Reddit will become irrelevant. Long live Lemmy.
Just like Digg.
Time for an exodus.
R.I.P. NSFW communities I guess.
I thought those weren’t visible without a login already, right?
Reddit? Is that like digg?
In the sense it digged its own grave, yes.
ive been trying to post my experience-first video player on reddit and i can’t even post anywhere because everywhere requires i comment NINE TIMES FOR EVERY PERSONAL POST. fuck that man I’m trying to share something i made for free over 3 months I’m not fucking playing social media simp just for the privilege
Yeah, that shit made it really easy to abandon reddit when my account was banned. I briefly attempted to get back on with a new account but none of the communities I liked let you participate without an established account,
Even if it did let you post you would get shadow banned btw. So yeah Reddit is dead basically. Which honestly good riddance.
I only access Reddit (and Lemmy) through RSS so when they nuke that in two weeks, I’ll be gone, too.
My RSS feed already stopped sending me Reddit posts. Last ones were about 17 days ago. Ridiculous.
Lemmy is the best
No ads every few scrolls!
Long life lemmy!
They permanently ban everyone anyway
Reddit is a haven for spam, rife with bots and scammers, and it often hands over control to fraudsters.
Good!
Maybe NOW people will start joining Lemmy
Fuck /u/spez
I legitimately almost as excited for the spez downfall arc as I am for Trump’s.
They are rich, what downfall do you mean?
Rich ain’t gonna mean shit when people can’t afford food.
Greedy little fuckboy
*pigboy
I know what I said.
… I said the wrong thing, mistakenly, but I’ll stick with it because the error is closer to the truth…
Fuck /u/spez
When I stopped using reddit a few years ago, I left my account intact because I had 18 years of posts that included a lot of tech help and other useful information that I figured people might stumble across.
Last night, I used Redact to scramble all 5,521 comments.
I envy you. I was a little too outspoken which led to my account being banned, and now I can’t do anything about my existing trove of data I foolishly created for them
Don’t feel too bad, they kept a copy regardless of who redacted
Redact is owned by a real piece of shit that holds onto that information for potential blackmail. FYI.
Jinkies
Velma, I believe you, but are there other sites you can recommend? Also, I couldn’t find any news on this.
Here’s an older Lemmy thread about Redact
Here’s a more in depth look at who Dan Saltman is:
Dan Saltman is a tech entrepreneur and political podcaster who leverages his platform to advance Zionist interests, targeting pro-Palestine voices and justifying Israel’s ongoing settler-colonial project in occupied Palestine.
As founder of TinyChat — a video chat platform acquired in 2014 after receiving $1.5 million in funding from Sean “Diddy” Combs, amid allegations of its use in predatory behavior — Saltman built his career in online communications. He now serves as CEO of Redact.dev, a service that deletes users’ digital footprints, which he promotes amid his own involvement in online activism. Saltman co-hosts the “Anything Else” podcast with Steven Bonnell II (Destiny), where he discusses politics and amplifies pro-Israel views to Western audiences.
Saltman has repeatedly portrayed pro-Palestine advocacy as support for terrorism, directly accusing streamer Hasan Piker of promoting “terrorist propaganda” and “Hamas recruitment videos.” In September 2025, he endorsed calls to ban Piker from Twitch, claiming Piker’s content encourages violence and supports terrorist organizations, while framing criticism of Israel as antisemitism. This rhetoric dehumanizes Palestinians by equating their resistance to Israel’s occupation with inherent threats, perpetuating consent for settler violence.
Saltman orchestrated a widespread disinformation campaign against Twitch, accusing the platform of fostering antisemitism by allowing pro-Palestine speech. He mobilized supporters to pressure advertisers, leading to temporary pauses in spending by companies like JPMorgan and AT&T in late 2024. This effort aimed to suppress voices critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza, where the confirmed death toll exceeds 40,000 — a conservative estimate, as Israel’s destruction of infrastructure and targeting of journalists has halted accurate counting, with the actual number slaughtered well into the hundreds of thousands. Saltman’s actions align with broader Zionist efforts to weaponize antisemitism accusations against dissent, shielding Israel from scrutiny over its apartheid policies and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and Gaza.
