The final nail in Reddit's coffin dropped today:

SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world – 736 points –

Dear User,

We will soon begin rolling out changes to Reddit's User settings. It is getting a refresh that includes changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings.

As part of these changes, we are retiring a setting that you have previously turned on that limited how we used your activity from the Reddit platform to personalize ads. We have replaced the setting with a new option to select categories of ads that you may not wish to see.

More details are available in our announcement and help center.

These changes are rolling out starting today and you may see the changes over the next few days.

Users will be tracked with no opt out. Posts may be monetized, which will make content even worse No refund or any type of usable credit for users that spent hundreds on Reddit coins The entire vibe has done a 180° since all these new "positive changes" are rolled out.

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I’m not spending much time on Reddit these days but in no way is this the end for Reddit. The VAST majority of the user base just doesn’t care. We may see more users trickling in and Lemmy is sure more ready now than ever but people are so used to being advertised to, that this won’t be a big issue long term. People are dumb.

Idk man, literally asked a bunch (3) of friends how reddit is lately who had no idea what was going on this summer with the API changes and didn't care when I told them. Here are there responses:

"They've gotten really bad at putting relevant shit in front of me"

"Been a ton more ads lately"

And

"dude thank you for telling me reddit had porn lol"

“dude thank you for telling me reddit had porn lol”

There's what now?!

I always wondered if there were people oblivious to porn on reddit. It always seemed like common knowledge those days.

It's not the usual manufactured porn by companies, it's usually people showcasing a video of themselves.

A lot of people's approach to social media is

  • login an absolute total of times equal to one, on an app, and never again, that session better last

  • do zero content curation, what comes is what you eat

  • mostly scroll past shit, don't interact, don't produce

  • maybe click on a navigation link once or twice per month

So of course they don't know there's porn. They're basically only seeing their feed (which is a clone of /r/popular, so a bunch of clones of /r/funny and ragebait) and the default subs, which doesn't have porn by default ever since reddit removed its ability to show up on default feeds.

I meant more around "reddit is known for having porn channels" and less "reddit pushes porn in your default feeds".

You're right though, the casual dead-minded scroller wouldn't know about it.

It used to be moreso, but before i left reddit it turned into people spamming promoting their onlyfans accounts, some subs felt like scrolling through a gallery of ads.

The amount of porn on reddit is astonishing.

Just go to r/randnsfw a few times.

The hope is that the non-dumb people will leave for here, and that they're the ones who make quality content.

Reddit users will be reposting Lemmy content for real money gold by 2025. Fucking spez...

One thing I hadn't thought much about until recently-- the quality of comments is so much higher here, and I don't have to typically scroll through a wasteland of dudebro jokes to get to relevant replies.

So, comments are also 'content,' and from what I'm seeing, Lemmy already has a distinctly smarter / more mature userbase.

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This is for sure the final nail, it's going to collapse just like Facebook and Google did after all that ad stuff. Profiting off a user data is clearly a failed business model and we see that time and time again.

That infographic with the most profitable companies in the world…both of them are still on it. And Reddit wants to be.

The weird thing about the internet is it's hard to make money. Information is free in.both senses of the term

Yeah no one who's still there cares at all.

2016: All I need, to have hope for the future, is a large majority of people willing to slightly inconvenience themselves to produce positive changes.

2023: Human intelligence has peaked, idiocracy is here, I for one welcome our AI overlords, earthonfire.jxl, etc.

I'm sure they care at least a little bit but not enough to move on

I completely agree with this!

Also, it's an unfortunate rule of thumb that, when you see a sensationalized headline, most likely it won't have the effect it claims to have...

Well, let's hope there's a steady migration to Lemmy (though numbers are small here)

Edit: added last line

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you underestimate people's complacency and inertia, in no way this is end of reddit

Yeah, people think tracking you for ads will dissuade anyone? Like, Instagram has a content to ad ratio of 33%, and people give zero fucks.

I don't think people will ever leave, and I don't think we should want them to leave either. We can build better, smaller platforms much more easily than we can't fix the world's attitude and consumption trends towards the large ones.

