As a response to this change, here I am on Lemmy instead.
Am I the only one who doesn’t use Reddit? That platform has been getting enshittified for years. Plus, Lemmy encourages actual discussions and isn’t filled with AI bots.
Sadly like other platforms the population is not high enough on lemmy for exclusivity. Like certain niche sub reddit dont exist on lemmy. Like it still top for tech support searches.
True, but that’s easily solvable, especially if people start dual posting
it’s got porn though
You should see porn sites!
I don’t even care anymore to be honest. Most of the legacy social media platforms have become absolute garbage. Reddit was the introduction to the wild west of internet commentary for me. Compared to 15 years ago versus today it’s unrecognizable.
Yeah, I still miss classic subreddits such as jailbait and watchpeopledie. Those were the wild west of the internet. Nowadays Reddit is just a stupid website.
Nah you’re buggin for this dawg.
Sure there’s an element of the remnants of the uncensored net that is met with a sense of nostalgia but you picked one of the worst examples of that, Jesus Christ.
it’s a weird feeling when a feature to see the same stuff that everyone else sees gets removed in favor of personalized feeds. it’s like my connection with the outside world was severed. this sucks.
Exactly like FB changing their algorithm so you no longer see friends life updates at all and now see spam, ai slop, and ads.
Which defeats the whole point but at this point Facebook is just hanging on if it’s existing user base sucking what little value there is left out of it before it collapses from totally irrelevancy
Wow, jesus. When I read this post’s title, I assumed it was being hyperbolic and that they just changed the name of /r/all or something.
Nope. The literal “Front Page of the Internet” that made Reddit what it is is gone. Staggering. What an unrecognizable, catastrophic shithole that place has turned into in the four years since
I’ve beenI was on it as an active user. (Edit: As in “I left four years ago”; didn’t recognize the dual meaning.)Didn’t r/all and r/popular become identical after they started filtering NSFW from r/all quite a few years ago? I couldn’t tell the difference after that change at least. It honestly makes sense to delete one of them if they’re the same.
Edit: Never mind, apparently they removed r/popular too.
i just joined because of this. i was waiting for lemmys community to grow a bit larger first but r/all is literally the only reason i browse reddit at all. these idiots are playing themselves with this crap
That’s the problem. All reddit users are waiting for lemmy to be larger without actually wanting to be part of making it larger. It’s a vicious cycle. Fortunately for us reddit is hell bent on shooting it’s own foot
I believe Lemmy is pretty lively at the moment.
It is in some communities. But there are certain places I used to see pretty regular updates and engagement on Reddit that either don’t exist here or are absolute ghost towns. You can say that’s because of a different user base and different priorities and that’s fair — but then you can’t complain about low involvement/engagement by people who want to participate in those communities.
I miss the thriving, active subreddits for fountain pens, watches, and calculators. I tried being the change I wanted to see in a watch community, but after about a week of being the only poster, It just kinda felt like I was just showing off my watch collection. Fountain pens is a bit more active, at a few posts per month. Forget about calculators.
Welcome friend!
This is something that would really frustrate me if I was still on reddit. It feels nice to not care at all.
