pieartsy

illustrator, poet, ifiction writer


seeing people despairing (reasonably) that Reddit Is Fun and Tweetdeck are breaking due to heinous leadership decisions and thus this makes Reddit/Twitter unusable and awful for them has me marvelling a bit

im not a big redditor or twitter-er which I guess is why I wasn't ever aware of those tools existing and I was just experiencing those sites au natural...

And I'm wondering if I'd have been on the sites more if I used the tools...would that have been a good thing or a bad thing? Are those tools really what made the sites worth using as opposed to fucking unbearable (no shame, xkit made tumblr bearable for years)?

Well it's too late now, in any case.


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in reply to @pieartsy's post:

same here on all sites wrt using vanilla reddit and twitter and tumblr, with xkit. i find myself wondering “if i used RiF or tweetdeck and i had those pulled from under me, would that be the thing that gets me to stop using the sites entirely as opposed to limping by through their enshittification like i do now?”

yeah, mixed bag of "ohhh so these people like these platforms because they didn't even see the enshittification" and "I could've been shielding myself from enshittification this whole time?!"

As someone who stopped using reddit when RIF died, I can say it was really the only tolerable way to use the site on mobile. I could still use the desktop site on my desktop computer, but so much of my time on social media is flicking through for a minute or two waiting in line, waiting for a game to load, etc. In that world, there's no reason to use reddit anymore.