Reddit has become the face of enshittification
I just wanted to peek at the front page. I guess they don't want people to use their shit anymore. I'm starting to believe in the dead internet theory.
Can you guys stop talking about your ex ? You're with lemmy now, forget about the old bitch.
It's the Reddit community, juste block it if you don't want to see it
It's ok, I was mainly making a joke :-) I don't mind a reddit related post every once in a while, it's always funny to see what reddit turned into
I'm all for staying here on Lemmy: Lemmings are nicer than Redditors and the place is a lot higher S/N ratio.
But... sadly, due to inertia, Reddit is still where a lot of stuff is squarely at. There are long-established Reddit communities - often nice, well behaved communities - that don't give a toss about the Reddit drama, and are simply not interested in moving out.
I've been trying to kickstart an equivalent Reddit community here on Lemmy for almost a year. While there's a handful of members, it's basically just me infrequently posting in it. The original one on Reddit has almost 10K members, is fairly active, and clearly none of the members know anything about Lemmy - much less want to create an account and join my insignificant equivalent community. I keep it around in case Reddit enshittifies to such an extent that even those who don't care start taking notice. But at the moment, inertia is much too strong.
Seems like the Bats community here on Lemmy.world was popular due to some new posts every day.
Hello,
I just pinged you into one of the communities we created for people in a similar situation to you (singler poster for a community, trying to keep it alive). Feel free to have a look there, I hope you'll find it interesting to be able to share your experience with others
There is still content there. I find myself there often with a lot of web searches.
It hasn’t gone quite as bad as Twitter. Not yet anyway.
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Lol yeah I can't get on it at work anymore. Goodbye to all the traffic they get from people looking for tech advice on corporate networks. Fucking morons.
i've never had an office job but it's extremely obnoxious they seem to regularly filter the internet like you're in school. there were so so many important resources (including youtube) which had legitimate educational and technical value they'd take away as some bullshit austerity ritual
A shame you had lame tech Bros at your job. Ive had a couple office jobs and they both restricted a ton of stuff but they left reddit open.
That isn’t the issue here. I agree with you, but in this case the filter is on Reddit's side. It is common and justifiable for corporate machines to use a vpn. Sometimes public traffic doesn’t go through, but not always.
Yeah, reddit started blocking VPN users a few months ago unless you log in.
Also TOR, but you can easily tell it to use a different circuit and most of the times it isn't blocked, in my experience.
Every time I see that stupid little alien, I change my mind about visiting. I see Spez's smug grin on that stupid little goo blob avatar and it just makes me want to find my info anywhere else.
All jokes aside, fuck that greedy sociopath.
Steve Fart Huffer
Anytime I think about making a comment if I happen to be on reddit researching a niche thing, I think "do I want to give Spez $5? FUCK NO!"
He can make his own content. I couldn't imagine putting in a thankless job moderating and watching that shitter slide up to the bank to withdrawal your free time and effort.
Tech companies are now the hot new thing for MBAs to put into their resumes. That’s why you see this enshittification. Used to be the money people didn’t want to work in tech because it made them feel dumb. That was what made the industry work. Those times are over.
MBA's do not get enough shit for being a root cause of the deterioration for modern life.
It really is a bullshit career. Companies should be run by people who came up in the industry and learned all the pitfalls rather than college kids who learned how to not pay contracts until they're legally forced to.
Reddit got run down because they were trying to make it turn more profit because they were planning to IPO for maximum value.
Used to be the money people didn’t want to work in tech because it made them feel dumb.
No one has ever spent more than five minutes speaking to a tech worker and felt dumb afterwards.
That was what made the industry work.
Yeah, tech companies had such a high success rate from 1990-2010.
Solid points, my dude.
Found the junior mba
I don't imagine the tens of thousands of shitty tech startups by people who don't know anything about tech which are popping up and exploding (in the bad way) are doing so well for the "success rate" now.
Changing the url to sh.reddit.com lets you get around it. Been using that when I've needed to look up a reddit thread at work.
Thank you
While I do agree that this is bad, I'm a little confused—what does this have to do with dead internet theory? Doesn't that relate to users being bots?
That no one really uses reddit, that it's dominated by bots masquerading as real people.
The only times I've seen that is if I'm trying to browse while on a VPN(mullvad in my case). And more often than not it's because it came up in a search.
Anyone else find it ironic that the 'papers please' character wears a fedora?
Fuck the hurensohn forever and always.
Meinten Sie vielleicht Burensohn oder Uhrensohn, werter Herr?
I went there the other day for the first time in a while and noticed how many ads there were and even ads disguised as notifications. Enshitification to the max. So glad I joined Lemmy.
I've logged in a few times recently and I've not seen (m)any ads. But I pay for prime. The subscription is hardly worth it as I've mostly moved to Lemmy. But there are still some communities that haven't made the jump.
use redlib, it's a private frontend, here's a comment i made about it https://lemmy.world/comment/8577440
Tried redlib-redirect but unfortunately that doesn't seem to do anything... :(
I use this
My recent permaban from r/worldnews for stating the obvious (is "Iran attacks Israel" still the right title for a stickied thread on the events in Gaza?) has had the positive effect of making me renew with Lemmy.
r/worldnews is a cesspool of hasbara fanboys, but their unilateral view on the conflict starts to draw away people from their toxic propaganda.
Don't even waste your time in that echo chamber, it's almost as bad as r/politics. They did you a favor by banning you.
nah, that would be twitter. reddit is catching up tho.
Fuck Reddit and their demogogue mods.
Oh, there's a fair amount if those here too.
Become? Where you been, man?
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I use a VPN and they block me most days. I uninstalled the app and said fuqit.
Are/were you able to log in?
Not the person you asked, but yesn't. It works while not connected to VPN, but when I am connected to VPN (that it rejects) the TOTP 2FA doesn't work, so with 2FA enabled I cannot log in.
It shows a green checkmark, but clicking "Check code" does absolutely nothing, and I am still not logged in.
Red Reader works but I have not found a solution for the browser. Sucks majorly because of search results leading you to a Reddit post.
Lol, what did you say that got you banned?
This just happens if you're using a VPN.. notice how it says "login to your Reddit account"?
Switching to a good VPN server, or turning off the VPN will let you browse Reddit again.
During prime time in my experience almost all VPN server IPs are blocked. I find this generally really odd since I thought they even offer an onion link for the TOR network.
Are you using a vpn?
Is anyone aware that you have to change this? It bases it off your IP as soon as you make an account you have to change that in your settings to turn that off. Not sure if this helps at all but I just don't understand
Ah, I remember this crap. It'll show you content based on location. I'm almost certain that it's unrelated to the block.
I don’t think that this affects their blocking. If it did, then bots would be able to change this to get around it as well.
Just login bro, you don't even have to interact, just lurk around.
Just install the neuralink chip into your brain bro, it doesn’t even hurt, just don’t value privacy.
I would if Elon would accept me, privacy doesn't exist anymore anyways. Just sell yourself, it's free money.