I mean, having some users isn't the same as having a ton of users using the product for hours a day. They can still say people are using it, but it's far from how it used to be (actually goes for Instagram and Facebook as well). There will always be people still using them, but for less time and getting less enjoyment out of it. The majority of users will not use it much at all, only out of some sense of necessity. Instagram and Facebook are literally unusable in my opinion due to ads and sponsored content, most people I know that used to spend hours on those two sites now barely use them at all, and that's the direction Reddit wants to head in.

No, this won't kill Reddit. If they can essentially remove every third-party app, they'll easily be able to start selling user data. Whether we like it or not, the majority stayed on Reddit.

Nothing short of somehow breaking through ad blockers like Twitch did will make people stop using it, even if that.

Whether we like it or not, the majority stayed on Reddit.

The fight may not be over though.

Where people didn't really care about an API change for third party apps, they may care a lot more about having ads shoved in their faces whether they like it or not.

It's all about breakings their inertia to change.

People en mass make "economic" decisions. If they view an alternative such as lemmy as too difficult to use, or their communities are not here they will rather tolerate the ads. Learning to use a new app or having to start the community themselves is too much effort for most people.

If there are still Facebook and Twitter users, of which we know there are, nothing will kill Reddit.

However, I'll say I'm someone not good at change but am agoraphobic, so my only "connection" was Reddit, and I finally gave in and deleted for good.

Still getting used to this platform, but hopefully can find less toxic users here. Social media seems to be made special for bullies.

It's a pretty great place. Glad you're here.

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This would've resulted in my leaving if I hadn't left in June.

Saved me 3.5 months.

the announcement was finally the one that made me leave. better late than never i guess!

Right? I hope more and more people leave. It’d be great if more users came to lemmy, but I’d be content just seeing people leave that putrid site

I might just start visiting forums for relevant information again. Lemmy seems to be pretty decent for now. Reddit really has gone downhill.

I'm new here. I left Reddit yesterday. No looking back.

SAME. Relay for reddonk stopped working, needed updating, and came back with an unavoidable subscription model suggesting i should pay 5.99/mo to continue "enjoying" reddit at my pace. Some people probably would, "oh, what's that one banana a month"? I don't sign in, thus I don't post, comment, vote, reward. This is just me being charged to lurk on a website that forked in ungodly amounts of profit over a reward system they trash canned. Reasonably so because they didn't really reward the user as much as it was just micropaymemts to reddit, and people were noticing. Instead we are "rewarding all 3rd party users by letting them pay to use our content".

Mind you this is on top of reddit recent announcing that they will no longer give you the option to not be tracked, instead replacing it with "tires of ads you can opt out from"

SMH

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If you wanna keep your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) that you're subscribed to before deleting your Reddit account, I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.

It's called Reddit Account Manager, and it's 100% free.

You can also use it to manage your Lemmy account(s), of course.

Thanks for such an awesome trip!

Users can also use Redact to delete their data, and then delete their reddit account

https://old.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku/comments/14frr4u/reddit_seppuku_how_to/

Yep, the ideal workflow for migrating would be something like this:

  1. Use Reddit Account Manager to neatly organize and store your Reddit accounts, bookmarks, and subscriptions
  2. Request your data archive from Reddit itself
  3. Use something like Redact or Power Delete Suite to remove your content from Reddit
  4. Permanently delete your accounts from Reddit
  5. Move to a federated alternative (optional)

how do I get it without giving away my email address to some random website?

You should be using an email forwarding/alias service such as SimpleLogin, or apples proprietary hide my email service for example. You can have an infinite amount of alias emails that all forward to your main, and have 100% control over.

The other option is older school, just make another account somewhere. You can also create automated rules to just forward all emails from their to your main too.

sure, but people could also host their freeware in a way that doesn't require me to do any of those.

I agree, but your question wasn't phrased that way :p

*sigh* because sometimes instead of telling someone "it sucks that in order to get that one piece of software from your website you make me create an account despite me never going to visit it again", you can phrase it a bit more politely and hope that they, you know, figure out the intent behind the question rather than take it so incredibly literally.

