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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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[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

lol just fuck off already, Reddit.

[–] alvyn@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago

I have already deleted my reddit account - never go back,

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

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...

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] projektilski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

Some people choose to be stupid.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, it isn't very "private" as a messaging platform lol

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[–] carrion0409@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Digg will be removing the comment sections below the links to focus on link content itself.

[–] Tag365@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wait, how did they delete bad reviews for their app? That doesn't even seem like it should be possible or allowed.

[–] Swordinferno@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Do you have a favorite app for Lemmy? I’m using Voyager and like it. ☺️

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

I used several when first starting out here, but kept coming back to voyager.

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[–] seven_phone@lemmy.world 140 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 63 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] univers3man@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

That was such a good read. As an older millennial myself, it hit home particularly strong.

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[–] Nukul4r@feddit.org 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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?

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] viking@infosec.pub 3 points 2 days ago

Chat is only available in the official client, the implementation is closed source. So yeah most likely that.

[–] SirEDCaLot 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 85 points 4 days ago (6 children)

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.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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.

[–] SpoopyKing@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 4 days ago

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.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 66 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Cool. The bots can chat among themselves without any pesky users getting in the way.

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[–] jettrscga@lemmy.world 47 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 17 points 4 days ago

Could be because of people (or bots, whatever) rating but not commenting?

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[–] bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.social 41 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean the only DMs i ever got was transphobic bullshit because they were afraid of downvotes.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

lol

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[–] Linktank 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Who cares? It's reddit. Trash hole of the internet.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Sir/madam/???, this is a community called Reddit. This specifically is where people would care(though I agree with the sentiment).

[–] carrion0409@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

I'm just here to watch the site burn as it caves more and more to the tech oligarchy

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[–] hahattpro@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So, DM and Reddit Chat is not same thing ?

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Mocheeze@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

When new reddit came out they said new features would not be back ported. I saw that as a feature.

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[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Digg picked the right time for a comeback.

[–] oh_@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Reddit dude is involved in the new Digg sadly… Oh and they already are big talking AI for it.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Alexis Ohanian, who co-founded Reddit, is not Steve Huffman (Spez/current Reddit CEO). He's done some solid activism and charity work, unlike the piece of shit Spez. The fact it seems he's trying to distance himself from Reddit by trying to revive their former rival is some rich irony.

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[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'm going put a new review

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 5 points 3 days ago

Maybe this applies to some. But consider the conservative whose stomach does a flip flop whenever they just see a fat woman, a trans-person, or a black man.

They hate that flip flop, and the only way they think it'll ever go away is if you remove those people from society.

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