Why the fuck are they using a 3D voxel banana as a hat for Snoo?
And why does Snoo look AI generated?
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reddit recap logo. and because for some reason they want to do the exact opposite of what every other company does with their logos. (I'm a lemmy and reddit dual user)
I haven't looked at the front page of Reddit since the exodus. I have used it to deshittify Google search results but that's it. I imagine it's absolute garbage by now.
Same. Unfortunately I still need to visit smaller subreddits to get answers on niche topics, but that's my only use for it now. In and out; 10 minute adventure. Not spending all day on the front page like I used to. Any more time than that on the website, and I'll just end up getting into an argument with some Gen Alpha idiot who feels the need to butt in and say something ignorant. 10-15 years ago you'd only see that kind of behavior during summer break. Now /r/SummerReddit is all of reddit.
I hope that one day I can finally abandon that shithole for good.
Even the smaller subreddits on niche topics seem to be dying. I suppose the lost good will (and loss of third party mod tools, or course) caused many of the superusers to leave.
A number of the technical subreddits made their own forums on discourse, and the subreddits are either closed or in a zombie state.
Their reputation and their front page are both in the trash. It's not a fun website to be on anymore.
Holy fuck, you're right. They are all adults ish now. U nailed it with the /r/summerreddit take
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I wish someone would patch sync for reddit
I know about sync for Lemmy, just wondering if anyone figured out how to reuse the old app
Sync for Lemmy is amazing.
It's been patched for ages. I've certainly been using it daily since around August or September of 2023 including all day today.
Revanced is your friend
I've been using it since the purge just fine. Revanced. Just make sure to get the 2nd last sync version, as the latest one has a nag that you can't disable.
I don't really understand why reddit pretty much succeeded in killing off all other forums. People love the format of reddit so much that even after killing off all the supporting apps it hasn't really done much at all to cause people to go back to traditional forums. I've personally always found reddit far worse than a traditional forum because of the like system. This place has it as well, although I'm not sure how it compares to reddit's in terms of algorithm.
Traditional forums did not have it. You just saw posts sequentially. There was also no character limit. This meant on traditional forums everyone's position was not only presented equally but you could also go into as much detail as you wanted. If the topic is complex you could write basically an essay if you wanted, which in reddit you have to break up into multiple posts. Reddit's like system also tends to facilitate echo chambers because popular opinions show up first while unpopular opinions show up last and can even be hidden, and it encourages people to misrepresent you and not act in good faith because they're looking for an "own" to farm likes rather than a real discussion.
Sure, there might be sometimes when a person's opinion is so out there and disingenuous you don't even want to take it seriously and have a real discussion, but I've never once in my entire history of using reddit had a decent conversation with someone. Even things as benign as like /r/nintendo, I say I enjoyed a game and I got a bunch of people shitting on me calling me a bad person for liking a particular game. No matter how benign and non-serious the topic is, people always find ways to turn it into an attack to "own" you to farm upvotes.
This meant on traditional forums everyone's position was not only presented equally
No, the earlier web forums based on phpbb or vbulletin or whatever prioritized the most recent posts. That means that plenty of good content was drowned out by fast moving threads, and threads were sorted by most recent activity, which would allow some threads to fall off quickly unless "bumped."
It was inherently limited in scale. The votes made such a difference for the forums that implemented it (slashdot, hacker news, eventually reddit) that it could make the more popular stuff more visible, rather than the most recent stuff more visible. And whatever the local site culture was could prioritize the characteristics that were popular in that particular place. That's why tech support almost entirely switched to reddit or similar places, because the helpfulness of a comment was generally what drove its popularity.
And the biggest problem with the older forums was that they didn't allow for threading. Any particular comment can spawn its own discussion without taking the rest of the thread off on that tangent.
I agree with your point about the vote system. The single change Lemmy made that I think makes it much healthier is that you have no profile total up or down votes. There is no reason to chase imaginary internet points, while giving the court of public opinion the tools to tell you your wrong.
For example, Youtube became a much more unreliable place when it removed the dislike button. So much so that third party plugins now are what people have to use to decide, at a glance, if something is worthy of other peoples time.
The subreddits like sewing were pretty fab.
I recently received a reddit warning (and was threatened with a ban if it repeated) for "language" in a private message that was not reported. The message said AI identified it and a human reviewed it. The message was not reported to them.
Which I guess I knew could happen but you typically don't assume mods are reading PMs. Anywho I haven't been back but still need to delete my shit.
sewing is pretty fab eh?
If a forum gets too popular finding all the posts you like in sequential order like that gets hard. I remember during the height of Wil Wheaton's forum days in '04-'05 or my Fark days of '08-'13 I had a hard time keeping up with it due to the limitations of the platform. If it could give me them ranked based on interactions I could find the ones that most of my friends were posting in, and then make sure to participate. Instead I had to go to every new thread just to see if there was something interesting posted.
tbh forums are annoying af. Perhaps I'm too used to modern day intuitive UI but they all seem to assume you know your way around. Btw if you want that 'community' feeling join a discord server. They're great! I've been particularly interested in a twitch streamer/YouTuber "dougdoug"s server for about a year but it gets a tad too fast sometimes haha
My gosh that Reddit app icon is horrible. It looks like a terrible meme NFT or something. ...Which was probably the aesthetic they were going for, to be clear.
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rif gang
Now: RedditIsFucked
Relay for Reddit will always be my favorite. It had a nice tablet mode and the "swipe to do everything" interface was nice.
I have yet to find a decent replacement for it. Voyager is alright but I swear that it was designed to maximize unintentional button presses. It's so easy to accidentally go to the community or the user's profile when I just wanted to click on the post. And I can't even count the number of times I accidentally collapsed a comment when I was trying to edit or upvote it instead. This is why the swiping interface was so nice. Made it almost impossible to unintentionally do the wrong action.
I miss Relay so much, but unfortunately the developer decided to play by Reddit's rules and start charging people to use the app. So it's never coming to Lemmy.
Oh God yes, I feel you on the Miss-clicks
Oh let's look at the comments, downvote, ohh shit I need to, collapse, fuuuuck, uncollapse, inadvertently scrolls up now that it expanded, Hunt down the exact right one, swipe to upvote, miss, back to zero, sigh, carefully swipe over to upvote, tap for comments, end up in user's profile....... It's not really an app that you can surf until you've had your coffee.
Have you tried Thunder? I've been using it since I finally got around to moving over here (admittedly not very long) and I've found that Thunder gets a lot right. It's open source, ad-free, cross-platform, and nice to use. It doesn't have quite as much polish as Relay but the design language is similar enough that it doesn't feel like a huge departure.
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reddit was not great after like 2015. It just completely shit the bed in 2023
It really broke my heart. I loved Reddit, I was on it on RiF one my phone when I didn't use my computer. It was great for finding all sorts of new stuff and it was genuinely fun. I'd had a few accounts for like a decade or something, but when they killed the alternate programs I just left and never looked back.
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For me it's not the app ecosystem. Reddit used to feel like it was a platform run by its community now its very company run and controlled.
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