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It really feels worse now, even in terms of topics in the subreddits for which there is no equivalent here.
Still, until certain things are born here or well populated, I'll still check it out from time to time.
At least, so far I seem to check it less and less and am grateful for Lemmy and its growth. I hope it keeps growing!
I find that most of those issues are nonexistent the way I am on reddit - just use old.reddit everywhere. Yes, even on mobile. I'm special, and not in a good way, but it works.
I fear the day old.reddit gets shut down, considering the amount of communities that don't have an (alive) analog on Lemmy, so for now I use both...
I am using a shortcut to open a list of my preferred multireddits in Safari. I have the Noir dark mode app and old Reddit. only way it is bearable for me. Hard to abandon certain niche communities, but I realise in time, Reddit will become worse, and I will have to abandon it all together.
I don't think I've ever experienced any spam ever in my Reddit inbox in the 14 years I've been on it. What sort of stuff do you get?
Not the guy, but a fun little side story about my reddit account is that probably multiple years ago someone tagged my username in a cryptocurrency sub or thread or something and then deleted the area I was tagged in which left me with a notification I was unable to clear or even view afterwards.
I've noticed it cycles between two posts I'm subscribed to, an ad, a popular on Reddit post, and a recommended community post. You can't just see what you're subscribed to anymore.
Since the whole fiasco started reddit took a turn, I was a scab for longer than I should have. I check in periodically specifically to keep track of Ukraine stuff, it's still a hive of activity compared to Lemmy but I don't care for it. If I was savvy I would have a script running to scraping content from Reddit and mirror it here on Lemmy to keep in tune with certain feeds.
About a quarter of the posts in my home feed are from subs I don't subscribe to.
Deleted my account, but I installed a firefox extension that forces every reddit link through the old.reddit interface and it's okay for lurking it.
I actually have tried to use reddit multiple times, however they've soft-disabled most new accounts. It's around a 50% chance in my experience if your account is shadowbanned immediately, with a slightly lower chance it'll be shadowbanned within a week, regardless of what you post. If you use a privacy-focused email provider or use a vpn, or use a browser that is resistant to fingerprinting, you're basically persona non-grata at reddit. Which is honestly fine with me at this point, half of all content you encounter in almost any major sub is either bot posted or "totally a legitimate user that uses the site 24/7" posted.
I'll pop in to search for something real quick, but once I get my answer, I'm out.
I don’t know what’s going on there, but I’ve had a shitton of commenters on old thread comments that are months or a year+ old. Who is digging up old threads and replying to them, and why?
This maybe happened once a year before the whole API debacle, I’m getting 2-3 a week now.
Same. If I could still use boost I would probably go back often, but the official all is so incredibly, profoundly user unfriendly that I just can't
The content has become pretty boring too
I got the app when lemmy was having some issues and I needed to scratch the itch. From what I gather, the sorting options are shit. There’s only popular, home, latest, news and watch. I only downvote now, especially ads.
One of my most favorite subs used to have the usual lovely posts and interactions. After the drama, one mod just posts a daily question. It's boring. Hardly anybody responds. I don't think people are allowed to post freely anymore, because it's just full of these boring questions. One way to take down your subreddit.
So there are still some 3rd party reddit apps that seem to work, Orion and Reno on iOS, probably others on Android, neither are as good as Apollo (RIP) but they’re not terrible.
Once they stop working, I’m done. The shitty ads alone are enough for me to dump that trash fire.