Reddit's official app and new reddit are awful experiences and actively hostile to the user. It's nice to see a site that understands this.
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2023
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I hate new reddit so much. I just opened it. On my 1440p monitor I see 3 posts. Old reddit I can see 18 posts on one page.
But there's more space for the beautiful ads
There are different layouts available on new reddit, you don't have to use Card, switch to another one, there is even a compact one.
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I hate the official app with the fire of 1,000 suns. So if my only options are using the official app or leaving the site completely I’m leaving completely✌️
I'm tired of Reddit anyway. Corporate garbage. Just need more communities and users.
I have a question. As most of you probably already know, i reached that level on reddit where karma can be converted 1:1 to dollars (not that hard tbh), but here looks like there's no karma to farm? How can I pay my rent?
This might be added in an future update? This place will change alot coming months for sure.
Joined lemmy after getting sick of reddit. The community here feels like a breath of fresh air. But disappointed at the lack of the more niche content (mostly motorsport discussion/news) but am sure that'll change with time.
disappointed at the lack of more niche content
As of now it's down to the lack of participating users in niche subs.
So, glad to have you here! With enough people starting to create discussions on stuff they enjoy this place will get livelier than ever.
Even Reddit had to start somewhere when the ability to comment was added to the site in 2005, you know.
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Reddit's official app, and in fact Reddit's official website is a hugely compromised experience, and I suspect the only reason they haven't gone further is that they don't want to push people to the alternatives. However this latest move to restrict the available alternatives seems like the beginning of the end to me and their app and site are only going to get worse.
That's why I'm here at least!
I mean, it's more rewarding if you put more effort into it.
Justified tbh
I don't want to use any app, I want to use the website. However, I'm guessing old.reddit is on the chopping block next and if they get rid of that I'm done. Lemmy's website isn't amazing (why so much whitespace wasted?) but it's a hell of a lot better than new reddit.
The API changes was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I was on reddit right before the exodus from Digg, before that I used to go to Fark. So much has changed, it is sad to see it, but I guess it was inevitable. As companies grow their user base, they tend to start catering to a more generic (and bland) base and the higher ups demand never ending increase of revenue, quarter after quarter.
So many memories; great ones (Today you, tomorrow me), awful ones (Jolly Rancher), some weird ones (Waffles? Don't You Mean Carrots?), etc. I only use old.reddit with RES on Librewolf on my PC, and Redreader and Stealth on Android (FOSS apps).
I am hoping to see Lemmy grow, I wish you all reddit refugees the best of luck!
hopefully 21 miles of cromulent posting
it would be amazing if a site could replicate that early day reddit feeling
This is coming close, I gotta admit.
As someone who joined reddit around 2015 its pretty cool seeing a site this empty for some reason. Feels like early internet in a very cool way
The current internet is shit now. There's too much noise and not enough depth. I like the vibe here so far. This is my first post hello world etc.
I joined earlier today as well, welcome:)
I agree there is so much noise on Reddit, and just mobs of downvotes and harassment. The slower pace here is breath of fresh air, even with an exodus of people coming, it will be a long time (or never) when it gets as bad as reddit is today.
Same
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you soon of a removed, I'm in
You son of a removed, I'm in too.
The original app always felt excessively cluttered and changed too much for the sake of changing. Moving here feels way better than supporting whatever the official reddit app decides to break today
Yeah pretty much. I just stand can't advertising.
Advertising is literally big corporations trying to change the shape of your brain. I dislike that very much. I hope lemmy works out for me, I can't use reddit if I have to slog through their ads. Plus, I probably already see a ton of bots that I don't even realize are ads.
I'm only a 6 year clubber on Reddit, but using RIF for most of it, couldn't stand how the app was going. Nowadays it's the content as well. Going to be exploring around here now
8 years of Reddit. My only regret was ever making quality content over there.
Just glad to have be here before the mass migration really kicks off
Yeah, I'm really hoping people do mass migrate from reddit to Lemmy. I was part of the Digg Exodus. Moving to something open source and decentralized would be huge in preventing another pointless exodus in the future whenever whatever reddit's corporate replacement decides to sell out.
I wholly agree. I've moved across a few platforms which made me post less and less each time. Can't wait to eventually host my own data and never move it all again.
We gotta plant the seeds so the mass migration and visit the forest
I would actually be willing to pay a small, reasonable monthly fee to not have to see ads and to be able to continue using Boost for Reddit like I have been for the last 7 years with the experience unchanged. What I will not do is pay to use reddit's official app without ads simply because it's going to be the only choice with their horrible fee structure that will kill all third party apps. As soon as they kill Boost, my account there goes dark...
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Reddit is too popular now. They're going to have an IPO eventually and then it will really go down hill.
Might as well get on the ground floor of something new.
I'd rather crawl the 20 extra miles to a new community (and did) than use that app again. It's that bad. The reviews on Google Play are very telling. It's just a buggy mess.
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And I would walk five hundred miles
and I would walk five hundred more
just to be the man who walked one thousand more
to get the fuck away from spez
Hoping and praying for r*ddit's downfall 🙇♀️
Honestly - what happens to all the information on Reddit if this actually happens? DPReview just recently announced they were shutting down (thanks, Amazon) and the first question was - what happens to all the valuable information and knowledge in the forums? There was a serious wave of panic in the photography community at the potential loss of all that information, and it was too much for archive.org to reliably get. I wonder what the contingency plan for Reddit would be at this point.
All the more reason in my eyes to support the fediverse at this point - archiving a single instance isn’t going to be as terrifying as a decade-plus monolith forum.
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