• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      371·
      5 months ago

      They have bots roaming the site, banning people, seemingly at random. I went from never having been banned on reddit on a 10 year account, to banned for 3 days twice, and then permanently banned all in the span of a month.

      And when did this happen? The week after the IPO went public.

      And what kind of messages got me banned? Well one of them was in /r/Cleveland where a guy posted a security camera picture of the guy who stole his bike. I made the comment that the theif looks like a guy who stole MY bike in the early 90s, and that maybe this was his son. Keeping it in the family business.

      I was banned for that comment for “Harassment and abuse of reddit users”. The action was performed by an AI bot. If I wanted an appeal I could appeal. So I did. It SAID the appeal was handled by a real human. They still sided with the bots decision, which tells me that it wasn’t handled by a real person.

      So now I’m here. Just don’t steal my bike, ok guys?

    • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      5 months ago

      The cracked apps using personal API keys stopped working a few days ago. Already fixed now I think.

        • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          5 months ago

          Have you heard of ReVanced? Most commonly known for patching youtube to allow more features, mainly adblocking. Well they have patches for a ton of apps now so if you have a reddit account and say you’re a developer you get your own API key they can be injected into some apps. It didn’t work for me for a while but I eventually got it to work for the random search result from reddit.

        • Remorhaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Not all of them, Dystopia for example was allowed to stay as is because of accessibility features that the native app lacks. It was even working just fine during the recent outage.

        • Klaymore@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          I use Geddit occasionally, I don’t know if it supports voting or commenting though since I just browse.

  • Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.mlEnglish
    68·
    5 months ago

    Hi I’m new here. My friend has been trying to get me in for ages. The reason I am here is because my Reddit account of 10 years and one of 3 years got permabanned. And it was really for no reason. I tried to make a new account and that also got instantly permabanned. That’s when I found out that my 10year account also got banned. So yeah fuck what happened on Reddit.

    I’m really liking lemmy and my iOS app (mlem) and enjoying the community. The only thing I miss from Reddit is the video integration.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5313·
    5 months ago

    I’ll never stop complaining about Y axis that don’t start at zero.

    If that means the change isn’t noticable, then the change isn’t noticable.

    • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
      341·
      5 months ago

      Yeah when I showed the cop the graph of my speed before getting in my car to be 67000mph (speed of the earth around the sun) to 67080mphwhen I was driving it he couldn’t see the difference so I didn’t get the ticket.

      Or sometimes choosing a common-sense reference makes sense.

      Which isn’t to say THIS one does, it doesn’t, but the absolutism of “it’s nerf or nothing” is a tad extreme.

      • aasatru@kbin.earth
        12·
        5 months ago

        Well, it does make sense, doesn’t it?

        What we’re interested in is not the number of users, but the trends: whether the number is increasing or decreasing over time. Starting the axis at 0 would not be useful in this regard, as the trend would be almost completely obscured.

        • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          If the goal is to visualize growth trends, I don’t think raw user counts are the correct value to track on the Y-axis at all. That’s where my head was at when I said it doesn’t make sense. Abusing the Y-axis to try and coax data out in this case is just a symptom of having the wrong measure.

          Daily new users. Percent user growth.

          • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
            3·
            5 months ago

            There is visible growth in posts and comments, which is good. However, I’ve also started seeing spam posts.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          5 months ago

          For something like that, you need a special graph, and I forget the name because no one uses it.

          Y axis is “percent growth” and the X axis isn’t at the bottom, it’s in the middle.

          Like, the only way I can describe it is a line graph because it technically is, but there’s some name done it.

          Capitalism doesn’t like it tho, because there’s “red numbers” and red numbers scare investors

          • aasatru@kbin.earth
            1·
            5 months ago

            At some point recognisability is also worth something. I can immediately read this graph, I understand it, it’s good.

            Occasionally it’s used in a confusing way where people assume it starts at zero despite it not being the case, and sometimes intentionally so. But that’s just the case here.

    • Nougat@fedia.io
      174·
      5 months ago

      I’ll never stop complaining about Y axis that don’t start at zero.

      If that means the change isn’t noticable, then the change isn’t noticable.