I'd open source it if I could, but since Reddit Account Manager is built without code, I can't host it on GitLab or GitHub.

You could use a service like SimpleLogin, Addy, Duck, or just a temporary fake email generator. I don't mind if you give me a fake email address—you have a right to privacy.

If it helps, my website's hiram.io. I realize that's still "random" in the grand scheme of things, but it should at least show you I'm a real person, and I build stuff to build a better web.

Can I use this with Android?

Your question's a little nuanced, so let me try to answer this as thoroughly as possible:

The short answer is: If the platform you choose to use it is accessible from your Android phone, then yes. But it's not Android- or iOS-specific.

Out of the platforms that it's available on (Airtable, Notion, Coda, ClickUp, and Baserow), all of them except for Baserow have native mobile apps. With that said, Baserow is also mobile responsive, so you don't need a native mobile app to work with Reddit Account Manager.

  • Reddit Account Manager is a template built on top of those tools (Airtable, Notion, Coda, ClickUp, and Baserow), so you'll need an account with at least one of those to use it.
  • Reddit Account Manager is built without code.

Hope that clears things up. :)

Uhh yeah that didn't clear things up.

I don't have a computer and I want all my Reddit content deleted without having to do manual labor for the next several months.

This is just the continuation of the instagrammification if reddit. They want to turn it into a influencer platform where people are desperately trying to make money so that they can take a big cut of it.

People aren't going to leave reddit all at once right away, because structure means that individual subreddits are very much isolated from one another in terms of users.

However, it's likely that we will be seeing some kind of cultural shift happening there as quality get worse. I feel it's inevitable that there will be more low effort content pumped out as quickly as possible than ever before now there is an actual monetary incentive instead of imaginary Internet points, and all personalized feed and ad is going to do is isolate individual users in their individual bubble and not allowing human connections to form between them.

Things are getting better here. The regulars recongnize each other's name and personalitu, whereas on reddit all the usernames all blends together into an amorphous mass unless it's one of those novelty accounts or e-celeb or something. That's the key difference between Lemmy and reddit right now.

Couldn't agree more. Those novelty e-celeb accounts on Reddit are getting really put of hand, aren't they, Margot Robbie

Academy award-nominated actress Margot Robbie does actually spend most of her free time modding an android group on Lemmy - but you will never see that mentioned on mainstream social media.

Seriously, it really doesn't take that much time at all, way easier than I thought it would be.

Any advice you'd like to give that would make somebody starting modding a lot easier, would be appreciated.

Don't micromanage, I just let people do whatever they want but encourage them to do their best, and only remove/ban for people who absolutely won't listen to reason.

You should also get involved with your comm by talking to people there a lot, so they don't think you are just some asshole who's only there to ban.

Oh absolutely, especially those celebrities who comes in, promote their latest project, say some catchphrases, and leave. Why would they do such a thing?

Also, that's Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!

Reddit's not going anywhere until they ban porn and the hobby communities jump somewhere else.

Just wait for old.reddit being removed, there will be another wave of new Lemmy users.

I still have my account and check like once every couple weeks for 2-3 communities.

On PC, old.reddit, and no chance of getting a single ad in my face. I’m not technical enough to know if they’re getting other data from my bimonthly visits, but that’s a far cry less than my old every night visits.

As soon as they get rid of old.reddit it won’t even be reddit to me anymore. Just an ugly new thing overwriting the site I once enjoyed.

yea, if I hadn't been permabanned that would have done it for me but there's still enough people on there that don't even know old.reddit is a thing for that to really kill the site. I have a feeling a lot of people are willing to just put up with their shit for the sake of not really having anywhere else to go. Unfortunately at the moment unless you want to talk about politics or Linux the pool of content on Lemmy is pretty dry and I don't know of any better options besides going back to independent forums.

As a mod on reddit (who only reacts to pings these days) I would like to post an undramatic message „here‘s what happened, if you‘re interested to join our lemmy mirror, here‘s the link.“

Anyone got something I could use which will not set off reddit stans or get me replaced and the message deleted?

I found that the best approach is to just have the link in the sidebar. This was how several communities first started introducing discords when it was basically an unknown piece of software. It became normalized without anyone noticing when.

