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Goodbye, Reddit: How the Internet’s Front Page Is Eating Itself
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2024
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I’d probably be willing to put up with all of the thirst trap OF thots if Spez hadn’t killed Apollo. But no, that asshole just can’t get enough money. Fuck reddit.
Apollo going down is the reason why I'm here on Lemmy. I loved that app as much as I hate ads and I refuse to compromise so I quit cold turkey and never looked back. I'll do the same for youtube if they ever actually figure out how to combat ad blockers effectively for more than a few hours at a time.
I did the same but for Reddit is Fun (android), and I still haunt reddit via browser but I don't sign in or interact.
It's getting to the point where all the good content is also on Lemmy, probably won't take long for lemmy to become peak old reddit with medium sized communities of real people interacting, supporting, educating, and roasting.
We'll probably be at a significantly lower critical mass before the corpos start invading, but hopefully the community can do a great job of reporting each other.
I'd much rather pay a subscription for a spam bot free environment than watch new lemmys pop up every 15-20 years as enshittification bites.
Oh how I wish this was true... Unless you mean memes (which are reposted everywhere), lemmy has a fraction of the content. There's huge niche communities over there and I still have to add "reddit" to my searches for technical issues.
To be clear, that hasn't convinced me to start using reddit again beyond that. Just being realistic about comparing the two
Yeah, any gaming discussion I have to search for reddit. And because of the stupid new deal with Google it means I have to do it via Chrome. And then constantly manually change the address to old.reddit so it doesn't look like ad-riddled garbage.
I would love to be able to replace that with Lemmy, but there isn't enough community here for the kind of niche discussion you can still find on reddit.
There is a plugin for your browser that will automatically redirect you to old.reddit.com so that you don't have to manually change the URL every time. I forget the name of the extension but it does exist and it's very helpful.
Are you thinking Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES)? I used that on desktop and it is great. I never considered trying it for mobile, thanks for the suggestion!
Fair point, I'm definitely still using reddit searches for specific answers because the communities are still valuable sources of information.
That being said, mainstream news and world events are definitely present on Lemmy, it's not just a meme pile.
Reddit/lemmy is the only social media I use, so maybe the meme situation isn't even that great but it suits my needs!
The tradeoff for Lemmy getting that community content reddit used to have (can still find it between the bots) is that it will attract attention from everywhere which results in enshittification