Suggestion / request for people leaving Reddit: shred your content before deleting your account. Don’t leave it in the platform, otherwise it’ll just become more profits for the greedy fucks.
You can mass delete your comments in a safe way through Power Delete.
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That sounds a lot like a perverse albeit unintentional incentive to keep users relying on a platform that shouldn’t be trusted. Give this a read, as Karl Voit explains it nicer than I can; I’d also like to highlight that any sort of info that you find in Reddit is highly unreliable, due to the excessive local leniency towards certain types of irrationality.
Also note that this is an easy issue to solve, from both sides. People looking for help can always look for it elsewhere; and people willing to help can migrate their content elsewhere.
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A personal website is a great idea, specially if you have practical knowledge over a few connected topics.
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I want to agree, but Reddit is an absolute trove of information and support on all kinds of technical issues. It’s a repository of information and solutions not rivaled by many others. Losing Reddit would legitimately make the internet a less usable, less helpful place. It’s a damn shame, but it’s true.
A trove of information plus noise and misinformation. If you ask any actual question - be it tech help or something else - expect most replies to be from:
- users who didn’t understand your question on first place, no matter how simple and concisely you phrased it.
- users assuming context out of nowhere or disregarding the context that you’ve provided.
- users avoiding to reply to your question because they really, really want to boss you around on unrelated matters.
- users who are not informed on the question, do not know the answer for the question, but assume it and voice it as certainty.
- users circlejerking or voicing stale jokes based on some trivial detail in your question.
You might get an actual answer in this sea of misinfo and noise, but if you’re looking for help there’s a good chance that you don’t know enough to sort it out. And the exact same deal applies to anyone looking at the others’ questions looking for help.
Losing Reddit would legitimately make the internet a less usable, less helpful place. It’s a damn shame, but it’s true.
The truth is that, no matter what you do, you’re going to lose it. Reddit is already going this way, no matter if you delete or don’t delete your content, and no matter what happens in the alternatives (as this one). Because even misinfo and noise drive engagement up.
When I run into issues and look to Reddit, despite not knowing how to solve my problems, it’s at least 50/50 odds I find my solution and have no issues. To pretend the misinformation discredits the entire platform is folly. May as well toss out stackoverflow and others, their track record isn’t any better in my experience. I have similar odds there at a solution
All forums have problems, and while I don’t agree with reddits business strategy, it’s backlog is unmatched by most resources.
Thanks! I built a tool also to download some of your reddit history: https://github.com/dessalines/reddit-history , if you’d like to get it out locally.
All I ever do on reddit is shitpost and say absurd bullshit to throw off ai learning as much as possible.
I use Now for Reddit because the interface of the official reddit app sucks, along with way too many ads. Now that reddit is going in this direction, I decided to check Lemmy out.
So far, I like what I see. It’s not perfect but it’s a good start!
Welcome to the hoard, friend
damn Apollo was the only decent app to access that trash site. good thing i don’t go there anymore, evil evil place
Honestly many of the 3rd party apps are good, like Boost, Sync, Relay, RiF, Infinity etc
The good ones will support Lemmy. This is our great filter.
I always preferred narwhal over Apollo, but the apps were ‘far’ from being the only reason to leave Reddit.
Once 3rd party apps are gone I refuse to use Reddit other than through old.Reddit which is probably next on the chopping block
Once old Reddit goes I am gone for good. On the plus side I will get a lot more free time back
If they get rid of old.reddit I’m out. The new UI is absolute garbage. However, I’m not entirely happy with Lemmy and it’s >50% of my screen being useless whitespace. I wish Lemmy had an old Reddit style. This trash design philosophy of whitespace is ridiculous.
No more teddit?
Teddit might be scraping the public site, so it would be okay. But any apps that use the API will have to have the developer pay thousands of dollars to keep API access. Its the first step before closing off the API entirely like twitter did.
Teddit and similar apps actually use the “anonymous” API, so once this API change comes in, those apps are basically dead without rewrites. Some ideas coming up are full page scraping (would require a lot of new coding and new issues like rate limits and etc), RSS scraping (would not be as complete information wise).
Those projects are great, and its sad that its ultimately up to the whims of some evil company to waste the hundreds of hours they spent building those apps.
Yeah, I’m often thankful to people building these frontends, because ultimately a lot of human information is in those corporate silos and accessing them via a frontend is better than directly.
But at the same time, I would never build such a frontend myself, for the reason you mentioned.
All it takes, is a bunch of profiteering dickwad investors, to make your efforts go poof.
This is legit the reason why I literally just signed up on here.
Grab yourself Jebora if you’re on Android for a good app: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jerboa/
I’ve also found just the mobile web interface to be highly usable compared to reddit’s.
Yeah, reddit on mobile makes me want to gouge out my eyes then roll through shattered glass.
The only issue I’ve found with lemmy on mobile is remembering collapsed comments, or not jumping back to the same comment when you accidentally click a link that doesn’t open in a new tab.
@borari @aspensmonster how do you use Lemmy on mobile, just through the website, or some mobile client app?
There’s a list of apps on that page
