“Come make friends on Reddit”
Reddit is the most new-user-unfriendly site I have ever been to. You’ve got to farm an unknown amount of karma before you can post or comment in subreddits. There’s a reason I’m at Lemmy now. Fuck Reddit. (Also, 4chan is a toilet. The occasional nuggets of good stuff aren’t worth trawling through pages of shitposts for.)
The good gteen texts always end up on other platforms anyway.
And get reposted for decades to come
Moved here and haven’t looked back.
I do keep a Reddit account that is strictly used for informational/support type stuff (i.e. “help me figure out what type of widget I should buy for this task”). I avoid anything controversial on that account.
Isn’t 4chan dead and gone?
Nah, still alive and unwell
reddit recently became hostile to new users, and inactive users(users that suddenly decide to use thier old accounts to comment) they just shadowban most of them now. the only people ive seen that succesful are the ones that are using other methods(not vpn) to hide thier device, fingerprinting, IP adress etc. even this is temporary, since reddit is also catching up to the other methods.
That’s funny cause all but one of my alts was banned, which so happened to me the only account I didn’t use the same email address for. So I figured that email is the only tracking method they use. I’ve had no issue making new accounts under different address.
Not just an email address and IP address, but also knowing what browser and even user behavior, and banning the alt account 30 minutes after the main account being permabanned. The fuck they were possibly using.
Reddit after banning literally everyone: “WE DID IT! WE SAVED REDDIT!”
The fucking acronyms and in-jokes don’t help, either.
you have summoned me?
It’s worse than ever. Once you work your way up to being able to say anything - BAN! It’s more of an echo chamber than ever before.
They don’t even let you see what you were banned for. Links to a comment that doesn’t exist within your ban notification
AI bans dont tell you that your what you were banned for, its always the generic “you have violated mutliple violations, on your ACCOUNTS” message. they also use AI moderation to shadowban people too, which i think is much more severe than the sitewide banning. they originally shadowban people for using ban evasion accounts, but now they are abusing to ban anyone indiscirminately(aside from a selected group of users).
i think reddit also gatekeep new users, and inactive users.
They are carefully curating their membership so it’s more MAGA-friendly. They’re turning it into Twitter.
They have millions of posts, and this is the funniest they could find? Sheesh.
Who wouldn’t want to talk to bots and train “AI”?
Comme c’est excitant!
they banned and shadowbanned so many people, they nu-users to compesate for the loss of engagement.
this is what the fediverse needs
Nah, this is one more landmark on the eventual enshitifcation of every platform. This is only happening because as company that is publicly traded, so someone at Reddit HQ realized that they could make more money off new french users than the cost of ads. So then they have a fiduciary duty to do exactly that. Just like the reddit API-ocalypse, the finical benefits data from every redditors mobile by being forced to use the official app was determined to be more profitable than those that left.
Either Lemmy dies or it grows enough to do the same eventually.
But lemmy cant be controlled like a company
Maybe it gets smaller because people switch to piefed or something but i dont see how lemmy can enshitify the way corpo platforms canA particular instance could absolutely enshittify, but it being easy(ish) to move off any particular instance if that happens makes it both less likely and the impact of it smaller.
Well but as far as I am aware Lemmy has no fiduciary responsibility, as it is not a corporation, is open source and uses a web standard to communicate. Therefore there is no requirement for instance server managers to use the “official” version of Lemmy and could refuse to implement anti-user features, like specific app requirements. So I would say it would be really really hard to enshittificate Lemmy, if not borderline impossible, because users would just use their own fork, which would still be interoperable.
Seems pretty easy to ‘improve’ with some paint?
r becomes f, add a .org
What the fuck, that looks absolutely desperate! I’m sure it will have the opposite effect. Fuck reddit.
I don’t know how difference france is from the US, but I generally believe people are kind of ignorant and thoughtless. These will pull in people. People click on “Four things that are secretly unhealthy - #3 will SHOCK you” chum all the time.
the buzzfeed clickbait method.
Wait what’s number 3
Reddit
Dying.
Not knowing what number 3 is
“Entre inconnus, on peut tour se dire” “Inconnus” but please sign in using this Google SSO modal.
Cringe.
I’m just so thankful for Lemmy not having built in posts that are ads. I hate it so much on Reddit.
Is that what we were supposed to do on Reddit?
Evidently they were friends, because they told me about Lemmy.
Not only in Paris. Saw some of them in Marseille too. At first I thought it was some kind of “anti-ad” joke, where someone was giving them a bad rep because of how stupid it looked.
Guess it was not a joke.
Reddit has something in common with Russia
Run by a clown?
Full of bots.
How is this infuriating? Businesses have ads.
Lol glad someone else had this thought. I get that people hate reddit here but this post is inane.
Advertising is cancer and part of the enshitification process where capital is wasted
I know a lot of it works but that’s due to to people having poor media literacy
Rule of thumb: the more something is advertised, the more shit it is for one reason or another, and you’ll do well to avoid it altogether. When I’m advising people on contractors, my number 1 rule is: if they’re on TV, they’re criminals, I promise you.
Mullvad is good though
Their ads mostly carry a political message, like the one opposing chat control during an EU summit in Sweden…
The only time I’ve seen Mullvad get promoted is by word of mouth.
This is the only advertising that listen too. I wish online reviews were 10% as useful.
Nah I see mullvad billboards around me a lot
I help friends and family with minor plumbing repairs and they will tell me:
oh I had “x” company come and they did that
" well it’s all wrong "
They charged me a lot of money for that!
" why on earth would you have called them"
Because I saw their advertisement on TV. I thought they were good
" nah they’re crooks"
Join, just so they can ban you for bullshit.
My favorite reddit ban was when I was making a very obvious joke about how white people suck or something, and some worthless dumbfuck called me racist and I got an immediate permanent ban.
It does not sound good.
No, it is awful there. Reddit went from tolerating awful racism/sexism/homophobia etc. to automated moderation of even minor profanity. It’s a nosedive from hell.
join, just so they can ban you for calling a Nazi a Nazi.
Silly Reddit, bots aren’t going to sign up because of an ad
