except in select countries.
something's telling me it's the countries that make being able to opt out of profiling a legal requirement. praise be GDPR.
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2023
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praise be GDPR.
Thanks, I almost forgot to request my data like I do every month at https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
oh my
Why every month??
Most likely to annoy someone at reddit
That sounds like it's explicitly against the law in California, where they are headquartered.
Hm.
They did say "except in select countries".
They should probably change that to "jurisdictions" imo
It's an enshittification speed run
is it, though? I'd say the redesign was when things started going seriously downhill, and that's been introduced about 5 years ago. not much of a speedrun.
What redesign?
- 3rd party app & old.reddit.com user since forever
Anyone still using reddit is a lost cause
Somehow coming to the Reddit sub Lemmy feels like the "Reddit recovery group" 😁
... Hi, I'm ConstipatedWatson and I've not used Reddit for the past 4 days!
I still use Reddit on desktop but I've switched to Lemmy on mobile since Reddit killed third party apps.
I would use just Lemmy but it hasn't hit userbase criticality yet.
It's fine as a link aggregator but frustrating when a post I'm interested in has a deserted comment section.
The majority aren't dissatisfied enough to do anything about it, despite complaints. However, I'm hoping that some future action from Huffman will affect them adversely enough that it'd push them over that threshold and decide to do something about it—quit that site. I doubt a lot of them will make their way over here, so just them quitting is good enough for me.
That's how it worked for Mastadon. People come over in waves each time it gets slightly shittier, or so I've heard.
I have an old account that I wiped 9 times, but used to post the spez getting railed by busty Garfield meme, that of course were deleted by an admin. It’s lately getting harassment PM’s/comments regarding older posts that were reactivated despite multiple deletions. It’s like they’re trying to bait me back into an argument lol, it’s weird and really sad for the communities.
Meanwhile, I just installed Boost for lemmy, immediately paid to remove ads, and am having a great time.
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Who in the actual fuck keeps all this garbage alive? Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, all gone to shit, why do people insist on staying with them?
Are you familiar with 
?
Because all their friends are there, and redditors do not belong outside reddit.
Because my day isn't shitty enough, I went over there to see what's the vibe. Sure enough, people are complaining. There's also a surprising amount of bootlickers who parrot the "argument" that people have been saying things have been going downhill, but Reddit still is popular so it can't be going downhill. As if shitty things can't be popular.
I've seen a couple of people who saw this as the last straw, which is better than nothing, but I feel that those remaining in that site, no matter how they kvetch about it, deserves to be frog stew (as in that boiling frog metaphor). I'd love to be proven wrong though.
Seems like a lot of those people need to read Foundation.
I am unfortunately unfamiliar with that title. What is it about and what does it say about this situation (enshittification of Reddit, etc)?
At a guess, it's a correlation between the Empire having it's head in the sand about it's gradual collapse, and the enshittification of Reddit over the trust thermocline.
Edit: sorry, I thought you said you were familiar with the source. In Foundation there's a Galactic Empire which culturally and technologically stagnates to the point that the outer provinces break away, leading to the slow but inevitable collapse of the Empire. A breakaway faction (the Foundation) seeks to preserve the knowledge and technology of the Empire to reduce the duration of "barbarism" until a new Empire can form.
Ah, thanks for the explanation.
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This is not going over well in Reddit's comments section.
I hope Lemmy can capitalize on this and convince more users to switch.
I really hope so, or at least make some users decide enough is enough.
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May I suggest editing this link to old.reddit.com?
As some of the comments point out, they already have a precise list of interests per user.
The subreddit lists. Yet they aren't using that data. Although I suppose the "why not" is that they maybe don't want advertisers knowing all of the subreddits.
I still moderate on Reddit, and will continue to do so (the community is in the process of migrating over, and the community members are important to me)
I'm going to stop upvoting, downvoting, and joining/leaving communities. Already wasn't doing much of the later.
Screw this change
eat my fucking ass spez
And yet another reason why I am glad I left over the summer.
Cool, I use Firefox with ublock and a script that stops reddit pop ups asking me to download and the app so I'll see no changes at all.
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