The final nail in Reddit's coffin dropped today: : reddit

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The final nail in Reddit's coffin dropped today: (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Dear User,

We will soon begin rolling out changes to Reddit's User settings. It is getting a refresh that includes changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings.

As part of these changes, we are retiring a setting that you have previously turned on that limited how we used your activity from the Reddit platform to personalize ads. We have replaced the setting with a new option to select categories of ads that you may not wish to see.

More details are available in our announcement and help center.

These changes are rolling out starting today and you may see the changes over the next few days.

Users will be tracked with no opt out. Posts may be monetized, which will make content even worse No refund or any type of usable credit for users that spent hundreds on Reddit coins The entire vibe has done a 180° since all these new "positive changes" are rolled out.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (14 children)

ah yes, just like how the oh so mighty mods pissed their panties with the blackouts, really killed reddit too that one huh

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

I had been using Relay for Reddit Pro until today, the API finally switched over and it doesn't work without updating and paying a subscription.

I had already been 50/50, now I can only access the terrible Reddit application on my phone, so I guess Lemmy is all I have on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the final nail for me happened long ago. the site has genuinely sucked for years. all the content in the top subreddits is basically ChatGPT generated rage bait, so many subreddits have turned into right wing shitholes, and Reddit themselves have proven time and time again that they do not care about their users. as always their greed has gotten the best of them

the exact same thing happened with Discord. I've actually disabled my Discord account and only use my Reddit out of habit at this point

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (12 children)

One thing holding me back from stopping to use reddit as a whole is using old.reddit in the browser. Can't stand the new design, and once they remove that option - never looking back for real.

On mobile, Lemmy all the way.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Can I interest you to old reddit like theme in Lemmy.

E.g. https://old.lemmy.world/

More here

https://gist.github.com/rystaf/4d591ffdcbaab1c49efa406885efd814

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (8 children)

privacy badger, ghostery, ublock origins, etc...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

afaik this is only reddit activity, so they’re going to be able to track anything and everything no matter what privacy addons you’re using if you’re logged in

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Fuck spez. Aaron never would have done this

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Aaron was also only with the company for like 3 months.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

It's not the end of the world, it's the end of the world as we know it.

Reddit is becoming a harsher place for the kind of community-driven, higher investment content that made it what it is today (which is less profitable) and a better place for mindless scrolling and sleazy engagement-baiting mostly fed by automatic content aggregators (which is more profitable).

Plenty of communities will remain due to inertia: switching platforms is hard. As far as I'm concerned, I will keep using reddit for two reasons: and to check in on a few communities that I am actually engaged in.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Well, I've kept my reddit account as I use it occasionally from desktop... Guess it's time to finally say goodbye.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

So what's the current method for overwriting and removing comments before account deletion?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I don't like reddit... But here's my question though, since lemmy is federated and all that data is available for access... what's stopping anyone to integrate into the system, collect it all, analyze it and sell it?