I used to use reddit with Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), a browser add-on/extension that has tons of customizations. This was even before there was an old/new reddit, it was just reddit.

So it’s not that we chose to use “old” reddit, it was that we chose not to use “new” reddit. Going to the new design breaks RES and we would’ve missed out on all of those customizations and quality-of-life features that were missing without it.

Plus, “new” reddit is designed for doom-scrolling and serving adds, and not about promoting users to engage in dialog. Most of my reddit interaction was around niche content, where I actually dived deep into threads. New reddit got in the way of that.

And not to mention killing soulless savages (indigenous peoples) under the blessing of god.

Well I guess nobody expected that.

I’d go with state actors first.

When a particular social media platform is centralized, you can buy yourself a say percentage of stock and have sway over it (cough tencent), or have a useful idiot ruin the platform (cough musk), or another useful idiot to run propaganda you like anyway (cough truth social, cough fox news, cough newsmax…), or yet another that will sell out it’s host country’s citizens for cold hard cash (cough facebook).

But when that social media platform is decentralized? Well, then you’d need to figure out how to poison the well early on to stave off adoption. The Saudi Arabias, UAEs, Chinas definitely don’t like the idea of lemmy, and it’ll be way harder for them to control if critical mass is hit.

Here’s my pipe, and my last rock. I want you to have it, I want you to keep it. Please, it’s symbolic.

And if I come here and ask for it, I want you to tell me “nooo”, ok?. Even if I hit you hard, with wood. Or grab your arm and bend it up behind your back till it snaps like a fucking kit kat. You still tell me no, right?

13 Years, 300k+ karma. Haven’t been on reddit since Jun 30th, and I don’t plan on ever going back.

Ever since “new reddit”, I only ever used old.reddit with RES. The writing is on the wall, and old.reddit will soon be on the chopping block too.

Fuck the enshitification of reddit.

Totally agree. I was just highlighting how the excerpt I quoted could’ve been posted by either position; I wouldn’t have been able to tell which.

Oh I agree. I was simply pointing out that the statement I highlighted can totally be applied by either side of the debate, verbatim.

It actually made me chuckle, since if it were the only thing in your comment, I wouldn’t have known what your position was.

All that being said, I agree it’s adapt rabidly or die. The real tragedy here in the short term, is it’s going to be the worlds most vulnerable populations to die first.

Getting triggered and writing screeds because you’ve spent decades getting caught up in hate over food choices won’t stop the planet burning.

Likewise, I’m sure.

Good ol’ Frank “Franky” Frankson. Not many people know it, but he’s actually the nephew Jimmy Two Times.

That’s pretty daring of them to do, they’re risking their severance package by so publicly making their former employer look so bad. Oh wait…

In a similar vein is to look for government auctions in town. I’ve got a major public university in my city, and it maintains a permanent auction warehouse. Like once a month they sell all kinds of stuff, from mini fridges to laptops by the pallet.