[Iulioh]

Man, i just hate the new reddit, but in a way i appreciate the fact that the update literally stopped me from continuing to use it.

It was my togo app, i spent hours browsing and reading random comments and articles, my English got surprisingly better than most of my peers and all it took was a mild internet addiction.

Now it's short form content for me. YouTube mainly (premium helps a lot, tiktok enshittified a little with shops and the slideshows).

I mourn RIF and count the days untill old.reddit is no longer supported.

[seydor]

> Now it's short form content for me. YouTube mainly

Videos take much longer than reading text . And they mostly say the same things. It's just that the better content has moved to youtube, where it can be monetized better

[Leynos]

What I like about videos is that I can listen to them while doing other things (e.g., dishes, laundry, walking, or gardening). YouTube premium lets you switch the screen off. Annoying that you have to pay for this, but no ads is a nice bonus. Nebula also lets you do this.

[ornornor]

Albanian IPs don’t get ads on YT because of a law they passed apparently banning ads on YT.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Videos take much longer to make [well], than equivalent text/image-based content.

But I’m a late boomer, so I come from the last century. I consume video content, but also, a great deal of written stuff.

[Iulioh]

I had that realization recently when a younger friend of mine used tiktok as a search engine to find a restaurant in a city....

"This is so ridiculous and funny " was my first reaction but then mind broke at the realization that this is the new future.

The same with ChatGPT...it's sad that it answers better than Google for generic information search, especially if you aren't familiar with specific terms in that field.

Text is dead

[surgical_fire]

My last day on Reddit was when RiF died.

It was surprisingly easy to abandon it.

[dotnet00]

Same here, had trouble controlling the habit before, but was surprisingly easy to drop it when RiF died.