tldr - “Reddit teases features to make the platform even worse”
I feel like I’ve read this one before.
Ah, so the bad kind of teasing.
Oh cool so we’re gonna get another wave of users joining lemmy, it’s nice that they keep fucking up at such a regular cadence
It’s gonna start getting a little old tbh
Left Reddit over a year ago, haven’t been back once. It was surprisingly easy, and a year on, it’s getting easier for others too.
I left also, the API thing was the nudge I needed; I admit I’ve gone back for niche things: the fan groups of 2-3 bands and two TV shows. Reddit is their defacto fan forum for lots of things
The worst part to me is the shadowbanning. It’s easy enough to tell if you’re shadowbanned (check subs or comment threads when signed out and in private mode to see if your stuff shows up), but you can’t see comments from other people who are shadowbanned. I want to see all points of view. And after the API changes, the sites for viewing removed or hidden comments stopped working :|
Hear hear
Shadow banning has been out of control on that site for years
I tried checking it out recently just for the amount of content. The site is unusable now. Don’t bother to comment anything beyond a useless lol comment or you’ll get banned for every little thing. The mods really went power mad over there
AI to summarize and recommend content, helping users dive deeper into products, shows, games
Notice they don’t talk about hobbies or common interests, just “shit we can sell them”
I’m sure in his wet dreams Reddit is no longer a community site but a thinly veiled astroturfing platform that’s paid billions by large corporations to get their
adsposts in front of users.Yeah, that’s the definition of enshittification.
- Make a platform that becomes popular
- Lock in users and start to milk them
- Use large user base to draw in companies with ads and influence
- Lock in companies and squeeze them for all their worth
I mean there had been complaining for years that it was becoming just that; it’s just that they were trying to do it without anyone noticing and then all the tech bros got into a hold-my-beer contest
what a goddamn shithole. the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it. it’s where the most users and content are. so many communities were completely erased during the mod strike and it didn’t matter. they knew they would be completely fine. the future is an authoritarian world effectively governed by companies like this.
the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it
That’s what many social media companies have said, lol.
But the sad thing is many communities will (and already have) move to Discord. Which is even worse, as Discord is a siloed information black hole.
I still don’t know how that works. Discord seems like the worst possible substitute for reddit. It doesn’t work at all the same way and search sucks.
Yah, I don’t get this. So I log into Discord to ask a question, and the only people that will see it are the ones that are currently on at the time. The likelihood of it being seen by the person that can answer it are low, and it’s not like it’s going to be visible for when that person logs back in. This is all besides the fact that I could probably have answered it myself with a search of old questions on some platform that can be indexed. It’s utterly bizarre.
If you’re running a FOSS project or a community that needs support, you have rocks in your goddamn head if you think Discord is how to do it.
The one thing Discord is good at is engagement, aka pinging people on their phones, repeating conversations that have been answered a million times, getting people drawn into rambling discussions…
Yeah it’s kind of a nightmare lol.
Exactly instead of a bunch of publicly searchable information silos we have a whole bunch of fragmented private ones with absolutely no overlap and far less useful. We need a publicly funded site of some kind.
They’re not private. Advertisers have full access and that’s what actually matters.
I meant from people like you and me that are Googling an obscure topic or researching something or troubleshooting information, those things are disappearing behind the walls of Discord
It’s the most popular alternative, simple as that. There’s (sadly) no where else obvious the average community knows to go.
Yeah as soon as I am directed to discord for anything , I move on with something else in life instead.
Discord is such a piece of fucking shit
The future?
The present, but also the future, too.
Don’t forget the past
I think we agree, the past is over.
Cool, I’ve heard that people love paying for access to their own content that used to be free.
This is a good time for anyone still on the site to share some Lemmy links.
No please. The Redditors that stayed are insane,I don’t want them in here
Reddit has that effect. I admit I was a little unhinged when I came here, but either people calm down and start acting like real human beings, or else they realize they can’t have their fun being trolls and they leave. It’s a funny thing that happens when an entire platform is centered around people, not profit. Bots and ragebait are great for stonks - they drive “engagement” and inflate MAU - so they are pervasive on every platform with shareholders.
Oh dear Lord. Please don’t. This is still a nice place.
Fucking exactly. It’s regular users that turn everything to shit, or allow it to happen at least.
Very sad but very true
Right, the few good posters left aren’t worth the flood of the others. Remember the first bit of Facebook, when you had to have an invite or a college email? Wasn’t so bad, then they opened the flood gate and continued making poor decisions and today it’s a wonder that anyone uses it, but if you sign on you’ll see not much but political memes being shared making laughably false claims.
Can’t wait to pay for the privilege of visiting /r/sinkpissers
Fuck Spez!
Fuck Spez!
Steve Huffman is a whiny little piss baby
Fuck Spez
Wow all 8 of their non-bot users will surely be very disappointed.
Well, glad I jumped ship after the api fee fiasco. I never even used the mobile app, but the tone deaf/elonification, I was done. That’s right he got the great idea from Musk. How’s that IPO working out?
He doesn’t care. His goal is to extract money, period. He’s incredibly jealous of his former colleagues who cashed out for millions. He’s a greedy little pigboy.
Fuck reddit, I got banned from Worldnews for asking when Ukraine would attack other targets. I was banned for “call for violence” it was a post about the war. So stupid
Pretty sure worldnews is modded by the same people as r/Zion. It’s so easy to get banned from there - just call a genocide a genocide
I got banned for suggesting a man who violently pushed a woman off a bike should be pushed himself. Lmao “advocating for violence”
Fuckin’ spineless idiots
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Don’t post reddit ads on lemmy thanks.
Honestly, I think it’s pretty hard to call this an ad lol
“Lemmy CEO teases users with cookies and free subs” would be removed from reddit in 1 second
Would it? I think 90% of us heard about Lemmy on reddit.
I’m pretty sure lemmy links were autoremoved at same point
Yes, because one is saying positives and the other is saying negatives. “Trump promises project 2025” isn’t a trump ad even if “Harris promises a fucking break from whatever weird bullshit trump said today” wouldn’t be allowed on truth social
Ads are about exposure too. The word “lemmy” is probably banned on reddit because they don’t want you to even mention a competitor or people would know.
When the frontpage is all about trump/harris any party that isn’t them lose because they get 0 coverage.
I haven’t looked back since they killed Apollo, the only headline I want to see is bankruptcy
And the CEO in prison for insider trading.
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I miss apollo. It was so good and the reddit app is so shit!
Use Voyager and Lemmy instead
That is what I’m doing
“Reddit CEO teases new ways to damage and eventually kill Reddit”
Some players in the ecosystem have not been transparent with their use of Reddit’s content, and in those instances, we block access to protect Reddit content and user privacy.
Aka “Fuck you, pay me”, at least Reddit is transparent that data is for sale and they think they own it.