Thats what I did already. I might just leave it at that then. Thanks for the suggestion though. :)

We all know they're still not going to leave. Also lol those people buying Reddit coins can get fucked.

I deleted my reddit accounts and signed up to lemm.ee today b/c of the advert policy change.

Noice. I still use Reddit on desktop occasionally, but haven’t touched mobile since the api change.

Looking at Twitter/X, this won't be the final nail. People stick to the platforms they're on as long as it doesn't directly Negative impacts them too much.

The difference, I think, which may make it easier to switch is that, on Twitter, you follow specific people. On Reddit, you only subscribe to specific communities, many of which have already been replicated in some way on Lemmy. You can't replicate people, though. Yet.

I think you forgot that Mastodon exists. Either that or you simply refuse to mention it because it's so desolate in there.

No, I didn't forget it. It's just that the "specific people" haven't moved over to Mastodon, so people who follow those specific people haven't moved over.

The "specific communities" (or at least the large ones) have moved over or been copied to Lemmy, so it's easier for people who subscribe to those communities to move over.

Relay also stopped working for me today, so here I am for good now, at least on mobile.

I hope reddit sinks to the bottom because of their greed.

I love Relay but I just cannot pay because that supports Reddit. I love Reddit but not the people on top. I hope it sinks.

You could always try patching the app. I did that with infinity and it works perfectly now.

How do you go about that?

In any case, even the paid version Relay Pro includes trackers, so while I miss the UI I'm not too upset that it's gone.

Yep same for me. I've moved to Red Reader, it's crap for the UI but at least it will continue to work for the foreseeable.

For now I'm not gonna move to anything else for Reddit. I'll use Sync for Lemmy as my daily driver, and I'll see how it goes.

It sucked going from Boost to the official Reddit app and this I don't really care about but what got me to come here today was my feeds in the official Reddit app have been stale for the last several days and it's seems to have forgot what subreddits my account is in. I can go to a subreddit I'm subscribed to and see fresh posts but all the built in views Home/Popular/News... All have content I saw hours ago or yesterday.. Why do I want to use an app that shows me old posts and makes me hunt down new ones of interest?

I'm posting this comment from "Boost for Lemmy" to make me feel that I'm still on Reddit lmao

Same! That's what I'm using! I had Boost for Lemmy set to pre download or whatever and this morning when looking for my Reddit fix and being dissatisfied with Reddit I was like.. Wait a minute, what happened to Boost for Lemmy? I wanted to check that out sometime and started using it lol

Why would you go to the official reddit app? I continued using Relay until it stopped working yesterday, but Stealth and Red Reader still work just fine and are FOSS. Red Reader was given dispensation for being a disability app IIRC.

Boost for Reddit is what I'm use to so my plan was to jump ship when the Boost for Lemmy app came out but the download tried to happen when I wasn't on WiFi and I forgot to install it. With my recent feed issues I remember I was planning to jump ship

I jumped from boost for Reddit to sync for Lemmy. No regrets loving it.

Edit: just realised boost for lemmy is available now too

It's only just begun. That's what they said about Xitter ages ago as well, but if it can get worse it absolutely fucking will

Just deleted my account

On my to do list for today. Did you submit a formal CCPA delete request? Or just log in and delete?

I just logged in and deleted. I'm not even sure if CCPA has relevance for me as European.

It technically doesn't apply to you, but it totally does. They don't have any way to validate who you are or where you're from. So CCPA gave everyone the protection. Just ask and they have to delete the data.

About to go do the same, I still can't believe how hard they fell.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

It just reminded me to as well, I was reluctant after 13 years but they can fuck off!

I just deleted my reddit account and signed up here as well. Fortunately, I don't know anyone else who still has an account. Most of my friends and family left a long time ago.

The new update is horrible. They are blocking critical comments and gaslighting users too.

Sadly it's not even close to the final nail. The largest reason being there isn't anything to take its place. While I love Lemmy, there are still too many hurdles and roadblocks to getting started compared to other social media platforms and all of those established ones are doing similar moves to Reddit's nonsense. But just like why Mastodon hasn't topple Twitter is that the ease of use and user base isn't there.

