• fivezero@lemmy.worldOP
    37·
    1 year ago

    Agreed. For years I had truly (and naively) believed that Reddit, despite their prior blunders with which we are now all mostly familiar, would maintain an acceptable level of decency and never push things so far as alienate their core userbase. Shot themselves squarely in the foot on this one I think, as their recent changes affect so many.

    • theangryseal@lemmy.world
      45·
      1 year ago

      What a bummer.

      I’m doing ok without it though. I didn’t load old.reddit once today.

      I probably won’t tomorrow.

      I used to look at Reddit in almost all of my downtime at work. Now I’m trying to write when I see nothing new is coming up on Lemmy.

      Still though. 15 years on Reddit. Goddamn. It definitely bums me out. I mean, it’s just a website, but it has helped shape so much of who I am.

      I’m an atheist in the Bible Belt for example, and atheism being a default sub back in the day really helped me out a lot.

      All things must pass.

      • CmdrModder@fedia.io
        5·
        1 year ago

        I understand your pain with that last point. Being an atheist teen in a family that highly values religious holidays (and more) is a life experience I hope people don’t have to go through.

        Things got better, as I hope things are well for you.

      • Neato@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        I spend my work downtime the 1 day I have to be in office writing dnd campaign material to save my prep time at home.

      • eleitl@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m waiting for my data takeout, so checking old.reddit.com messages once a day. No other engagement beyond that. Lemmy communities are getting really good now.

    • coyootje@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      It feels more like grabbing 2 shotguns and blasting both feet off at the same time. Unless their goal was to sink Reddit at record speed I have no idea what they’re doing…

    • Razputinsgirth@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      But that’s just the dig they did make horrible decisions that fucked Reddit up. But the 3rd party apps fixed most of those problems. Whenever I look at new Reddit it’s literally so much harder and spammy to use. For year’s now