So if I understand this right… people who left because they were mad, won’t have an old reddit to ever come back to if they ever decide to go back and haven’t logged in for awhile?
yes, around 6 months or you can become a moderator
So just make your own sub is enough?
It likely will only work for that sub. Betchya Redit will still block users from subs you don’t actively moderate
“We’re concentrating our resources on the areas that will drive results for our most pressing needs, improving the core product, making Reddit a go-to search engine, and expanding internationally.” --Steve Huffman
“Wait. No! Not like that!” --Also Steve Huffman
Search engine? 🤷♂️
yep. Forums used to be a thing but they have faded a long while ago for things like reddit and discord. Real websites are usually garbage designed to trip search engine results and now it’s a ton of AI slop too.
So people started including reddit in their search to get the info they wanted. And now reddit has noticed and is leaning into that
Reddit IS a forum, full stop.
Does reddit know this? Someone should let them know
shrugs in whogivesashit
I mean this is just a natural progression of any sufficiently successful platform. They’ve successfully maximized their current value so now they must exploit and plunder that success to push into other markets. Its why Netflix has video games, its why YouTube pushes Shorts, and why Tesla is getting into AI and robotics and on and on and on…
LMAO
Reddit search barely works
i think people meant search engine using reddit when you are asking a question on google in the search bar.
Yeah you know it’s bad when you start to use Google to search for stuff on Reddit because it’s better at doing it than Reddit’s own search.
TBF, Google search was better at searching most sites than any search function those sites had. Up until a few years ago anyway.
Most of them just use Google embedded into their site anyway.
“In the next few months, we’ll further limit access for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months (which covers the vast majority of all Old Reddit users),”
really? you expect me to believe the majority of old reddit users are old reddit users?
they want to completely eliminate old reddit, to force them to use nEW reddit.
Why are we still caring what Reddit does?
I like to keep track of enshittification in general.
Fuck reddit but r/gunpla is 100x better than c/gunpla
Because to forget it is to repeat it.
Reddit is fantastic for certain niche communities. On the whole, it fucking sucks, but it does contain so much helpful info because it just brings people together over a specific topic.
There is literally nowhere else I can go for live game threads for sports as good as reddit.
I dunno, being in a reddit thread for a big game isn’t really much of a discussion. It’s just flowing text like Twitch chat. Exciting maybe, but I don’t think it’s all that valuable.
not that it’s much of an improvement but there is Discord.
It’s not an improvement at all, Discord is actively terrible for any community bigger than about two dozen people and I hate that it has taken the place of traditional forums.
There are so many of those. Literally just search the term sports forum, and there are millions of them that have extremely active threads for all games
Millions of them? Give me your top 200,000
Because when Reddit fucks up those users will look for alternatives, like Lemmy.
In this case it’s important to highlight that Lemmy has many different front ends and apps available. Lemmy can look however you’d like it to look.
Because realistically I can only scroll on Fedi for maybe 20-30 minutes in a day before I’ve seen everything and if I have more time to kill, Reddit is there. Although I don’t comment there at all anymore, it’s truly worthless for conversation.
You could always post content here yourself you know.
And the alternative to Lemmy is what? Viewing the same content of fifteen years reposted by a bot every once in a while, and having your discussion subverted by bad faith actors and bots?
I definitely don’t feel like using Reddit much anymore. Most of my time is spent in a particular programming subreddit to answer such fruitful questions as ‘what is a function’ next to master thesis-worthy posts, which is entertaining I guess.
Reddit said a long time ago there were no plans to change availability of the HTML version of the website, and I suppose now there are plans driven by unscrupulous shareholder interests.
The lion’s share of people are still on that platform, and those should be slowly nudged away from that burning garbage heap. It would be both tragic and hilarious at the same time if the mention of Lemmy caused the platform to ban you instantly.
Why not try Duolingo or something? Or a crossword? The NYT app lets you play some games for free.
I still follow some webcomics and search for things occasionally on Reddit. Using Redlib has been fantastic. Don’t need to worry about their interface changes. Don’t need to worry about having an account. Just input the few subscriptions I need into the Redlib docker container. All my devices are setup to redirect Reddit links to my Redlib deployment.
Redlib is awesome, indeed.
We know RSS has been a beloved part of the open web for a long time, and we’re grateful to everyone who used it to stay connected to Reddit,
It’s like they aren’t even listening to the words they are saying themselves
Oh God they are dumping RSS too? Fucking hell that’s the only way I even use that platform anymore since it means getting a handful of news updates on some games without going there.
Yeah, last nail in the coffin for me. Fucked if I’m gonna wade through more than titles to sort through the bullshit. Maybe RSS-Bridge can save us, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Wonder how bad their real user numbers will tank.
Its a good thing Aaron isn’t alive to see the thing he created being stripped away from the other thing he created.
Eh, Aaron didn’t create Reddit. He came in after a year or so
Just absolutely pissing on the grave or Aaron Schwartz.
Yeah, they actually said the quiet part out loud.
Just realized I’ve not visited reddit in months now. The info id typically find there is now out of date, and anything that is valuable you need to wade through useless bland repetitive comments, obvious attention whores, and advertisements posing as content. It’s just not worth the time for me anymore.
Most of them are bots
Hufflepig strikes again!
I have no sympathy for those who suckle at the corporate teat.
Nothing to see here folks, just reddit continuing to dig its own grave.
Digg its own grave? (sorry)
😂
That change helped reduce scraping and automated abuse, but still allowed any logged-in account to access Old Reddit, including accounts with no prior Old Reddit use.
To close this gap, in the next few months, we’ll further limit access for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months
How horrible, ANY logged-in account can just access old reddit?? That needs to be fixed asap, how dare new users just use old reddit when they have a perfectly good shreddit available to them. — Reddit admins apparently
Nice admission there. Didn’t expect them to be this open about their true feelings on the matter.
Sounds like runescape classic
I wish Lemmy was as searchable as Reddit.
Go on…
I’ve been pretty pleased with Kagi’s indexing.
Kagi even has a built in Fediverse filter function if I recall correctly
Exactly
Kagi rules
It is.
Why do you wish Lemmy to not be searchable at all?
What’s Reddit?
existing users who haven’t used it for six months will also be barred.
Wow, that really is awful. If I don’t use Reddit every six months I’m permanently kicked out of it?
I rarely go there, but when I do want to look up something I like to have the option.
(pls don’t pretend like new reddit exists, thx)
