Unfortunately there's still a lot of good, helpful documentation on Reddit that I wish was somewhere else. Even if I deleted my account last year I still have to rely on some Reddit posts to find solutions to certain problems.

Just rip the bandaid off

You're still on the steps?

“There are no plans to get rid of old reddit…”

Makes old reddit more and more user unfriendly…

“User numbers for old reddit have steadily dropped, they prefer our app or the new reddit site, so we no longer see it worthwhile to maintain old reddit. We’re shutting it down.”

Unfortunately that "picking up" here looks to mostly be a bot that is grabbing reddit posts so it's still mostly reddit. There really aren't that many people on Lemmy so I wouldn't expect to see much of that stuff made specifically to post here.

Yeah, old.reddit is good for porn. Otherwise new reddit wants you to use the app and login for porn. That's weird as fuck. Don't track what I'm baitin' to.

I'm curious, never used reddit for porn. Why would you use it for porn? Just go on other websites dedicated to porn.

You ever feel like that's a personal limitation? I start feeling a bit like a boomer when I get a strong urge to resist change

That said, fuck Reddit's admin team/corporate leaders

Instead of using Imgur, I've been uploading images to posts on Lemmy and then linking to those on Reddit with my comment.

Haven't had any issues doing that.
The downside to this is, if the instance shuts down, those images won't be available.

Example of them removing a mention of a Lemmy instance: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1emgf87/do_you_think_more_people_will_be_convinced_to_try/lh150o2/

/r/Redditalternatives mentions Lemmy a lot.

What might happen is mods removing those posts because it's "self promotion"

They're even less intrusive when you block them.

Welcome !

I think it goes deeper than that, and that Reddit has only expanded the hidden moderation so that comments from certain users are seen over those of other users well beyond karma calculations, and that a significant part of the effort to do so is to promote the message they want or are paid for to promote. It's not a wanton sellout, but with certain topics and in certain subreddits, it's quite evident that they want to push and promote meme stock, crypto, and neozionist messaging, which look at that, has a close correlation to the interests of its CEO. This has pushed out comments and posts that promote it over sane discussions, which tends to erode into emotionally divisive drivel.

They might as well at this point. Look at the top comments in any of the main subs these days, they're all LLM posts. Just bots having conversations with each other. Half of them you can tell because the bot author used a very minimal prompt so they're all formatted like every basic ChatGPT response.

And those are just from the ones I can recognize from playing around a bunch with GPT. Gotta wonder how many are going completely undetected. The default subs have been absolutely ruined with bots.