doctortofu

joined 1 year ago
[–] doctortofu@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Hasn't it been in dork mode for a while now? Oh wait, I misread... ;)

[–] doctortofu@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot. The way I curate my feed is I subscribe to communities that I'm actively and significantly interested in and block all of them that I don't see myself ever wanting to check out. The rest are places that I might want to see, but maybe not all the time. This way I can filter by Subscribed to see a very focused feed and by All if I want some more randomness, but still without topics I'm really disinterested in.

[–] doctortofu@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure if a percentage growth of subscribers is the right metric - a growth from 1 to 3 subscribers looks much bigger when expressed in %...

I visited one of the communities listed, and it literally only had 3 posts - a welcome one and two pinned ones. All by the same author. That's not exactly what I'd call a fast growig or trending community...

[–] doctortofu@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

"We have noticed that by accident we provided a user-friendly functionality without trying to extract money out of you. We apologize for the convenience and promise that we will make sure it never happens again"

[–] doctortofu@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So like the rest of Amazon then? Never used kindle, but Amazon for physical goods has been a dumpster fire for a while - completely overrun with dropshipped garbage, to the extent that it's actually difficult now to find quality stuff in the sea of "brands" with random string of capital letter names, all using the same poorly photoshopped image...

[–] doctortofu@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Rif was reddit for me. It was how I accessed it 99.9% of the time. By far the most used app on all my phones for more than a decade. I'm extremely sad that this is how it dies, but all things must end, it seems. Rest in peace old friend. And rot in pieces reddit, for killing the best goddamned app I've ever used...

[–] doctortofu@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I feel you - reddit was my daily staple for more than 15 years. Can't remember exactly, since my account is 15 years, but I browsed without it for a long while before that. And I will miss it, dearly. I'm super sad and angry that spez and the rest of his merry band of morons decided to screw it up this bad. I'll miss some local communities, some gaming ones, some silly video ones, and just the general feeling that any time I go to the bathroom there's going to be tons of new content for me to browse through.

Sure this place will grow too, I'm sure of it, but it will take a lot of time. It's pretty damn hard to change my habits after 15 years - RiF is my most used app BY FAR, and I'm super sad to see it die like this...