After checking the achievement notification, I was presented with this:

Context: I still have an account after using PDS to alter/remove all my posts and wiping my profile, but I still get messages from redditors seeking help so I check in from time to time.

    • Mwa@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      Reddit sucks yes but lemmy it’s hard to find tech support.

    • Ofiuco@lemmy.cafe
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      4 days ago

      Well the content I like or is useful to me is only there… And the constant recycling of the content allows me to only check lemmy once a day and I don’t miss anything.

    • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz
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      4 days ago

      It’s kind of ok as a news aggregator, especially for non-US news. The comments have long gone to hell, however. I stop reading threads after encountering the 10th or so “/s”, which usually happens a few seconds in.

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    4 days ago

    Wow, looks like the facebook tactics are creeping in. Fb started notifying users to pull them back on the platform with “x person commented on y person’s post (that you’ve never interacted with)”, and half the time those notifications didn’t link to the post, and you couldn’t turn them off. I’m not sure how that brings people back at all.

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    3 days ago

    Before I was randomly permabanned from Reddit, I got to enjoy Reddit’s dogshit post notifications, where it just recommends me a random post from a community that I’ve never interacted with or will ever, then come to realise it just brings me to the community, not the post.

    Honestly I’m so glad I got banned from that shithole, from the pedo dms to the always pissed off Redditors replying to my comments, to the absolute neckbeard degenerates in the comment sections, it’s so freeing not experiencing that anymore.

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    4 days ago

    Dark patterns will eventually force advertisements into anything that reliably catches your attention.

    I stopped paying attention to notification icons ages ago, and I haven’t missed any important notifications.

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      4 days ago

      Yep. Not even always ads exactly, but just dummy notifications to make your dumb brain keep opening the app or website (which is kind of a self ad).

      Most apps I have to disable or heavily tone down notifications in some way to get them to stop yapping about nothing. Even then, sometimes you can’t get notifications you do want without junk.

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    4 days ago

    Also if I check my feed it’s at least half “suggested posts” from subs I’m not subscribed to, which really seems to defeat the purpose of what people liked about Reddit in the first place. Not that I like them anymore anyways but it’s amazing how much they can continue to self destruct the user experience