I never knew how much I needed Star Trek memes in my life until Stamets and The Picard Maneuver graced us with their presence. Walk with the prophets, my child.
Still, when I'm looking for a solution for a specific problem, reddit is basically the only reliable source at the moment.
Wish there was a quick way to search for posts across all instances using search engines.
I miss some content but lemmy has been getting better and better, and after Boost for lemmy I won't ever come back to reddit.
I did at first, but I don't miss it at all anymore. Too many assholes at this point. It stopped being useful a long time ago. Finding old Reddit threads can be helpful sometimes, but current Reddit is a shitshow.
I miss the niche content. Lemmy isn't big enough yet to have sorted into big "stupid" subs vs smaller niche subs that tend to attract smarter and more well-informed users. The result is that the signal-to-noise ratio on Lemmy still kind of sucks and any comment thread is likely to consist of three quarters banal gibberish and condescending idiocy and maybe one quarter actually intelligent, thoughtful and informed opinion.
I rarely make a comment on Lemmy without pissing off people on all sides of any given issue, which tells me that Lemmy's users aren't really good at nuance or complexity.
When looking something up, especially technical product information the best answer is still often a reddit link. That will change in the future but it will take time.
Old.reddit is the only way yo access this information without account but i paradoxically cant wait for them to shut it down cause the quicker reddit completely dies the faster other places will become knowledge hubs.
reddit has been talking about blocking search crawlers, so it may die (for you) that way first.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/20/23925504/reddit-deny-force-log-in-see-posts-ai-companies-deals
lol. And you know they won't be fixing their own search engine any time soon. Its like they want their site to die jfc.
Ehhh, even for that I've had issues, even before the API stuff. The solutions I came across either came from casual word of mouth on Discord, tutorials on GitHub or forums other than Reddit.
It never was the pinnacle of knowledge, i am not on many different forums and only in the last year have started to avoid internet search where possible but often neither google or bing have satisfying results with only a single reddit link that may have the answer.
Wait until you need to read an answer to a technical question which was only answered on Reddit. Can't wait when such pages will be replaced with Lemmy.
I was trying to find if is safe to mix LSD with energy drinks and the only place where someone was answering that was on reddit, restricted because is 18+ somehow. Had to use the tip given from OP to see it outside the app. The general consensus (because this shit can't be properly researched) is that caffeine in general is not recommended with LSD.
I wouldn't take drug-mixing advice from some rando on reddit or lemmy or any other similar site.
That being said, please limit yourself to one substance at a time, get some fentanyl test strips and narcan if you're able, and always have a wingman with you. Assuming it's possible where you live, buy your drugs from a regulated dispensary or at least a source you know and trust (whose source they trust).
Have fun, but stay safe. The times they are a changing...even weed has dangerous shit mixed in nowadays.
That's my drug advice from a rando on a lemmy.
I mean , you can’t exactly go ask a doctor how to use lsd. Sometimes you just want to read up on something based on someone else’s personal experience. The website might be doing some dumb shit lately but it’s hard to replace the vast number of people who have answered exact questions you’re looking for. Lemmy just doesn’t have the 10+ year head start
You can totally ask a good doctor that. They'll likely say something along the lines of "don't do drugs...but if you're still gonna do this..."
Problem is, many otherwise good doctors are not very knowledgeable about illicit drugs, particularly those that are comparatively rare/aren't a public health crisis (LSD, while popular, is kinda niche compared to meth and opioids).
A big chunk of the time you're just going to get "Don't use drugs", simply because they don't have much else to say about it, and don't want you taking risks based on something they've said. Doesn't mean don't ask*, but know you may not get useful harm reduction information from Dr. F. Practitioner.
*That said there IS a risk that such a question can paint you as a potential drug seeker, and so create barriers to care if someone decides to add that to your chart when you were just trying to minimize risk.
Do not so this unless you want this brought up later if you are ever involved in a personal injury lawsuit.
