I don’t regret my time on Reddit. I enjoyed it a lot, though it did kind of feel like I was in a bit of a backwater after development switched to the new interface and updates for the UI stopped coming in.
I also expected Reddit to shift to their monetization phase at some point. I just hoped that whatever they did wasn’t going to be something that I didn’t like. As it happened, they killed the third-party apps, which is something that I wasn’t going to put up with if there was any reasonable alternative. I have never used the official app, and don’t intend to do so. But I don’t think that I “fell” for anything – I got use of a service that made me happy for a long time.
I used to preach Reddit. Like the gospel. If you called me on the phone about an arbitrary subject, at some point I would have said, ‘Well, on Reddit…’
I was so in, there was a sub of one of my favourite tv shows I was hot on and I ended up being mentioned in a newspaper in the UK.
at some point I would have said, ‘Well, on Reddit…’
I don’t see why this is bad. Even now, it’s still a major forum of incredible human wisdom and knowledge that you can’t easily find anywhere else—not even here quite yet, I think. It’s the leadership that sucks but the users are mostly amazing (in specific subreddits, at least), and those are the awesome people I refer to and am grateful for interaction with.
It’s funny you say this, because nowadays it’s hard to actually find stuff on Reddit. So many comments are collapsed and so few are loaded that it’s really difficult to actually follow conversations. Add in NSFW posts and posts in small communities not even being viewable outside of the app (at least on mobile).
What exactly are you searching for, though? I do subreddit-specific searches to begin with. If people happen to have not discussed the topic, then I simply make a new post about it, either here or there.
I’m not talking about how easy it is to find topics, I’m talking about the amount of comments that load. Look at this from r/LifeProTips about oil changes. All that loaded is the auto mod sticky response about voting if it’s a good post and two comments. They make it very difficult to read conversations. This thread has 121 comments. Three are shown. Even pressing show more barely shows any responses down the tree.
I find myself doing that for Lemmy, but depending on who I’m talking to, I’ll either name “Lemmy” in a mild effort to recruit them if that person isn’t a piece of shit; or, even though I haven’t touched Reddit since it backstabbed its 3rd party app devs, I’ll reference posts and memes etc I find here on Lemmy as something like “bruh look at this shit on Reddit…” if the person I’m talking to is like a neonazi coworker who I’m being strategically friendly toward for the sole sake of workplace politics, but don’t want that miserable piece of shit to drag their hateful bigotry anywhere near Lemmy.
So… Reddit still holds some value as a dumpster to direct certain people toward.
Twitter/Reddit.
I was all in. Quit Twitter around 2015 when it started getting ultra toxic. Quit Reddit when 3rd party apps were killed.
I don’t regret my time on Reddit. I enjoyed it a lot, though it did kind of feel like I was in a bit of a backwater after development switched to the new interface and updates for the UI stopped coming in.
I also expected Reddit to shift to their monetization phase at some point. I just hoped that whatever they did wasn’t going to be something that I didn’t like. As it happened, they killed the third-party apps, which is something that I wasn’t going to put up with if there was any reasonable alternative. I have never used the official app, and don’t intend to do so. But I don’t think that I “fell” for anything – I got use of a service that made me happy for a long time.
I used to preach Reddit. Like the gospel. If you called me on the phone about an arbitrary subject, at some point I would have said, ‘Well, on Reddit…’
I was so in, there was a sub of one of my favourite tv shows I was hot on and I ended up being mentioned in a newspaper in the UK.
I don’t see why this is bad. Even now, it’s still a major forum of incredible human wisdom and knowledge that you can’t easily find anywhere else—not even here quite yet, I think. It’s the leadership that sucks but the users are mostly amazing (in specific subreddits, at least), and those are the awesome people I refer to and am grateful for interaction with.
It’s funny you say this, because nowadays it’s hard to actually find stuff on Reddit. So many comments are collapsed and so few are loaded that it’s really difficult to actually follow conversations. Add in NSFW posts and posts in small communities not even being viewable outside of the app (at least on mobile).
What exactly are you searching for, though? I do subreddit-specific searches to begin with. If people happen to have not discussed the topic, then I simply make a new post about it, either here or there.
I’m not talking about how easy it is to find topics, I’m talking about the amount of comments that load. Look at this from r/LifeProTips about oil changes. All that loaded is the auto mod sticky response about voting if it’s a good post and two comments. They make it very difficult to read conversations. This thread has 121 comments. Three are shown. Even pressing show more barely shows any responses down the tree.
Oh, that’s because Reddit must never be browsed using anything other than:
Avoid New Reddit (www) at all costs! It’s a life-changing experience.
I find myself doing that for Lemmy, but depending on who I’m talking to, I’ll either name “Lemmy” in a mild effort to recruit them if that person isn’t a piece of shit; or, even though I haven’t touched Reddit since it backstabbed its 3rd party app devs, I’ll reference posts and memes etc I find here on Lemmy as something like “bruh look at this shit on Reddit…” if the person I’m talking to is like a neonazi coworker who I’m being strategically friendly toward for the sole sake of workplace politics, but don’t want that miserable piece of shit to drag their hateful bigotry anywhere near Lemmy.
So… Reddit still holds some value as a dumpster to direct certain people toward.
Doesn’t seem like you have to live with it…
Oh I do. Friends remind me all the time how all in I was.
I mean, I was all into Master of Puppets era Metallica, but that doesn’t mean I had to like Load and beyond.
Things change. That’s life.