jeffwReddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’
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linearchaosQuiet falls around the boardroom table. One analyst breaks the silence. “Well, you see, you have investors now. And, well, they’ve kind of noticed that quality of your content is contrastically downhill over the past couple of years”. An unnamed C staffer blurts out “I told you getting rid of reddit gold was a bad idea, let’s just break it back and everyone will come back and contribute again!”
Zedstrian“Genius! Who would’a thought? 10,000 extra shares in your bonus this year!”
I hate it when I’m punished for good ideas.
RBG
DudeImMacGyverCool, now do the API and I’ll consider not actively avoiding your website.
I won’t. They’d have to fire Steve with no golden parachute, then maybe.
tsonfeirJust let things die is my opinion. It’s much nicer here.
Nicer in many ways but also less active. I find myself posting a shit ton more just to make the activity I want to see. I made probably less than 50 posts on Reddit in my 11ish years before I left. Now I make that many every 48 hours
We appreciate your contributions :)
jabathekekyou da real mvp
Same.
I’m not a huge fan of lemmy, but I do like it better than what Reddit has become. If I had to pick today’s lemmy or Reddit from 5-ish years ago, I’d go with Reddit every time. But that’s not the options in front of me, so I stick with lemmy.
I also post a lot, probably too much, because I want to see more content, especially higher effort content. I posted pretty rarely on Reddit, so this is certainly more exhausting to use. However, there’s enough people to make it worthwhile, so I’m still giving it the old college try.
Yea, I just wish more niche communities would come to Lemmy, but most of the interesting ones are actively not tech savvy en mass, and so are lucky to figure out reddit I guess. Or Discord maybe, which sucks as a reddit replacement.
Yeah, Discord is the worst for something where history is useful. It’s pretty decent for chat though, but that’s about it. But even then, I’d rather use Matrix.
Lemmy might be less active but doesn’t make you feel like every contribution is rewarding someone who actively insulted and disrespected you and ruined something you used to enjoy. Big plus.
cobysevI actually prefer Lemmy because it’s less active. I browse Lemmy’s version of r/All and I have more than enough content to keep me entertained for hours. Plus, when I find a popular thread, I can actually contribute to it and my comments aren’t buried under 10K other comments within a few hours. I feel like I can actually communicate with the community here, instead of shouting into the void like on Reddit.
Yup. On reddit, if you stumbled on a 13 hours old thread, commenting was just sending a bottle in the void.
I think I had someone ask why I was necroing something because I had responded to something that had been posted earlier that or the night before. Maybe it was older than 24 hours, but regardless it was a weird experience.
gardylouSome people are really confused that we aren’t all perpetually online.
This post is 2 days old, we are now officially old people.
ripcordThank you for being you :)
Yeah, but I know your username. Because you’re the person posting all that stuff I read. So, thanks ;)
I’m famous!
0^2Seriously, you are lol.
Agreed, Lemmy feels like “the old net” in the most refreshing way possible. I haven’t touched Reddit in over half a year and I feel better off for it. Feels like I can actually be myself here instead of trying to walk on eggshells to be part of the hivemind.
Opposite for me, this place is way more left-leaning and if I comment like I used to on Reddit, the comments easily end up in double-digit negatives
Join a Lemmy instance without downvotes. You can’t be hurt by downvotes if you never see them!
But you can get banned and removed a lot
The best part is the mods who don't remove posts where people celebrate someone being killed, or suggest someone be killed because they disagree with them. The unfiltered bigotry is really the second best part of the fediverse /s
MxM111Just imagine if all Reddit moves here if it dies.
Lemmy 2
I don’t really care how much Steve gets out of it, I just want a not-terrible platform. So I’m cool with a golden parachute if that’s what it takes to get rid of him and get someone better for the platform.
That’s not happening though, so I’ll just avoid the platform.
I don’t mind him having golden parachute- it is heavier and most likely won’t open.
Golden-plated cement boots, dropped from above the Mariana Trench.
And they also have to let people use a VPN. And make UI load faster, it’s way too bloated.
I tried going back for a while, but when I couldn’t connect on VPN, I left again.
Possibly linuxNot even the API. Just a usable page that doesn’t feel so broken and bloated.
vikingDid they switch off old.reddit.com in the end? That was the only useful front-end on desktop.
Nope, that is still there, RES still works as well
Ok at least something. Not going back, but that was always the last potential nail in the coffin.
Sort of, you no longer can sign in or create an account without using the new site
zecgThat ship has sailed, I thoroughly nuked an account that almost could have drunk in the us and I’d be fucked if I make another after the assholes restored my comments as by [deleted] or some shit and now they’re training fucking electronic snoids to parrot my wisdom and humor to obsolete me. It’s the principle I object to, I piss in this pot here knowing full well there’s runoff across the fediverse and I’d never be able to sponge back all the piss, but those assholes lie and steal.
So they can train openai on your comments? No thanks. Its done for good IMO.
They’re going to do that regardless, they’ll just scrape instead of using the API.
I want an open API so I can use third party apps. I’m totally fine with them requiring an API token or something with a sensible rate limit to limit abuse by parties like openai (they’ll have to go through a sales contract).
The AI companies will do that shit on Lemmy also. At least there isn’t a far-right Nazi getting money on our user generated content tho, unlike reddit.
The profiteering and shitting on the community is what got me to remove my content and account. As an owner of the platform, they cant have it both ways.
The fediverse is an excellent place to find training data for AIs. I would just set up a bot that follows a bunch of people and let them send their data to me, then I don’t even need to bother with scraping.
The fediverse arguably has more bots
chaosCruiserNah, too late. Now that I’ve finally migrated to the fediverse, I’m staying here.
I’m done for good, myself. Moved to Lemmy and there are far fewer dimwitted Nazis here.
Fail shitlers
They knew it promoted karma farming. It helps them make money so I doubt this is an “oops”.
Gsus4Why did they remove it in first place, was it to promote their cryptoscam?
What is karma farming?
You messed up worse than just getting rid of awards.
I’m happy to be here