People don't realize that your medical records are not protected from lawsuits. I have literally seen a defense lawyer ask a plaintiff to explain the six times she shit her pants at work in a lawsuit about a back injury, just to punish her for bringing a lawsuit. He read straight from the medical records, asking her if the poo got on the floor.
Keep it up, maybe you're establishing a lurker base that will spring into action on some random post eventually.
I posted a Stargate meme to the Stargate page. One post in a month.
Over a hundred people up voted, so it's got some lurkers at least.
I imagine a LOT of people are lurking and just waiting for their pages to be more active.
Some of them did and just died. Lemmy doesn't have a USP and it's starting to show.
Same. I was wasting way too much time there anyway. The only thing I still use it for is discussions for TV shows.
I don't actively use it either, but sometimes you're trying to fix some esoteric error that no one has experienced since the existence of the Western Roman Empire and the only place where a solution exists is Reddit. In those cases I kinda have to visit that wretched hive.
Same. However, I have rarely been able to solve a technical problem with Reddit posts or comments. It's a better source for random experiences about something.
For random technical problems with new software or hardware, Reddit quality is not as good as it used to be, IMHO.
For somewhat niche hobbies, like my mushroom growing, subjective experiences may be helpful to take into account. Reading dozens of different opinions about a problem in a hobby that has hundreds of different variables has its uses. (For example, if you want to test something specific, you can get an idea about the range of conditions to test.)
You think we're any better?? I think the whole internet is a dumpster fire, and that's the way it should be.
I used to work in the waste sector - been to a lot of dumps. Let me tell ya, public sector dumps were literal dumpster fires compared to their private counter parts. Inefficient. Years behind in technology. Weighted down by nepotism and typical government employees.
It was such a relief when I knew I was assigned to a private sector dump where things just fucking worked because people just let it work.
It isn't about being better trash, it's about who controls the dump. I want to be able to view all trash in the way I choose. Not certain piles of trash that I'm forced view in a way that I can't choose on my own.
I haven't been back to Reddit in months, and maybe Reddit's gotten worse since then, but Lemmy's far worse than Reddit was when I left it. I stay here because I like the idea of the Fediverse, but this community is absolute garbage.
there's a typo in your meme, op. The URL is supposed to look something like that
https://lemmy.ml/...
At least we know this situation will never occur in Lemmy because everyone would just jump to another instance - the joy of decentralised media.
Look if reddit has the most useful information on a google search then reddit it is. Doesn't mean I'm actively browsing it.
Yep, right now, using a search engine with Reddit in the query is still the best option to find an answer to something. Maybe Lemmy fits that in time, but until then, Reddit it is.
I still start my search with site:reddit.com when looking for an answer. I just prefer opening the cached hits so that traffic doesn't go to reddit but Google instead. Not like there weren't problems with Google, but this is the closest I can get to "punishing" Reddit but also getting an answer to my question.
Their app is such a pain though. Nofap challenge imposed by reddit. I am on day 30 already.
I relapsed when I found out you can patch in your own key to still use third party apps 😬
If you moderated a sub before the API ban and used the Boost app, then Boost still works for you. Thank god for my tiny sub.
Same. Their reasoning and the warning in general make no sense. Why would it be safer to view “unreviewed content” (wetf that means) in their app vs a browser?
Lol that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. But I can tell you who thought of it, easily. The people optimizing the ad revenue. UX isn’t their focus, but boosting profits is.
Is it going to boost profits though? This sort of thing is always presented as an easy way to boost ad revenue but when you're selling ads at the volume reddit is I would have thought click-through rate would be king and it's going to decimate that.
I’m sure if there’s one thing they’ve really gotten the hang of, it’s optimizing advertising profits. They explicitly said they’re killing third party apps because they want to sell user data. (In so many words). I can’t imagine they hadn’t thought of what makes them money. I imagine, actually, it’s what 95% OF their focus has gone toward recently.
I remember the redesign feedback subreddit. Any small suggestion was attacked by dozens of bootlickers. And here we are now.
Changes to reddit are what brought me here. Once old.reddit.com disappears I will be completely done with it.
