tldr - “Reddit teases features to make the platform even worse”
Ah, so the bad kind of teasing.
I feel like I’ve read this one before.
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
they’re definitely going to finally kill old reddit arent they
Schrodinger’s old. for me, I haven’t had a reason to check if it still exists, and will never see for myself that it does/has been killed.
Once they killed .compact I was done.
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.
Discord is such a piece of fucking shit
I’m getting closed to hosting an XMPP server and getting the fuck off discord. They can rot in hell
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.
It’s the most popular alternative, simple as that. There’s (sadly) no where else obvious the average community knows to go.
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.
Yeah as soon as I am directed to discord for anything , I move on with something else in life instead.
The future?
The present, but also the future, too.
Don’t forget the past
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
I don’t think there’s really going to be some noticeable influx, but I hope so. Even though Lemmy isn’t nearly intuitive as it could be, but it did improve atleast by some degree.
Reddit isn’t really intuitive either. Most platforms have at least some learning curve. We have a great ecosystem of apps that help. I only wish a YouTuber would make a good explainer.
Here’s one for the Fediverse that I saw recently: https://youtu.be/QzYozbNneVc
Well that’s the problem though isn’t it? If to use the website you need a literal tutorial, then something is fucked. I realize the irony of saying this on Lemmy, but the platform just isn’t very user friendly at all. Hell, you could say the same about the whole Fediverse, it’s an interesting idea and technology, but for the average person it’s too much of a hassle compared to normal social media.
Well that’s definitely true in some areas, like the search bar (it’s just awful, not non-intuitive).
Voyager is pretty intuitive and can be used without even joining a instance
Dayum okay that really slaps.
Voyager is the spiritual successor to Apollo and an all around fantastic application.
I’m an android man, and Voyager has my full support
We say registrations go from 1 or 2 a day to 14 (other instances saw similar upswings). Just on this news. If they do implement it we’ll see another Rexxit with similar big numbers.
Using Boost on both it’s like I never left. Biggest differences are a bit less diversity here, duplicate communities from different instances, and the spoiler tags don’t work.
It’s funny because the demographics here remind me very much of old 2010-era Reddit—very techy and/or progressive types making up 90% of discussion.
I think about 2014ish is about the point where Reddit peaked in quality, so we’re at least replaying from a good save state here. I fully anticipate lemmy will hit the same peak in a few years and hopefully continues on to surpass it
The duplicate community across instances could really use a solution, maybe like a multimunity?
There was some discussion about meta communities. You’d still need some curating because !news@startrek.website and !news@dubvee.org really should be about completely different topics
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 lost about the war. So stupid
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
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
They’re already demanding search engines pay to search Reddit; will they have to pay even more to search paid subreddits?
Maybe the search engines could pass on the cost to the user, so you can pay to search the subreddits you pay again to view, which link to websites you pay to view. Add a sprinkle of tracking and targeted ads and some email offers from trusted partners, and you’ve got yourself a business model.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Imagine if reddit makes porn subreddits paid
If there’s one thing that united the Internet, it’s don’t fuck with our porn. It’s how Tumbler died, pornhub lost over 95% of their videos, and it’ll put the final nail in reddit if they try it.
Tumblr isn’t fully dead it is just dying. I still find many people on there posting art.
Fuck Spez
Thanks, I hate it
Subscription models are finally coming to Reddit! It’s about time those greedy bastards start milking their userbase.
I know the average person usually doesn’t care, but surely most of the population of reddit must have realized how shit it is by now.
Wow all 8 of their non-bot users will surely be very disappointed.
