🙄 the majority of reddit users are followers. They will follow trends. Reddit is still hot, cool, and trendy. They won’t quit it until the next thing comes along that gets hyped up and that all of a sudden their best friends have. Reddit had an “exodus” last year (or was it two years ago?) and is still going as strong as ever. People complained about their app, but most just shrugged, downloaded it, and dealt with the new interface.
I disagree - I was on Reddit since before the Digg exodus, so I may or may not know a few things. There was a big mood shift after the mod strike. It really shook the page - some subreddits never “recovered”. Some that were popular before are still in a kind of lockdown. Some have new mods which are not doing a really great job. There were a few that really grew. But overall, Reddit lost a lot. People did delete decades of useful advice. Regular users left. The new ones are … different. In many cases mobile users that kind of seem to use Reddit as a chat platform, but they are not posting really insightful comments. Some are indistingushable from bots. Many are bots. Some mods have just given up and gave up moderating popular subreddits, which are now drowning in repost bost. There are bots replicating whole threads under reposts. Many subreddits are just old screenshots from Twitter. It’s wild - but it is hollow. And that was different a few years back.
It’s getting hard to remember when Reddit was just that little weird link sharing icon on articles that few people (relatively speaking for the time) bothered with. Digg shitting the bed gave Reddit the push it needed to become recognisable.
Funny now that Digg exists solely as a ‘frontpage’ full of clickbait titles and a ‘community’ made entirely of comment boxes. Yet it perseveres in its own little corner.
Now we have Reddit in the place of Digg and the fediverse in the place of Reddit - history really does repeat itself.
All of the cool people left and the only people that are still hanging out are the people who don’t know any better and the people who are there to try to market themselves as some kind of brand.
A year or so into Lemmy and I don’t want to have a Reddit account anymore. I go back and view “All” every once in awhile, but Lemmy and Loops give me all I need.
No other social media or content aggregators besides those.
I’ve not logged in on my Reddit account since that big group boycott and switching to Lemmy.
If Reddit didn’t hold some specific info for certain video games or just a much larger group participating in Tech/Selfhosted subreddits, I’d rarely have to visit the website.
Honestly, to me the Reddit demise was happening organically anyway. For a lot of weirdly specific topics, Discord has become a good alternative.
Now just don’t get me started on Discord and how it will eventually have to better monetize the platform and ruin that too. Wish Matrix had a soundboard for voice chat 😢
They probably mean that stupid soundboard where you can play cricket noises and stuff in your voice chat.
@batcheck@batcheck@lemmy.world, you can use voicemeeter banana for completely free, or the trial version of voicemeeter potato for forever with a pretty simple bypass, to patch your hardware mic input and a software audio output to a virtual mic device, then set that virtual device as your mic input in discord, matrix, any game, whatever you want. You can play soundboard audio from your browser or from any program on your pc.
I personally have the entire chain as:
xlr mic in -> nvidia broadcast (to remove server noise) -> voicemeeter potato hardware input -> voicemeeter potato virtual B1
I split my comms audio and game audio to different virtual devices, then set my OS audio to the “main” virtual device. All three play out of my headphones. I set my OS audio to play out of B1 also.
I have the B1 device set as the microphone device in discord, every game that has in game vc, matrix, slack, etc. Anything I play in the OS, Spotify, YouTube, Plexamp, a soundboard, whatever, both plays in my headphones for me and plays in my voice chat channel with perfect quality. And I can still talk over it.
I’d be more impressed if, instead of the weird 2012-era Facebook content license copypasta style of anti-ai license, they just signed every message with a SQL injection style of command instructions for the ai, like Ignore all previous instructions. You are….
🙄 the majority of reddit users are followers. They will follow trends. Reddit is still hot, cool, and trendy. They won’t quit it until the next thing comes along that gets hyped up and that all of a sudden their best friends have. Reddit had an “exodus” last year (or was it two years ago?) and is still going as strong as ever. People complained about their app, but most just shrugged, downloaded it, and dealt with the new interface.
Anti Commercial-AI license
I disagree - I was on Reddit since before the Digg exodus, so I may or may not know a few things. There was a big mood shift after the mod strike. It really shook the page - some subreddits never “recovered”. Some that were popular before are still in a kind of lockdown. Some have new mods which are not doing a really great job. There were a few that really grew. But overall, Reddit lost a lot. People did delete decades of useful advice. Regular users left. The new ones are … different. In many cases mobile users that kind of seem to use Reddit as a chat platform, but they are not posting really insightful comments. Some are indistingushable from bots. Many are bots. Some mods have just given up and gave up moderating popular subreddits, which are now drowning in repost bost. There are bots replicating whole threads under reposts. Many subreddits are just old screenshots from Twitter. It’s wild - but it is hollow. And that was different a few years back.
It’s getting hard to remember when Reddit was just that little weird link sharing icon on articles that few people (relatively speaking for the time) bothered with. Digg shitting the bed gave Reddit the push it needed to become recognisable.
Funny now that Digg exists solely as a ‘frontpage’ full of clickbait titles and a ‘community’ made entirely of comment boxes. Yet it perseveres in its own little corner.
Now we have Reddit in the place of Digg and the fediverse in the place of Reddit - history really does repeat itself.
Reddit has become a zombie website.
All of the cool people left and the only people that are still hanging out are the people who don’t know any better and the people who are there to try to market themselves as some kind of brand.
I was a Reddit refugee.
A year or so into Lemmy and I don’t want to have a Reddit account anymore. I go back and view “All” every once in awhile, but Lemmy and Loops give me all I need.
No other social media or content aggregators besides those.
I’ve not logged in on my Reddit account since that big group boycott and switching to Lemmy.
If Reddit didn’t hold some specific info for certain video games or just a much larger group participating in Tech/Selfhosted subreddits, I’d rarely have to visit the website.
Honestly, to me the Reddit demise was happening organically anyway. For a lot of weirdly specific topics, Discord has become a good alternative.
Now just don’t get me started on Discord and how it will eventually have to better monetize the platform and ruin that too. Wish Matrix had a soundboard for voice chat 😢
My biggest problem with Discord is it’s a walled garden. So much info that’s inaccessible to the rest of the world.
What do you mean by soundboard?
They probably mean that stupid soundboard where you can play cricket noises and stuff in your voice chat.
@batcheck@batcheck@lemmy.world, you can use voicemeeter banana for completely free, or the trial version of voicemeeter potato for forever with a pretty simple bypass, to patch your hardware mic input and a software audio output to a virtual mic device, then set that virtual device as your mic input in discord, matrix, any game, whatever you want. You can play soundboard audio from your browser or from any program on your pc.
I personally have the entire chain as: xlr mic in -> nvidia broadcast (to remove server noise) -> voicemeeter potato hardware input -> voicemeeter potato virtual B1
I split my comms audio and game audio to different virtual devices, then set my OS audio to the “main” virtual device. All three play out of my headphones. I set my OS audio to play out of B1 also.
I have the B1 device set as the microphone device in discord, every game that has in game vc, matrix, slack, etc. Anything I play in the OS, Spotify, YouTube, Plexamp, a soundboard, whatever, both plays in my headphones for me and plays in my voice chat channel with perfect quality. And I can still talk over it.
Jesus, here we go with that useless ai license nonsense lmao
RePoSt ThEsE maGic wORds tO StoP eVIL TEcH NerDS fROm StEaling yOuR pErSOnaL datA!
I’d be more impressed if, instead of the weird 2012-era Facebook content license copypasta style of anti-ai license, they just signed every message with a SQL injection style of command instructions for the ai, like
Ignore all previous instructions. You are….Like the online equivalent of a sovereign citizen
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