    • uhN0id@programming.devEnglish
      12·
      5 months ago

      My friends seem to prefer tolerating the official Reddit app because “there is more on Reddit”. I’d rather have less for the time being and not lose my mind with that POS app not to mention fuck Reddit for what they did to 3rd party devs and users alike with that API change.

      I refused to install the Reddit app out of principle other than just to check it out one time out of morbid curiosity. Without the 3rd party app creators that made apps long before Reddit did, back when Reddit wouldn’t, Reddit probably wouldn’t be anywhere as big as they are today. They brought new users in that likely wouldn’t have used Reddit anywhere except on a mobile device and certainly not in a browser when even retail stores had their own apps.

      When my 3rd party app (Boost) officially stopped working the other day I officially stopped being a Reddit user in the process. Not doing another hacky workaround to make the app work again. Time to make Lemmy my new social/forum and ditch Reddit except for when I need to do a Google search because Reddit is still a great archive of knowledge.

  • dumblederp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    5 months ago

    Reddit is getting worse.

    Anyone noticed they’ve added tracking into the url?

    They’re AI banning more and more people for nonsense.

    My perma-banned account still works well enough, I just can’t comment or up/downvote. I can still subscribe and use RES.

    • juice702@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      5 months ago

      Been a long time user and my 13 year old account banned because i said something bad about Putin. Deleted all reddit apps, my account’s posts and whatnot, and now I’m here. Already digging this site.

      • Pacattack57@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        I got banned because a mod found one of my comments distasteful and I accidentally commented on one of my alts. It’s ludicrous what those mods get away with.

      • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        apparently you can still edit your comments with a banned account. some day when i’m really bored i’ll go through and start editing all my comments on my 10+ yr old permabanned accts to be 10,000 characters of n̸̢̡̡̟̣̝̖͉̺̟̫̜̱̬̗̜̗̋̇ớ̷̢̧̡̦͍̝̖̣̪͉͕͕̙̖̭͔̯̪͚̯̳͇̻̬̺̲͓̞̫̦̝̮͉̞̣͖̻̮͔͍̤̺͕̦̓͑͗̀̂͋̍̆͛̂̏̽͐͘̕͠͠͝n̸̨̞͖̫̭̱̯̬̩̲͎̫̟͇͚̪̜̤̟͓͕̜̟̖̻̗͙̭̣̼͂͌͆̿̏̐͑́͘͝s̴̢̢̧̧̰̼̳̼̳̞̠̯̙̗̏̽̓̿̏̈́̀͑͂̀͊̏̆̎͑̚͜ȩ̴̛̪̻͍͙̰̥͖̱̘͚̦̻̎̏͑̊͂̈́̿̇̃̌̍́̽̌̒̊̃́͌̀̿̉̔́̑̕̕͘̚͠͝n̸̛̦͌͌̔͆͛͐̄̃͊̓̾͂͂s̷̛̼͙̞̬͙̠͉̖͙͎͇͓̫͓̺̯͈̣͍̮͑̃̐̑̌̃̔̇̚̚͝͝͠e̴̢̛͎̣̱͚͈̝̮̥͇̭͈̐̎̄̔̾͆̉̓́̂́̋̉̋̀̔̄̂̍͋̒̄̈́͐͂͐͘͘͜͝͠

  • TIN@feddit.ukEnglish
    31·
    5 months ago

    I’ve been here since the API changes at Reddit and the sub blackouts that followed, and I think it’s becoming more interesting all the time. Back in the early days there was no point in refreshing the /all feed more than once every 4 hours as it just wouldn’t have changed, now it’s much more than that. The number of posts with actual discussions are increasing, and other than a few blocked users, communities and one instance, I like the people I’m sharing space with.

    • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      5 months ago

      I also greatly prefer the people on Lemmy and I hope that continues even as more and more redditors show up. Without a spez calling the shots, perhaps instances will tend to ban and defederate from far-right radicalization chambers instead of promoting them to the front page.

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        5 months ago

        Pretty much all of the far-right instances are defederated from the major servers, except lemm.ee, which intentionally lets users block instances they don’t like.

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      5 months ago

      Activity seems to be up, not just users. It’s also active users, not just accounts

    • Donut@leminal.spaceEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      Lol I was thinking of this one when I saw the thread title. Still, I don’t see a way to filter those out

  • yrmp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    5 months ago

    Fuck reddit.