I was not able to use it 2 or 3 days ago. I assumed they killed already but it was probably an issue with the work's firewall then
I stopped using reddit on mobile after the api debacle. Once old reddit is done, I won't be visiting on my desktop either. The redesign is and always has been trash.
Same. But it tought me a valuable lesson I always feared in the back of my head. Go federated or open or otherwise you'd one day be screwed by greed.
Tbh i was surprised that it is still up. Aren’t they affected by the API pricing or something
old.reddit is just the official website with the old layout from before they redesigned their front end ui. It's part of Reddit's official website that they kept around because so many people hate the redesign, it's not a 3rd party and therefore not affected by any pricing policies.
Oh, damn...
Rare for me to use, but sucks option is being removed.
I know embedded is an option, and other front ends.
What do y'all use in the rare chance you see a reddit source?
Are you guys only rarely seeing Reddit sources on lemmy? With these shitty lemmit bots inundating this site with literally just links to Reddit without even any preview, I’m seeing almost exclusively Reddit links. It’s honestly make me rethink using lemmy recently.
Those bots are worth blocking. There never appears to be any discussion on the posts, so you won't miss anything.
Honestly, there are a few communities that rely on it—the more meme/picture-centric and the advice-centric ones—that I don’t want to completely block out. So I’ve been going and blocking the communities that flood my feed with minutes-old Reddit posts that don’t even offer the text to read or a picture to look at. I will say as well, I don’t know what causes one to include text but not the other, but I do also enjoy reading some of those insane stories posted on some subreddit I never subscribed to like relationship advice or drugs stories or something. There’s some wild shit. I don’t need the conversation in the comments to enjoy the batshit story
I literally predicted that old.reddit.com would shut down in 6 months after u/spez said it’s not going anywhere, just like Apollo. I wasn't sure how seriously to take this but I think I will be pretty close.
The day they kill old reddit will be the end of reddit itself. A lot of moderators depend on the older interface (along with RES) to manage their communities. Imagine trying to mod with reddit's current interface.
Well they already did that when shutting down the API. And yet they try to keep that thing alive in most subs.
Killing the API made modding on mobile harder, but it mostly didn't affect desktop mod tools. Killing old.reddit would be a huge deal.
Why is it not the end already? Drop it, move on, you will be better off for you might even realise how much of a problem you have
Wtf does "unreviewed" even mean? Are they waiting for some board to approve communities now?
A big part of getting you to use their app is to data mine EVERYTHING about you. Unlike a web browser with an ad-blocker, an app can collect your location, location history, your call logs, your contact list and serve up unlockable ads.
google ads can easily be dns blocked, about reddit ads.... yeah.
there's a reason why I've been using an unofficial client.
Tell that to all the amateur porn creators! Lemmy is severely lacking content in that category unfortunately
https://lemmynsfw.com is growing pretty quick, though the number of reposts is pretty high.
ITT: Addicts trying VERY HARD to justify why they relapsed, and just like addicts getting quite upset that someone suggest they not relapse.
"yeah but it's just for..." "I only use it because..." "well until other things get better..."
Well they sure as fuck can't get better when you run away looking for an answer instead of asking someone who might know.
A problem for an issue I was having was only found on a Reddit post.
There was no community on lemmy for it. There is a difference between viewing a website and actively participating in it.
what's the difference between old.reddit and reddit? and why does reddit support old.reddit?
Why they support it still is truly a mistery with all the API stuff and so on... It's a miracle it's still available.
one is the old, better, unrestricted ui (old) normal reddit is the new ui, with intrusive ads, mobile app popups, age restrictions etc
Old.reddit is reddit from a time when it was designed with user experience in mind, rather than trend chasing and maximizing ad placement.
I've heard that the reason old.reddit is still supported is because new reddit can't run without it. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if the developers of new reddit were pushed to rush something out to meet demands from higher up, and therefore didn't make something clean and severable. I mean, we're talking about a site whose video player wants to load every resolution at once on every video you scroll past in an infinite feed, my expectations aren't terribly high.