Reddit is removing the Direct Message feature, and all active conversations will be archived so you won’t be able to continue ongoing conversations. Reddit also deleted all bad reviews for their app awhile ago. Its rating went from 3.4 to 4.5 stars overnight.
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What’s the difference between the two? I haven’t used reddit since the api shit and I don’t remember seeing 2 separate messaging options before that.
By removing the language of “private” from the feature they can now sell your data without having to tell you about it
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.
Alexis Ohanian, who co-founded Reddit, is not Steve Huffman (Spez/current Reddit CEO). He’s done some solid activism and charity work, unlike the piece of shit Spez. The fact it seems he’s trying to distance himself from Reddit by trying to revive their former rival is some rich irony.
I’m just here to say fuck/u/spez
Alexis left Reddit suddenly with some weird excuse, too. I think he got word of the stock plan and immediately jumped ship.
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.
were going to get rid of what people preferred and force the hated alternative!
It’s not always the hated alternative that wins, hence why we’re here right now.
I hated both features honestly. I’m there to converse in public, anything you say you can add in a public reply to one of my comments. If it was ever used for honest chat or messaging, I never saw it.
DMs had their uses, for example RemindMeBot cannot work over chat because there is no API.
But then how can we ask for nudes? /S
I don’t mind DMs for one-off things. Like if I see something sketchy and want to tip off a user without alerting the sketchy one.
Also, everybody already owns a named subreddit that they mod, don’t they? So can’t you just send modmail there and still sidebar the chat in lieu of modmail DMs?
I would use it for some video game LFGs. I wouldnt want to post my game name in a public forum and have my game account be flooded.
It was useful for asking questions that neither you nor the other person would want to put in a public post. For example, someone posted a picture in the bad real estate sub that looked very familiar, and I sent a DM asking “is this X location?”. I might not want people to know I’m familiar with X location, they might not want people to know they’re familiar with X location, but maybe we’re both ok with each other knowing.
But I’m pretty sure its main use was sending hate to people without getting banned.
It’s the Late-Stage Capitalist way.
it may surprise you how many people use reddit for personals and porn
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…
Some people choose to be stupid.
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.
I mean, it isn’t very “private” as a messaging platform lol
And when that doesn’t work, they’ll change it to Fanmail.
Cool. The bots can chat among themselves without any pesky users getting in the way.
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he got what he wanted out of reddit, the 249mil in stocks.
Maybe this applies to some. But consider the conservative whose stomach does a flip flop whenever they just see a fat woman, a trans-person, or a black man.
They hate that flip flop, and the only way they think it’ll ever go away is if you remove those people from society.
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.
That was such a good read. As an older millennial myself, it hit home particularly strong.
Good find. This is gem.
Really appreciate you linking that, like the other user said, it spoke to me.
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.
My current 1-year old account is at about 115k…kinda want to go out in a blaze.
How did they remove bad reviews, and on which platform? To my knowledge neither Google Play nor the App Store allows developers to do that, so it would have to be a more complicated situation with Google/Apple collaboration.
On both Google play and the apple app store you can report reviews for violating policy
Yes, so either the reviews were all death threats, in which case I’m fine with them being removed, or Google/Apple is secretly collaborating with Reddit.
My guess is many could be removed under the guise of being off topic, addressing Reddit itself and not the app specifically.
I have already deleted my reddit account - never go back,
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?
DMs are exactly what you expect, like private email. Every service has some form of this.
Reddit chat is real time, designed for shorter messages and real-time communication.
The other difference is that everybody uses Reddit DMs and nobody uses Reddit chat. I have my chat turned off as do most others that I talk to.
So this is yet again another example of Reddit management not reading the room and forcing the use of a system people generally don’t want.
Management didn’t miss the mark, they know everyone still on Reddit are easy marks.
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
Makes sense tbh, having two separate systems of private one-on-one communication wasn’t that logical.
“makes sense” would be removing the chat that never should have existed in the first place.
Yeah ok sure, but given that the chat existed this isn’t surprising. I’m not enamoured with Reddit’s choices (obviously, we’re on Lemmy), but the reaction here feels pretty dumb.
Huh? They added the chat in like 2017 as part of their push to enshitify the site and make it a social network lol. I thought it was stupid then, and I still don’t see why we need it. Reddit is (was) designed to be like a forum. You post, and you wait for an answer. It wasn’t meant for real-time conversation. I don’t even see how that fits into the site? The majority of chats I get are NSFW spam bots, and the rest are messages that I see months later because I have chat hidden and only see it on really rare occasions when I have to leave old.reddit a DM would have been answered much faster lol
It makes sense if you want to force users to use the app. It’s what put the nail in the coffin for facebook for me.
Wait, how did they delete bad reviews for their app? That doesn’t even seem like it should be possible or allowed.
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.
