Dear User,
We will soon begin rolling out changes to Reddit’s User settings. It is getting a refresh that includes changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings.
As part of these changes, we are retiring a setting that you have previously turned on that limited how we used your activity from the Reddit platform to personalize ads. We have replaced the setting with a new option to select categories of ads that you may not wish to see.
More details are available in our announcement and help center.
These changes are rolling out starting today and you may see the changes over the next few days.
Users will be tracked with no opt out. Posts may be monetized, which will make content even worse No refund or any type of usable credit for users that spent hundreds on Reddit coins The entire vibe has done a 180° since all these new “positive changes” are rolled out.
I’m not spending much time on Reddit these days but in no way is this the end for Reddit. The VAST majority of the user base just doesn’t care. We may see more users trickling in and Lemmy is sure more ready now than ever but people are so used to being advertised to, that this won’t be a big issue long term. People are dumb.
Idk man, literally asked a bunch (3) of friends how reddit is lately who had no idea what was going on this summer with the API changes and didn't care when I told them. Here are there responses:
"They've gotten really bad at putting relevant shit in front of me"
"Been a ton more ads lately"
And
"dude thank you for telling me reddit had porn lol"
“dude thank you for telling me reddit had porn lol”
There's what now?!
Jesus
Jesus had abandoned us. To go watch porn.
I always wondered if there were people oblivious to porn on reddit. It always seemed like common knowledge those days.
It's not the usual manufactured porn by companies, it's usually people showcasing a video of themselves.
A lot of people's approach to social media is
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login an absolute total of times equal to one, on an app, and never again, that session better last
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do zero content curation, what comes is what you eat
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most scroll past shit, don't interact, don't produce
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maybe click on a navigation link once or twice once a month
So of course they don't know there's porn. They're basically only seeing their feed (so basically, r/popular) and the default subs, which doesn't have porn by default ever since reddit removed its ability to show up on default feeds.
I meant more around "reddit is known for having porn channels" and less "reddit pushes porn in your default feeds".
You're right though, the casual dead-minded scroller wouldn't know about it.
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It used to be moreso, but before i left reddit it turned into people spamming promoting their onlyfans accounts, some subs felt like scrolling through a gallery of ads.
The amount of porn on reddit is astonishing.
Just go to r/randnsfw a few times.
Only if you have an account, can't view NSFW subreddits or posts without one
The hope is that the non-dumb people will leave for here, and that they're the ones who make quality content.
I came here from Reddit and all I've done is bitch about politics and show people my asshole. Just sayin'.
All I've done is shown people my politics and bitch about assholes!
I can't find the asshole post.
Like an average thursday night with friends.
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Fuckin legend
Reddit users will be reposting Lemmy content for real money gold by 2025. Fucking spez…
One thing I hadn't thought much about until recently-- the quality of comments is so much higher here, and I don't have to typically scroll through a wasteland of dudebro jokes to get to relevant replies.
So, comments are also 'content,' and from what I'm seeing, Lemmy already has a distinctly smarter / more mature userbase.
This is for sure the final nail, it's going to collapse just like Facebook and Google did after all that ad stuff. Profiting off a user data is clearly a failed business model and we see that time and time again.
That infographic with the most profitable companies in the world…both of them are still on it. And Reddit wants to be.
Facebook, the site with 3B MAU?
The weird thing about the internet is it's hard to make money. Information is free in.both senses of the term
Yeah no one who's still there cares at all.
2016: All I need, to have hope for the future, is a large majority of people willing to slightly inconvenience themselves in order to change things for the better.
2023: Human intelligence has peaked, idiocracy is here, I for one welcome our AI overlords, earthonfire.jxl, etc.
I'm sure they care at least a little bit but not enough to move on
I completely agree with this!
Also, it's an unfortunate rule of thumb that, when you see a sensationalized headline, most likely it won't have the effect it claims to have…
Well, let's hope there's a steady migration to Lemmy (though numbers are small here)
Edit: added last line
No opt out? Expect trouble from the EU.
They did mention the options with different in some locations.
does Reddit still have a .onion site? I feel like perhaps you can use the .onion site and be able to escape this. the tor browser was specifically modified from Firefox to avoid fingerprinting.
