I haven’t gone back since Apollo shut down, and not planning to, but I am curious.

  • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I read a post somewhere that really vibed with me. It said that they use Apollo and Reddit was just a backend. When Apollo died, Reddit did too for them.

  • PreciousTater311@lemmy.tf
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    2 years ago

    It almost seems like business as usual, but there are definitely fewer posts, and people don’t seem to be posting as often. And you can tell in some of the subs that the mods have taken a step back to some degree.

  • pavnilschanda@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    Feels like the type of content posted on Reddit these days are one of those low-effort meme-like posts that you’d often seen on Twitter.

  • Bob_Loblaw@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    Sports, games, tech support subs I frequent all seem to have the similar level of activity as before all this came down.

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    To those people who looked back and are shocked by how horrid that place is: yes, it was always that bad, full of hatred and despair, you just never realized it until you’ve experienced something good here.

    The most important thing for us then is to keep this place good. It’s not going to be easy, but we’ll try.

    • jelloeater@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, I feel like all the techy and nerdy folks left and came here. Made in a few weeks the more niche subs will move.

  • FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    It was going back to normal, but now they’ve made an even bigger fuckup (removing the ENTIRE AWARDS SYSTEM) so it won’t last.

  • AncillaryJustice@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    I’d signed up for an account here once the ridiculousness started, but didn’t start frequenting until just now (first post) because Boost stopped working completely. Ah well, definitely not installing the official app. I was over there for 12 years or so too. I have a feeling lurkers won’t really care and keep using the site just like there are people who still use Facebook and what-not, but it certainly won’t ever be cool again.

    • kratoz29@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      because Boost stopped working completely.

      Thanks for the heads up, I was not aware they flipped the switch for this one too.

  • zeppo@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    Hmm, i checked out the FP and a few of the subs I used to frequent. Front page seems to have more TikTok style crap than ever, like “guy gets punched!” or “someone makes annoying food!”. Relationship advice: “get divorced!!”.
    City subs seem about the same as before. Medical subs I used to read seem about the same and holy shit, am I glad I’m not reading those every day. Same questions and memes that have been rotating through for like 5 years, and the confounding pattern where the community consensus on issues changes from week to week or post to post. One week it’s “this term is offensive and I hate it” and 50 people are “YEAH! That’s right!” and then the next, “don’t you know about this term, it’s perfectly valid” and 30 people are “YEAH! Use your brain if you have one broo!!”. And the questions like “does anyone else with this condition suffer from these extremely common effects that are listed in every medical article about it?” So anyway whether reddit has gotten worse or not, seems like I was ready for something different.

  • Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee
    0·
    2 years ago

    The Finnish language r/Suomi is shut down so the Finn’s have moved to the English language r/Finland, making it all confused with languages now.

  • sapetoku@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    Reddit has made it easy now that my mobile apps are gone. Also, my main account got permananned on Tuesday apparently out of comment posted 5 years ago about spez. Also, a niche sub I followed was taken over by a Nazi when the historical mod got kicked out by reddit and now that’s gone too.

    Reddit has slipped into being irrelevant very quickly.

    • jarfil@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      My main account got permabanned for “sexualization of minors” after I made a comment criticizing a guy talking about what he’d do to 4th graders. Sent an appeal… and got permabanned on ALL of my accounts for “recurring offense”.

      Maybe spez wants to turn all of Reddit into jailbait again.

      • anakaine@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Reddit: “Someone reported a theft. What do you know?”

        You: “Yes, I reported the theft. Here are the details of the perp.”

        Reddit: “When we turned up you were the only one here. You sound like you know a lot. You’re under arrest for theft.”

        • zeppo@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          That’s about the level of effort. I would wager that nobody really checks whether the admins or whatever they call their safety squad are doing a realistically good job… probably just metrics like “banned 150 people last week”.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      I got a full IP ban from reddit because I asked a guy how he kept his calm and didnt flip his shit at his clients, after he just made a big post about how his clients were complete and utter idiots who made him ahve to come back at all hours of the day to fix their stupidity for over a year.

      According to reddit, replying to a guys post with a relevant question constitutes severe harassment.

    • Uncle_Iroh@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      I wouldn’t say Reddit is irrelevant at all, not yet and maybe not for a long time. But I don’t care about Reddit at all anymore. I think that when Boost for Lemmy comes out I won’t even look back on Reddit

      • sapetoku@lemmy.caEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        What sucks is there’s still a few very good subs with big communities that don’t seem to be moving to the fediverse, which is still too geeky for a lot of people. However, now that Reddit is banning active members and moderators, it’s a matter of weeks until the whole thing turns into 4chan-on-a-bad-day. At this rate we’ll all get back to usenet by 2024.

      • CaptObvious@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I disagree. Reddit is dead in the water. They’ve driven away their most valuable volunteer content generators and workforce who made their entire product. There’s nothing left.

        It does, however, still have value. I suspect that we’re about to see what a site looks like when thousands of traditional bots and LLMs start talking to each other without human intervention.

  • Tsuki@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    I am someone who posts art somewhat regularly on Reddit, and I cansay that all of the subreddits that I posted art to has been un-private, so it’s business as usual for me

    • amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      Consider starting posting to the fediverse as well. You lose moral rights to your artworks when you post to Reddit. Many artists are already on masto, misskey, etc.