With Reddit finally making money, the Reddit of yesteryear isn’t coming back.
  • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
    33·
    2 months ago

    Yep, not an unexpected outcome. Enshittification usually has a direct correlation with profitability; most people simply love being the product, because the alternative takes a little effort.

    Reddit is still hot garbage, though, and that fact is only growing worse according to my friend group that still goes there on occasion. I much prefer Fedi.

  • Gingerlegs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    I was A member for well over 11 years. I handed off subreddits, deleted all my content, then deleted my account.

    Never been back other than when it pops up to a very specific question I have. Even then, if I can find the answer somewhere else I will.

  • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    How much of the traffic increase is bots. Because we still don’t have those numbers and I still don’t believe this is anything but bot influx and reddit grifting using ads.

  • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    2 months ago

    I have no clue how people use reddit anymore. If I open the app I am greeted with an unrecognisable mess of stuff I never asked for. Sorting is fucked, my frontpage contains stuff I don’t care for and everything seems to be yelling at me for attention causing me to close the app again.

    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      I remember trying to convince a book sub that “two weeks” is not enough time to stop putting everything behind a spoiler tag/spoiler free titles.

      Their argument “don’t come here and you won’t be spoiled”

      Meanwhile, Reddit is like hey you want to read this random post from a sub you unsubscribed from last month when the new book came out? its called “thoughts on Wally-Woo’s death”

    • itsJoelle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      For me it’s the constant suggestions of other communities and posts on my feed of joined subs.

      Next thing I knew my feed was slowly filling up with rage bait, which I never had a problem with a third party app, and I’d close the app angrier and outraged than when I started.

      It’s nicer here, lol.

    • pycorax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      There’s still third party apps on Android that still work once you patch in your own API key and on the web, old reddit still works.

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Reddit was never “mainstream social media”. Annecdotally, I have heard more people referring to Reddit in casual conversation so maybe it is becoming more widely accepted.

    If that’s true, then I still have no regrets about leaving. If I wanted to look at a news feed full of hot garbage I would have stayed on Facebook.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    No, it’s not. They are just making money by selling it to anyone who will buy. Any alternative that doesn’t do that will immediately take all their traffic.

  • oni@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I thinks it’s because youtube, you know? Some guy with AI ‘write’ something, post it, and then another guy, with AI, takes that text and make a video with an AI voice.

  • moseschrute@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    For me, there are just a few communities that are missing (or too inactive) here. For example, r/homekit. That being said, I haven’t made much of an effort to post, so I’m part of the problem.