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Reddit already looks different for me (self.technology)

submitted 2 years ago by phase_change to c/[email protected]

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It’s not even June 12 for me, yet I suspect many subreddits went dark based on UTC.

I moved to Reddit during the Digg migration. Thus, I got the default subscriptions from back in the day. Over the years, I’ve unsubscribed to things I felt were crap, and I’ve added a number of subreddits.

Already, many have gone dark. My old.Reddit.com homepage already looks much different than normal, and I know that a few subreddits that do show have announced they’ll go dark. I assume they are US based and timing that locally.

I’ve spent more time in the Lemmy fediverse than on Reddit since joining, but I’ve spent time on both.

I’ll admit to cynical skepticism of the impact of the darkening. I still don’t think it will make a difference in Reddit policy, but I now believe it will have a larger impact on Reddit traffic than I imagined.

I still expect it to have no change in Reddit attitude or really in Reddit users.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (10 children)

There's some apps I hate like Instagram and WhatsApp, but stick around because it's the only way I can contact some friends and family. The network effect is strong and I can't really leave.

With Reddit, I don't care. If there's enough content somewhere else, even if it's a fraction of the volume (there was no way I could get through everything on Reddit anyway) then it's an easy switch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I just revolted and said, if anyone wants to communicate with me, they need to use e.g. Signal.

I'm absolutely not installing this spyware on my phone

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

A good chunk of my close family all use iPhones and iMessage to communicate with each other - but they won't add me to any group conversations because "green bubbles bad"... I spun up a Matrix server, created an account for everyone, pre-joined them to a room with all of us in it and sent everyone their credentials along with a link to Element for iOS so that all they had to do was download an app and copy/paste into two fields.

This worked great for about two or three months until most of them went back to their group chats over iMessage and I was back to being excluded. Only one of them still uses Element to communicate with me, but I suppose that's still somewhat a victory since previously we were using Facebook Messenger (bleh) to chat.

I guess there are some sayings that still ring true, such as "Old habits die hard" or "Humans are creatures of habit"... 😮‍💨

It sucks, because it's incredibly difficult for me to not take that personally as "They don't seem to care about me to try to meet me half way to keep in touch". I don't know what more I could do aside from purchasing an iPhone, which is just not going to happen.

[–] deva 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What about this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

(Mac computer required)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ah that unfortunately requires a Mac in order to use, as it uses the Mac as a relay, which while I do have an older MacBook Pro - it generally runs Linux (Fedora) on it, and is definitely not always-online.

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