• Disaffected Scorpio@lemmy.world
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    Reddit is mostly ai bots, & bots, and maybe a few genuine users.

    I had my 18yo account 0erma-banned by ai. Then, ai reviewed ai … … ai said ai was correct but would send it up for further review… … by another ai. Who sent it to a human… … and the human sent me an apology. “Sometimes, we get things wrong. Your account has now been fully re-instated. We are sorry.” … and then ai stepped in and overrode the humans mods.

    HAL 9000 is not fiction.

  • likebudda@reddthat.com
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    Old.reddit still works fine on firefox on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 8+ but my PC, pixel fold, and every other device only lets me view the old style when browsing multiple subreddits. If I want to see an individual subreddit I append the address with a banned sub e.g. old.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales+narcofootage.

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    I have to say, this war on Old Reddit is doing wonders to curb my Reddit use.

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      It’s actually amazing how quickly it killed my usage of the site. I deleted my account years ago but still lurked every now and then. Now I literally can’t go back, I won’t download the app and the new site layout is pretty much unusable for me.

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        I used Stealth for a while, and it was awesome, but it would go in and out, and a few months ago it just stopped working completely.

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    That change helped reduce scraping and automated abuse, but still allowed any logged-in account to access Old Reddit, including accounts with no prior Old Reddit use.

    To close this gap, in the next few months, we’ll further limit access for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months

    How horrible, ANY logged-in account can just access old reddit?? That needs to be fixed asap, how dare new users just use old reddit when they have a perfectly good shreddit available to them. — Reddit admins apparently

    Nice admission there. Didn’t expect them to be this open about their true feelings on the matter.

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    We know RSS has been a beloved part of the open web for a long time, and we’re grateful to everyone who used it to stay connected to Reddit,

    It’s like they aren’t even listening to the words they are saying themselves

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      Its a good thing Aaron isn’t alive to see the thing he created being stripped away from the other thing he created.

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      Oh God they are dumping RSS too? Fucking hell that’s the only way I even use that platform anymore since it means getting a handful of news updates on some games without going there.

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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    So when the shitty AI moderation kills your latest account, your new one won’t be able to access the only decent interface. Good to know.

    I only use reddit now to mod two subreddits. If I lose that account, that’s it, I’m gone. I already stopped posting news to my local city one because I just don’t care enough.

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      Same, a long time ago.

      I never posted anything close to political or “sketchy” either. Was never impolite; it was just a place for niches. I still don’t know why I was banned/shadowbanned…

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      I am not signed in and old reddit works fine. I have noticed that subreddit specific search nsfw tick boxes dont always load for whatever reason.

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      Until a comment you makes pisses off a power tripping mod and then you are permabanned from like 16 communities.

      Shits infected here too.

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            It is true. Did you even try?

            Edit: why are you talking about being banned from 16 communities when the modlog only shows two bans? You wouldn’t be ban evading, would you?

            I mean, you should have definitely been banned from the Seattle community for saying that Washington state deserved what was coming to it with ICE because they implemented gun control after mass shootings, but that didn’t happen to this account.

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      Because realistically I can only scroll on Fedi for maybe 20-30 minutes in a day before I’ve seen everything and if I have more time to kill, Reddit is there. Although I don’t comment there at all anymore, it’s truly worthless for conversation.

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      Reddit is fantastic for certain niche communities. On the whole, it fucking sucks, but it does contain so much helpful info because it just brings people together over a specific topic.

    • MimicJar@lemmy.world
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      Because when Reddit fucks up those users will look for alternatives, like Lemmy.

      In this case it’s important to highlight that Lemmy has many different front ends and apps available. Lemmy can look however you’d like it to look.

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    I cant get into old reddit anymore. Im kinda bummed as there is some subreddits like the litrpg community I cant find here or anywhere on the fedi. Oh well…

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    “In the next few months, we’ll further limit access for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months (which covers the vast majority of all Old Reddit users),”

    really? you expect me to believe the majority of old reddit users are old reddit users?

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    existing users who haven’t used it for six months will also be barred.

    Wow, that really is awful. If I don’t use Reddit every six months I’m permanently kicked out of it?

    I rarely go there, but when I do want to look up something I like to have the option.

    (pls don’t pretend like new reddit exists, thx)