• Aeri@lemmy.world
    182·
    9 days ago

    I think the true cutoff for me with Reddit was when they perma banned me for commenting that I should in fact be allowed to punch nazis (pretty sure it was a mass report thing going on)

    • actually@lemmy.world
      8·
      9 days ago

      I was temp banned from all Reddit when I messaged the mods in a subreddit to complain about a post.

      I think thousands of people did the same thing that day, it was a really obnoxious comment section that ticked off many ; but someone had connections and they issued everyone who complained a three day ban site wide.

      • Aeri@lemmy.world
        4·
        8 days ago

        Reddit mods can be such shitstains about… Well, pick a topic! They don’t like what you did, banned, asking about your ban? Banned from communicating with them for a month.

  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
    5·
    9 days ago

    Nowadays I barely use Reddit, but sometimes you end up forced to use an app, so I use Infinity with a custom API key

    • TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      8 days ago

      I still use reddit alot, but I use sync. Unfortunately there are still many useful subreddits in reddit that have never moved to Lemmy. For example Usenet subreddit or Fan sub Reddit for tv show and games, and let us not forget anime_titties.

  • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
    66·
    9 days ago

    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.

      • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        9 days ago

        I’m pulling all of this from memory, so YMMV… Victoria was a paid person from Reddit who worked on the AMA subreddit only. Her job was to basically go around and get celebrities and other interesting people to do AMAs and then would help schedule them and coordinate the whole thing. In some cases even helping to type out answers. If I’m recalling correctly Reddit just got too corporate and decided to terminate her out of the blue. The community fought back, but nothing big ever changed or happened. After she went away AMA basically turned into a shitshow of no one actually doing anything. She was legitimately a powerful tool at Reddit but they just got rid of her.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      20·
      9 days ago

      We can look at a million things over the years and say this is when it went wrong. It’s all hindsight 20/20. The reality is that we’re here now, and, at least for me, I enjoy it here. 💜

  • BigBenis@lemmy.world
    15·
    9 days ago

    Anyone remember The Button or r/place? That was peak reddit for me since it brought together the entire community. When they stopped doing stuff like that despite the community’s love for it is around when I started seeing the writing on the wall that they were ultimately there to make money and couldn’t waste engineering hours on “frivolous” community engagement.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      28·
      9 days ago

      I have a hard time not personally blaming this on spez, tbh. After he lied about Apollo’s dev’s (I don’t remember which app) phone conversation then they showed up with the damn recording to prove it wrong.

      Like, for real, the conversation was something like

      • dev: Or you could just buy me out for $X ha
      • spez: Are you threatening us?
      • dev: What? No, it was just a joke, because you said it costs $X for my app to hit your server
      • spez: oh, okay, I understand you now, I’m sorry.

      Later…

      • spez: This dev threatened us.
  • Clbull@lemmy.world
    16·
    8 days ago

    Why the fuck are they using a 3D voxel banana as a hat for Snoo?

    And why does Snoo look AI generated?

    • DeeDan06@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      8 days ago

      reddit recap logo. and because for some reason they want to do the exact opposite of what every other company does with their logos. (I’m a lemmy and reddit dual user)

    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      I still have it on my phone n open it’s corpse all the time out of habit when looking for sync. I should uninstall it.

      • Baggie@lemmy.zip
        4·
        8 days ago

        I have the client for animelab which hasn’t existed since they got absorbed into crunchyroll. Maybe I’m just holding a grudge but I think there’s value in remembering what they took from you.

    • humble peat digger@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      8 days ago

      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.

    • Baggie@lemmy.zip
      8·
      8 days ago

      Represent. I do miss it sometimes, but it’s probably better that I don’t spend as much time online.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 days ago

      Relay for Reddit will always be my favorite. It had a nice tablet mode and the “swipe to do everything” interface was nice.

      I have yet to find a decent replacement for it. Voyager is alright but I swear that it was designed to maximize unintentional button presses. It’s so easy to accidentally go to the community or the user’s profile when I just wanted to click on the post. And I can’t even count the number of times I accidentally collapsed a comment when I was trying to edit or upvote it instead. This is why the swiping interface was so nice. Made it almost impossible to unintentionally do the wrong action.

      I miss Relay so much, but unfortunately the developer decided to play by Reddit’s rules and start charging people to use the app. So it’s never coming to Lemmy.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        8 days ago

        Oh God yes, I feel you on the Miss-clicks

        Oh let’s look at the comments, downvote, ohh shit I need to, collapse, fuuuuck, uncollapse, inadvertently scrolls up now that it expanded, Hunt down the exact right one, swipe to upvote, miss, back to zero, sigh, carefully swipe over to upvote, tap for comments, end up in user’s profile… It’s not really an app that you can surf until you’ve had your coffee.

      • ebolapie@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 days ago

        Have you tried Thunder? I’ve been using it since I finally got around to moving over here (admittedly not very long) and I’ve found that Thunder gets a lot right. It’s open source, ad-free, cross-platform, and nice to use. It doesn’t have quite as much polish as Relay but the design language is similar enough that it doesn’t feel like a huge departure.

        • Psythik@lemmy.world
          1·
          7 days ago

          I tried it a year ago; felt very much like an unfinished project. Too many missing features. Has it improved a lot since then?

          • ebolapie@lemmy.world
            2·
            6 days ago

            I’ve only been on lemmy for like a week, so I have no point of comparison here. It doesn’t feel janky to me, but then I’m not a power user. It works well for what I like to do, which is view posts and comment. Images display well, I haven’t noticed any problems with video. I haven’t tried embedding images in comments yet, let’s try it with a photograph of the richest man in Indiana:

            the richest man in Indiana.

            Give Thunder a second shot, or don’t. I’m not your boss, I’m just some drunk guy on the Internet.

  • kwomp2@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    8 days ago

    Makes me 'member these informative graphics on 4chan ~2008 that categorized users into oldfags, newfags and cancer. Anyone else 'member?

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
      15·
      9 days ago

      I miss Apollo. Voyager is nearly as great and is open source so it’s not all bad. Still miss it though…

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          9 days ago

          Interesting. Just looked at Mlem for a minute and for some reason the Voyager UI agrees with me more.

          The funny thing is Mlem offers higher contrast between different UI elements yet it is easier for me to differentiate between those elements in the lower contrast way that Voyager presents them.

    • ggppjj@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      9 days ago

      The writing was on the wall when reddit restricted buying awards in anything but the official app. For some reason, I even have a vivid recollection of where I was in the world when that went down.

    • dalekcaan@lemm.ee
      51·
      9 days ago

      I’m lucky, Boost was my app of choice. Now I just use it for Lemmy instead.

      • dev_null@lemmy.ml
        4·
        9 days ago

        Which is how I learned about Lemmy. I opened Boost one day and was like… Wait, something’s off. : )

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      9 days ago

      Jerboa is similar enough in my head. Though, if I could time travel and get the 2023 experience then I might see that I’m misremembering.

      I was hoping RiF’s dev would make an app for Lemmy. They did make one for Tildes though called three cheers for Tildes. I believe their username is talklittle.

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        8 days ago

        Jerboa was real bad back then. Like, bad enough that I shelled out cash money to purchase Sync for Lemmy, which was another different old reddit front-end that now pivoted to Lemmy.

        Overall though I’m now actually a big fan of Sync. It’s a good app. Does all that it needs to and not much more.