I just wanted to peek at the front page. I guess they don’t want people to use their shit anymore. I’m starting to believe in the dead internet theory.
Can you guys stop talking about your ex ? You’re with lemmy now, forget about the old bitch.
It’s the Reddit community, juste block it if you don’t want to see it
It’s ok, I was mainly making a joke :-) I don’t mind a reddit related post every once in a while, it’s always funny to see what reddit turned into
I’m all for staying here on Lemmy: Lemmings are nicer than Redditors and the place is a lot higher S/N ratio.
But… sadly, due to inertia, Reddit is still where a lot of stuff is squarely at. There are long-established Reddit communities - often nice, well behaved communities - that don’t give a toss about the Reddit drama, and are simply not interested in moving out.
I’ve been trying to kickstart an equivalent Reddit community here on Lemmy for almost a year. While there’s a handful of members, it’s basically just me infrequently posting in it. The original one on Reddit has almost 10K members, is fairly active, and clearly none of the members know anything about Lemmy - much less want to create an account and join my insignificant equivalent community. I keep it around in case Reddit enshittifies to such an extent that even those who don’t care start taking notice. But at the moment, inertia is much too strong.
which community? I tried to see if I could swing by to support your budding community whatever it is, so I had a look through your posts and couldnt see a community you moderate?
Strange because the first thing I see when I open my profile in a private window is that single community I moderate.
It’s nice of you to want to help but it’s the kind of community you typically join only when you’re unlucky enough to be concerned 🙂
haha yeah thats a pretty specific topic dude :) I’d say keep it up, someone who’d be happy to see it here will some day join lemmy and it’ll mean something to them
I hear you, when I look at my profile I see that I moderate https://lemm.ee/c/badreligion (same problem, thousands back on whatever its called and a few upvotes, but rarely a comment. time and patience; we’ll rule over c/ empires someday you and I
Yeah I’ve noticed a lot of these vague negative comments about lemmy and I particularly don’t like them.
Its good to get specific so people can help if they are able.
Seems like the Bats community here on Lemmy.world was popular due to some new posts every day.
That’s actually a deprecation warning. You’re meant to move to a more modern platform.
I’m already here.
How do we know you’re actually here though? 🤔
nah, that would be twitter. reddit is catching up tho.
Lol yeah I can’t get on it at work anymore. Goodbye to all the traffic they get from people looking for tech advice on corporate networks. Fucking morons.
My work is also banned due to “suspicious” activity.
They’re banning VPNs. I have no idea why, but reddit is unusable at this point.
It could be a simple way to prevent bots which clearly isn’t working, or perhaps users who reveal their IP address are worth more to advertisers.
users who reveal their IP address are worth more to advertisers.
I suspect they’re able to track a lot of they have your IP address.
Tech companies are now the hot new thing for MBAs to put into their resumes. That’s why you see this enshittification. Used to be the money people didn’t want to work in tech because it made them feel dumb. That was what made the industry work. Those times are over.
MBA’s do not get enough shit for being a root cause of the deterioration for modern life.
It really is a bullshit career. Companies should be run by people who came up in the industry and learned all the pitfalls rather than college kids who learned how to not pay contracts until they’re legally forced to.
Used to be the money people didn’t want to work in tech because it made them feel dumb.
No one has ever spent more than five minutes speaking to a tech worker and felt dumb afterwards.
That was what made the industry work.
Yeah, tech companies had such a high success rate from 1990-2010.
Solid points, my dude.
Found the junior mba
The only times I’ve seen that is if I’m trying to browse while on a VPN(mullvad in my case). And more often than not it’s because it came up in a search.
My recent permaban from r/worldnews for stating the obvious (is “Iran attacks Israel” still the right title for a stickied thread on the events in Gaza?) has had the positive effect of making me renew with Lemmy.
r/worldnews is a cesspool of hasbara fanboys, but their unilateral view on the conflict starts to draw away people from their toxic propaganda.
Yeah, reddit started blocking VPN users a few months ago unless you log in.
Become? Where you been, man?
every year for the past several they keep reaching a new low. it’s the sneaking liquor ads to recovering addicts who check the no liquor ads request that really hurt. yeah, they pump liquor ads to addicts who requested for them to stop… but they REALLY care about minorities and lgbtq issues and stuff. YEAH RIGHT… real and true egalitarians, you can trust them as your champions… they’re not just another corporate satan, they’re different…
Every time I see that stupid little alien, I change my mind about visiting. I see Spez’s smug grin on that stupid little goo blob avatar and it just makes me want to find my info anywhere else.
I use a VPN and they block me most days. I uninstalled the app and said fuqit.
Red Reader works but I have not found a solution for the browser. Sucks majorly because of search results leading you to a Reddit post.
Do you need to be able to post and upvote?
If not then install libredirect, go to the reddit settings, and ping instances until you find the lowest latency front end.
There you go. How you can read and the ui of most is pretty clean.
No login needed since I don’t have an account anymore. That addon works, at least for Reddit it seems. A lot of other sites like IG or TicTok do not. The former at least has another site & addon that works but most of those proxy sites seem to just be broken, even though the pinging still works.
Libdirect extension set to redirect you to a teddit client.
wat
use redlib, it’s a private frontend, here’s a comment i made about it https://lemmy.world/comment/8577440
Tried redlib-redirect but unfortunately that doesn’t seem to do anything… :(
I use this
Ridiculous permissions. Pass.
While I do agree that this is bad, I’m a little confused—what does this have to do with dead internet theory? Doesn’t that relate to users being bots?
That no one really uses reddit, that it’s dominated by bots masquerading as real people.
I swear you can actually spot entire chains of comments consisting of only bots replying to other bots on every single submission that makes it to the front page. It’s baffling how fast and hard reddit has fallen.
Do you have an example? I’m genuinely curious, I’ve heard a lot about this theory but can’t really imagine how you would differentiate bots from mindless redditors farming for karma by saying „This.“
Hey sorry for the late reply, I was just waiting for the perfect example, and I found one: https://kbin.social/m/reddit@lemmy.world/t/995008/Reddit-if-full-of-bots-thread-reposted-exactly-the-same
