The final nail in Reddit's coffin dropped today:

Dear User,

We will soon begin rolling out changes to Reddit’s User settings. It is getting a refresh that includes changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings.

As part of these changes, we are retiring a setting that you have previously turned on that limited how we used your activity from the Reddit platform to personalize ads. We have replaced the setting with a new option to select categories of ads that you may not wish to see.

More details are available in our announcement and help center.

These changes are rolling out starting today and you may see the changes over the next few days.

Users will be tracked with no opt out. Posts may be monetized, which will make content even worse No refund or any type of usable credit for users that spent hundreds on Reddit coins The entire vibe has done a 180° since all these new “positive changes” are rolled out.

Ensign_Crab,

Penultimate, not ultimate.

The final nail will be when they kill old.nazidigg

RatzChatsubo,

God I wish people would actually make content here on Lemmy.

Mr_Magpie,

Agreed, but I think we have to be the change we want to see in the fediverse.

ILikeBoobies,

I don’t think this will move the needle at all

Reddit mods had a chance to migrate but decided to sit and wait thinking they could change Reddit

PP_BOY_,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

“Two days broooo”

Zeroxxx,
@Zeroxxx@lemmy.my.id avatar

Nah, they just don’t want to lose their god given right (and status) to be volunteer mods of reddits.

WhipTheLlama,

It’s not about the needle, it’s about how Reddit acts during its death throes.

Reddit can’t make money unless they monetize every user in every way possible, including selling their personal data if they have it. The API garbage was an attempt to monetize users in ways even their own app doesn’t, and also an admission that advertising isn’t paying the bills, or they would have just started advertising through the API.

So now we’re seeing how Reddit behaves once they realize that charging for API access doesn’t work. They will sell everyone and everything until they shut down.

ILikeBoobies,

People should have assumed they were before

vivadanang,

Reddit mods

I know tons of mods that left reddit and are on lemmy instances now. Had a chance to migrate? what does that even fucking mean, we can’t bring subreddits over. we can’t hold a gun to the subreddit population and say “goto lemmy now” and most of us were locked out by reddit for shuttering our subreddits anyway, and replaced with scabs.

Explain yourself for this shit take.

ILikeBoobies,

When the big subs had their vacations they had to put their lemmy instance (or other place of migration) on the page

vivadanang,

most of us were locked out by reddit for shuttering our subreddits anyway, and replaced with scabs.

ILikeBoobies,

Hence the lost their chance

vivadanang,

So it’s mods fault reddit went all musk? get fucked

ILikeBoobies,

It’s the fault of mods who tried shutting down subs instead of moving people

Anyone with a brain would know shutting down a sub would just see them being replaced so the ones doing that were just providing scapegoat outrage to keep people on Reddit

Uranium3006,
@Uranium3006@kbin.social avatar

Yeah it.should have been done on day 1

SolNine,

Well, I’ve kept my reddit account as I use it occasionally from desktop… Guess it’s time to finally say goodbye.

sockpuppet5,

This was the final push I needed to make a formal break and delete my account after 9 years.

knacht1,
@knacht1@lemmy.world avatar

Just installed Boost for Lemmy. I’m populating the communities now. This will take time but it looks good from here!

Meowie_Gamer,

nice lol. more people will come to the fediverse!!

phoenixz,

I left reddit in the big exodus and a few day ago I started deleting my messages. I’ve been a prolific (average of 10-20 comments per day) commenter for 13 years , and deleting apparently still hasn’t finished.

Fuck spez, fuck all of them, I’m not leaving my content for them

KeisukeTakatou,

Nobody who remains there gives a fuck.

archy,

I still use self-hosted libReddit occasionally, there are some communities that completely ignore what’s going on. Even though libReddit is mobile-optimized I still use Infinity (using my own API key), I actually use Eternity for Lemmy as well.
This change should motivate me to stick to libReddit and not using my account at all

Raz,

Is this even legal in the EU?

UnD3Rgr0uNDCL0wN,

No.

AJB_l4u,

can someone transmit a message to a sub mobs on reddit?

AJB_l4u,

I was part of the mob-team and need to send them a message for all people in the sub to move to this place, if you still in reddit, please i will give you the name of the sub, its loveforUkraine, and tell the mobs that: far-child was banned and he is now doing the same sub in Lemm,ee tell all the brothers to move there, its very good ;)

Ghostlight,

I’m new here. I left Reddit yesterday. No looking back.

Pantsofmagic,

Welcome!

kungfuratte,

Bienvenue!

Klear,

Vítej!

cum_hoc,

¡Bienvenido!

titter,

SAME. Relay for reddonk stopped working, needed updating, and came back with an unavoidable subscription model suggesting i should pay 5.99/mo to continue “enjoying” reddit at my pace. Some people probably would, “oh, what’s that one banana a month”? I don’t sign in, thus I don’t post, comment, vote, reward. This is just me being charged to lurk on a website that forked in ungodly amounts of profit over a reward system they trash canned. Reasonably so because they didn’t really reward the user as much as it was just micropaymemts to reddit, and people were noticing. Instead we are “rewarding all 3rd party users by letting them pay to use our content”.

Mind you this is on top of reddit recent announcing that they will no longer give you the option to not be tracked, instead replacing it with “tires of ads you can opt out from”

SMH

dynamojoe,

bem vindo!

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Welkom!

BonesOfTheMoon,

Welcome!

ruford1976,

whale cum

briongloid,
@briongloid@aussie.zone avatar

I had been using Relay for Reddit Pro until today, the API finally switched over and it doesn’t work without updating and paying a subscription.

I had already been 50/50, now I can only access the terrible Reddit application on my phone, so I guess Lemmy is all I have on mobile.

toots,

I deleted my reddit accounts and signed up to lemm.ee today b/c of the advert policy change.

BROMETHIUS,

Noice. I still use Reddit on desktop occasionally, but haven’t touched mobile since the api change.

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