Until someone can offer the same(ish) experience that almost fully featured and super easy to get start. Most users won't break their habits. They only other way is to offer something that is better than the other platforms (since this can be wildly subjective) again ease of use and standardized features are incredibly important.

Will Twitter, Reddit and Facebook go the way of MySpace? I'm sure at some point. But only until something can truly replace or pull users.

the community quality on Lemmy also just isn’t there yet. there are some good niche communities, but a lot of “staples” are either just not active enough or are poorly moderated.

for example, there still isn’t a good alternative to /r/Games. lemmy.world has /c/games, but their rules aren’t nearly as strict as the former, and it has lead to very poor discussion quality in comparison. All the top comments on the Starfield impressions thread a few weeks ago were low-effort, karma-whoring, single sentences complaining about pre-orders rather than actually discussing the game itself.

!games@sh.itjust.works is pretty solid

I'd honestly say the confusion between what communities are worth subscribing to is one of the worst blocks for me. Sure, /c/ exists, but what server should I go to? What communities are there? What ones are actually active? It's not as easy as reddit was, and if it's annoyed me then it's definitely stopped another 10 people from bothering with lemmy :/ Edit: also, ty for the suggestion

https://lemmyverse.net/communities is a good way to find communities.

The main indicator is the number of monthly users and how new the content is.

This can be a bit tricky, but it used to be the same on Reddit when there was Gaming, Games, VideoGames and all the variants. Over time, one community emerged as the one

I use boost for lemmy which was made by the same guy who made it for reddit. It looks and acts pretty much the same.

I honestly think a small part of Mastodon's problem is the name, for a while I would just think of the metal band or the fossil record. I feel like at least for me there is a subconscious effect that names and branding have that can be hard to notice.

Lemmy makes me think of the Scottish comedian, and also good ol' lemmiwinks

🎵A brave adventure is waiting for ahead...

Carry onward Lemmywinks or you will soon be dead! 🎶

All I hear is the black power ranger transformation from the original series.

I don’t think this will move the needle at all

Reddit mods had a chance to migrate but decided to sit and wait thinking they could change Reddit

It's not about the needle, it's about how Reddit acts during its death throes.

Reddit can't make money unless they monetize every user in every way possible, including selling their personal data if they have it. The API garbage was an attempt to monetize users in ways even their own app doesn't, and also an admission that advertising isn't paying the bills, or they would have just started advertising through the API.

So now we're seeing how Reddit behaves once they realize that charging for API access doesn't work. They will sell everyone and everything until they shut down.

Reddit mods

I know tons of mods that left reddit and are on lemmy instances now. Had a chance to migrate? what does that even fucking mean, we can't bring subreddits over. we can't hold a gun to the subreddit population and say "goto lemmy now" and most of us were locked out by reddit for shuttering our subreddits anyway, and replaced with scabs.

Explain yourself for this shit take.

When the big subs had their vacations they had to put their lemmy instance (or other place of migration) on the page

most of us were locked out by reddit for shuttering our subreddits anyway, and replaced with scabs.

Hence the lost their chance

So it's mods fault reddit went all musk? get fucked

It’s the fault of mods who tried shutting down subs instead of moving people

Anyone with a brain would know shutting down a sub would just see them being replaced so the ones doing that were just providing scapegoat outrage to keep people on Reddit

Nah, they just don't want to lose their god given right (and status) to be volunteer mods of reddits.

wow, it really is just slow erosion of our rights, huh?

extremely disappointed that we are all fighting for our basic fucking human rights (e.g. privacy) instead of, i dunno, fighting climate change? There's little hope that we can do what we did with the ozone layer again...

The problem is you (and many others, not singling you out here) believed you had rights on a privately controled web platform.

This has never been the case.

In the past reddit said and had "terms of service" that suited their business goals at the time. In the past, those goals were: Use VC money to grow the platform as large as possible as fast as possible.

Now that Reddit is looking to go public with an IPO, those goals have changed.

The goal is now. Generate as much revenue as possible from the user-base created with the VC money.

