There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!

They've basically banned anonymous accounts. Their whole thing was anonymity.

They seem to be blocking access from certain IPs and VPNs (if not logged in?) Which is funny because some of these VPNs are not really hiding anything. Like my work VPN which I would think makes it pretty obvious which company I work for. Annoying when search results link to reddit content.
- You can use this script with a browser addon like Tampermonkey to get around the sign-in requirement:
  
  // ==UserScript== // @name reddit - unblock (create cookie and reload) // @namespace Violentmonkey Scripts // @match *://*.reddit.com/* // @grant none // @version 2024-01-08 // @noframes // @license MIT License // @description for "Blocked" "whoa there, pardner!" cowboy bs // ==/UserScript== /* thanks: https://www.reddit.com/r/mullvadvpn/comments/18jbxb2 */ if (document.title === "Blocked") { document.cookie="reddit_session=;Domain=.reddit.com;Path=/;Expires=;Secure=true;SameSite=None"; window.location.reload(); }
  
  Why should the user have to fix reddit to make it functional?
- This what infuriates me the most.
  I use a VPN (because my government is insane) and i get a “security warning” if I visit any Reddit post (even old Reddit).
  All they’re doing is building a moat around OUR content we created.
Wait first I'm hearing of this one. What happened now?
- I think they're referring to the fact that you no longer can create accounts without using an email address. You were able to use a UI loophole to do it before via Old Reddit, but no more.
  
  Woah, it's finally gone? Guess I haven't been back in a while
Without anonymity it is in fact pointless. Pseudo anonymity is extremely useful I basically won't go anywhere without it. That's definitely a feature we should advertise to people, you can actually be anonymous

Reddit has become very strange.

Shadowbanning sucks when your on the other side of it.

Forever mods that have hundreds of default subreddits act like dictators. Banning people from all their collections of subreddits without anyone knowing.

Removing the ability for users to see actual number of votes up/down.

And now with the whole "don't upvotes certain content or you will get a strike". Never mind that isn't how the site works at all.

They haven't come out with a feature that people have wanted in the last couple of years.

Getting rid of coins/rewards just to empty everyone's stock and then bringing them back again without 1:1 compensation and forgetting everyone who gave their coins away before they would vanish
It's been a while since I've been on and everything I'm hearing is that it just keeps getting worse. Eventually it'll be completely unusable and probably shudder but by then the real conversation will have moved elsewhere

Same, it was over for me when they took Boost away thankfully Boost pivoted to Lemmy lol

Is Boost dead though? I love it too, but it hasn't updated in a while
- I have no idea, Boost has always been one to go long periods between updates, but it is getting pretty long since the last one
  
  You can have gestures disabled on voyager and just use the buttons
  
  I use voyager and don't use any gestures. Looks like I turned them off in settings. And they have a ton of options for things you can adjust in the settings. I was a reddit is fun app user and am completely happy with voyager. But I'm also almost always just lurking. So more active users might have more problems but with how much you can adjust it I doubt it.
  
  I'm using Thunder and really enjoying it
  
  Does it save your position in the comments of a specific post? That's my #1 criterion for an app. Boost is the only one that I've found that does it
  
  Not that I can see
  
  Like if you visit a link or go to someone's profile, then go back to return to the comments, will your scroll position be remembered so you can see the comment you were just looking at? If so, yes
  
  Nice. What about if you back out to the main feed and then decide to go back to the comments later? This is where all other clients fail in my experience
  
  Ah, no it does not do that
- Mine stopped working completely this week. It then linked to boost for lemmy. Now I'm here.
Boost gang!

I'll still check sometimes on Reddit when I'm at my desk if I feel like it and I've got time, so like barely anymore.

When 3rd party apps died I moved here.

After them saying that if you upvote enough banned content you'll get banned, I'm just waiting to catch ban over there.

i still lurk a lot. i have a rule against posting there though... which admittedly i did break recently, but only to plug lemmy. otherwise no posts/comments there in two years
- I think since coming over here I've done like 2 dozen comments and a handful of posts (on Reddit), but considering I used to post and comment as much as I do here but over there I'd say that's a lot of progress.
  I've done over 3k comments and over 3 hundred posts here since joining in June of 2023.
  
  Thank you for your service 🫡
  I'm the same as the other guy, my rule is that I only post/comment about Lemmy when I use my reddit acount.
  I used to only comment a few times per month when I used reddit but as soon as I started using Lemmy I started making hundreds of comments per month. Especially in the first few months, I got to 1k comments super fast. Since then I've slowed down a bit but still way more active than I was on reddit. This is my alt account btw.
  It's so much more rewarding to participate on Lemmy for a multitude of reasons, but mostly because it feels like people actually care enough to read my comments and respond. On reddit it often seemed like shouting into the void. Plus, it's a great feeling to be a part of something that's community based and not just soulless corporate slop. Every time I check reddit, it feels so miserable and I wonder how I ever tolerated that site for so long.
  
  It feels more human over here (if that makes sense lol)
  And yeah after my initial break from Reddit it definitely feels more insufferable over there.
  This is also one of my alts, I've a few but none are used as much as this one by a long shot.
  
  The thing is for a good solid decade using one of those corporate websites actually it wasn't so bad, I was right user since 2012 and it used to be good. It's slowly degraded over the years since then and at this point I think I'm fine never going back, except if I am reading some several years old post that has information but even then the internet archive can do that for you and it might be the only place to get that information from Reddit
  
  Yeah that's true, I was also a user since 2012 and it was much better back then. It slowly got worse through the 2010s and then really fell off a cliff after 2020
Use Reddit Enhancement Suite. You'll thank me later.
makes red it much more usable and easy on the eyes.
- I used it for awhile (I've been on Reddit for about 13 years)
  Honestly though pulling more away from social media is good for my mental health. And making the experience more abrasive so it's less of a passive thing is good.

I'm more oxi clean of reddit myself