Reddit is removing the Direct Message feature, and all active conversations will be archived so you won’t be able to continue ongoing conversations. Reddit also deleted all bad reviews for their app awhile ago. Its rating went from 3.4 to 4.5 stars overnight.
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- 1 year
One of the first things Google did when it bought YouTube was to remove direct messaging, don’t want people wasting time talking to each other when they should be watching ads.
- 1 year
That was such a good read. As an older millennial myself, it hit home particularly strong.
1 yearReally appreciate you linking that, like the other user said, it spoke to me.
- 1 year
Lmao chat is one of the dumbest features they ever rolled out.
I love how their attitude is always “we made this useless feature, and instead of ditching it were going to get rid of what people preferred and force the hated alternative!”
Once again proving that the Reddit admins absolutely hate the fact that people use Reddit. They should just shit the site down already.
- Kühlschrank@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
I hated both features honestly. I’m there to converse in public, anything you say you can add in a public reply to one of my comments. If it was ever used for honest chat or messaging, I never saw it.
- 1 year
It was useful for asking questions that neither you nor the other person would want to put in a public post. For example, someone posted a picture in the bad real estate sub that looked very familiar, and I sent a DM asking “is this X location?”. I might not want people to know I’m familiar with X location, they might not want people to know they’re familiar with X location, but maybe we’re both ok with each other knowing.
But I’m pretty sure its main use was sending hate to people without getting banned.
- 1 year
I would use it for some video game LFGs. I wouldnt want to post my game name in a public forum and have my game account be flooded.
- 1 year
But then how can we ask for nudes? /S
I don’t mind DMs for one-off things. Like if I see something sketchy and want to tip off a user without alerting the sketchy one.
Also, everybody already owns a named subreddit that they mod, don’t they? So can’t you just send modmail there and still sidebar the chat in lieu of modmail DMs?
- Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
there were subs getting in trouble for asking nudes, mainly medical, where perverts were asking CP-type pictures of thier privates of minors, i think the subs became aware and started making it known you cant post as a minor anymore, or have to label the post without pics.
- barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
I used to use it when I wanted to impart a little secret to another Redditor, without alerting the entire world.
For instance, I found a cool, lesser-used auction site that often had good deals on guitars. If I ran across someone whose guitar had been lost somehow, or who couldnt afford a new guitar, I would DM the auction site, and ask them to keep it quiet. I didn’t want to announce it publicly, and alert the entire world to it, and ruin it.
- Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
i do that too, trying to give them advice , that people wouldnt try to astroturf your comment.
- 1 year
DMs had their uses, for example RemindMeBot cannot work over chat because there is no API.
- Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
i Used PM alot before Trumps first term, and somewhat during him to. i stopped once i started getting into arguments with people about a certain they were doing wrong(like how a dude was trying to apply to same company job at different times or different position, i was saying there is no way they would hire you once you get rejected, he was deadset on reapplying no reason other than how convenient it is for him) and i was getting warnings. i do it doesnt clutter up the subs, that would flag my account as a spammer originally.
- taco@piefed.socialEnglish1 year
were going to get rid of what people preferred and force the hated alternative!
It’s not always the hated alternative that wins, hence why we’re here right now.
- thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
All in marketing. Can sell ketchup popsicles to women in white gloves with enough money thrown at it.
- Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
i did originally used with other person on reddit, with a job specific sub. that was about it, and every other time was a spammer trying to contact people.
- Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
everyone on tumbler went to TWITTER and reddit for porn, and then OF. imagine the amount of users will disappeared if they banned porn. there were other forums, pics like subs that had regular porn you see on reddit but they were so unregulated they have discussion and imagery about CSAM and beastility.
- 1 year
Cool. The bots can chat among themselves without any pesky users getting in the way.
- 1 year
How is the Reddit app at a 4.7 on Google’s Play store, but all of the relevant reviews that pop up are 1’s and 2’s?
Google must be ignoring some reviews to calculate the average score.
- 1 year
Could be because of people (or bots, whatever) rating but not commenting?
- barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
Whaaa?! Google acting dishonorably and ignoring their own mission to “Do No Harm?” I’m shocked.
