• red_pigeon@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I stopped using reddit after they dropped the bomb on the devs and I’m not a fan of the company.

    I understand the hatred towards them, but this is definitely expected from a company like reddit, and any other social media for that matter. As users we must be aware that we don’t own the content in their platform.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the same story comes from Instagram tomorrow, though I suppose there will be a bigger outcry then.

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      8 months ago

      Honestly over the last year since the great migration, the discussions on lemmy have really grown and matured to the point where i don’t really see the value of reddit anymore

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        8 months ago

        The real value of reddit for me lies in its cache of information contained in answers to questions from over the years. Whenever I’m looking online for a solution to a problem I’m trying to solve I’ll eventually add “reddit” to the search and I almost always find the answer that way.

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        8 months ago

        The only use I have for Reddit anymore is for super niche information. For example we were planning to go to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom today but it’s going to rain this afternoon. I checked their site and it said they were open 11-6, my BIL checked their app and at 11:30 it said they were currently closed. Found a Reddit post from someone confirming the park was closed for the weekend, and we didn’t waste a trip up. (as an extra annoying aside, apparently this information was posted on Six Flag’s Instagram page, because expecting a huge company to maintain a website is I guess just too much when they can offload it to social media.)

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        8 months ago

        For me there’s still value in the niche communities like r/rimworld and the like, but for everything else I’m firmly on Lemmy now

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      8 months ago

      Don’t know if it was against usage terms, but I have been able to get chatgpt answers written ‘in the style of’ various subreddits since the initial release (or perhaps the second release)