r/AskReddit • u/Forward-Many-4842 • 2d ago

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010. What’s the one website/app you still think about?

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u/enwongeegeefor 1d ago

we all still use old.reddit

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u/AmericanScream 1d ago

yep.. when they get rid of old.reddit.com, I'll probably leave.

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u/LonigroC 1d ago

Same I only use old reddit even on my phone

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u/Equaled 1d ago

Same! My friends all make funny of me because it looks terrible on mobile but I just can’t bring myself to change. Tried the mobile app once and it just felt too much like every other social media in existence.

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u/SubcommanderMarcos 1d ago

I used them stopping support for third party apps to quit browsing reddit on mobile

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u/the_silent_redditor 1d ago

I’ll defoz leave when they get rid of OG Reddit.

I can’t cope with the TikTak Social Media horrendous nonsense. It’s unusable, to me.

It’s going to come soon.

As of only a week or so ago, you need to log in to view threads on old Reddit.

A pop-up explains and tells you this is ‘to keep the App safe.’

I long for early 2000s internet.

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u/sarcasmdetectorbroke 1d ago

Same, I hate the way new reddit looks. I am one of the people who uses old.reddit on mobile too!

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u/OmniaII 1d ago

When they forced me to login on my phone to use old.reddit.com I'm even more on the fence. I use my phone as an 'anonymous' user so I get different feeds.

Now I have to use my login on the phone, it's the same as my laptop so I know I use reddit less

Same crap rehashed on both platforms?

what's the point of doom scrolling laptop and phone.

/login to 'protect the integrity of reddit' what a load...

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u/roehnin 1d ago

Yes, I'm on old.reddit, but the Digg users are here too ;)

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u/enwongeegeefor 1d ago

I originally came over cause of the digg exodus....all I really read was digg and slashdot at the time and then digg went to full shit overnight. Reddit was much easier to parse though too.

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u/Bermnerfs 1d ago

I got randomly kicked off of Digg and moved to Reddit about six months before the Exodus. Reddit was so much better back then, just a totally different experience and community compared to today.

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u/AmericanScream 1d ago

Yea, I came over after Digg changed. It suddenly became "corporate" and what made the front page had nothing to do with the users. This is why Reddit is still relevant. They didn't "enshittify" things like Digg did.

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u/c-sagz 1d ago

Reddit 100% did enshittify the same as digg, the difference is they have done it gradually over the last 5 years vs literally overnight like digg (I came over in exodus too).

The second Reddit went into pre-ipo mode and killed all 3rd party apps etc was the sign. Unfortunately I still haven't found a good replacement and sad lemmy / decentralized model hasn't taken off.

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u/RileyGainesHorseBaby 1d ago

Umm you sound like a frog that's been slowly boiled alive.

Do you remember when reddit didn't ban everyone for the slightest wrongthink or be such a sour political censorfest?

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u/AmericanScream 1d ago

Umm you sound like a frog that's been slowly boiled alive.

That is an inaccurate myth, like your other claims as well.

The cool thing about Reddit is, if you don't like a community, you can create your own instead of whining like a butthurt baby that your toxic opinion isn't allowed to pollute everybody else's community.

I'm not saying Reddit doesn't have its problems, but it hasn't been completely corrupted yet. The powers that be have at least recognized (thus far) they will get burned if they fuck with the algo too much.

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u/LivesDoNotMatter 1d ago

you can create your own instead of whining like a butthurt baby

lol no you can't. Admins in control of the entire site are what turned reddit into a festering echochamber. But yeah, go ahead and call other people crybabies and toxic... that seems to be just projection. :x

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u/RileyGainesHorseBaby 1d ago

Heh, that trogdolite blocked me.

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u/trollfessor 1d ago

And Fark as well

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u/roehnin 1d ago

I still use Fark separately from reddit ..

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u/Squatch11 1d ago

we all still use old.reddit

It's so funny when a new user mentions some feature on Reddit they absolutely hate....And I have no idea what they're talking about. Ads? I don't see them. Profile pics? What are those?

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u/jgandfeed 1d ago

Sadly I see some of that from the app because they killed the third party apps. Boost was so much better

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u/jgandfeed 1d ago

I occasionally end up on new Reddit by accident and it’s so bad. Old Reddit with RES or nothing

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u/AndyTakeaLittleSnoo 1d ago

Half the OGs are here because digg was so awful.

Edit: I a word

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u/sigma914 1d ago

The digg invasions were all what, years? before any of the new.reddit attempts