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I read this as they learned it was far too difficult to moderate /all and that the easier thing corporate wise was just remove it.
Redditors on old.reddit.com, or those with settings that default to the old Reddit experience, will continue to access r/all as expected.
I guess they are just ignoring old.reddit until they pull the plug on that completely
That will be the day I finally never return. Old Reddit kinda sucks but it's still miles better than the modern abomination.
Old reddit is a lot more tolerable if you're using it with RES. You probably already knew that, but I figure I'd say something just in case.
At which point I will be off Reddit entirely
Same. I've already deleted my account. I use it to find info on niche stuff, if I cant find the info elsewhere.
Last I checked, old.reddit had about 2% of the users. So yeah, it'll be shut down whenever they get around to it, I'd imagine. Whenever they add something that breaks it, it'll be gone.
Yeah I think that's the thing, they haven't done anything to/with it. Once they do something that doesn't work on it, they'll go "oh deary me. Welp, better put it out of its misery" and shut it down.
Before I gave up on reddit completely, I was getting lots of 429 errors. Although asking around, some were, some weren't. Still not sure they weren't targeting me - apparently I hit their radar and they ban my accounts whenever they figure out it's me (I just want to mod in my local subreddit, I've slowly disengaged from everything else). heh
They target me for violations that are not violations, used to be I could get 3 months out of an account before a second violation, my last new one I got a violation within the first week for something that wasn't even close. This is like the us administration pressuring them. Betcha.
they banned me for violations on my "other accounts."
I don't have any other accounts.
Unlike other countries we do not have any legal rights to fair enforcement of the rules, so they do not bother. What we do have, is the government telling them to fuck users that piss off them and their pals for other reasons. Israel obviously but others as well.
Silicon Valley is a rigged game, they are parasites,
well, it's a private platform; their sandbox, their rules. It would be nice if they could enforce them equitably, though.
What the fuck are you talking about? We should have rights to fair enforcement of rules in Social media, which should be regulated as utility.
I gave up on it when I got suspended for the 4th time in half a year. I had been using it since 2009-10 or there abouts. Never had any issues. Then about 18 months ago I started to get 3 day suspensions for the most tame shit. I appealed all of them, every single one that was checked by a human was reverted. Then the last one I had, I appealed, didn't hear anything from them. So I waited the 3 day suspension run its course, sent a few messages I wanted to send and deleted my account.
Similar here except I went from a warning to a full ban the last two accounts. And for a little while there, when they banned one account, I got a half dozen bans on multis I'd created years ago for some stupid joke and hadn't used since I created them. heh.
They just really have decided they don't want the older users around, I guess.
If they have some reason to not like older users that would make sense with my experience. I had like 100,000 comment karma over the last ~13 years. Last month I posted something like "the only way he (trump) is leaving is if 100,000 people drag him out" and got immediately sitewide banned with no warning, appeal denied. That was about the harshest thing I ever posted, 99.99% of my comments and posts were neutral or positive and they could see that clearly from my comment history. I wasn't there to be mean.
That's about the level of thing that caused me a coupld of my bans, so sounds about right.
When corporations get involved things almost always get worse.
definitely. Going public helped the shareholders, not the users.
Huh, that's weird that I basically got away with that. I used to switch to a new account every 6 months or so. It started when some weirdo started to follow me and commenting on every single comment I made. I think it was in 2013-14 somewhere around then. Ever since then, I threw away one to two accounts per year. The past few years it was more like every month or two. I was very active in /r/Formula1, they had 1 month time limit on new accounts, so once I was allowed to comment there, I'd throw away the old account. At times I used multiple accounts at the same time, one got suspended, I just logged into another. I know it was ban evasion or whatever, though it started as a way to keep the weirdos at bay.
Anyway, I never got burned because of that. I guess I wasn't bad enough to be on their radar.
I as well had people following me around, but also seeming influence agents overly familiar with me, talking down to me like they knew my personal details, which they should not have been able to know, but they might have because of Israel and corporate bullshit. Fuck Reddit. As I saw on a username here, better dead than reddit.
