He really wants to kill that platform lol

I love that I don’t care about Reddit news anymore. “Spez made a new sub you have to suck his dick to join.” Don’t care. Haven’t in a long time.

I'm glad you have not sucked his dick in a long time 🥳

What's really baffling to me is that a bunch of nerds with too much free time on their hands basically stomped out a fully fledged Reddit alternative within a few months, including multiple frontends and apps.

Yet Reddit spends millions on development every year, for no discernable improvement whatsoever, while still turning no profit.

Where is all that money going? Seriously, Reddit is a very simple site. There's nothing that hard about it. The amount of data is tiny, since the content is external, none of the resources are that time critical, a lot of content can be cached.

What are the devs doing all day?

Lemmy wasn't made in a few months. However development increased a lot once the api war started.
stomped out a fully fledged Reddit alternative within a few months, including multiple frontends and apps.
what/who are you referring to? the reddit ceo or reddit users?
- They are referring to the lemmy developers
- Where exactly do you think you're writing this?
- I'm surprised that nobody has tried to turn Facebook into a distributed service or perhaps they have and I just haven't noticed.
  I'm not really interested in a Twitter alternative as I never really used the original. But I would like a less shitty Facebook.
  If somebody could basically just make Google plus again, but then actually let people use it, that would be great.
You mean stamped out, stomped implies extinguishing, stamped means mass production of some sort.
Lemmy existed before reddits downfall

Come to Lemmy for the hatred of Spez’s actions Stay for the certainty he’ll do it again

There was a while there where people were constantly coming to Lemmy to talk about reddit and I just... couldn't give a fuck.
I feel like it might be an age thing. Those of us on the internet since the 90s are somewhat used to being digital nomads.
- We've seen empires burn to the ground so many times before.

Deleted my account just now and jumped to lemmy. Wondering why I didn't sooner.

Welcome!
- Thanks 😊
I tried last year but a month back I got banned for 'ban evasion' after going on a 5000 mile roadtrip for a honeymoon and using the sketchiest of unsecured wifi APs.
This time around I realized I can set the default sort in account settings to the top posts in the past 1 or 6 hours, def give that a shot, neverending stream of new posts, zero reason to wanna doomscroll reddit ever again
And you manage to not go on the .world so you are doing well.

This is just the latest in a long string. Spez has demonstrated repeatedly throughout the years that he's an entitled cretin - equal parts smug and ignorant.

My personal favorite was when he snidely commented on Reddit's unprofitability in his AMA after the API debacle, making it sound as if it was somehow our fault, only to then not only have it made common knowledge that the official app was useless garbage and had been for years, but that the entirety of Reddit's loss for the year was just about exactly equal to his salary alone.

This really goes to show he has no clue how to monetize Reddit.

I used Reddit for 12 years, which granted, isn't as long as some others, but it is really sad to see what it has become after all these years. It helped a lot back in the day, but now it is time to let it go.

it was sad for me too. I haven't looked back since they banned 3rd party apps, it was time to let it go
- Since they killed RIF, in the shittest way possible, my usage went down significantly. I still miss RIF
- The third party app ban was doubly stupid because not only did it piss people off but then they replaced all of those apps with something that didn't work properly. Even if you didn't care about third party apps all that much you cared that the only option you now had was terrible.
I hopped on Reddit the week before the Digg migration happened. I'm not sure how I really took in the Internet before that (lolcats and wimp mostly), but I remember nearly the exact moment it happened. I'd never heard of Digg before that. I'd barely heard of Reddit.
It's not the same as it was back then, and I'm very happy to be done with it. Fuck spez/Steve Huffman, that piece of shit burned everything to the ground to enrich himself and piss on the community.
Welcome!

A toilet is useful.
Why would I download a concert filled Porta-potty?

I agree! After my initial fury over Spez's whole tantrum, I found Lemmy, and I gotta say, yeah I really do think we need a lot more communities and diverse topics, but for those of us who remember what the Usenet was early on, it was a paradise for free-thinking, tech-savvy individuals to socialize and share ideas. I'd love to see Lemmy stay under the radar, because once something becomes popular enough, it gets enshittified by people looking to monetize and people looking to just plain shit all over it. If it remains fairly small, but in that it is a concentration of the most desirable people (mostly), I'll take it. I can always hop over to dread-it if I really need something not here.

Even when Reddit exploded in popularity there were still plenty of great, but smaller, communities. I really enjoyed being part of Reddit until the API changes when all the decent moderators quit. The quality of Reddit went off a cliff shortly after that happened.
So I think Lemmy will be fine even if it explodes in popularity. Capitalist greed that betrayed the OG members and mods who built Reddit is what is making Reddit a cess pool, not the number of users.
Well except for when they start paywalling shit

If they had just done the obvious thing and made ad-free 3rd party API access depend on a subscription fee, then I would have just paid it and wouldn't be here. But no, they have to do everything the worst way possible.