Fingerprinting is mostly pointless once you're logged into the site.
You can use Mullvad which is TOR but without the TOR.
Can you explain more about Mullvad wrt Tor? I’m shopping for a new VPN & looked into Mullvad extensively because it’s my #1 choice so far. What about it specifically makes you say that?
Mullvad the browser, not the VPN. They partnered with the TOR project to create it. So it has all the same browser protections of the TOR browser except that it doesn't go through the TOR network so it's actually mostly useable for general daily use.
Mullvad is probably the best choice exclusively for VPN. I chose Proton only because of their "suite" of products under a single subscription.
Ahhhh, my apologies…I completely misunderstood!
Thank you for taking the time to explain all that, and for the positive words about Mullvad VPN. My current subscription is almost up, so I should get it soon. Have a good one :)
I think this is more for accounts, since it tracks upvote/downvote, etc
It's common to run different rulesets based on region
you underestimate people's complacency and inertia, in no way this is end of reddit
Yeah, people think tracking you for ads will dissuade anyone? Like, Instagram has a content to ad ratio of 33%, and people give zero fucks.
I mean, having some users isn't the same as having a ton of users using the product for hours a day. They can still say people are using it, but it's far from how it used to be (actually goes for Instagram and Facebook as well). There will always be people still using them, but for less time and getting less enjoyment out of it. The majority of users will not use it much at all, only out of some sense of necessity. Instagram and Facebook are literally unusable in my opinion due to ads and sponsored content, most people I know that used to spend hours on those two sites now barely use them at all, and that's the direction Reddit wants to head in.
Exactly.
I'm new here. I left Reddit yesterday. No looking back.
SAME. Relay for reddonk stopped working, needed updating, and came back with an unavoidable subscription model suggesting i should pay 5.99/mo to continue "enjoying" reddit at my pace. Some people probably would, "oh, what's that one banana a month"? I don't sign in, thus I don't post, comment, vote, reward. This is just me being charged to lurk on a website that forked in ungodly amounts of profit over a reward system they trash canned. Reasonably so because they didn't really reward the user as much as it was just micropaymemts to reddit, and people were noticing. Instead we are "rewarding all 3rd party users by letting them pay to use our content".
Mind you this is on top of reddit recent announcing that they will no longer give you the option to not be tracked, instead replacing it with "tires of ads you can opt out from"
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This would've resulted in my leaving if I hadn't left in June.
Saved me 3.5 months.
the announcement was finally the one that made me leave. better late than never i guess!
Welcome!
Right? I hope more and more people leave. It’d be great if more users came to lemmy, but I’d be content just seeing people leave that putrid site
I might just start visiting forums for relevant information again. Lemmy seems to be pretty decent for now. Reddit really has gone downhill.
Is this even legal in the EU?
No.
I deleted my reddit accounts and signed up to lemm.ee today b/c of the advert policy change.
Noice. I still use Reddit on desktop occasionally, but haven’t touched mobile since the api change.
If you wanna keep your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) that you're subscribed to before deleting your Reddit account, I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.
It's called Reddit Account Manager, and it's 100% free.
You can also use it to manage your Lemmy account(s), of course.
Thanks for such an awesome trip!
Users can also use Redact to delete their data, and then delete their reddit account
https://old.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku/comments/14frr4u/reddit_seppuku_how_to/
Yep, the ideal workflow for migrating would be something like this:
- Use Reddit Account Manager to neatly organize and store your Reddit accounts, bookmarks, and subscriptions
- Request your data archive from Reddit itself
- Use something like Redact or Power Delete Suite to remove your content from Reddit
- Permanently delete your accounts from Reddit
- Move to a federated alternative (optional)
Can I use this with Android?
Your question’s a little nuanced, so let me try to answer this as thoroughly as possible:
The short answer is: If the platform you choose to use it is accessible from your Android phone, then yes. But it’s not Android- or iOS-specific.
Out of the platforms that it’s available on (Airtable, Notion, Coda, ClickUp, and Baserow), all of them except for Baserow have native mobile apps. With that said, Baserow is also mobile responsive, so you don’t need a native mobile app to work with Reddit Account Manager.
- Reddit Account Manager is a template built on top of those tools (Airtable, Notion, Coda, ClickUp, and Baserow), so you’ll need an account with at least one of those to use it.