His associations extend to content creators like Ethan and Hila Klein of the H3 Podcast and Destiny’s community, with whom he has collaborated on attacks against Piker, viewing him as a threat due to his effective advocacy for Palestinian liberation. Saltman’s push to repeal Section 230 appears motivated by a desire to further censor online criticism of Israel. Twitch banned him indefinitely in November 2024 for “extreme harassment,” including doxxing and targeting employees who refused to comply with his demands.
This pattern of behavior is not isolated but part of a consistent effort to normalize Israel’s settler-colonialism, obscure Palestinian suffering under occupation and genocide, and manufacture public consent for ongoing violence.
Some additional info on the type of harassment campaigns that Dan Saltman engages in.
Dan Saltman? Is Sam even trying here?
Yea that guy sucks for a ton of reasons but what does that have to do with your claim that he holds on to your redacted Reddit comments as blackmail?
You think a guy who has stalked and harassed multiple people isn’t using everything in his power to force them to do what he wants?
There’s an ulterior motive for everything with Dan Saltman.
I sure as fuck wouldn’t trust any of my information with this fucker.
App claims it’s stored locally, so I don’t know.
Any source on the blackmail claim?
Ereddicate is the FOSS option, but reddit broke it permanently a year ago.
Whelp, glad I didn’t give him any money then.
I did 😭
Jeeez, I was thinking about using them to scramble my Meta accounts, thanks for the info!
No problem! It can be hard to keep track of everyone behind the scenes, so to speak.
Sorting by top of all time in any subreddit shows the scars from all this nonsense. I used to have a top post in the WarThunder subreddit, now it’s just a burning memory.
I made the discussion threads for a few shows in their early seasons from around 2010. There wasn’t automation to do it back then.
I’ve soon been on here for 3 years now and made almost 11,700 comments in that time (which I personally find must be a miscount somehow, that sounds insane). So anyway, I was on Reddit for over 11 years. Extrapolating these numbers kind of boggles my mind a bit.
It was pretty well theorized that by killing off apis they were cutting out their highest content providers, us. We provided free content and they got value out of it. Then they didn’t want us anymore.
Now we are here, thousands of comments and posts, and they are upping theirs with AI slop
Good luck to 'em. But also fuck 'em.
Evidently spez restores deleted comments from backup
That’s why I didn’t delete them.
Unfortunately, they absolutely can see edits and restore them if they wanted to anyway.
Smarter than I. I scrambled them first, then deleted. Used the blackmail guy too. I did it all wrong. Now all my accounts are banned and I can’t do shit about it.
They will automatically unredact your stuff unless you prove you live in a gdpr country with a government ID. Which they cannot be trusted with. Heads they win, tails you lose.
“During October, we have seen that search traffic has dropped by more than 1 million referrals on average per week. If this rate of decline continues, current trends would suggest that total DAUqs [or daily active unique users] could fall in Q4, by a low-double-digit percentage from our current base of 130 million DAUqs,” Huffman wrote.
Weird that not allowing people to use your site would lower the number of people using your site.
It’s just shitty that so much useful information is on reddit.
The first result is always “Why are asking us when you can just google it?”
I am trying to stop answering questions that I think are quickly searchable with “you have the entire world’s knowledge in your pocket”. It’s been a long time since trustworthy information has been easy to find on the internet.
It’s like repeatedly hitting your genitalia with a wooden mallet and acting smug about it, if someone is asking for assistance.
It’s ok. The AI companies will scrape it and spit it out for you.
It’s ok. The AI companies will scrape it and might spit it out for you.
Correction bolded, but it was sad that was my first thought too
“People aren’t coming to our website so we are going to make it harder for people to come to our website.” - The dumbest motherfucker alive (and he’s competing with Trump and Altman)
He’s so unbearably dumb…
And permanently banning anyone that says anything remotely like what the advertisers don’t like.
And today in other news, more news at 8!
And I’m moving to an always logged out experience.
Not affecting my usage at all.
I’ll continue not to use it.
It has affected mine. Sometimes a Google result suggested the only answer was in a reddit thread, and I would click to at least see. Now I get a 'log in" prompt and decide I didn’t need that information after all.
In other news, Reddit stock is down a whopping 28% today.
reddit is moving to “a bot-only experiment”
