Besides apologizing and changing course, spez would need to leave before I considered going back. The way he behaved during the API BS ended my capacity to trust him in any way. Reddit as an organization, maybe they can turn things around and return to their purported values, but spez is not an honest person and will do or say anything if it serves his own interests.

60M USD is insanely cheap for that data, remember, it was categorized and structured into threads and subthreads in specific categories, not to mention all different languages already being mostly sorted and ready for consumption.

They could probably have got a few hundred million USD for it if they held out longer.

Most of the people who bought during the IPO probably already cashed out.

At this point, I don't trust any corpo platform. If I don't already use it, I don't need it. My efforts go where it matters, not to sites that don't love me back

You also cannot view it without being logged in now. Which gets a groan from everyone in chat when a friend shares a Reddit link.

I have no clue why they decided chasing off users and being less useful was somehow going to help them. Particularly when they were the place to go for huge segments of the population.

Just within the last week or so old.reddit.com was effectively disabled and stopped working. (I think it might work if you log in, but i quit doing that 3 years ago). It was a nice resource and it’s said that it’s such a shell of what it was. Right when the internet is really needing human voices too

They fingerprint your device, if you get a new phone or reset i (you can restore, just logout on safari and clear cache, use a new user, etc. google automatically logging me back in to an alt that got banned alongside my main got it banned) I'd just quit and find better hobbies, reddit feels like it isn't a waste of time but it really is.

They pushed donald and conservative to the front page constantly with less upvotes/comments than any other post there

trump the 1st time actually. thats when they started banning heavily, also the same time russia realized reddit was ripe for stoking division/infighting. remember all those subs that were considered illicit by the gop.

Nah, I think that when Trump won, reddit and other platforms realised there was no need to pretend to be apolitical or balanced.

It feels like the decent into fascism started there in general. We need to backlash so hard we make up for lost time and then some. Fuck conservatives for subjecting us to this, and fuck "centrist" liberals foe enabling them every step along the way

reminds me of how Gaia Online's user run economy crashed so hard due to Admin mismanagement that it became a cautionary tale in economy textbooks. https://youtu.be/vyzQnsa8SA0

I wonder? Just before I was banned, I used a third party app to scrap 14 years of my data and delete it all. Not long after that I was banned for some truly innocuous post.

They didn't need to bail since they did the IPO and could just sell their shares. I haven't kept an eye on how much insider selling has gone on but I am sure they all have made bank over this past year, it is public info if anyone feels like looking it up. I would expect if the stock prices continues to tank and stays down you will start seeing executives abandon ship for greener pastures.

They have their own AI, but it’s an eyesore that undermines searching in a mobile browser. They added it after an update further deteriorated the Reddit App experience.

So they:

1. further enshittified the app,
2. put AI in the search bar.

And that’s within the last year or so.

I hope they purge piracy, roms, emulation. Currently that is a huge valuable resource, and getting rid of that might lead to those users coming here. Those types of contributors are the ones who add value with their content.

Wait what did they do to the NSFW subs? They were still active when I was banned a few years ago

What? I remember years ago when making maps of Reddit community connections was all the rage. On the maps weighted by posts and subscribers, it looked like Reddit had a sizeable NSFW section. On the ones weighted on traffic it looked like Reddit was a porn site with some other special interest forums.

but there really are no words for what spez did.

Profited. That's the word.

I learned that lesson with experts-exchange even before stack overflow. All sites will be bought out and enshittified.

There are reddit front ends you can access. Won't let you actually participate, but if you just need to access a page for info, they work.

https://stats.uptimerobot.com/mpmqAs1G2Q

My usecase is this: To see what both they, the people in power want us to see, and to see what users say in reaction to it. I see a lot of luigiposting on the comments, a lot of pro-socialism, a lot of pissed off reactions to bad corpodem takes, and I see way, far less pro-Trump or even middling takes on the front page, at least. I'm sure there are still righty/tankie subs, but it ain't 2024 anymore.

You guys scarecly change your opinions, most of us are leftists, were when we got here and if we werent, we are now, in some shade at least. Reddit goes in flux a lot and seeing how much bluer their community is than 2024 does make me grin a little.

"please install our app to continue"

People have been reporting it quite a bit. If i were to guess A/B testing.

It depends on your location and who you are.

A while back, I did an experiment. Reddit started asking me to log in to scroll, so I closed the window and didn't try again that day. Next day, I tried to scroll reddit and the login to view popup appeared again. So I closed the window and didn't look at reddit for a week. After a week, I went on reddit and magically it no longer worried about me logging in...for about a month.

Its been hitting me. Can't use old.reddit without logging in and new reddit is an abomination.

I can scroll comments for about a minute before that pop-up comes up saying you need the app. But I rarely visit reddit anymore unless it's something I need some information on that I can't find anywhere else.

I had that for a while. Then yesterday I got a lockout message.

I get blocked now in a regular browser, but not in an anonymous browser.

If i cared more, I would make a scumbag spez