This is presumably because they've been boosting their anonymous agitator account with their profiles set to private, and there are tools out there that reveal said hidden comments like arctic-shift which I assume utilise old.reddit. They are trying so desperately to curate a rightwing majority narrative that simply isn't true.
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What do you mean try? They are not desperate. They just are doing it. On every platform. The left is absolute cooked. There is no defense from the left against this. The left saw the writing on the wall and shot themselves in the foot over this decades ago. Now the right have the tools that the left used and because the left gave out to capitalism and profit seeking, the right was able to co-opt the platforms and use those same tools to accomplish a hostile takeover. Just wait until the kids today who experience the internet and the views spread on these platforms become adults. Maybe we can make some bean and moth memes until then.
This is short-term thinking. We've got the far-right in my country (Not the US) starting to flail at scrutiny, we've got Trump's attempting to rig the midterms hitting roadblock after roadblock after roadblock. We've got civil disobedience, sabotage, subtle dissent increasing in volume and frequency throughout the western world. Outside of the US the far-right is emboldened by the regime but its increasingly looking like trump’s got no clothes.
Russia, one of the main sponsors and recruiters of these fucks are enduring devastating losses on a daily basis, to their infrastructure as well as their citizenry they send in waves upon waves of futility, its only a matter of time until they fall.
The only reason things appear 'cooked' for now, is because of the massive sums of money from the Epstein-adjacent tech overlords desperately trying to escape scrutiny, trying to buy out and control the narrative but it just ain't happening.. Bubble's fit to burst.
Choose hope.
edited - Its happening RIGHT NOW. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/palantir-alex-karp-interview-openai-anthropic-b3007175.html
I regret every time I revisit Reddit. Them shutting down old.reddit will certainly keep me from ever going back. It'll be a blessing in disguise for me.
I was addicted to reddit for over 10 years when they shutdown the RIF app. At first I felt like an addict detoxing and it hurt. but now I can look back at those times and say good riddance to Reddit.
I still enjoy this format of social media, and therefore use Lemmy a lot. It's clear there's no algorithm or bots upvoteing trying to make me angry or keep me on the site. There's less bots here trying to steer the conversation or promote their product. I'm happy with Lemmy. Fuck reddit to death.
Honestly, Lemmy has been good for me in some ways because it isn't as popular and doesn't have the deep niche communities reddit has that I was super active in.
I get more accomplished now because I essentially "finish" my Lemmy browsing and move on, whereas reddit always had something else for me to dive into.
Yup.
'Boredom' is important. The various endless scroll platforms are not good, for a great number of us at least.
I'm the same with you. I was on reddit nearly since the beginning. It was my entire social life, well, mostly. As soon as they killed off TPA, I don't bother anymore. obligatory, fuck spez.
Enshitifcation everywhere!
No need Reddit, in the moment to verify my ID, delete Reddit.
Just got this email from reddit:
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All teen accounts in the EU will also automatically be switched to the most protective, private experience. Depending on your age, here is how your settings will look:
Ages 13–15: Features like Chat, Followers and Profile discoverability will be locked to the most protective settings. These cannot be changed. Ages 16–17: These same features will default to the most protective settings automatically, but you have the option to change them in your Settings.
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Would be funny if they mark my account as teen when some of my nude images have been on there for years^^
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Fuck you spez.
yeah, this is the first of several steps to killing old reddit. And good riddance. I hope the whole company burns.
It was a long time coming, but when old reddit dies, I will have a cold beer for all the "good" times and then I'll be on my way onto new adventures elsewhere.
Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.
Enshittification will continue until morale improves
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We really need a firefox addon to block reddit from google results automatically
uBlacklist
It works for those SEO spam sites too. You visit such a site, go back in history to your search engine, and in the result's top right corner block the website. It's neat. It doesn't work by default with Qwant and you need to add some line in the settings that's in one of the GitHub issues.
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Oh they dont like people using their website as a website? Guess this is an issue that will solve itself.
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