And it's going to work simply because of people not caring and because of the difficulty of switching platforms. I myself am guilty of this, I'm still using reddit for the communities that haven't moved over to Lemmy yet, though I've reduced my usage because I refuse to install the official app for Android after they killed third party apps. Now that Boost is available for Lemmy, I'll be making the gradual switch. But I doubt the majority of users will bother doing the same.

refunds for people who spent memory on Reddit coins

Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhh all of your points are valid but if anyone ever spent money on coins, it’s all in the trash anyway

Apollo let me turn awards off and it was one of the best features. So much cleaner.

ah yes, just like how the oh so mighty mods pissed their panties with the blackouts, really killed reddit too that one huh

I mean, yeah. Have you been on reddit since the API stuff? It's absolutely flooded with bots trying to make up the difference. Which is like, reddit playbook 2009. The broken links are pretty prolific too at this point.

It's not going to like, close its doors, but it certainly isn't in the position it was just a few months ago.

I hope you're right and I'll take your word for it. I don't go to that site anymore.

no difference, why you may ask?

just look at youtube, same shit different color, it keeps getting worse but they are still the king in terms of video hsoting

Yes but the emperor has no clothes, and more and more people are realising this.

Also reddit is made up primarily by users and the posts/comments they make, YouTube is made up by paid video creators. YouTubers don't have anywhere else to go, but reddit users do and just need a critical mass somewhere else for reddit to go the way of digg.

Although it makes it harder for me, I actually quite like hitting a Google result on Reddit and seeing swaths of editted/deleted comments.

Yeah I think it's pretty clear at this point that 99% of reddit users don't care about this, which is why reddit continues to thrive while lemmy is facing lower and lower user numbers

Do you mean lower growth in numbers? Lemmy.world recently posted users for August and it grew by a healthy amount.

I'm referring to this link that showed the active monthly users for lemmy as a whole across all instances trending downward

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/4010705

The numbers of comments is growing. I would take that as the reliable engagement metric. The falling number of active users could be a sign of people settling on a main account.

Is Lemmy? I've been pretty happy over here, frequent it often once I learned of it not long ago.

I disagree. I think more ppl are leaving Reddit each day. My irl friends are bailing on it one by one.

I also feel the same, Lemmy is well..,. an echo chamber supporting Lemmy . Communties I used visit are doing just fine on reddit. But I a happy with the lower numbers and better quality of discussions

I had been using Relay for Reddit Pro until today, the API finally switched over and it doesn't work without updating and paying a subscription.

I had already been 50/50, now I can only access the terrible Reddit application on my phone, so I guess Lemmy is all I have on mobile.

One thing holding me back from stopping to use reddit as a whole is using old.reddit in the browser. Can't stand the new design, and once they remove that option - never looking back for real.

On mobile, Lemmy all the way.

That's where I'm at. I only access reddit from a browser using old.reddit.com these days. Once that option is taken from me, I'm gone.

tbh I can't understand why people liked old reddit sorry I'm a zoomer idiot but still can someone help me understand?

More lightweight = faster and more content on the screen? Nowadays cool looking websites are slow and with 25% margin on both sides.

I feel the same all annoyed for example when doing some extensive search on PC vs mobile. No matter if it's a shopping hunt on ebay or gathering information. On PC i scroll-click 10 links, iterate through them, Ctrl+w the ones being useless and chosing/read betwend the ones left. Something unclear? Double Ctrl+C and deepl pops up with a translation.

5min on PC vs 20min on mobile, where I have to click each link, fight those pop ups and cookies consent, go back, wait anoyingly long 2 second webpage loads and repeat.

I'm more of a list person than someone who prefers cards type of style. With a list, I find it easier to navigate and get a better overview of everything, rather than seeing just a few posts at a time without scrolling.

For discussions and news and long form text it's infinitely easier to browse and read in the old layout. The new one is designed for media and for making you quickly jump between threads

I used to use reddit with Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), a browser add-on/extension that has tons of customizations. This was even before there was an old/new reddit, it was just reddit.

