except in select countries.
something's telling me it's the countries that make being able to opt out of profiling a legal requirement. praise be GDPR.
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praise be GDPR.
Thanks, I almost forgot to request my data like I do every month at https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
Why every month??
Most likely to annoy someone at reddit
It costs Reddit $$
If many of us did it, yeah. For the occasional demand compared to their user base? Probably negligible costs.
That was the idea during the 3rd party kurfuffle
oh my
Enshittification stage 5: beyond plaid
Anyone still using reddit is a lost cause
I still use Reddit on desktop but I've switched to Lemmy on mobile since Reddit killed third party apps.
I would use just Lemmy but it hasn't hit userbase criticality yet.
It's fine as a link aggregator but frustrating when a post I'm interested in has a deserted comment section.
The majority aren't dissatisfied enough to do anything about it, despite complaints. However, I'm hoping that some future action from Huffman will affect them adversely enough that it'd push them over that threshold and decide to do something about it—quit that site. I doubt a lot of them will make their way over here, so just them quitting is good enough for me.
That's how it worked for Mastadon. People come over in waves each time it gets slightly shittier, or so I've heard.
Who in the actual fuck keeps all this garbage alive? Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, all gone to shit, why do people insist on staying with them?
Are you familiar with 
?
The central limit theorem?
Meanwhile, I just installed Boost for lemmy, immediately paid to remove ads, and am having a great time.
Voyager has no ads 🥰
Neither does Jerboa. 👍
That's cool too. I used Boost for Reddit, so I'm happy to support them in this burgeoning era of fediwhatever. 😉
Indeed, I used the free version of RiF for years and only found out there was a paid version available when they announced they were sitting down. I bought it in their last month of operation because they deserved it.
How much is it to remove ads on boost actually?
$4.95 CAD
$3.50 USD
Yeah, using Lemmy feels so many ch better. I was using jeroba and it has some issues that were not being addressed. The lack of ads was nice, but paying $5 for no ad Boost feels like a great deal.
Because my day isn't shitty enough, I went over there to see what's the vibe. Sure enough, people are complaining. There's also a surprising amount of bootlickers who parrot the "argument" that people have been saying things have been going downhill, but Reddit still is popular so it can't be going downhill. As if shitty things can't be popular.
I've seen a couple of people who saw this as the last straw, which is better than nothing, but I feel that those remaining in that site, no matter how they kvetch about it, deserves to be frog stew (as in that boiling frog metaphor). I'd love to be proven wrong though.
I still moderate on Reddit, and will continue to do so (the community is in the process of migrating over, and the community members are important to me)
I'm going to stop upvoting, downvoting, and joining/leaving communities. Already wasn't doing much of the later.
Screw this change
And yet another reason why I am glad I left over the summer.
I can’t even remember the last time I launched the app.