- 1 year
I mean the only DMs i ever got was transphobic bullshit because they were afraid of downvotes.
- WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Several of my Reddit accounts had tens of thousands of karma, a couple exceeded 100k. I learned early on to never read any notifications/messages ever. I just navigate back to my recent comments directly and check replies in context, instead of a stream of disjointed messages and trolls being deadshits.
- 1 year
My current 1-year old account is at about 115k…kinda want to go out in a blaze.
- 1 year
Reddit dude is involved in the new Digg sadly… Oh and they already are big talking AI for it.
- bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Alexis Ohanian, who co-founded Reddit, is not Steve Huffman (Spez/current Reddit CEO). He’s done some solid activism and charity work, unlike the piece of shit Spez. The fact it seems he’s trying to distance himself from Reddit by trying to revive their former rival is some rich irony.
Alexis left Reddit suddenly with some weird excuse, too. I think he got word of the stock plan and immediately jumped ship.
- Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
he knew it was going to enshittify from them on, took his money and ran.
I just went and checked, and the reddit app has a 4.7 star rating on Google play store, yet when you go read the reviews, they’re all 1 or 2 stars.
The official Reddit app is an exercise in travesty. Any third party client for either Android or iOS in the past was better the official solution is even now. It’s slow, bloated and UI looks like it’s designed for toddlers in mind.
- 1 year
Do you have a favorite app for Lemmy? I’m using Voyager and like it. ☺️
I am on Boost. It’s a one time purchase for Android Atleast. The dev is same behind Boost for Reddit(now deprecated) and it implements a similar UI as the previous Reddit Client.
Of course, as you said, there are many FOSS solutions as well. I have heard good praise for Voyager and I think Atleast couple of more clients like Jerboa also exist on F-Droid.
- Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish1 year
I’ve just been using the site in my browser for the couple of years or so I’ve been on Lemmy. I’ve thought about trying one of the apps but meh. The web interface is so well mobile-optimized as it is
- 1 year
I used several when first starting out here, but kept coming back to voyager.
Sir/madam/???, this is a community called Reddit. This specifically is where people would care(though I agree with the sentiment).
- 1 year
I’m just here to watch the site burn as it caves more and more to the tech oligarchy
this keeps happening because the posts rise up. I’m not subscribed.
but I do love watching it descend into trash. hard to say why I don’t block it but it shows up for non subscribers for sure.
- Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
You can set whether you want to view all/subscribed/local in your Lemmy client.
The communities I’m currently subscribed to don’t have that much content so I end up on all frequently. That’s how I keep seeing these posts too.
- Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
its been in trash since they try to force new reddit down peoples throats.
- 1 year
I just don’t understand how PM became DM for so many people. I mean it literally says “PM” in the screenshot, yet OP still changed it to “DM” in their post.
I remember it used to always be PM, then one day everyone suddenly started calling it DM and I just don’t know why…
- 1 year
My conspiracy theory is that big social platforms like Instagram and/or Snapchat are behind the change, because the P in PM is for Private and they are fundamentally against privacy, as they profit off your data, including likely analyzing your messages to serve you more relevant ads.
- TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 year
I mean, it isn’t very “private” as a messaging platform lol
- 1 year
I’m starting to see them banning me as a blessing. Spez is running that site into the ground. Guaranteed by the end of the year it’s just gonna be “X²” or smth.
- 1 year
How long until old reddit is gone completely? Its a damn shame what they have done to that site
- Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
do you remember when YAHOO answers was a thing, the old format was like old reddit pages, but permanently changed to the “new reddit format” and everyone hated it. endless scrolling is laggier than just changing pages.
devs (reddit) can flag reviews they think are against ToS, then it’s up to google to decide what to do with them
- RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish1 year
What’s the difference between the two? I haven’t used reddit since the api shit and I don’t remember seeing 2 separate messaging options before that.
- 1 year
By removing the language of “private” from the feature they can now sell your data without having to tell you about it
- RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish1 year
I did guess that much but I am still interested on what others were talking about and why is chat worse than PM, feature wise.
- Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
private messages as its called, when you directly send a message to someone, nobody else can see it. a chat is public and its possible to be join in the chat.
