except in select countries.

something's telling me it's the countries that make being able to opt out of profiling a legal requirement. praise be GDPR.

That sounds like it's explicitly against the law in California, where they are headquartered.

Hm.

It's an enshittification speed run

Enshittification stage 5: beyond plaid

Anyone still using reddit is a lost cause

I have an old account that I wiped 9 times, but used to post the spez getting railed by busty Garfield meme, that of course were deleted by an admin. It’s lately getting harassment PM’s/comments regarding older posts that were reactivated despite multiple deletions. It’s like they’re trying to bait me back into an argument lol, it’s weird and really sad for the communities.

Meanwhile, I just installed Boost for lemmy, immediately paid to remove ads, and am having a great time.

Who in the actual fuck keeps all this garbage alive? Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, all gone to shit, why do people insist on staying with them?

Because my day isn't shitty enough, I went over there to see what's the vibe. Sure enough, people are complaining. There's also a surprising amount of bootlickers who parrot the "argument" that people have been saying things have been going downhill, but Reddit still is popular so it can't be going downhill. As if shitty things can't be popular.

I've seen a couple of people who saw this as the last straw, which is better than nothing, but I feel that those remaining in that site, no matter how they kvetch about it, deserves to be frog stew (as in that boiling frog metaphor). I'd love to be proven wrong though.

This is not going over well in Reddit's comments section.

I hope Lemmy can capitalize on this and convince more users to switch.

May I suggest editing this link to old.reddit.com?

As some of the comments point out, they already have a precise list of interests per user.

The subreddit lists. Yet they aren't using that data. Although I suppose the "why not" is that they maybe don't want advertisers knowing all of the subreddits.

I still moderate on Reddit, and will continue to do so (the community is in the process of migrating over, and the community members are important to me)

I'm going to stop upvoting, downvoting, and joining/leaving communities. Already wasn't doing much of the later.

Screw this change

eat my fucking ass spez

Leave and be free! Lemmy on the rise

And yet another reason why I am glad I left over the summer.

Cool, I use Firefox with ublock and a script that stops reddit pop ups asking me to download and the app so I'll see no changes at all.