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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Can't say I'm sad.

I got permabanned on Reddit because of events involving powertripping moderators and every appeal I tried has been met only with generic bot auto replies. It seems impossible to get an actual human to look at my case for which I provided a lot of detail on what went wrong and how I was incorrectly permabanned (I was confronting moderators of one of my favorite subs about them violating their own Subreddit and Reddit's policy).

I've been trying for over 9 months but there's literally no way to get it fixed. And every new account eventually gets permabanned as well.

I'm so done with that garbage platform. Shame about the small fun communities I was in. But the downfall of Reddit can't come soon enough.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

He's rich and giggling. Quite likely does not give a shit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Well, here we are, he's surely winning at that

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

I've officially said my goodbyes. It's absolutely fucked over there. This is just one of many serious problems with Reddit. The CEO is tanking it harder than Musk tanked Twitter. He's musk'd it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I just killed what seems to be my millionth Reddit account upon this news discovery. I say millionth because I've been ban-evading from that micromanaging, power-hungry mod shithole for years just to spite them.

But if they're going to now go and paywall subreddits just to read them then I guess the fun is finally over.

Spez is just happily going about continuing to inhale whatever shit his man-crush in Musk farts out.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Deleted my account just now and jumped to lemmy. Wondering why I didn't sooner.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Download? Rightclick "Examine this frame", copy&paste, pandoc to markdown, is what i do.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I used Reddit for 12 years, which granted, isn't as long as some others, but it is really sad to see what it has become after all these years. It helped a lot back in the day, but now it is time to let it go.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

it was sad for me too. I haven't looked back since they banned 3rd party apps, it was time to let it go

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Since they killed RIF, in the shittest way possible, my usage went down significantly. I still miss RIF

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I don't use it out of hate towards the official app... I will never download it, I deleted my account also

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

I hopped on Reddit the week before the Digg migration happened. I'm not sure how I really took in the Internet before that (lolcats and wimp mostly), but I remember nearly the exact moment it happened. I'd never heard of Digg before that. I'd barely heard of Reddit.

It's not the same as it was back then, and I'm very happy to be done with it. Fuck spez/Steve Huffman, that piece of shit burned everything to the ground to enrich himself and piss on the community.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Same. It's a part of life though. At least as long as we're living in a capitalist nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll say this here, too: Based on the phrasing, this is probably competition for Patreon, not for current styled subreddits.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

And OnlyFans

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

*laughs in Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is there a way to fully download or scrape a full subreddit or say stackoverflow since they've both committed themselves to enshittification and alienating their userbases?

asking because that seems difficult to do and there's a lot of useful information on both sites

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Its not super hard, but the main hurdle will by bypassing whatever api limits there are such as by using multiple accounts

Certain libraries like praw still work to some extent (my discord bot is still running somehow) but trying to scrape all of the posts in a sub might have to be done slowly. You might be able to sort by old so that the results dont move relative to the page and then go page by page.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't there always a pay-walled subreddit, made by the community? I think you had to have had gold/premium to get invited.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yes. I remember being there for like a week long I guess because I managed to make a post that did well enough to attract someone to gild or give me some subscription time.

And like someone else already said, it wasn't that spectacular because The Lounge was just basically people shitposting. But they're shit-posting as subscribers so it wasn't anything you didn't already see without it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The lounge, don't worry it wasn't interesting

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Didn't they also already scrape that when they rebrand "gilding" to multi-tier award? Idk it's been years since i first got into there.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Good, bury reddit.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This really goes to show he has no clue how to monetize Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dude, the fucker has no clue how to RUN reddit much less monetize it.

He's the only clown running the entire circus. He's allowed the inmates run the asylum for years, he's allowed small-dicked neckbeard mods with too much time on their hands to power. He's been pushing out anybody that has a brain. He's made a killing on exploiting the vulnerable (if you're someone with mental issues, the last place you want to be is on Reddit with how much they don't give a shit about privacy on there. Please go elsewhere for your sake.).

He's scrubbed the existence of Aaron Swartz, he's made the other co-founder irrelevant. No, this is Spez just being a power-hungry fuckwad and it's showing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

He wants money and power. If he's getting those, then he's getting what he wants. We all know that Reddit was and is overvalued. Several of the things Reddit has done in the past year or two guarantee that it won't be around in the long run, and perhaps not in the medium run. But if he can get his power and money now, he wins.

Many of us actually use social media in part because we value the community. But some people are greedy jerks and they just don't care, and it doesn't matter what you say to them because their values are unfriendly.

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