I haven't looked at the front page of Reddit since the exodus. I have used it to deshittify Google search results but that's it. I imagine it's absolute garbage by now.
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to play devil's advocate, from reddit's view those third party apps were just using server resources and making them no money. Although yeah they could've handled it better by implementing different policies
My gosh that Reddit app icon is horrible. It looks like a terrible meme NFT or something. ...Which was probably the aesthetic they were going for, to be clear.
ik reddit has nfts,which makes sense.
reddit was not great after like 2015. It just completely shit the bed in 2023
rif gang
Now: RedditIsFucked
Represent. I do miss it sometimes, but it's probably better that I don't spend as much time online.
Reddit made it unusable on mobile again.
I use Firefox + unlock, but naturally it's just slower and less convenient than rif.
I use reddit a lot less now. Practically don't use it on mobile as I noticed.
Oldreddit + Oldlander extension is way more convenient on mobile browser.
Apart from going there through a search engine I've never used Reddit again since they killed the API.
I use reddit for special interests. There are some subreddits which are unmatched sources in terms of expertise. Be it a game I am currently obsessed by or serious job related discussions about the newest embedded tech...
It's sooo hard to get away from games. You've either got Discord which is a shit show, or reddit which is an ad riddled shit show, but at least the comment and discussions are relatively structured.
I miss Apollo. It was just so good.
I still use it to follow the war in Ukraine, but that's it. It can burn once the Russians are defeated.
Makes me 'member these informative graphics on 4chan ~2008 that categorized users into oldfags, newfags and cancer. Anyone else 'member?
I found a loop hole in the reddit-verse and am able to use bacon reader like its early 2023. I mourn the day this glitch in the matrix is removed from my devices. Until then, carry on!
For me it's not the app ecosystem. Reddit used to feel like it was a platform run by its community now its very company run and controlled.
I miss bacon reader =[
I miss bacon reader too ... sobs
Never used any of that clients always used offical New Reddit web client even on mobile. I moved to Lemmy because it's FOSS. That's all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It really broke my heart. I loved Reddit, I was on it on RiF one my phone when I didn't use my computer. It was great for finding all sorts of new stuff and it was genuinely fun. I'd had a few accounts for like a decade or something, but when they killed the alternate programs I just left and never looked back.
I miss RIF, but it's for the better. Lemmy moves too slow for me to doomscroll it forever, so I've started putting my phone down more.
I've started reading books again, even in public, when I'm waiting for someone or something. My mind is slowing down and getting more peaceful.
Yeah, i didn't realize how much i relied in Reddit to keep me informed on sports. I barely know what's going in with my favorite teams, let alone the leagues anymore. But i couldn't use anything other than RiF to browse Reddit, so i was done as soon as they axed the third party apps.
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I pay the yearly subscription for Sync Pro, and I consider it a donation more than anything. I've gotten so many years out of that app, and the developer choosing to repurpose it to Lemmy made my transition here almost seamless from reddit.
Wait, Sync for Lemmy is a subscription and not a one time purchase? Boost's dev did a similar transition but only standard one time purchase there.
There's a one time purchase to remove ads and a subscription for features like machine translation or importing/exporting your communities. It's $17 yearly or $100 lifetime
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Reminds me of Boxxy for some reason.
The original meme has the person's name as "katy", and Boxxy's real name is Catie, so whoever wrote the original might well have been parodying her.
Edit: After a bit more research, there's the tiniest sliver of a chance it might have been based on her pre-Boxxy online activity, because it pre-dates her use of the name, but it's probably nothing to do with her.
Maybe, but I'm pretty sure that copypasta was around long before boxxy.
So I checked a bit more and pre-Boxxy Catie and the copypasta both appeared online in 2006, so it's probably not a parody of her specifically, just girls like the Boxxy character Catie created. Funny coincidence about the name though.
This comment just gave me a little bit of PTSD
What I used before leaving: copypasta
(A bot allowed to replace all comments with an edit to avoid being farmed by reddit or sold to AI)
I edited all my comments, then deleted all of my comments, then deleted my account and two-factor. Then Reddit restored my account and all it's comments and I can't remove them again cause no two-factor 🙃
For a lot of the OGs on Reddit it got worse after the whole AMA Victoria thing. That was really when Reddit went downhill. Before that Reddit was amazing with AMAs that kept you refreshing constantly to be live in the chat, and posts that were funny and discussion that felt a bit more meaningful.
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