After checking the achievement notification, I was presented with this:
Context: I still have an account after using PDS to alter/remove all my posts and wiping my profile, but I still get messages from redditors seeking help so I check in from time to time.
Are you guys still using Reddit?
Nope.
Reddit sucks yes but lemmy it's hard to find tech support.
My account there still exists for a couple of reasons.
One, so that nobody else uses my name there. Two, so that all my comments still say "Spez doesn't get to profit from me anymore." Three, since I rarely go there at all, and then only to read something, never to actually interact, that should fuck with their metrics.
After deleting your account, nobody can ever use that username again. (Including yourself)
For point 2, I'm not sure how you mean that but when you delete your account, it doesn't delete your posts and comments.
I think their metrics showing people are deleting their accounts might be more impactful, because there are probably loads of unused accounts naturally.
Spez doesn't get to profit from me anymore
Spez already profited from you, OpenAI already scraped all of Reddit's content to feed ChatGPT
... anymore
It's kind of ok as a news aggregator, especially for non-US news. The comments have long gone to hell, however. I stop reading threads after encountering the 10th or so "/s", which usually happens a few seconds in.
Yes, m*stly through Apollo which has a tweak so it still works (that's right, I jailbreak in 2024)
yes because LEMMY STILL SUUUUUCKS
Dark patterns will eventually force advertisements into anything that reliably catches your attention.
I stopped paying attention to notification icons ages ago, and I haven't missed any important notifications.
Yep. Not even always ads exactly, but just dummy notifications to make your dumb brain keep opening the app or website (which is kind of a self ad).
Most apps I have to disable or heavily tone down notifications in some way to get them to stop yapping about nothing. Even then, sometimes you can't get notifications you do want without junk.
Wow, looks like the facebook tactics are creeping in. Fb started notifying users to pull them back on the platform with "x person commented on y person's post (that you've never interacted with)", and half the time those notifications didn't link to the post, and you couldn't turn them off. I'm not sure how that brings people back at all.
Funny, this week, I got an email notice of a question (can you link the probiotic you use?) from something I commented ( I use Lactobacillus salivarius to promote good oral microflora, and am not selling a particular brand of probiotic) on Red about 9 years ago. My first thought was go look it up yourself, and with this post realize that it's part of Red't's plan to lure us back in. lol, not gonna happen. I've been ignoring FB lures far longer, and know how to not play your game.
Also if I check my feed it's at least half "suggested posts" from subs I'm not subscribed to, which really seems to defeat the purpose of what people liked about Reddit in the first place. Not that I like them anymore anyways but it's amazing how much they can continue to self destruct the user experience
Before I was randomly permabanned from Reddit, I got to enjoy Reddit's dogshit post notifications, where it just recommends me a random post from a community that I've never interacted with or will ever, then come to realise it just brings me to the community, not the post.
Honestly I'm so glad I got banned from that shithole, from the pedo dms to the always pissed off Redditors replying to my comments, to the absolute neckbeard degenerates in the comment sections, it's so freeing not experiencing that anymore.
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