Reddit is removing the Direct Message feature, and all active conversations will be archived so you won’t be able to continue ongoing conversations. Reddit also deleted all bad reviews for their app awhile ago. Its rating went from 3.4 to 4.5 stars overnight.
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I have already deleted my reddit account - never go back,
lol just fuck off already, Reddit.
Digg will be removing the comment sections below the links to focus on link content itself.
I’m starting to see them banning me as a blessing. Spez is running that site into the ground. Guaranteed by the end of the year it’s just gonna be “X²” or smth.
I just don’t understand how PM became DM for so many people. I mean it literally says “PM” in the screenshot, yet OP still changed it to “DM” in their post.
I remember it used to always be PM, then one day everyone suddenly started calling it DM and I just don’t know why…
My conspiracy theory is that big social platforms like Instagram and/or Snapchat are behind the change, because the P in PM is for Private and they are fundamentally against privacy, as they profit off your data, including likely analyzing your messages to serve you more relevant ads.
Some people choose to be stupid.
I mean, it isn’t very “private” as a messaging platform lol
We need to bring back tunneled DCC.
I use DM because PM stands for Post Meridian.
Wait, how did they delete bad reviews for their app? That doesn’t even seem like it should be possible or allowed.
My guess is that Google recently devalued the negative reviews from the API fiasco because enough time has passed. The reviews are (probably) still there, but those 1 star ratings are no longer in the “average” shown to users.
So you go back to your negative review, edit it, and insert a random space somewhere. Did just that.
Yeah… Big tech is rotten to the core.
Not trying to defend Reddit here, but what’s the functional difference between a chat and DMs? How is one better or worse than the other?
For me, it’s that the app I use does not have the chat feature. I’m 99% certain this is just an attempt to push out the revanced users
Chat is only available in the official client, the implementation is closed source. So yeah most likely that.
DMs are exactly what you expect, like private email. Every service has some form of this.
Reddit chat is real time, designed for shorter messages and real-time communication.
The other difference is that everybody uses Reddit DMs and nobody uses Reddit chat. I have my chat turned off as do most others that I talk to.
So this is yet again another example of Reddit management not reading the room and forcing the use of a system people generally don’t want.
Management didn’t miss the mark, they know everyone still on Reddit are easy marks.
DMs are for directly messaging someone as opposed to commenting on a thread which would be public conversation
reddit chat on the other hand is for bots so that’s where you get your spam
I just went and checked, and the reddit app has a 4.7 star rating on Google play store, yet when you go read the reviews, they’re all 1 or 2 stars.
The official Reddit app is an exercise in travesty. Any third party client for either Android or iOS in the past was better the official solution is even now. It’s slow, bloated and UI looks like it’s designed for toddlers in mind.
Do you have a favorite app for Lemmy? I’m using Voyager and like it. ☺️
I am on Boost. It’s a one time purchase for Android Atleast. The dev is same behind Boost for Reddit(now deprecated) and it implements a similar UI as the previous Reddit Client.
Of course, as you said, there are many FOSS solutions as well. I have heard good praise for Voyager and I think Atleast couple of more clients like Jerboa also exist on F-Droid.
I’ve just been using the site in my browser for the couple of years or so I’ve been on Lemmy. I’ve thought about trying one of the apps but meh. The web interface is so well mobile-optimized as it is
I used several when first starting out here, but kept coming back to voyager.
I’m also on voyager !
One of the first things Google did when it bought YouTube was to remove direct messaging, don’t want people wasting time talking to each other when they should be watching ads.
That was such a good read. As an older millennial myself, it hit home particularly strong.
Good find. This is gem.
Really appreciate you linking that, like the other user said, it spoke to me.
true but reddit chat is still there
Lmao chat is one of the dumbest features they ever rolled out.
I love how their attitude is always “we made this useless feature, and instead of ditching it were going to get rid of what people preferred and force the hated alternative!”
Once again proving that the Reddit admins absolutely hate the fact that people use Reddit. They should just shit the site down already.
I hated both features honestly. I’m there to converse in public, anything you say you can add in a public reply to one of my comments. If it was ever used for honest chat or messaging, I never saw it.