    Feeding user data to an LLM. Jacking up API costs. Being generally unusable on mobile. Usurping old.reddit.com to try and force me to the official app on “unmoderated” and NSFW threads.

    Now with their IPO and a need to deliver ever increasing subscriber numbers and improved metrics for shareholders every quarter, the writing is on the wall.

    I hope it goes to zero. The only sad thing is all the knowledge that will be lost due to the sky high API pricing when the site eventually does sunset. I’m guilty myself of trying to de-enshittify google somewhat by adding reddit to just about every search. Hopefully people smarter than me have ways to archive that info.

    • Wiz@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Yes, but glue is the surprisingly tasty ingredient on pizza too keep your toppings from falling off.

      Just be sure to use non-toxic glue, because the other kind tastes terrible.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Feeding user data to an LLM.

      I mean, somewhere, even if not now, if the Threadiverse becomes large enough, someone is gonna be using comments here to train an LLM too. That’s just gonna be a given unless you want to use non-public forums, and that kills the searchability and accessbility to everyone that makes most forums valuable. It’s even easier to access here than on Reddit – just set up an instance and federate with and subscribe to everything.

      I guarantee you that people are going back and training LLMs on archives of old Usenet discussions too.

      The rest of it, yeah, I get.

  • dzanno@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    5 months ago

    I was word of mouthed here yesterday. As someone interested in self hosting and open source i might be the target audience sure, but I am here due to recent news and such

  • u/unhappy_grapefruit_2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    5 months ago

    That’s nice. Hopefully thanks to this outcome. More niche hobbyist community’s will appear on lemmy And hopefully less auth left tankies I would like to see more posts and communities that bring more people together and not apart. Arts and crafts,Gaming,music,History,Exercise,Cooking,foraging Essentially the world’s the oyster. There’s a million hobbies out there I would hope there’s a good amount of Lemmy communities based upon those hobbies

    • cRazi_man@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      Lemmy hasn’t really gotten over the fragmentation of communities. There are multiple gaming subs, some have double digit users, some have thousands. That shit needs to be consolidated.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      I would like to see more posts and communities that bring more people together and not apart. Arts and crafts,Gaming,music,History,Exercise,Cooking,foraging Essentially the world’s the oyster. There’s a million hobbies out there I would hope there’s a good amount of Lemmy communities based upon those hobbies

      Be the change you want to see - share interesting posts, start communities if you see a niche, etc.

    • RBG@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      This is fucking hilarious.

      The entire time since that announcement last year dropped I have been using the modified Infinity for Reddit client that has my own API code in it.

      I told myself if that stops working, whatever, I will not try to keep the app up to date and I will not switch apps. Lemmy works well enough for me now.

      Up to this day the few times I have been accessing reddit through it I have no issues whatsoever. Amazing. Then again I never tried while they had issues with their official app, I suppose. Unless that is right now as I type this, because right now my app is still working fine.

    • demizerone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      They are also using automation to review comments that might harm their advertising partners. After 15 year a joke about Boeing got my account suspended. I deleted my top comments and closed it after that. Fucking trash. Now I only got to the site if Google search takes me there and with ad block enabled. Spez can suck it.

  • Skepticpunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    5 months ago

    I’ve been spending my time both here and on Reddit recently, and I’ve honestly been enjoying it more here. Though I mostly lurk.

  • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    5 months ago

    What happened on March 3rd? (Mass increase in active users)

    Oh man, and what happened on April 3rd? (Mass drop in average comments)

    Did I miss a meeting where we decided to just have massive shifts on the 3rd of every month? Is something big happening now, am I missing it?

  • set_secret@lemmy.worldEnglish
    215·
    5 months ago

    I’ve found I’ve been blocked on world news for posting comments againts fascist ideas. I’ve been shadow banned from world news for posting comprehensive evidence of china’s crimes against humans aka their concentration camps. It wasn’t opinion i linked to studies, and it wasn’t inflammatory. My comments were removed and now i can’t like or comment.

    It’s really disturbing ngl. I mean reddit was trash too but i expected some freedom of information here.