The notifications are redirecting even Old Reddit users to WWW… not a good sign…

    • dev_null@lemmy.ml
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      13 days ago

      The only time I’m there is when I search for something and the answer happens to be a Reddit post/comment. I hope this will happen less and less often, but there is genuinely a good decade of knowledge in there. It’s not rare that a 7 years old Reddit comment solves my issue.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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        13 days ago

        It’s not rare that a 7 years old Reddit comment solves my issue.

        It will be soon, and I agree but I think we will all be shocked how quickly the fediverse grows lots of niche communities. I don’t think the numbers will grow as fast as the amount of niche content either, because I think this will be a product of highly motivated people who come here specifically to recreate those niche communities and contributing to fleshing them out far more than a similar sized community would be on a corporate social network.

  • abbadon420@lemm.ee
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    13 days ago

    That’ll lose them some users, but they’ll truly seppuku themselves when they inevitably drop the porn.

    • Sylos@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      Because there’s a lot relevant forum content that’s been absorbed by reddit over the years and lemmy isn’t there.

          • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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            10 days ago

            nope, the only users for that app is people who has OF/ and advertising thier links account, from another site they are doing it because the app apparently, they are less likely to look intoy our account for suspicious activity if you multitudes of accounts rather than a PC browser.(of course they use proxies and anti-detection browsers too.

    • hydroxycotton@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      I’ll bite I guess. I use Firefox with ublock to browse two niche communities. One is for the small city I live in which is relatively active and a very useful source of local news/events info. I’ll stop using reddit if I can’t use an ad blocker or if they make me use an app etc.

      • Flagstaff@programming.devOPEnglish
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        12 days ago

        Waterfox (water beats fire), AdNauseam (uBO fork that also clicks ads to mess up their tracking data), and NoScript (selective JavaScript-disabling per site) here!

    • Flagstaff@programming.devOPEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Because I don’t want to make another account just for an AutoHotkey discussion board, but /c/AutoHotkey is dead while /r/AutoHotkey is very much alive. The same can be said for so many other subs. Why else would one stay there?

    • vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 days ago

      I don’t have an active account anymore (mine got banned because I called someone a fascist sanewasher and any new account I try to make gets immediately banned), but I still browse Reddit specifically because there are several subreddits for my local area (my county, my suburb, and the big city nearby) which are pretty active. I get a lot of local information from there which really isn’t available in such a concise way anywhere else.

  • Tidesphere@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    I deleted my account a long time ago but still visit on old.reddit. When they get rid of support for old.reddit I will finally just no longer visit because the modern formatting is completely non-navigable

  • Pamasich@kbin.earth
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    9 days ago

    The notifications are redirecting even Old Reddit users to WWW…

    That’s not the issue. If you configured your settings correctly (they’re per-device and get reset on clearing cookies), www.reddit.com is still old reddit too.

    The issue is that neither chat nor notifications respect that. They both enforce shreddit despite oldreddit being configured as the default.

    And yes, the only realistic reason is that they’re phasing out old reddit by replacing its features one by one by shreddit-exclusive ones.