• gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world
          301·
          1 year ago

          I never knew how much I needed Star Trek memes in my life until Stamets and The Picard Maneuver graced us with their presence. Walk with the prophets, my child.

      • Shayeta@feddit.deEnglish
        192·
        1 year ago

        Still, when I’m looking for a solution for a specific problem, reddit is basically the only reliable source at the moment.

        Wish there was a quick way to search for posts across all instances using search engines.

      • MissJinx@lemmy.world
        351·
        1 year ago

        I miss some content but lemmy has been getting better and better, and after Boost for lemmy I won’t ever come back to reddit.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        20·
        1 year ago

        I did at first, but I don’t miss it at all anymore. Too many assholes at this point. It stopped being useful a long time ago. Finding old Reddit threads can be helpful sometimes, but current Reddit is a shitshow.

      • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.idEnglish
        183·
        1 year ago

        I miss the niche content. Lemmy isn’t big enough yet to have sorted into big “stupid” subs vs smaller niche subs that tend to attract smarter and more well-informed users. The result is that the signal-to-noise ratio on Lemmy still kind of sucks and any comment thread is likely to consist of three quarters banal gibberish and condescending idiocy and maybe one quarter actually intelligent, thoughtful and informed opinion.

        I rarely make a comment on Lemmy without pissing off people on all sides of any given issue, which tells me that Lemmy’s users aren’t really good at nuance or complexity.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
      381·
      1 year ago

      When looking something up, especially technical product information the best answer is still often a reddit link. That will change in the future but it will take time.

      Old.reddit is the only way yo access this information without account but i paradoxically cant wait for them to shut it down cause the quicker reddit completely dies the faster other places will become knowledge hubs.

        • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
          5·
          1 year ago

          lol. And you know they won’t be fixing their own search engine any time soon. Its like they want their site to die jfc.

      • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        Ehhh, even for that I’ve had issues, even before the API stuff. The solutions I came across either came from casual word of mouth on Discord, tutorials on GitHub or forums other than Reddit.

        • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
          51·
          1 year ago

          It never was the pinnacle of knowledge, i am not on many different forums and only in the last year have started to avoid internet search where possible but often neither google or bing have satisfying results with only a single reddit link that may have the answer.

          • PazuzuEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I’ll happily take wild speculation by actual people over the ai written seo garbage that most other results are nowadays. the former might not have the answer themselves but they often send me down the right rabbit hole to find it

    • Andrew@mander.xyz
      311·
      1 year ago

      Wait until you need to read an answer to a technical question which was only answered on Reddit. Can’t wait when such pages will be replaced with Lemmy.

      • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
        102·
        1 year ago

        I was trying to find if is safe to mix LSD with energy drinks and the only place where someone was answering that was on reddit, restricted because is 18+ somehow. Had to use the tip given from OP to see it outside the app. The general consensus (because this shit can’t be properly researched) is that caffeine in general is not recommended with LSD.

        • Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world
          181·
          1 year ago

          I wouldn’t take drug-mixing advice from some rando on reddit or lemmy or any other similar site.

          That being said, please limit yourself to one substance at a time, get some fentanyl test strips and narcan if you’re able, and always have a wingman with you. Assuming it’s possible where you live, buy your drugs from a regulated dispensary or at least a source you know and trust (whose source they trust).

          Have fun, but stay safe. The times they are a changing…even weed has dangerous shit mixed in nowadays.

          That’s my drug advice from a rando on a lemmy.

          • smolyeet@lemmy.world
            5·
            1 year ago

            I mean , you can’t exactly go ask a doctor how to use lsd. Sometimes you just want to read up on something based on someone else’s personal experience. The website might be doing some dumb shit lately but it’s hard to replace the vast number of people who have answered exact questions you’re looking for. Lemmy just doesn’t have the 10+ year head start

            • Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world
              11·
              1 year ago

              You can totally ask a good doctor that. They’ll likely say something along the lines of “don’t do drugs…but if you’re still gonna do this…”

              • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
                3·
                1 year ago

                Problem is, many otherwise good doctors are not very knowledgeable about illicit drugs, particularly those that are comparatively rare/aren’t a public health crisis (LSD, while popular, is kinda niche compared to meth and opioids).

                A big chunk of the time you’re just going to get “Don’t use drugs”, simply because they don’t have much else to say about it, and don’t want you taking risks based on something they’ve said. Doesn’t mean don’t ask*, but know you may not get useful harm reduction information from Dr. F. Practitioner.

                *That said there IS a risk that such a question can paint you as a potential drug seeker, and so create barriers to care if someone decides to add that to your chart when you were just trying to minimize risk.

    • XEAL@lemm.ee
      282·
      1 year ago

      There are some communities that just don’t exist on Lemmy.

    • hh93@lemm.ee
      261·
      1 year ago

      Sadly some of the more specific subs didn’t migrate to Lemmy :/

    • SolarNialamide@lemm.ee
      7·
      1 year ago

      Same. I was wasting way too much time there anyway. The only thing I still use it for is discussions for TV shows.

    • rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      1 year ago

      I don’t actively use it either, but sometimes you’re trying to fix some esoteric error that no one has experienced since the existence of the Western Roman Empire and the only place where a solution exists is Reddit. In those cases I kinda have to visit that wretched hive.

      • remotelove@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 year ago

        Same. However, I have rarely been able to solve a technical problem with Reddit posts or comments. It’s a better source for random experiences about something.

        For random technical problems with new software or hardware, Reddit quality is not as good as it used to be, IMHO.

