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On modern social media, even if you had a group full of smart and reasonable people, the platform itself is injecting crap that may well drive out many of them.
by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
On modern social media, even if you had a group full of smart and reasonable people, the platform itself is injecting crap that may well drive out many of them.
I rececently returned to Reddit since there are no other remaining discussion venues for one of my hobbies. I looked at the new-Reddit interface and shuddered: ads are being shown among comments, and many comments are hidden by defaul because apparently discussion and community brings insufficient engagement for a modern ad-based internet business. Even if I and a tiny, tiny percentage of people are still using the old-Reddit interface, obviously the overall culture there is going to be molded by the default one.
- Espressosaurus 1y agoOld reddit is unfortunately just a rounding error. I weep for the day they decide to kill it.
- noir_lord 1y agoI don't, the utility of reddit has declined over time for me but there are still a handful of reddits that I enjoy but them killing old.reddit.com is absolutely what will push me off the platform entirely. Though at this point I spend (or waste depending on PoV) much less time on reddit than I used to.
- dingnuts 1y agoweep? I'd finally be free. I wish this site would disappear too. Whoever designed these algorithms got me good, at a young age, and I don't think these sites have been a net positive overall or on me personally
- entropie 1y agoIam nearly 15 years on reddit now and I would miss it if i cant use old. or a good client. Iam sure sooner or later it will happen and ill most probably leave. Reddits quality went downhill over the years but there is more or less no successor/competitor. It will be over and buried forever. Eternal september gets them all. Side note: be free if you want to and dont make it dependent on decisions others do for you.
- seesaw 1y agoI am in the same boat. I think I will get a lot more of time back if they kill old
- ASalazarMX 1y agoWe are already free. If we keep returning to a few subreddits, it's because we can't find an equivalent community elsewhere. If they kill the old interface, we'll eventually use the new one if there are no other alternatives, no need to lie to ourselves.
- webspinner 1y agoNah, I just leave. Because I want too, and because I don't like Reddit's AI training ppolicies.
- webspinner 1y agoI'm sure they're going to eventually. They say they won't, but they deprecated private messages. Yeah, I did use those lol.
- sssilver 1y agoMy favorite Reddit UX scam is that you tap on comments to collapse them along with their children, UNLESS they’re an ad that masks itself exactly like a comment in which case you tap it with the intent of collapsing it, but instead you inadvertently increase RDDT shareholder value (at the expense of the time you waste closing the webview)!
- anoncow 1y agoIf I accidentally did it Adsense would ban me.
- webspinner 1y agoDo it anyway! Then you have a case against them.
- frank_nitti 1y agoNot to mention that, at least on the iOS app, the button to close an ad is in a totally different place than the rest of the UI screens, which is always in the top-left of the screen. A small “X” is placed in the middle-left of the ad image, to make you spend an extra second finding it, which I would assume they are happy to report as a user engagement metric to their advertisers.
- amarcheschi 1y agoI think it's possible to remove ads with reddit revanced
- spicybright 1y agoI refuse to use reddit with it's modern UI. Once old.reddit.com dies I'm hanging up my spurs
- Loughla 1y agoI left when they killed 3rd party app access. Honestly even the curated subs I was a part of were pretty toxic or echo-chambery now that I've had time to look back
- rurp 1y agoI don't know how anyone can use the official reddit mobile app for more than 5 minutes. Between the ads and terrible interface it's an awful experience. But I also hate facebook so I'm clearly not the target audience for this stuff. RedReader is a much better interface but lately has been having issues for me so I just haven't been using reddit. If and when they kill that client I'll be done with the platform.
- webspinner 1y agoI hate Facebook with a passion! Mostly because my family is there, and they're constant lecturers.
- derbOac 1y agoMaybe I'm in the minority, but with ad blockers I never see ads on Reddit. I honestly don't think I've ever seen an ad on Reddit at all, with a tiny exception for ads for other Reddit offerings, which is very recent for me. Not saying they're not on there, but the ad blockers must be doing a pretty good job on that site.
- webspinner 1y agoI don't usually see them either!
- shortrounddev2 1y agoI first joined reddit in 2010 because it was the best place to see other people's minecraft creations. I no longer have an account but by far the most commonly suggested videos for me when I view the front page without an account are 1. Car crashes 2. Street/bum fights 3. Conspiracy theory content (UFOs, Anti-vax, chemtrails) 4. Anti-semitic videos (one such video was titled "Kanye was right about everything") 5. Anti-muslim videos (weirdly I get a lot of Indian majority subreddits that post a lot of hate videos about Pakistan/Muslims) Every single one of these categories produces feelings of outrage. Reddit has just become a fucking hate machine. Not just hate toward other races, but hate toward the entire human race. Every video shows someone doing some anti-social shit, like people driving like total assholes, or running people over, or getting hit by a train after cutting off traffic, or beating each other senseless in public. In the 1990s there was a huge outcry over violence in media because of Mortal Kombat, Doom, and The Matrix, but here we are today watching actual people die on dashcams regularly. This has to be just bad for us on a really primal level
- webspinner 1y agoOK maybe try to escape the algorithm? This is different with Reddit, though. You'd have to figure out which settings you need to change.
- Mountain_Skies 1y agoIt's wild how many fan subreddits end up turning into hate boards for the sub's alleged purpose.
- yen223 1y agoPeople thought video games would turn people violent, turns out it was social media that did it
- noAnswer 1y agoWhen I visit Youtube in a privat tab from my German IP all I get is "be afraid of the other" alt right "vote for AFD", "chemtrails are here to get you" kind of videos. Not a singel "cute cat" or "interesting science fact" in sight. :-( It's almost as if they like the population to be afraid.
- stdclass 1y ago> since there are no other remaining discussion venues for one of my hobbies maybe you find a suitable board on 4chan
- webspinner 1y agoLol or just create one.
- webspinner 1y agoI'm leaving Reddit because of all this!
- kevin_thibedeau 1y agoThere are Firefox extensions that monkeypatch the old UI with usability enhancements and force a redirect for all reddit links.
- webspinner 1y agoYou bet there are, and I use them regularly. The ones I need, anyway.
- damnesian 1y agoI never use the app, only login to old. and when old is taken away, I will take my marbles and go home.
- webspinner 1y agoI don't either! Mostly because I don't use many apps anyway. I like the web.
- port11 1y agoMy theory is that Reddit as a community-builder died when their moderator crisis started, prompted by the API pricing issue. I swear I haven't seen a funny, Redditesque thread since then. No copypastas, none of the old memes. It's all slop, meaningless comments, and generic content these days. Endless reposts. I don't know what happened to Reddit…