for the Reddit refugees, do you also feel a bit heartbroken?
for the Reddit refugees, do you also feel a bit heartbroken?
For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.
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I'm not 100% hating reddit right now, though I do hate them a lot. So not deleting my >10yo account or anything....but I do recognize that this is near the end.
The default app is garbage. I'm someone who likes my feed and interaction set up EXACTLY to my liking. So losing any customization, etc is just going to make me like it less, use it less, etc.
But I know that eventually, once they have control over how you interact with Reddit, it will only be a matter of time until it looks like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: ad-filled, "suggested content" GARBAGE. I honestly can't use any of those sites/apps anymore they're such cluttered wastelands, I don't know how people stand it.
So I guess less heartbroken, and more like dread as I know the enshittification of reddit is just getting started...
I hope I'm wrong, but there is a running theory around here that they're cashing out on the expensive business of running a social media site to take the data they have to language model developers. This seems likely to me.
If this is true, Reddit is dead. The users just haven't realized it yet
I seriously doubt that particular conspiracy theory is true. I doubt they would make such a big pivot right before IPO
Oh, it's already like that - they shove posts from popular subs (that I don't sub to for a reason) straight into your feed, and if they have nothing relevant they turn new sub suggestions into alerts and posts from a random sub of yours as notifications.
I like my 3rd party apps, but I don't hate the official app enough to quit.
I do hate when my apps wear down my mental health though, so here I am. Hell, I'm considering taking a swing at a 3rd party Lemmy app myself...
Hell, I’m considering taking a swing at a 3rd party Lemmy app myself…
Do it!
Maybe I will! Maybe I spent the last few hours learning new tech and digging through source code to the websockets to play nice so I could make it totally platform agnostic! Maybe I named it flemmy and am on course to overtake jerboa in features with another few days of focus!
You always say you're proud but never believe in me dad!