I agree! After my initial fury over Spez’s whole tantrum, I found Lemmy, and I gotta say, yeah I really do think we need a lot more communities and diverse topics, but for those of us who remember what the Usenet was early on, it was a paradise for free-thinking, tech-savvy individuals to socialize and share ideas. I’d love to see Lemmy stay under the radar, because once something becomes popular enough, it gets enshittified by people looking to monetize and people looking to just plain shit all over it. If it remains fairly small, but in that it is a concentration of the most desirable people (mostly), I’ll take it. I can always hop over to dread-it if I really need something not here.
I got permabanned on Reddit because of events involving powertripping moderators and every appeal I tried has been met only with generic bot auto replies. It seems impossible to get an actual human to look at my case for which I provided a lot of detail on what went wrong and how I was incorrectly permabanned (I was confronting moderators of one of my favorite subs about them violating their own Subreddit and Reddit’s policy).
I’ve been trying for over 9 months but there’s literally no way to get it fixed. And every new account eventually gets permabanned as well.
I’m so done with that garbage platform. Shame about the small fun communities I was in. But the downfall of Reddit can’t come soon enough.
I went back to reddit after being away for six years and I’m already done with the mods, the toxicity, the fakeness, just the whole thing. So here I am.
Reddit getting rid of paid rewards pre-IPO only to reintroduce the feature later on and boast it as a major QOQ increase in non-ad revenue while artificially inflating their on-paper growth was slick.
I’m Just hoping that more sub reddits move over I know a few have that I use thought (which are dead) it was during the time spez pull this bs just seems like every company lately has gotten more greedy with their product
Reddit is dying. Spez is a degenerate freak, a scam artist, and a Nazi. The OpenAI training platform / propaganda website begins to circle the drain. Microsoft is starting to lose the last iota of goodwill they once had.
Nothing about Reddit looks good into the future and no one, with serious cash, is going to invest in a dying platform run by a scam artist, a freak, and a Nazi.
The questions now are, “How long?” and “What’s next?”
If they had just done the obvious thing and made ad-free 3rd party API access depend on a subscription fee, then I would have just paid it and wouldn’t be here. But no, they have to do everything the worst way possible.
This is just the latest in a long string. Spez has demonstrated repeatedly throughout the years that he’s an entitled cretin - equal parts smug and ignorant.
My personal favorite was when he snidely commented on Reddit’s unprofitability in his AMA after the API debacle, making it sound as if it was somehow our fault, only to then not only have it made common knowledge that the official app was useless garbage and had been for years, but that the entirety of Reddit’s loss for the year was just about exactly equal to his salary alone.
Is there a way to fully download or scrape a full subreddit or say stackoverflow since they’ve both committed themselves to enshittification and alienating their userbases?
asking because that seems difficult to do and there’s a lot of useful information on both sites
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I agree! After my initial fury over Spez’s whole tantrum, I found Lemmy, and I gotta say, yeah I really do think we need a lot more communities and diverse topics, but for those of us who remember what the Usenet was early on, it was a paradise for free-thinking, tech-savvy individuals to socialize and share ideas. I’d love to see Lemmy stay under the radar, because once something becomes popular enough, it gets enshittified by people looking to monetize and people looking to just plain shit all over it. If it remains fairly small, but in that it is a concentration of the most desirable people (mostly), I’ll take it. I can always hop over to dread-it if I really need something not here.
Well except for when they start paywalling shit
Come to Lemmy for the hatred of Spez’s actions Stay for the certainty he’ll do it again
There was a while there where people were constantly coming to Lemmy to talk about reddit and I just… couldn’t give a fuck.
I feel like it might be an age thing. Those of us on the internet since the 90s are somewhat used to being digital nomads.
We’ve seen empires burn to the ground so many times before.
Good, bury reddit.
Download? Rightclick “Examine this frame”, copy&paste, pandoc to markdown, is what i do.
He’s rich and giggling. Quite likely does not give a shit.
Can’t say I’m sad.
I got permabanned on Reddit because of events involving powertripping moderators and every appeal I tried has been met only with generic bot auto replies. It seems impossible to get an actual human to look at my case for which I provided a lot of detail on what went wrong and how I was incorrectly permabanned (I was confronting moderators of one of my favorite subs about them violating their own Subreddit and Reddit’s policy).
I’ve been trying for over 9 months but there’s literally no way to get it fixed. And every new account eventually gets permabanned as well.
I’m so done with that garbage platform. Shame about the small fun communities I was in. But the downfall of Reddit can’t come soon enough.
Well, here we are, he’s surely winning at that
I went back to reddit after being away for six years and I’m already done with the mods, the toxicity, the fakeness, just the whole thing. So here I am.
Reddit getting rid of paid rewards pre-IPO only to reintroduce the feature later on and boast it as a major QOQ increase in non-ad revenue while artificially inflating their on-paper growth was slick.
Was it also fraud? Some slick fraud?
I’m Just hoping that more sub reddits move over I know a few have that I use thought (which are dead) it was during the time spez pull this bs just seems like every company lately has gotten more greedy with their product
Reddit is dying. Spez is a degenerate freak, a scam artist, and a Nazi. The OpenAI training platform / propaganda website begins to circle the drain. Microsoft is starting to lose the last iota of goodwill they once had.
Nothing about Reddit looks good into the future and no one, with serious cash, is going to invest in a dying platform run by a scam artist, a freak, and a Nazi.
The questions now are, “How long?” and “What’s next?”
If they had just done the obvious thing and made ad-free 3rd party API access depend on a subscription fee, then I would have just paid it and wouldn’t be here. But no, they have to do everything the worst way possible.
To this day I still dont understand why they didnt do it this way.
Oh well, at least now we are on a platform which has a future.
Reddit being on the stock market… Like what the actual fuck…
This really goes to show he has no clue how to monetize Reddit.
This is just the latest in a long string. Spez has demonstrated repeatedly throughout the years that he’s an entitled cretin - equal parts smug and ignorant.
My personal favorite was when he snidely commented on Reddit’s unprofitability in his AMA after the API debacle, making it sound as if it was somehow our fault, only to then not only have it made common knowledge that the official app was useless garbage and had been for years, but that the entirety of Reddit’s loss for the year was just about exactly equal to his salary alone.
Is there a way to fully download or scrape a full subreddit or say stackoverflow since they’ve both committed themselves to enshittification and alienating their userbases?
asking because that seems difficult to do and there’s a lot of useful information on both sites