So it's not that we chose to use "old" reddit, it was that we chose not to use "new" reddit. Going to the new design breaks RES and we would've missed out on all of those customizations and quality-of-life features that were missing without it.

Plus, "new" reddit is designed for doom-scrolling and serving adds, and not about promoting users to engage in dialog. Most of my reddit interaction was around niche content, where I actually dived deep into threads. New reddit got in the way of that.

It's like reading a endless wall of text on old reddit. New reddit has so much more white space

I've found myself in the same boat.

Not sure how I feel about it, but it's interesting to see someone else commenting about doing the same.

the final nail for me happened long ago. the site has genuinely sucked for years. all the content in the top subreddits is basically ChatGPT generated rage bait, so many subreddits have turned into right wing shitholes, and Reddit themselves have proven time and time again that they do not care about their users. as always their greed has gotten the best of them

the exact same thing happened with Discord. I've actually disabled my Discord account and only use my Reddit out of habit at this point

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privacy badger, ghostery, ublock origins, etc...

afaik this is only reddit activity, so they’re going to be able to track anything and everything no matter what privacy addons you’re using if you’re logged in

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It's not the end of the world, it's the end of the world as we know it.

Reddit is becoming a harsher place for the kind of community-driven, higher investment content that made it what it is today (which is less profitable) and a better place for mindless scrolling and sleazy engagement-baiting mostly fed by automatic content aggregators (which is more profitable).

Plenty of communities will remain due to inertia: switching platforms is hard. As far as I'm concerned, I will keep using reddit for two reasons: and to check in on a few communities that I am actually engaged in.

Well, I've kept my reddit account as I use it occasionally from desktop... Guess it's time to finally say goodbye.

So what's the current method for overwriting and removing comments before account deletion?

I left reddit in the big exodus and a few day ago I started deleting my messages. I've been a prolific (average of 10-20 comments per day) commenter for 13 years , and deleting apparently still hasn't finished.

Fuck spez, fuck all of them, I'm not leaving my content for them

I don't like reddit... But here's my question though, since lemmy is federated and all that data is available for access... what's stopping anyone to integrate into the system, collect it all, analyze it and sell it?

Good job. You now have tons of data. Where do you show the ads?

The other websites you track the user to.

How are you tracking them to other sites? There's not really anything that links a user account to an actual person in the data that gets federated.

Good thing it's anonymized as fuck and lemmy does not have an official app that tracks it either. Scraping isn't cheap and the upside is basically nothing.

2 more...

This was the final push I needed to make a formal break and delete my account after 9 years.

Reddit is shit and not being able to opt out of being tracked is shit but honestly if you can choose to block gambling ads etc that's actually pretty good

Just installed Boost for Lemmy. I'm populating the communities now. This will take time but it looks good from here!

Penultimate, not ultimate.

The final nail will be when they kill old.nazidigg

can someone transmit a message to a sub mobs on reddit?

I was part of the mob-team and need to send them a message for all people in the sub to move to this place, if you still in reddit, please i will give you the name of the sub, its loveforUkraine, and tell the mobs that: far-child was banned and he is now doing the same sub in Lemm,ee tell all the brothers to move there, its very good ;)

I still use self-hosted libReddit occasionally, there are some communities that completely ignore what's going on. Even though libReddit is mobile-optimized I still use Infinity (using my own API key), I actually use Eternity for Lemmy as well.
This change should motivate me to stick to libReddit and not using my account at all

Users now clicking I accept new TOS means the end of reddit. Talk about ignorance. Maybe stop obsessing over a website youre not even using anymore and be productive instead.

Noone is clicking, there is no option to agree(or disagree)

Final nail confirmed then lmao 🤣🤣🤣

This place won’t really win out as long as it’s exclusively just a big giant liberal communist fuck fest it has to be balanced or else it will never gain traction.

Go to Truth social for the balance YOU are looking for, fasci.

I like that you can’t differentiate speculation from your delusion

I like that you're a fasci loser. It's cute.

that's okay we can both misunderstand reality I'm sure for our own reasons and that's a beautiful thing.

You're so close to acknowledging you're absolutely stupidity it's almost cute. Selfawarewolves should become a thing here.