I’m swapping from Reddit to lemmy but still use Reddit for comparison and because not every sub is already as active.

In the last few days Reddit seems to be very unstable to me.

Posts don’t load. Answers don’t get posted and so on. Anyone else having similar problems?

  • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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    They are gutting the DM system and finding out it is a lot more embedded than expected.

    Also they are finding new ways to fuck with old.reddit that not even RES mitigates

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      I think and predicted that they going to close old.reddit soon, as they want to “optimize user experience” with new UI. (I.e: not load all post so fast, but pretent to ‘loading and pause’ so you are going to engage more than scrolling, especially stuck at loading new post after you scroll past and ads, so you can spend some time reading the ads, …)

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        the day they killed i.reddit I knew it was only a matter of time

        It’s like how all the public 3rd spaces got killed as a sacrifice to the automotive industry, now all of our digital 3rd spaces are being sacrificed to big tech

        I hate everything about how the world is going

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          Investor want cash out, so they milk. Whether the platform die after that doesn’t matter. What matter now is the quarterly report look good.

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            And CEO work like, 5 year term, so they want to milk as much as possible for that term and bail out with huge compensation.

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    So I am new to Lemmy and I am just trying to use it more and more each day. It sure seems anemic as the content I see appears to be people supporting the old Reddit before it went mega-shit and screwing over the old mods. So, thank you for letting me come here to try it out.

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    Ever since the API snafu i get so many strange errors and timeouts. It’s service quality has been heavily degraded.

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    It seems to be getting slower and slower and has even been off-line a couple of times. I’ve been there 16 years but am getting pretty close to completely bailing out.

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    Harmless theory, lots of AI inquiries. Harmful theory: Elon musk is removing dissent from all social media. Accounts being targeted and removed etc.

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      Maybe they have laid off too many of the federal agents inserting misinformation and propaganda and they get bogged down a lot.

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    3 days ago

    Yes, and my partner notices it too. Slow loading, janky searches (sometimes search comes up with no results??), posts that show a mass of “deleted” comments, votes not getting logged (if you refresh the page, they’re gone). I’m American on mobile browser.

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    Happens regularly to me, posts not loading, votes not working, comments failing to get submitted… I’m located in the EU, maybe that’s a part of the problem?

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    From the US and this has always been my experience with the reddit app since joining in 2019. I always chalked it up to bad connection

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    It happens every few days for me. I’m in Canada, fwiw. I don’t notice it being worse than usual.