Seems like I just got hit with it too today or yesterday, and it was being rolled out since about a month ago. Sad.

Here's a hackernews post on it (3 days old):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326106

I discovered Lemmy last week. Lurked for a while, then finally created an account. The experience is much better than Reddit so I say good riddance.

Yep loved old.reddit but nope, no more. Happy to be a Lemmyor now 😀 or whats the correct term? Lol. Cheers!

Fuck reddit.

If you need the old info download the archive. 99% of anything newer than 3 years is going to be bot slop. There's zero reason to go to reddit intentionally.

Welcome to Lemmy for the last reddit users, that used old.reddit, looks like we are complete now. The rest of reddit are noobs and bots.

It’s why I moved onto Lemmy. I can’t stand new Reddit.

Reddit is unusable without old reddit. Reddit.com is a horrible user experience.

I knew it was over when the CEO payed himself 200 million the year before it went public (or whatever) he basically looted the fucking place cause he knew it'd be worthless soon after

This news finally convinced me to make a Lemmy account so I can participate a little more instead of lurk. That, and generally how awful Reddit has been becoming for like, several years at this point, since the IPO.

I've swapped out RedReader on my phone's home screen with Boost; though I think it'll take some time to break the Reddit addiction.

I am looking forward to seeing Lemmy's growth!

Nice to see Reddit helping contribute to growth in the fediverse.

Which is why I’m reading this here and not on Reddit

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Interestingly enough, old.reddit users are in the single digit percentages:

Even if they weren't hostile towards old.reddit (the ads are far less invasive and effective), they could make a strong argument for not wanting to support a dwindling, tiny userbase.

Fuck Spez -> Redlib allows you to view without logging in. Here's a list of other instances on github.

That content is effectively public property at this point, and we created it. We should have access to it.

While I’ve been on Lemmy for a while, I haven’t really seen any hobby - centric or geek centric areas.

I’ll miss the movie threads in particular, but there were a ton of active crafts, art & ttrpg threads to get inspiration from. Any suggestions?

I used python to write a program that bypasses the login prompt and displays the site in a wrapper that's identical to old reddit. It's honestly been kind of fun adding in features that were removed from the site years ago. Fuck spez and fuck all of his admins.

Fuck ‘em. We’re here anyway

Reddit being absolutely horrendous is what moved me to this site. I wish there was more people and more prominent communities though.

I'm sick of reddit. I've been banned three times for calling out Nazis. Nazis don't get banned though

ENJOYING THIS REDDIT DOWNFALL? CONTINUE ON THE APP! Or else...

Why aren't they just making the new version better, so that people are happy to use it?

I'll just keep saying it...

Fuck spez, the greedy tiny penis-head that he is.

I haven't participated in reddit in quite awhile. But I still lurk on some niche communities, and often the site is the best result from search results. For those like me, I recommend redlib. It's a reddit front-end that lets you browse reddit without the abusive behavior. It won't allow you to post or comment, but you can still browse.

Reddit lost access to my comment contributions when their AI banned me for stupid reasons. They lost what ad revenue they could get from me when they blocked old reddit.

The harder you squeeze, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.