People getting sick and tide of Reddit. TBH I’m still salty over them killing 3rd party apps and I’m so glad they did because that drew the line for me, also fuck spez.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 74 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 24 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 15 points 16 hours ago

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();
}

[–] thal3s@sh.itjust.works 7 points 15 hours ago

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.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Wait first I'm hearing of this one. What happened now?

[–] biscuit@lemdro.id 8 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 44 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] GreatDong3000@lemm.ee 17 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 9 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Is Boost dead though? I love it too, but it hasn't updated in a while

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

God I really hope its not dead. I know everyone suggests voyager but I don't like the gestures and it feels slower than just having buttons.

[–] PunkiBas@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

You can have gestures disabled on voyager and just use the buttons

[–] leapsy@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I'm using Thunder and really enjoying it

[–] CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago

Ill check it out. Thank you.

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] USSMojave@startrek.website 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] USSMojave@startrek.website 1 points 8 hours ago

Ah, no it does not do that

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 1 points 5 hours ago

Not that I can see

[–] drewski@lemmy.zip 3 points 13 hours ago

Mine stopped working completely this week. It then linked to boost for lemmy. Now I'm here.

[–] Idontevenknowanymore@mander.xyz 3 points 20 hours ago

Boost gang!

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 15 hours ago

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.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Use Reddit Enhancement Suite. You'll thank me later.

makes red it much more usable and easy on the eyes.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] Zidane@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago

I'm more oxi clean of reddit myself