cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/antisocialmedia@piefed.social/p/2539101/reddit-is-the-latest-platform-to-embrace-the-for-you-feed
More enshittification of what was once one of the best sites on the innertubes. I have been a member for 14 years after a few years of just lurking. Got permanently banned a couple of weeks ago for Dog knows what! Thought about appealing for 10 seconds and realized they did me a favor. The IPO was their fucking downfall. Good riddance to the bot farm.
There are many subs that are downright unusable now. Some are so insanely rightwing I don’t know if this is actually what society is like or whether these are all bots stirring shit up and masturbating each other
Users: Bring back r/all and 3rd party apps!
reddit “leadership”: Sorry, best we can do is a new dumpster fire of a feed that everybody hates.
Still they needed to do was roll back to 2010 Reddit and they’d be good again. But that’s ok, we have Lemmy now. Let Reddit rot.
We have the Fediverse now, Lemmy is only part of it. That said, I’d rather have the Fediverse than any version of reddit if I had to choose.
Don’t worry they’ll just add more bots to fake upvotes and engagement.
As far as I can tell, they’re way ahead of you!
and man is it enshitified
By design. It’s to increase engagement and promote propaganda.
Slow walking the transformation of a discussion forum into a propaganda machine…
They got rid of r/all, then ruined the rest of the sort algorithms, now it’s just “Popular”, “News”, and “Latest” and it’s just ass, old posts, tons of reposts, almost no local/state/country subs, just horrible compared to how the site used to work.
Also the timing of killing r/all right before the midterms is pretty interesting, all these tech bro fuckers are trying to control and manipulate the world and nobody is doing anything about it.
Maybe its not a lot but i thought we here where doing at least something by moving to a decentralised platform?
Who is even supposed to be the knight to kill the tech industry dragon? Our leaders love the dragon.
It’s insane watching all these layoffs happening and thinking “well if this happened in the early 90’s or early 2000’s surely someone would spin up a new business to compete with their old company” but who has the money? What if President dickhead and his merry band of racist pieces of shit won’t let them have a business license or other things they need? People are straight up being iced out of our upward mobility while corruption and nepotism are taking over.
All in all it leads me to feel like the only people who are going to save us from them is someone choosing decisive actions, and sooner than later, but then what? Because there will be major fallout.
Hopefully Brazil and other nations impacted bring some of this to heel, but most likely Big Tech will ignore them until there’s a change in leadership in the US, one that will hold them accountable, but we’ll see if we fumble the midterms.
Even if we don’t fumble midterms Trump said he was going to set fire on shit if they lose, so it’s not like it’s going to be just fine then.
I’m glad someone else is paying attention, I don’t know how we on the Left haven’t gotten plans together for their next Jan 6 like attempt, or far worse.
I swear everyday is like living in the flashbacks leading up to the formation of the Republic of Gilead in the Handmaid’s Tale show, and as a dad and grandfather to a whole bunch of daughters and granddaughters it’s really worrisome, especially since I’m no longer the able-bodied man I used to be.
Literally couldn’t watch that show when I tried because it was too stressful. That shit’s happening right now. Had the same thing happen when I watched a Weimar era movie (at least that one I could make it through, and it had a sadly hopeful message still ignored to this day).
Anyone who can get out of the country should. The rest of us are fucked unless intelligence/the military decides he, probably those in power backing him, needs to go. But I think the billionaires (and trillionaire) are making their play right now, and they flood the Left with money too.
Our only hope of a peaceful solution is for people to radically reject any right leaning politics, even on the Left, and to begin recalling and impeaching anyone in support of this nonsense. I’m not talking radicalism, I’m talking actual progressives. But when Gavin Newsom is a likely Democrat set to run for office against Trump for his third term (please don’t let this be a thing), you’re fucked.
A peaceful solution is as likely to happen as me discovering unicorns are real on the same day I win the lotto and am struck by lightning, but sometimes I like to believe people are capable of something that won’t end in a shit ton of violence from one side or another. We’ve seen it before, it can happen again.
I have my plans together.
Talk to your friends, tell them they’re pos if they still like the pedophile, you’re a old man they’ll listen to you. Not me or any other woman.
Aaron Swartz must be rolling in his grave.
Yup that’s what made me leave.
If I hadn’t left already, this would have been non-negotiable. Even twitter allows you to only see posts by the people you follow.
Peeetuhhh
