yeah but I cant subscribe to posts or comment on them, that was my main USP on reddit, you could always find that one guy who shared that specific interest with you and was more knowledgeable about it, mot forums I know are nowhere near as active as reddit and honestly, I really hope a reddit competitor quickly comes up, their rules are bullshit and there are way too many basement dwelling mods who can quickly **** up your entire reddit experience.
Anyone left Reddit completely and moved somewhere else? What was your experience like?
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I think the subscribe feature is not there anymore, just save one. Reddit has taken money from almost all big companies and they are training their ai on reddit.
Pardon me for asking what features does this one have?
replace www.reddit.com with new.reddit.com and you'll get the older new ui where you can subscribe to posts/comments
Thanks. Will check and get back. Is this only possible for the website and not for app? There was no need to remove this feature.
BTW this feature worked in revanced reddit along with zero ads. Don't know whether its working now or not.
k_m_Arya
Forerunner
You can use 3rd party apps which have far better UI/UX than the official app. the sync app provides sports mode so say when a game is going on it refreshes the post every 15-20 seconds for new comments, has bottom navigation, no ads or sponsored posts.
official app has subscriptions
old reddit refers to 2014 UI, the OG one, reddit released a revamp of the UI which is based on new.reddit and now there's a second revamp of the site based on Lit which is the current site reddit.com
Bro aren't these features in the revanced reddit app too?
Have you used revanced reddit or twitter?
k_m_Arya
Forerunner
revanced only removes ads I think. The app is still dogshit atleast when I tried sometime back posts take long time to load, image quality is also bad and also the gestures and navigation is just better implemented in relay app compared to the official one I feel personally.
neither, I use revanved for yt only
3P apps have much better UI, and a much better UX than any of the reddit versions. I use rif revanced as per the guide in that document that was linked, and it's the only reason I still use reddit.
https://revanced.app/patches?s=reddit It has added a bit more too
TheHinglishGamer
Apprentice
So, I've been a Reddit user for 12 years now. Before 2015/16. what an awesome place it was!
But after Trump won and a single ideology of users started taking it over, it's kind of a sanitized version of Left Utopia where you cannot utter certain words (positive/negative), cannot call a spade a spade but for certain other group of people (e.g., Indians, Hindus, Whites), racism, xenophobia and other things are allowed openly. In any entertainment-related subreddits (Games, Movies, TV shows, Books), you cannot criticize them.
There are a couple of good subreddits left but it's a sanitized echo chamber and if you are not with them, you will be banned. I'm slowly checking out but some of those communities are calling me back.
It has reduced my screen time so that's a plus but I miss the old days.
But after Trump won and a single ideology of users started taking it over, it's kind of a sanitized version of Left Utopia where you cannot utter certain words (positive/negative), cannot call a spade a spade but for certain other group of people (e.g., Indians, Hindus, Whites), racism, xenophobia and other things are allowed openly. In any entertainment-related subreddits (Games, Movies, TV shows, Books), you cannot criticize them.
There are a couple of good subreddits left but it's a sanitized echo chamber and if you are not with them, you will be banned. I'm slowly checking out but some of those communities are calling me back.
It has reduced my screen time so that's a plus but I miss the old days.
Oh, definitely agreed on this, specially on the Indians bit, the racism is so normalized that when I reported a comment saying all Indians love to shit on roads, I was given a warning for a frivolous report but I was temp banned for a week for calling someone an idiot, and its not even small subs, this is rampant even on some of the largest subs like worldnews and technology. I got banned on r/technology for "brigading" and ironically that was my first comment on that sub and it was contrary opinion which didnt sit well with mods, and worldnews banned me for being a "troll" when I pointed out Pannu literally belonged to a group of terrorists who bombed Air India in response to a comment saying he was innocent.
Yeah same, I cant be bothered to make a new account, I just miss the contacts and the saved posts on my main that were really useful to me, had a lot of folks I knew over the years in my personal DMs, right now my only usage for reddit is scrolling through posts of niche subreddits like r/homelabs, datahoarders and Breadit
variablevector
Forerunner
Recently my favorite part of the modern reddit experience has been when I look up a solution for anything on google, and the first result is usually a reddit post asking the same question. And it has a response with 10 upvotes and it says something to the tune of "because /u/spez is a *********, this comment has been deleted and the user has left reddit". I'm sure the internet has always regressed in signal to noise ratio over time but the past decade or so has been absolutely brutal.
I'm secretly hoping for the comeback of niche forums. I vastly prefer a bunch of decentralized forum boards each with their own distinct culture to an algorithmically curated hivemind with a bunch of VCs behind it, desperate to monetize at any cost.
As for the racism, I've seen everyone from Africans in deepest Africa to recently an Afghani guy call Indians street shitters. I'm sure they've learned it from the western racists but it's wild. A sizable part of humanity *online* -- some of them way worse off than us in every material way -- hate us with a passion. It's funny. On the face of it, there are "reasons" for the hate, but I think the reality is that it is territorial. India, as a country slowly emerging from poverty and starting to engage with the wider world, risks upending every single status quo and discourse online. Pretty soon the English-speaking internet will be dominated by Indian thoughts, Indian experiences, Indian prejudices etc. In some ways, it already is.
