I actually have tried to use reddit multiple times, however they've soft-disabled most new accounts. It's around a 50% chance in my experience if your account is shadowbanned immediately, with a slightly lower chance it'll be shadowbanned within a week, regardless of what you post. If you use a privacy-focused email provider or use a vpn, or use a browser that is resistant to fingerprinting, you're basically persona non-grata at reddit. Which is honestly fine with me at this point, half of all content you encounter in almost any major sub is either bot posted or "totally a legitimate user that uses the site 24/7" posted.
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Yes, exactly. I was permabanned for insulting spez during the 3p shit. I wanted to see if things had changed and created a throwaway.
Of course, if you use the same browser they use IP, fingerprinting and such so I used VPNs, fingerprint randomizing browsers, protonmail and it would last maybe 4,5,6 days.
Which is fine since it’s a complete waste of time and shit content for the most part. Lots of niche communities are a real loss still tho.
So many comments are clear they are bots it’s just sad all around. I don’t get why anyone stays
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Same. If I could still use boost I would probably go back often, but the official all is so incredibly, profoundly user unfriendly that I just can't
So there are still some 3rd party reddit apps that seem to work, Orion and Reno on iOS, probably others on Android, neither are as good as Apollo (RIP) but they’re not terrible.
Once they stop working, I’m done. The shitty ads alone are enough for me to dump that trash fire.
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I don't think I've ever experienced any spam ever in my Reddit inbox in the 14 years I've been on it. What sort of stuff do you get?
You're probably using old Reddit, aren't you? The difference between old Reddit and new Reddit and the Reddit app are night and day in terms of spam.
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One of my most favorite subs used to have the usual lovely posts and interactions. After the drama, one mod just posts a daily question. It's boring. Hardly anybody responds. I don't think people are allowed to post freely anymore, because it's just full of these boring questions. One way to take down your subreddit.
Thousands of mods have moved on. The ones that left are probably doing fire control or nothing. It shows on how much spam is everywhere suddenly.
I'll pop in to search for something real quick, but once I get my answer, I'm out.
I wouldn't have expected anything different.
The content has become pretty boring too
It sucked before, too.
Infinity for Android is subscription only as of August 31st so it's time to pull the plug for me!
still use old dot, but the moment that goes away so do I
You're not alone. Reddit is now basically just a shadow of its former self. And it's all to make money.
Don't you love it when big companies practice corporate greed? Because I f***ing don't.