Wait I don't understand, didn't they do exactly that? Just the pricing was outrageous
- No, they are charging the app devs instead of the users directly (who would then be free to use Any app, and the apps would have remained as they were: ad-supported or paid or whatever)
To this day I still dont understand why they didnt do it this way.
Oh well, at least now we are on a platform which has a future.
Reddit being on the stock market... Like what the actual fuck...

Good, bury reddit.

Wasn't there always a pay-walled subreddit, made by the community? I think you had to have had gold/premium to get invited.

The lounge, don't worry it wasn't interesting
- Didn't they also already scrape that when they rebrand "gilding" to multi-tier award? Idk it's been years since i first got into there.

Can't say I'm sad.

I got permabanned on Reddit because of events involving powertripping moderators and every appeal I tried has been met only with generic bot auto replies. It seems impossible to get an actual human to look at my case for which I provided a lot of detail on what went wrong and how I was incorrectly permabanned (I was confronting moderators of one of my favorite subs about them violating their own Subreddit and Reddit's policy).

I've been trying for over 9 months but there's literally no way to get it fixed. And every new account eventually gets permabanned as well.

I'm so done with that garbage platform. Shame about the small fun communities I was in. But the downfall of Reddit can't come soon enough.

I've officially said my goodbyes. It's absolutely fucked over there. This is just one of many serious problems with Reddit. The CEO is tanking it harder than Musk tanked Twitter. He's musk'd it.

*laughs in Lemmy

Is there a way to fully download or scrape a full subreddit or say stackoverflow since they've both committed themselves to enshittification and alienating their userbases?

asking because that seems difficult to do and there's a lot of useful information on both sites

Its not super hard, but the main hurdle will by bypassing whatever api limits there are such as by using multiple accounts
Certain libraries like praw still work to some extent (my discord bot is still running somehow) but trying to scrape all of the posts in a sub might have to be done slowly. You might be able to sort by old so that the results dont move relative to the page and then go page by page.

Reddit getting rid of paid rewards pre-IPO only to reintroduce the feature later on and boast it as a major QOQ increase in non-ad revenue while artificially inflating their on-paper growth was slick.

Was it also fraud? Some slick fraud?

Well, here we are, he's surely winning at that

I went back to reddit after being away for six years and I'm already done with the mods, the toxicity, the fakeness, just the whole thing. So here I am.

I remember i almost bought reddit premium

I was awarded Reddit gold a few times. The private subreddit it gave access to was underwhelming. There were also mixed feelings about someone liking my comment so much that they gave Reddit money for it. I'm sure there were better ways to spend that money that also wouldn't have affected me much. I generally prefer relies anyways.
- I generally prefer relies anyways.
  Same thought i was the only one

He's rich and giggling. Quite likely does not give a shit.

I'll say this here, too: Based on the phrasing, this is probably competition for Patreon, not for current styled subreddits.

And OnlyFans

I mean openai already has.😄

Reddit is dying. Spez is a degenerate freak, a scam artist, and a Nazi. The OpenAI training platform / propaganda website begins to circle the drain. Microsoft is starting to lose the last iota of goodwill they once had.

Nothing about Reddit looks good into the future and no one, with serious cash, is going to invest in a dying platform run by a scam artist, a freak, and a Nazi.

The questions now are, "How long?" and "What's next?"

when did we find out spez is a nazi? more reason to hate spez and ditch reddit so thats good anyway

ppl of the left
Shh no one tell him lmao
- All those damn Republicans are so damn liberal. They don't even let you eat babies, damn liberals
I'm gonna let you know right know, Lemmy isn't the place for alt-right nutters who had disgusting enough views to get banned from Reddit of all places (a pretty conservative community in general) for being too right-wing. Lemmy is literally a gradient of full-on communists to centrists that at least agree we should have basic social welfare. Even the prominent conservatives here aren't openly vehemently anti-lgbt and anti-social welfare like American conservatives usually are.
Lemmy isn't exactly politically extremist, but even the relatively right-wing-friendly Lemmy instances (like world) look communist compared to Reddit
Jesus dude there's something wrong with you because Reddit is pretty right wing. If you think they're lefties then good God you must be some kind of extremist or something.
You're not going to have a fun time over here I'm telling you that for sure.
It’s not about political views but more about certain outrage culture that maybe is less noticeable than twitter but is more annoying.
Redditors are just kinda special and happily ride any moral high horses and such with zero room in the brain for hey maybe I am wrong. Whole Reddit is confidently wrong usually with this annoying absolutism that leaves no room for anything else.
I cannot describe in words how much contempt I feel for users of AITA or the like. Just imagine posting your family shit online for some strangers to have fun with it. I hope the servers burn and erase all these archives of cringe

I absolutely would download a subreddit thank you very much

I'm Just hoping that more sub reddits move over I know a few have that I use thought (which are dead) it was during the time spez pull this bs just seems like every company lately has gotten more greedy with their product

I’d download your mom.

Download? Rightclick "Examine this frame", copy&paste, pandoc to markdown, is what i do.