Reddit is replacing DMs with Reddit chat over the next 3 months
TL;DR To make messaging on Reddit faster and more reliable, we’re replacing Private Messages (PMs) with Reddit Chat and inbox notifications. This transition is necessary to maintain and improve Reddit’s messaging infrastructure. We aim to make these changes with minimal disruption while improving the user experience.
Timeline: Starting at the end of March, we'll roll out these changes in phases over the next three months to ensure everything goes smoothly
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Yes, to promote Lemmy
And you haven't been banned yet?
No, you just need to choose where you talk about it
/r/RedditAlternatives is fine
hi its me a r/redditalternatives mod
Do you think you could maybe update the pinned table? It's been there for a while
@[email protected] ?
Probably not, but I'll poke the head mods eventually about it
I personally disabled voting. Can't get banned for upvoting "violence" if I don't upvote anything in the first place.
No one gets banned from Reddit for promoting Lemmy, it's just some subreddits (like /r/technology) which are overzealous. But not the site as a whole.
Your commente will often be shadowbanned though, atleast that’s been my experience.
By mods, not by Reddit. Otherwise /r/redditalternatives wouldn't be filled with Lemmy mentions.
i got temp banned for reporting too much, or something the sub does not like. ever since it got astroturfed by trump news, thier filters/mods are on high alert.
Its hard not to, that place has a fucking monopoly in internet communities!
Maybe it was at oeast partially a blessing I got banned...
Post links to Lemmy to counter it.
Stop lurking here and post links into communities. Be the change you want to see! If you build it, more will come!
Also, and probably most important, you don't need 10 million people in a community to have quality content.
Having so many also means having a huge amount of toxic people.
I wouldn't say a monopoly, but my counterpoint is pointing to how discord swallowed up all the BBS forums that reddit hadn't. So it's not like that's much better.
My latest horror (slight exaggeration) was finding pretty much the entire modding scene for Balatro is contained to discord
wtf? If I wanna download mods for a game I have to prowl through a discord "forum"? It's awful, what's wrong with nexus or steam workshop
Small world, I'm also on the balatro/other games modding discord boat, and it is a rough ocean out here. The perennial argument is that users don't know how to use an old school forum, nobody wants to moderate it, nobody wants to pay for the infrastructure.
All those fall flat to me. Nobody even bothers to use discord's "forums" or pinned messages for their bug reports/troubleshooting, no they just post straight to general, "this doesnt work can someone help" with no details whatsoever. Not like it would be any better or worse on a forum. It's also not like BBS forums don't have moderation tools, it's not some lost art from an ancient civilization. As for paying for it... the whole discord server is propped up by nitro users. Like come on. Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
[email protected]
It really doesn't if you're willing to look past the first five (paid for) results on Google...
Some communities I'm interested in aren't on the fediverse, or I get more out of following it on both sites, or I like their custom CSS faaaaaar more than the Mbin design.
Fuuuuck chat. I hated it when they debuted it, I hate it now. Fortunately I don't have to deal with that shit cause I'm over here now.
its because they cant datamine pm/dm, a chat is basically fair game to them.
That doesn't make sense. They totally control the platform, they can (and surely do) datamine every ounce of it.
Genuinely can't remember the last time Reddit had a good update.
If you’re on old reddit you don’t even see notifications for chat
I used to. I turned it off. There's an option somewhere to completely turn off Reddit chat.
im surprised they keep the legacy frontend around for this long. im sure its a matter of time before they kill it.
they probably know the legacy users/og users like us would bounce from reddit the moment they remove it? they havnt figure a way to introduce the shittier new UI in such a way that people will stay?
They are changing this as part of getting rid of PMs:
My sides went into orbit. They aren't even trying to come up with believable lies any more, right?
...I think that the reason is twofold: 1) it's easier to plug advertisement into the new chat system, and 2) chat only works in new.reddit so they can use it as an excuse to deprecate yet another old.reddit system.
Yeah I'm wondering that too.
I looked at the thread on Reddit and I can't find one single user who says this is a good idea.
pratically what youtube did, got rid of thier DM/pm and forced everyone to comment on videos, so it can be astroturfed and artificially boosts engagement.
Yup, pretty much.
And, as usual, advertisers are to be blamed: they're the ones interested on "engagement", and indirectly siccing platforms to artificially inflate their engagement numbers.
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Oh yeah, chat is such a popular feature. I love how it is constantly full of spam and death threats. Lets elevate that great content to my lock screen.
fuck u/spez
Maybe you keep getting permabanned because of your fixation with murder my guy. Your comment history is concerning
Never use chat. Anytime I get a chat message, it's spam or somebody trying to scam me.
Private messages, by the way. Never had that issue.
i never get spam only people trying to suck my dick constantly
Same, but in the real world.
yea
Sync for Reddit does not have a chat function, so I won't be using DMs... Not that I even care for it, I guess my "chat request" feed will be bigger for the next time I check on the desktop website (with Ublock Origin ofc) 😅
It was always a mystery that they maintained two features with basically the same function in parallel for so long. Hopefully they made it better than the last time I gave it a try, because otherwise, oof.
when it was first introduced we were getting regular chat request, than it turn into spammers, and hten people stopped using it altogether.
That's fucking weird
Just a heads up some programs like Redact (for deleting social media posts including Reddit) on iOS require a subscription if you want to delete chat history vs free for dm. I recommend using shreddit anyway, and I would seriously consider you do so asap.
PR if it was honest:
the 2nd part is exactly it, they cant really datamine your PMs, and the AIs cant scrape the messaging.
Chat is so laggy
enshittification, its how youtube went, they removed DM/PM and encourage community chats, and video comments, because they cant mine or sell data easily on PMs.
Custom clients don't have chat. Oh well. I basically never used DMs anyways so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The link seems broken somehow on kbin.earth (don't know if Mbin in general), so for anyone having the same issue, here's the actual link taken from Lemmy.
Also for context for Lemmy users reading this, this is the link I see:
https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1jf1dy5/https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/1jf1bxy/private_messages_will_be_replaced_with_reddit//Seems like the edit didn't federate
Is this the year they completely disable old.reddit, I wonder?
What is Reddit?
Another set of features is being taken away. The dismantling of old reddit continues.
Funny because I disabled chat and prefer DMs due to spam (for whatever reason, everything toxic and malicious prefers chat over DMs)