It was useful for asking questions that neither you nor the other person would want to put in a public post. For example, someone posted a picture in the bad real estate sub that looked very familiar, and I sent a DM asking “is this X location?”. I might not want people to know I’m familiar with X location, they might not want people to know they’re familiar with X location, but maybe we’re both ok with each other knowing.
But I’m pretty sure its main use was sending hate to people without getting banned.
I used to use it when I wanted to impart a little secret to another Redditor, without alerting the entire world.
For instance, I found a cool, lesser-used auction site that often had good deals on guitars. If I ran across someone whose guitar had been lost somehow, or who couldnt afford a new guitar, I would DM the auction site, and ask them to keep it quiet. I didn’t want to announce it publicly, and alert the entire world to it, and ruin it.
I would use it for some video game LFGs. I wouldnt want to post my game name in a public forum and have my game account be flooded.
But then how can we ask for nudes? /S
I don’t mind DMs for one-off things. Like if I see something sketchy and want to tip off a user without alerting the sketchy one.
Also, everybody already owns a named subreddit that they mod, don’t they? So can’t you just send modmail there and still sidebar the chat in lieu of modmail DMs?
DMs had their uses, for example RemindMeBot cannot work over chat because there is no API.
It’s the Late-Stage Capitalist way.
it may surprise you how many people use reddit for personals and porn
were going to get rid of what people preferred and force the hated alternative!
It’s not always the hated alternative that wins, hence why we’re here right now.
Anything that benefits them, fuck the users.
All in marketing. Can sell ketchup popsicles to women in white gloves with enough money thrown at it.
How is the Reddit app at a 4.7 on Google’s Play store, but all of the relevant reviews that pop up are 1’s and 2’s?
Google must be ignoring some reviews to calculate the average score.
Could be because of people (or bots, whatever) rating but not commenting?
Whaaa?! Google acting dishonorably and ignoring their own mission to “Do No Harm?” I’m shocked.
google has definetly done this in the past, so its possible.
Cool. The bots can chat among themselves without any pesky users getting in the way.
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16/f/Cali
FBI Open up
Who cares? It’s reddit. Trash hole of the internet.
Sir/madam/???, this is a community called Reddit. This specifically is where people would care(though I agree with the sentiment).
I’m just here to watch the site burn as it caves more and more to the tech oligarchy
this keeps happening because the posts rise up. I’m not subscribed.
but I do love watching it descend into trash. hard to say why I don’t block it but it shows up for non subscribers for sure.
You can set whether you want to view all/subscribed/local in your Lemmy client.
The communities I’m currently subscribed to don’t have that much content so I end up on all frequently. That’s how I keep seeing these posts too.
I mean the only DMs i ever got was transphobic bullshit because they were afraid of downvotes.
Several of my Reddit accounts had tens of thousands of karma, a couple exceeded 100k. I learned early on to never read any notifications/messages ever. I just navigate back to my recent comments directly and check replies in context, instead of a stream of disjointed messages and trolls being deadshits.
My current 1-year old account is at about 115k…kinda want to go out in a blaze.
So, DM and Reddit Chat is not same thing ?
No, I had my chat hidden because I primarily used old Reddit, and so I pretty much never looked a it. Made 0 sense to me. If somebody wanted something in private, they can send me a DM.
I didn’t even realize people used the chat on there. When it rolled out, it was almost exclusively bots lol
No, they’re two different communication methods. To be fair, it does seem weird to continue maintaining two forms of DM, but also I liked the old school DM style vs the newer realtime message style, personally. I guess I like the distance from strangers.
Also DMs work on both new & old Reddit. Chat only works on new Reddit.
(Unless something has changed recently.)
That’s probably a feature. They don’t want old reddit to exist.
When new reddit came out they said new features would not be back ported. I saw that as a feature.
Oh I get it now
Oh, and some open source app you build by yourself and put your API key in only work with DM because those app is no longer maintained.
Speaking of API, I don’t think there’s one for the chat, so removing DMs will greatly reduce the capabilities of RemindMeBot etc.
