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.
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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...
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.
Some people choose to be stupid.
lol just fuck off already, Reddit.
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.
he got what he wanted out of reddit, the 249mil in stocks.
I have already deleted my reddit account - never go back,
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.
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.
Do you have a favorite app for Lemmy? I’m using Voyager and like it. ☺️
Digg will be removing the comment sections below the links to focus on link content itself.
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.
i did originally used with other person on reddit, with a job specific sub. that was about it, and every other time was a spammer trying to contact people.
Wait, how did they delete bad reviews for their app? That doesn't even seem like it should be possible or allowed.
google probably allows the reviews to be astroturfed by indian spammers.
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.
So you go back to your negative review, edit it, and insert a random space somewhere. Did just that.
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?
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
Cool. The bots can chat among themselves without any pesky users getting in the way.
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.
I mean the only DMs i ever got was transphobic bullshit because they were afraid of downvotes.
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.
Who cares? It's reddit. Trash hole of the internet.
Sir/madam/???, this is a community called Reddit. This specifically is where people would care(though I agree with the sentiment).
Digg picked the right time for a comeback.
Reddit dude is involved in the new Digg sadly… Oh and they already are big talking AI for it.