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.

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.

MargotRobbie,
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world avatar

People aren’t going to leave reddit all at once right away, because structure means that individual subreddits are very much isolated from one another in terms of users.

However, it’s likely that we will be seeing some kind of cultural shift happening there as quality get worse. I feel it’s inevitable that there will be more low effort content pumped out as quickly as possible than ever before now there is an actual monetary incentive instead of imaginary Internet points, and all personalized feed and ad is going to do is isolate individual users in their individual bubble and not allowing human connections to form between them.

Things are getting better here. The regulars recongnize each other’s name and personalitu, whereas on reddit all the usernames all blends together into an amorphous mass unless it’s one of those novelty accounts or e-celeb or something. That’s the key difference between Lemmy and reddit right now.

jaek,

Couldn’t agree more. Those novelty e-celeb accounts on Reddit are getting really put of hand, aren’t they, Margot Robbie

MargotRobbie,
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world avatar

Oh absolutely, especially those celebrities who comes in, promote their latest project, say some catchphrases, and leave. Why would they do such a thing?

Also, that’s Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!

flathead,

Academy award-nominated actress Margot Robbie does actually spend most of her free time modding an android group on Lemmy - but you will never see that mentioned on mainstream social media.

MargotRobbie,
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world avatar

Seriously, it really doesn’t take that much time at all, way easier than I thought it would be.

CosmicCleric,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

Any advice you’d like to give that would make somebody starting modding a lot easier, would be appreciated.

MargotRobbie,
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t micromanage, I just let people do whatever they want but encourage them to do their best, and only remove/ban for people who absolutely won’t listen to reason.

You should also get involved with your comm by talking to people there a lot, so they don’t think you are just some asshole who’s only there to ban.

CosmicCleric,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for replying.

lightnsfw,

Reddit’s not going anywhere until they ban porn and the hobby communities jump somewhere else.

Death_Equity,

Just wait for old.reddit being removed, there will be another wave of new Lemmy users.

lightnsfw,

yea, if I hadn’t been permabanned that would have done it for me but there’s still enough people on there that don’t even know old.reddit is a thing for that to really kill the site. I have a feeling a lot of people are willing to just put up with their shit for the sake of not really having anywhere else to go. Unfortunately at the moment unless you want to talk about politics or Linux the pool of content on Lemmy is pretty dry and I don’t know of any better options besides going back to independent forums.

Makeshift,

I still have my account and check like once every couple weeks for 2-3 communities.

On PC, old.reddit, and no chance of getting a single ad in my face. I’m not technical enough to know if they’re getting other data from my bimonthly visits, but that’s a far cry less than my old every night visits.

As soon as they get rid of old.reddit it won’t even be reddit to me anymore. Just an ugly new thing overwriting the site I once enjoyed.

possiblylinux127,

Its good I don’t use reddit anymore

BlueCrystalFlame,

Hi, just made this account after reading that. Fuck Reddit fuck Spez

Blaze,
@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Welcome!

ohlaph,

Welcome. Tell your friends!!

flummoxed_lummox,

I just deleted my reddit account and signed up here as well. Fortunately, I don’t know anyone else who still has an account. Most of my friends and family left a long time ago.

Blaze,
@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Welcome!

fne8w2ah,

Obligatory fuck spez the hurensohn.

jenniebuckley,
@jenniebuckley@lemmy.world avatar

the final nail for me happened long ago. the site has genuinely sucked for years. all the content in the top subreddits is basically ChatGPT generated rage bait, so many subreddits have turned into right wing shitholes, and Reddit themselves have proven time and time again that they do not care about their users. as always their greed has gotten the best of them

the exact same thing happened with Discord. I’ve actually disabled my Discord account and only use my Reddit out of habit at this point

Mousebulb,

wow, it really is just slow erosion of our rights, huh?

extremely disappointed that we are all fighting for our basic fucking human rights (e.g. privacy) instead of, i dunno, fighting climate change? There’s little hope that we can do what we did with the ozone layer again…

Pons_Aelius,

The problem is you (and many others, not singling you out here) believed you had rights on a privately controled web platform.

This has never been the case.

In the past reddit said and had "terms of service" that suited their business goals at the time. In the past, those goals were: Use VC money to grow the platform as large as possible as fast as possible.

Now that Reddit is looking to go public with an IPO, those goals have changed.

The goal is now. Generate as much revenue as possible from the user-base created with the VC money.

recarsion,

And it’s going to work simply because of people not caring and because of the difficulty of switching platforms. I myself am guilty of this, I’m still using reddit for the communities that haven’t moved over to Lemmy yet, though I’ve reduced my usage because I refuse to install the official app for Android after they killed third party apps. Now that Boost is available for Lemmy, I’ll be making the gradual switch. But I doubt the majority of users will bother doing the same.

buzz,
@buzz@lemmy.world avatar

Guys its not enough to delete your account, you have to bring other users with u

AJB_l4u,

they banned me and ghost me also, no chance to get friends ;) but yes

flathead,

not all of them.

skillissuer,
@skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

you underestimate people’s complacency and inertia, in no way this is end of reddit

wilberfan,
@wilberfan@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly.

DrQuint,

Yeah, people think tracking you for ads will dissuade anyone? Like, Instagram has a content to ad ratio of 33%, and people give zero fucks.

I don’t think people will ever leave, and I don’t think we should want them to leave either. We can build better, smaller platforms much more easily than we can’t fix the world’s attitude and consumption trends towards the large ones.

JokeDeity,

I mean, having some users isn’t the same as having a ton of users using the product for hours a day. They can still say people are using it, but it’s far from how it used to be (actually goes for Instagram and Facebook as well). There will always be people still using them, but for less time and getting less enjoyment out of it. The majority of users will not use it much at all, only out of some sense of necessity. Instagram and Facebook are literally unusable in my opinion due to ads and sponsored content, most people I know that used to spend hours on those two sites now barely use them at all, and that’s the direction Reddit wants to head in.

imeow_allday,

Wonderful

Haui,
@Haui@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

As a mod on reddit (who only reacts to pings these days) I would like to post an undramatic message „here‘s what happened, if you‘re interested to join our lemmy mirror, here‘s the link.“

Anyone got something I could use which will not set off reddit stans or get me replaced and the message deleted?

DrQuint,

I found that the best approach is to just have the link in the sidebar. This was how several communities first started introducing discords when it was basically an unknown piece of software. It became normalized without anyone noticing when.

Haui,
@Haui@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Thats what I did already. I might just leave it at that then. Thanks for the suggestion though. :)

christophski,

This is just the continuation of the instagrammification if reddit. They want to turn it into a influencer platform where people are desperately trying to make money so that they can take a big cut of it.

Gargleblaster,
@Gargleblaster@kbin.social avatar

This would've resulted in my leaving if I hadn't left in June.

Saved me 3.5 months.

TheFriar,

Right? I hope more and more people leave. It’d be great if more users came to lemmy, but I’d be content just seeing people leave that putrid site

CheatMageLVL99,

I might just start visiting forums for relevant information again. Lemmy seems to be pretty decent for now. Reddit really has gone downhill.

dth,
@dth@lemmy.world avatar

the announcement was finally the one that made me leave. better late than never i guess!

Jimbo,
@Jimbo@yiffit.net avatar

Welcome!

dth,
@dth@lemmy.world avatar

thank you very much!

mojo,

We all know they’re still not going to leave. Also lol those people buying Reddit coins can get fucked.

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