Eww thats creepy as hell
I guess I wasn’t bad enough to be on their radar.
You were a frickin' saint, because the things I did were either stupid (to call infractions) or really minor. lol.
Or you were lucky or I was unlucky. heh.
time limit on new accounts,
That's what finally has let me let reddit go - so many subreddits have a thing now where you have to have karma in threads that haven't hit /r/all yet before you can comment, and that takes time and effort when I just browse /r/all. heh.
Or you were lucky or I was unlucky
Probably bit of both.
so many subreddits have a thing now where you have to have karma in threads
Yeah thats one of the stupidest things. I get the time limit, but the karma requirement is just stupid. Why do I need to go talk in places I'm not interested in talking, with people who I don't care for, if I want to make a comment about stuff that actually interests me. Such a weird thing.
But anyhow, its finally over and lemmy and other places are so much better lol. At least here the top 90% of comments arent the same reddit jokes and the users don't start insulting you when you ask a perfectly legitimate question.
Why do I need to go talk in places I’m not interested in talking, with people who I don’t care for,
Because Lemmy is slower!
hehe, kidding
the top 90% of comments arent the same reddit jokes
I am doing my part to change that, mind. (hopefully not really) :)
the users don't start insulting you when you ask a perfectly legitimate question
I dont know about that one chief, on lemmy it defo depends on the question/topic Ive noticed lol
Thats why I added "perfectly legitimate" ;D I mean, silly/dumb questions are going to get silly and dumb answers.
But for example, I used to be a car mechanic, came across a problem, went to reddit and asked if anyone has come across the same problem and how they fixed it, I got 3 "if you can't figure this out you shouldn't be a mechanic" answers, one "I don't know sounds bad lol" andswer and one asking for more information that ended up not going anywhere. After that, I started to notice similar patterns more often and everywhere.
I do realize I haven't been active on lemmy for too long and this is not really a place where people come with their questions so the sample size is a bit lacking. But people seem to be more friendlier and.... human. And not in a "not a bot" way, but more down to earth and not trying to score internet points or be the first one to make the joke.
I agree with that, but I have noticed some topic areas have more hostility than others!
Yeah thats also a variable. Depends highly of the user/fan base.
"in order to simplify Reddit"
Corpospeech has evolved from euphemisms and marketing tricks to being completely divorced from reality hasn't it?
/r/all was the simplest thing ever, the best posts of all of Reddit. It was a normal button/link. It was Reddit itself, "the front page of the internet"
But thankfully there's still "Reddit Pro" and whatever bullshit they came up with since going public. That is so simple!
It's double speak.
People learned the power of words and now they are abusing them.
The American public with all their faults will nearly trust any written word. Anything besides what they've already been programmed to immediately be skeptical of they will readily accept into their reality like good little consumers.
Capitalizing it still works, r/All
Amateurs don't even use .toLower()
I'm on old reddit and I didn't know there was a difference between /r/all and /r/popular? Theres the subs you are subscribed to and then there is the trash main page. What is a home feed? Is that the front page with your subscriptions?
Popular is supposed to be the highest activity subreddits. If you keep scrolling you'll only see older posts from the same set of subreddits. r/all is all the subreddits sorted by popularity, if you keep scrolling you see lower and lower upvote counts.
Your home feed is your subscribed subreddits.
This is the censorship - you can only see posts from subs they white list, or subs you already know about.
it's also for the purpose of targeting ads. Even if you don't have a reddit account the home page is still going to tailor the feed to subreddits you've visited in the past or your geo-location for example. this makes it easier for advertising.
simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization
AKA collect more data for advertisers.
It's to funnel users into propaganda bubbles and voids, making it harder for them to see alternate content and viewpoints. It's been pretty obvious with how aggressively they remove and discipline antifascist politics.
Also makes it easier to serve them personalised higher value ads.
Lemmy could use an /c/all community default. It’s a catchall for things that don’t have a dedicated community yet. It helps create posts and discussions.
Their admins could stop being nazi sympathizers too, but that's a pipe dream.
thank god the threadiverse exists