Naturally, if you're from a group with a net negative birth rate, this makes you cope and seethe because you're becoming a minority. I don't even think it is universally a good thing for us to dominate like this, because we have a lot of our own problems, but the math is inevitable. From that perspective, their hate makes sense.
I'm secretly hoping for the comeback of niche forums. I vastly prefer a bunch of decentralized forum boards each with their own distinct culture to an algorithmically curated hivemind with a bunch of VCs behind it, desperate to monetize at any cost.
As for the racism, I've seen everyone from Africans in deepest Africa to recently an Afghani guy call Indians street shitters. I'm sure they've learned it from the western racists but it's wild. A sizable part of humanity *online* -- some of them way worse off than us in every material way -- hate us with a passion. It's funny. On the face of it, there are "reasons" for the hate, but I think the reality is that it is territorial. India, as a country slowly emerging from poverty and starting to engage with the wider world, risks upending every single status quo and discourse online. Pretty soon the English-speaking internet will be dominated by Indian thoughts, Indian experiences, Indian prejudices etc. In some ways, it already is.
Naturally, if you're from a group with a net negative birth rate, this makes you cope and seethe because you're becoming a minority. I don't even think it is universally a good thing for us to dominate like this, because we have a lot of our own problems, but the math is inevitable. From that perspective, their hate makes sense.
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dvader
Forerunner
Reddit has been like this for a decade now. Street Shitters, Muslims in concentration camps, Stealing Jobs, Scammers, and whatnot. The tech and hobby subs are the driving force in my opinion and are mostly fine. And it's not like the conservative or centrist subs are better, try browsing r/conservative it's a bigger shit show. Overall Internet brings out the worst in people. My internet usage is 99% tech and hobby now and I was off social media a few years back. I have more time for myself and enjoy doing what I do. I am part of a few forums like TE and that's all I need. No more Facebook-style global shit shows.
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Northstar
Internet access costs have come down so the riff raff have increased
Then you want to be in a gated community with language nazis ala team bhp
Indians don't get 10% of the hate Israelis do.
Doubtful. Westerners don't envy us. It's coming from those that do and frequently these people are too afraid to say where they're from
I've yet to experience this. So far English speakers are a minority mainly because a lot of Indians don't communicate in English. Regional languages are the thing now.
The fear is of being replaced. But I don't sense this in the places I hangout in. You living in India don't threaten anyone.
Who says we're dominating. I would very much like for that to happen but I doubt I will see it anytime soon.
You're saying it's OK to bash Indians, Hindus and whites?
They're playing to the oppressor/oppressed woke thing then
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variablevector
Forerunner
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The regional language thing doesn't matter and I'm not talking about immigration or any replacement conspiracy theory.
I'm saying that even a small fraction of India's massive population increasingly engaging online, in English, is already permanently changing the face of the internet and internet culture. It is injecting Indian perspectives and culture that were up until this point unheard of into Western circles and mindspace. The internet should have seen the same effect when hundreds of millions of Chinese came online back in the early 2000s and 2010s, but due to the language barrier and the Great Firewall, it was mostly avoided. The internet has been dominated by Western perspectives since inception that is the normal, and this tide of more and more Indians engaging online -- whether that's on Twitter/FB/Reddit/whatever -- is perceived by them, naturally, as an attack. The sharp rise in racism towards Indians is them being territorial, asserting control through the most obvious way of making these communities toxic for Indians. It's not so much a strategy they have as it is a baser human instinct.
If you want to see an obvious and quite literal example of this playing out, look at the T-series vs Mr Beast/Pewdewpie drama that's raged on for years. To some people in the West, the idea of the most subscribed YT channel being Indian is cause for concern, because they feel like they're losing control of the platform. That causes them to lash out in the most pathetic way possible. Trying to declare 'War' on this T-series channel despite the fact that T-series does not care about them at all. This will be an ongoing theme in the future. Online communities will have to engage with Indian perspectives more and more, and in some cases, they will become more dominant than the Western ones. This will happen because it is simply a numbers game. That is what I mean when I say we will eventually dominate.
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Northstar
Nah, racism against Israelis and I do mean it in the real sense of the word is institutionalised.
Whereas Indians perceive petty harassment as such and it's nowhere near what I consider as real racism. End your people kind of thing. Good luck with that and a billion plus Indians. Makes no sense.
We harass each other enough already and a foreigner doing it aint no big thing.
The reason I'm not able to relate to the above is what you said below.
I don't hang out in these places. All I know is pewdipie is a huge gaming channel. Tens of millions bla bla
How compatible are Indian views here compared with others. You're talking about gaming channels. What difference does being Indian make when it comes to discussing games?
More the merrier no? More people to chat with about something you have in common. Like tech.
If you disagree then say why.
This is only from a business perspective. If that's where your audience comes from.
Why is it detrimental though. That isn't clear to me. Indians have interacted on tech channels worldwide for decades now and I don't see people having a problem with it.
Why should gaming be any different?