom code for this very purpose.
Hi everyone, this was the last straw for me. Can anyone point me in the direction of the porn?
*gestures in the general direction of the entire internet *
Go to Bluesky. I think due to the size of the Fediverse its porn content is infinitesimally smaller than Reddits. To flab my cheeks together and speak out of my ass locally hosting explicit content on a home server is also too risky. The low content available + search complexity makes googling boobs a better option.try fedinsfw.app
Just use it. You will never see an ad if that is the only thing you are looking at.
This is the thing that gets me. It’s kind of a double edged sword using an underground community like Lemmy. I still use Reddit for nsfw (God bless red reader) because the normie girls haven’t migrated over here yet. There is such a mature community of self posting NSFW content that I haven’t found anywhere else on the Internet like it tbh.
Yep
There simply isn’t anywhere here for me to post the content that I create
then make it
create a community
I don’t care enough
Fuck you, spez.
Whispering slurs from your mom’s basement don’t help.
Bros we need a better lemmy plan.
More content. And making spez super sad and poor.
Someone needs to build a Firefox extension to periodically poll best content from subreddits they like and automatically repost to lemmy. Automatically.
So there are tons more content on lemmy. U get it?Not self hosted docker - most people won’t bother setting up residential proxies and fight bans, no - just a real browser, simple extension and simple settings, with legit ublock and auto reposting to lemmy. This way people don’t have to do shit and content would just transfer.
It’s fair use because it’s for ai.
This will make spez sad and poorer. Let’s do this
“More bot spam!”
How bout fuckin no.
Get only the most upvoted content bro.
But the upvotes come from bots.
I get what you say, but people already mirror Reddit posts on Lemmy, and post Lemmy content on Reddit
With a dull, rusty, red hot spoon.
Update: annoyed Reddit users have figured out a way to get rid of the irritating popup — for now, at least.
That link pushing you to sign into Wordpress is either a troll move or some strong irony.
Surprised there isn’t a Firefox add-on that literally just loads the reddit site’s HTML like the browser usually does and then moves all the shit around to a more mobile-friendly layout.
Wait, IS THERE such an add-on?
“Sink it for Reddit” (iOS app) does some formatting improvements for Safari on iPhone
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/oldlander/
Works well enough for me.
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This is quite nice . thank you!!
Don’t need, just request the desktop site, read the post, then close the page without interacting or reading more content. They’re doing us a favor
I just use desktop agent on my phone if there’s a good answer to something on reddit, but honestly it needs to die and we need to use fediverse more for discussions.
cant exactly be shocked by this, when the masses so willingly accept and adopt much more invasive, information harvesting and profitable apps instead of just using websites.
The only thing reddit is good for these days is porn. and even that is questionable as more and more it’s becoming bots trying to fish for illegal shit.
Not as long as they can’t deprecate old.reddit lol
Fuck u/spez
reddit is too slow on mobile website . they deliberately do like this
Well that’s an expected (late) step after kicking out all 3rd party apps. So really absolutely no surprise.
Just following Facebook chat back in the day
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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Why are you trying to contribute to Reddit by posting / voting? While I still use Reddit (after Lemmy) I make a point to never vote or comment or contribute in any way whatsoever. They rely on contributors to power their network, so don’t contribute.
Why are you trying to contribute to Reddit by posting / voting?
To fight disinformation as much as I can. I see it, I downvote it. I see something patently false, I correct it if I’m educated enough on the subject.
I get upvotes, which means people see an agree. Maybe some of them are people who are seeing the info for the first time and I’m helping guide their views in the right direction.
I’m contributing less and less though. I mostly use Reddit for news that doesn’t get posted here. Or to read top comments that outline what the news really means and provide deeper context. Because Reddit has more users than Lemmy, you see more of those informative comments. Hopefully Lemmy truly replaces it someday, but we’re not all the way there yet. I’m definitely seeing more Lemmy activity than when I joined 1.5 years ago though.
You need to make your first comment or post be in a subreddit with no minimum karma requirement.
If you’re still an active reddit user I have little sympathy for you.
