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MercurySunrise ,

I’ve officially said my goodbyes. It’s absolutely fucked over there. This is just one of many serious problems with Reddit. The CEO is tanking it harder than Musk tanked Twitter. He’s musk’d it.

greywolf0x1 ,

Is there a way to fully download or scrape a full subreddit or say stackoverflow since they’ve both committed themselves to enshittification and alienating their userbases?

asking because that seems difficult to do and there’s a lot of useful information on both sites

jjagaimo ,

Its not super hard, but the main hurdle will by bypassing whatever api limits there are such as by using multiple accounts

Certain libraries like praw still work to some extent (my discord bot is still running somehow) but trying to scrape all of the posts in a sub might have to be done slowly. You might be able to sort by old so that the results dont move relative to the page and then go page by page.

Frozyre ,

I just killed what seems to be my millionth Reddit account upon this news discovery. I say millionth because I've been ban-evading from that micromanaging, power-hungry mod shithole for years just to spite them.

But if they're going to now go and paywall subreddits just to read them then I guess the fun is finally over.

Spez is just happily going about continuing to inhale whatever shit his man-crush in Musk farts out.

hellfire103 ,

*laughs in Lemmy

MediaSensationalism ,
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Reddit getting rid of paid rewards pre-IPO only to reintroduce the feature later on and boast it as a major QOQ increase in non-ad revenue while artificially inflating their on-paper growth was slick.

Buddahriffic ,

Was it also fraud? Some slick fraud?

Blink8 ,
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Well, here we are, he’s surely winning at that

Casual_Harper ,

I went back to reddit after being away for six years and I’m already done with the mods, the toxicity, the fakeness, just the whole thing. So here I am.

MelonYellow ,
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Welcome to Lemmy:)

Allero ,

Welcome to Lemmy!

If you want to have peace here - beware of political spaces, they are often just as toxic. Other than that - the place does magic for mental wellbeing.

foreverunsure ,

welcome!

rarbg ,

Welcome (⁀ᗢ⁀)

Mwa ,
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Welcome to lemmy my man

Mwa ,
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I remember i almost bought reddit premium

Buddahriffic ,

I was awarded Reddit gold a few times. The private subreddit it gave access to was underwhelming. There were also mixed feelings about someone liking my comment so much that they gave Reddit money for it. I’m sure there were better ways to spend that money that also wouldn’t have affected me much. I generally prefer relies anyways.

Mwa ,
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I generally prefer relies anyways.

Same thought i was the only one

interdimensionalmeme ,

The thing with VIP sections everywhere is that they are filled with the sort of people who seek to obtain VIP access. In other words, losers.

zipzoopaboop ,

Fyi Reddit is one of the few recent tech IPOs that increased in value

YeetPics ,

Could it be because the owners are milking it until it’s dead?

Sauerkraut ,

I hope that won’t last for long. I made a joke that Reddit was circling the drain with how hateful and political every subreddit was becoming and then they permanently banned all of my accounts. 10 years on reddit, 10 years of putting effort into my posts and comments with over 250k total karma and I was banned for a half serious joke. My appeal was instantly denied as well. It was unreal. After the API changes that was the final straw for me. Fuck Reddit. I was joking before but now I really am hoping that the company sinks.

Buddahriffic ,

I don’t think the “investment” in Reddit is the usual “invest in company because it will make money directly”, but “use wall st money to give stronger incentives about controlling the narrative than ad revenue was previously able to give”.

I bet employees have to agree to a hefty NDA to remain employed there. I hope someone breaks that NDA at some point.

lath ,

He’s rich and giggling. Quite likely does not give a shit.

fmstrat ,

I’ll say this here, too: Based on the phrasing, this is probably competition for Patreon, not for current styled subreddits.

runner_g ,

And OnlyFans

nexussapphire ,

I mean openai already has.😄

TotalCasual ,

Reddit is dying. Spez is a degenerate freak, a scam artist, and a Nazi. The OpenAI training platform / propaganda website begins to circle the drain. Microsoft is starting to lose the last iota of goodwill they once had.

Nothing about Reddit looks good into the future and no one, with serious cash, is going to invest in a dying platform run by a scam artist, a freak, and a Nazi.

The questions now are, “How long?” and “What’s next?”

gwen ,

when did we find out spez is a nazi? more reason to hate spez and ditch reddit so thats good anyway

NastyNative ,

Lemmy you my only friend!

youtu.be/VUZ91XxtuZw?feature=shared

Qbanrev ,

Reddits an echo chamber for the worst ppl 9f the left. Disagree and you get a ban. We need more online places where there is no banning and people can just disagree and learn that they are not the only type of person.

CptEnder ,

ppl of the left

Shh no one tell him lmao

echodot ,

All those damn Republicans are so damn liberal. They don’t even let you eat babies, damn liberals

sparkle , (edited )

I’m gonna let you know right know, Lemmy isn’t the place for alt-right nutters who had disgusting enough views to get banned from Reddit of all places (a pretty conservative community in general) for being too right-wing. Lemmy is literally a gradient of full-on communists to centrists that at least agree we should have basic social welfare. Even the prominent conservatives here aren’t openly vehemently anti-lgbt and anti-social welfare like American conservatives usually are.

Lemmy isn’t exactly politically extremist, but even the relatively right-wing-friendly Lemmy instances (like world) look communist compared to Reddit

echodot ,

Jesus dude there’s something wrong with you because Reddit is pretty right wing. If you think they’re lefties then good God you must be some kind of extremist or something.

You’re not going to have a fun time over here I’m telling you that for sure.

Emmie , (edited )
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It’s not about political views but more about certain outrage culture that maybe is less noticeable than twitter but is more annoying.
Redditors are just kinda special and happily ride any moral high horses and such with zero room in the brain for hey maybe I am wrong. Whole Reddit is confidently wrong usually with this annoying absolutism that leaves no room for anything else.
I cannot describe in words how much contempt I feel for users of AITA or the like. Just imagine posting your family shit online for some strangers to have fun with it. I hope the servers burn and erase all these archives of cringe

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