I installed the official Reddit app and went on it to see what the old place was looking like now. My inbox was filled with spam. The "home feed" shows subs I never subscribed to. There are so many ads. Between the ads and the the extra subs in the feed, it's hard to just scroll. I also noted a lot of spam in some of the subs. Maybe they are subs with no mods? I'm not sure what's up with that.
It really feels worse now, even in terms of topics in the subreddits for which there is no equivalent here.
Still, until certain things are born here or well populated, I’ll still check it out from time to time.
At least, so far I seem to check it less and less and am grateful for Lemmy and its growth. I hope it keeps growing!
I haven’t been back, but lemmy feels pretty hostile in most of the popular communities, with much stronger group think than I saw on Reddit. I was hoping this site was going to go in the opposite direction.
I maintain one of my accounts for use in getting technical help on software specific subs. I haven’t noticed a decline there, they continue to deliver as much advice as they always did and with no weirdness.
I did notice though, because on that account I hadn’t opted out of the redesign, that they’ve successfully made the new design way shittier than it even already was. It’s really hard to see your messages now, which are essential for the purpose that I maintain the account because I post a question, and then get back to work knowing it could be hours or days before there’s a response and I just come back to check later if anyone had any helpful advice. I now have to somehow find the messages in amongst chat features which only contain unsolicited messages from randoms about some irrelevance or another that they’re pushing. Or also some other weirdness about people I’m “following” which fortunately doesn’t appear to have been populated for me but is still pointless clutter that gets in the way of the actual utility of the forum.
Definitely not a fan of that shitty new design approach. It’s funny actually, while I may have grumbled at developments over the years there, nothing quite bad enough could make me leave and it was only the demolition of the 3rd party apps that provided the impetus, but it was never really only the apps, I could sense something was going in a bad direction but couldn’t point to any one particularly egregious thing that would merit boycotting something I actually really liked and poured a lot of time in to without sounding really petty and entitled.
Now there’s this design issue and the reports that the place is starting to degrade heavily as an actual forum and I feel reassured that I left there at really just the right time rather than trying to keep swimming in the rapidly evaporating pond.
Yeah, like many things were mitigated if you used reddit only on mobile with good app, I even don’t remember when I sit behind PC to browse reddit. I do know about crypto vault on official reddit app, that later learned only on crypto subbredits only you can earn crypto.I showed some cat pics from subreddit on official app and scrolling from vid to vid…And there were weird jumps from cat doing funny things only to other subreddit. So ads redirect from one sub to other when watching full screen