Remember the days when Reddit would go down at least every month or so?
And that was the reason to start selling awards and beginning of the Enshittification of reddit.
Only back then it was presented as, ‘hey people of reddit, we have a problem, can you help us out?’ Instead of, ‘Fuck You! Pay Me!’ like the API bullshit.
I remember there was a TIL that was about how Reddit didn’t make enough money to pay for its servers so people started encouraging others to buy gold and to gild comments.
Then someone said it would be great to see a progress meter that shows whether we paid enough to pay for reddit for the day.
It was the golden age of reddit, if you’ll pardon the pun. Unidan was still around. Celebrities were engaging with the community. It was wild. Users wanted to see Reddit succeed and reddit proper wanted to help its users.
I’m still justice for Victoria and what they did to the AMA sub. That damn near killed all the cool engagement the site had. After that it just became endless shitposts with no real quality. It’s sort of the same on Lemmy, but with no corporate overlords. So I have that at least.
My hardcore Barb found its end due to a nice little ~3000 ms lag spike.
I was sceptical about playing a hardcore character in an online-only Diablo game and I guess I was right. Lesson learned: Hardcore is nothing but a waste of time, if deaths aren't even your fault anymore.
Yeh, who’s to know the truth? But then again, surely someone in Blizzard would “leak” the info if it was all some big conspiracy cover-up of a bungled patch.
That’s definitely true. And community moderators should consider at least trying to move their communities to smaller servers. Now that they’ve got some bigger subscriber numbers.
Not really. There are multiple instances which limits the chance. I assume some are able to access reddit too. Also, I’ve had more unreliability with Lemmy as its small servers and the code has often required restarts to fix issues.
What I mean is that since Lemmy is decentralized, the entire network can never be down. A few instances can be down, and your particular instance can be down, but the entirety of the network can never be down.
The entire network can be down. Its just harder as there is some built in redundancy. I’m sure reddit also has built in redundancy.
When my local instance is down, I use my alternate. Its much worse as its not as curated. Sure, there are apps to help sync them now but my instance is now reliable enough that inhavmt bothered.
I think it’s important to be realistic in the capabilities of Lemmy in looking at competing services.
It could’ve been a flubbed release. It started right at 3:00pm pacific, so I’m guessing that’s when they push to prod. It seems to be back up now, so I’m guessing they reverted.
I’ve reached a point where it feels like talking about an old ex.
“Hey, did you hear? Judy had a kid.”
“Good for her.”
Overall, it doesn’t matter either way because I don’t interact with them anymore. I don’t have malice (that only does you harm), just some good and bad memories from once upon a time.
Great point. I find it hilarious that every post in this comm that makes it to the front page has people complaining about the presence of the update, and it’s often the most upvoted comment. Your fb analogy is perfect.
I haven’t logged in there since July 1st after being there for 14 years. I don’t need to delete/unsubscribe because that would be interaction. It’s dead to me…a piece of the past.
The announced pricing is prohibitively expensive for apps that were previously free (and changes were basically immediate instead of giving apps a year to make changes).
And Reddit announced that NSFW results would not be returned by the API (which basically renders apps useless for many users)
And Reddit announced that NSFW results would not be returned by the API (which basically renders apps useless for many users)
And of course many subs use the NSFW flag for spoilers too, so you could really be missing out on a lot. On r/StarCraft they use the NSFW tag for recent tournament results, which is like the main thing I would want to discuss on there lol
They didn't stop allowing 3rd party app usage per se, they just priced it so absurdly high that they all had to stop operating or get multimillion dollar invoices.
...Which is technically just killing 3rd party apps, thinly disguised under a layer of potential profit. Pretty standard soulless corporate practice.
The fucking thing of it was that they couldn’t just develop a better app. Their multi-million dollar app team with access to the server source for crying out loud couldn’t compete with teams consisting of one guy in his garage. And that was while giving their app away while others were selling them for some serious cash.
I was an Alien Blue user since very close to its release, and I would never have become a Reddit user without it. If I’m remembering correctly (it’s been a while and I paid less attention to this kind of thing at the time), they had the exact same problem. Their in house app/website couldn’t compete with an app written by some guy. But AB was about it at the time. I don’t know about the absolute numbers on Android back then, but AB was far and away the most popular app on iOS. So when they bought it out, we all figured “Great! Now it’ll be even better with official support and all that funding.” We all know what happened there. They just killed it and went with internal projects.
Luckily I had also started messing around with one of those nifty little tablets Google made, so I had backup options. I didn’t find anything that equaled AB though. Then I discovered Apollo. I think I actually found it via the announcement on /r/apple, and I never looked back.
But, again, a guy in a garage. I’m guessing a lot of the popular android apps were similar. So now they’re just like “Fuck em.”
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