        For somewhat niche hobbies, like my mushroom growing, subjective experiences may be helpful to take into account. Reading dozens of different opinions about a problem in a hobby that has hundreds of different variables has its uses. (For example, if you want to test something specific, you can get an idea about the range of conditions to test.)

        • Justfollowingorders1@lemmy.ml
          51·
          1 year ago

          I used to work in the waste sector - been to a lot of dumps. Let me tell ya, public sector dumps were literal dumpster fires compared to their private counter parts. Inefficient. Years behind in technology. Weighted down by nepotism and typical government employees.

          It was such a relief when I knew I was assigned to a private sector dump where things just fucking worked because people just let it work.

      • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
        461·
        1 year ago

        It isn’t about being better trash, it’s about who controls the dump. I want to be able to view all trash in the way I choose. Not certain piles of trash that I’m forced view in a way that I can’t choose on my own.

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
        615·
        1 year ago

        I haven’t been back to Reddit in months, and maybe Reddit’s gotten worse since then, but Lemmy’s far worse than Reddit was when I left it. I stay here because I like the idea of the Fediverse, but this community is absolute garbage.

  • Bloody Harry@feddit.de
    1444·
    1 year ago

    there’s a typo in your meme, op. The URL is supposed to look something like that

     https://lemmy.ml/...
    • hkerr159@lemm.ee
      4·
      1 year ago

      At least we know this situation will never occur in Lemmy because everyone would just jump to another instance - the joy of decentralised media.

  • squiblet@kbin.social
    85·
    1 year ago

    Same. Their reasoning and the warning in general make no sense. Why would it be safer to view “unreviewed content” (wetf that means) in their app vs a browser?

      • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website
        43·
        1 year ago

        I despise whoever made new Reddit. You can only view comment chains two levels deep in new Reddit, then replies at one level, which means you need to constantly keep loading a new page and ads to see each reply in a thread.

        Who the hell thought of that? It’s a horrible UX.

        • TheFriar@lemm.ee
          22·
          1 year ago

          Lol that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. But I can tell you who thought of it, easily. The people optimizing the ad revenue. UX isn’t their focus, but boosting profits is.

          • gnutrino@programming.devEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            Is it going to boost profits though? This sort of thing is always presented as an easy way to boost ad revenue but when you’re selling ads at the volume reddit is I would have thought click-through rate would be king and it’s going to decimate that.

            • TheFriar@lemm.ee
              2·
              1 year ago

              I’m sure if there’s one thing they’ve really gotten the hang of, it’s optimizing advertising profits. They explicitly said they’re killing third party apps because they want to sell user data. (In so many words). I can’t imagine they hadn’t thought of what makes them money. I imagine, actually, it’s what 95% OF their focus has gone toward recently.

        • kubica@kbin.social
          8·
          1 year ago

          I remember the redesign feedback subreddit. Any small suggestion was attacked by dozens of bootlickers. And here we are now.

    • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
      32·
      1 year ago

      I stopped using reddit on mobile after the api debacle. Once old reddit is done, I won’t be visiting on my desktop either. The redesign is and always has been trash.

      • SuperDuper@lemmy.world
        12·
        1 year ago

        old.reddit is just the official website with the old layout from before they redesigned their front end ui. It’s part of Reddit’s official website that they kept around because so many people hate the redesign, it’s not a 3rd party and therefore not affected by any pricing policies.

    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.orgEnglish
      92·
      1 year ago

      Oh, damn…

      Rare for me to use, but sucks option is being removed.

      I know embedded is an option, and other front ends.

      What do y’all use in the rare chance you see a reddit source?

      • TheFriar@lemm.ee
        6·
        1 year ago

        Are you guys only rarely seeing Reddit sources on lemmy? With these shitty lemmit bots inundating this site with literally just links to Reddit without even any preview, I’m seeing almost exclusively Reddit links. It’s honestly make me rethink using lemmy recently.

        • SheDiceToday@eslemmy.es
          12·
          1 year ago

          Those bots are worth blocking. There never appears to be any discussion on the posts, so you won’t miss anything.

          • TheFriar@lemm.ee
            2·
            1 year ago

            Honestly, there are a few communities that rely on it—the more meme/picture-centric and the advice-centric ones—that I don’t want to completely block out. So I’ve been going and blocking the communities that flood my feed with minutes-old Reddit posts that don’t even offer the text to read or a picture to look at. I will say as well, I don’t know what causes one to include text but not the other, but I do also enjoy reading some of those insane stories posted on some subreddit I never subscribed to like relationship advice or drugs stories or something. There’s some wild shit. I don’t need the conversation in the comments to enjoy the batshit story

        • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.orgEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Yes, that is becoming the norm, similar to websites that want adblock removed or signin popups.

          Aside from lemmy what do you use for info. and other?

    • Wooki@lemmy.world
      31·
      1 year ago

      What’s sad about it? Reddit is garbage. Get off it and stop using it.

    • gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 year ago

      The day they kill old reddit will be the end of reddit itself. A lot of moderators depend on the older interface (along with RES) to manage their communities. Imagine trying to mod with reddit’s current interface.

      • iamkindasomeone@feddit.de
        51·
        1 year ago

        Well they already did that when shutting down the API. And yet they try to keep that thing alive in most subs.

    • Wooki@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Why is it not the end already? Drop it, move on, you will be better off for you might even realise how much of a problem you have

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
    24·
    1 year ago

    A big part of getting you to use their app is to data mine EVERYTHING about you. Unlike a web browser with an ad-blocker, an app can collect your location, location history, your call logs, your contact list and serve up unlockable ads.