- Reddit Account Manager is built without code.
Hope that clears things up. :)
how do I get it without giving away my email address to some random website?
You should be using an email forwarding/alias service such as SimpleLogin, or apples proprietary hide my email service for example. You can have an infinite amount of alias emails that all forward to your main, and have 100% control over.
The other option is older school, just make another account somewhere. You can also create automated rules to just forward all emails from their to your main too.
sure, but people could also host their freeware in a way that doesn't require me to do any of those.
I agree, but your question wasn't phrased that way :p
*sigh* because sometimes instead of telling someone "it sucks that in order to get that one piece of software from your website you make me create an account despite me never going to visit it again", you can phrase it a bit more politely and hope that they, you know, figure out the intent behind the question rather than take it so incredibly literally.
I'd open source it if I could, but since Reddit Account Manager is built without code, I can't host it on GitLab or GitHub.
You could use a service like SimpleLogin, Addy, Duck, or just a temporary fake email generator. I don't mind if you give me a fake email address—you have a right to privacy.
If it helps, my website's hiram.io. I realize that's still "random" in the grand scheme of things, but it should at least show you I'm a real person, and I build stuff to build a better web.
Looking at Twitter/X, this won't be the final nail. People stick to the platforms they're on as long as it doesn't directly Negative impacts them too much.
The difference, I think, which may make it easier to switch is that, on Twitter, you follow specific people. On Reddit, you only subscribe to specific communities, many of which have already been replicated in some way on Lemmy. You can't replicate people, though.
Yet.I think you forgot that Mastodon exists. Either that or you simply refuse to mention it because it's so desolate in there.
No, I didn't forget it. It's just that the "specific people" haven't moved over to Mastodon, so people who follow those specific people haven't moved over.
The "specific communities" (or at least the large ones) have moved over or been copied to Lemmy, so it's easier for people who subscribe to those communities to move over.
I understand your point.
Nobody who remains there gives a fuck.
It's only just begun. That's what they said about Xitter ages ago as well, but if it can get worse it absolutely fucking will
Sounds like it violates gdpr
Won't be rolled out in GDPR countries, for sure.
This is America.
They won't even try to roll out this in EU
Oh no they will, they just won't tell you about it.
No, it said it won't roll out in specific countries. Which most likely means EU countries.
If they try to circumvent GDPR, they would get fined so hard Serena Williams would slap Ohanian to the other side of the tennis court.
"Social media website receives record fine for GDPR violation", I'm sure we've seen that headline somewhere before…
They reset all my notification settings. I deleted the app.
This is just the continuation of the instagrammification if reddit. They want to turn it into a influencer platform where people are desperately trying to make money so that they can take a big cut of it.
I don’t think this will move the needle at all
Reddit mods had a chance to migrate but decided to sit and wait thinking they could change Reddit
It's not about the needle, it's about how Reddit acts during its death throes.
Reddit can't make money unless they monetize every user in every way possible, including selling their personal data if they have it. The API garbage was an attempt to monetize users in ways even their own app doesn't, and also an admission that advertising isn't paying the bills, or they would have just started advertising through the API.
So now we're seeing how Reddit behaves once they realize that charging for API access doesn't work. They will sell everyone and everything until they shut down.
People should have assumed they were before
Reddit mods
I know tons of mods that left reddit and are on lemmy instances now. Had a chance to migrate? what does that even fucking mean, we can't bring subreddits over. we can't hold a gun to the subreddit population and say "goto lemmy now" and most of us were locked out by reddit for shuttering our subreddits anyway, and replaced with scabs.
Explain yourself for this shit take.
When the big subs had their vacations they had to put their lemmy instance (or other place of migration) on the page
most of us were locked out by reddit for shuttering our subreddits anyway, and replaced with scabs.
Hence the lost their chance
So it's mods fault reddit went all musk? get fucked
It’s the fault of mods who tried shutting down subs instead of moving people
Anyone with a brain would know shutting down a sub would just see them being replaced so the ones doing that were just providing scapegoat outrage to keep people on Reddit
Yeah it.should have been done on day 1
Nah, they just don't want to lose their god given right (and status) to be volunteer mods of reddits.
"Two days broooo"
