Oh no, hope Spez still has money to maintain a cadre of slaves on a billionaire island (since he's a natural leader and everything)
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Gosh. You mean making it harder and harder to access their platform without giving up anonymity is hurting their business model? Well jack me off and call me Betty. When will it all make sense.
You're already paying for the hour Betty. "It's $10 for a BJ, $12 for an HJ, $15 for a ZJ.
Shit honey - for you I'll hit the stopwatch.
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Whats the point to appear in google search, when you gonna lock your platform to have accounts to view the content.. Just asking.
Hey, its rude to expect spaz to think that far
Reddit’s failure was inevitable; once capital exerts excessive control, it’s time for people to leave. Everyone has surely had the infuriating experience of being bombarded by trashy ads on Reddit often with no human customer support available to address complaints. It has become a hub overrun by bots and scams; when you enter a subreddit, almost everything you see is just bots.
They also don't let people lurk anymore.
We really do need to get back to a tech landscape where evil ceos are shunned and their products not used. We have tolerated the spez, musk, thiel, zuckerburg, ellison, bankman-fried, elizabeth holmes, Kalanich (uber), baszuskis (roblox) types for way too long. They are all a bunch of mega pricks and their companies should pay a penalty for their being openly evil.
Fuck you u/spez. Fucking usurper.
they hurt thier own traffic by banning users, and the people who use accounts to earn money through the site or OF in general, and not the propaganda bots.
Good.
I enjoyed pre-COVID Reddit, where you could find all political stripes and religions, a virtual "melting pot".
Today? It's like Lemmy but with advertising. So much more homogeneous, and the moderators are deranged. Let them rule their dying empire with furry fists, have at it, it's yours now
Reminded now, right before I left Reddit I was banned from r/pics for being a member somewhere that they don't approve of, I can no longer recall which sub but it was lightly Republican flavored (my favorite political adversaries).
Why would they care? How would they know what the sub was intolerable without joining themselves? Why didn't they ban themselves then? They were despoiled, like me.
Senseless. I haven't visited since the login requirement, piss off
Today? It’s like Lemmy but with advertising. So much more homogeneous
Might have been a while since you visited it then, it's getting increasingly absurdly right wing - mostly bots I'm guessing. Pretty much all of the main /r/all subs
Yep. Recently there was a post about the UK looking at raising the minimum wage to about £13.20 (17.50USD) an hour. On reddit it was endless comments complaining that minimum wage is too high. Most unhinged take I saw was that this will make the cost of living worse.
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The moderators on Reddit have been a pain for a long time. Here was always so much drama
It's still surprising to me that 2 years later, it's still double the value it was when it went public.
There was never any believable story where they would go public and become profitable.
“When more than a million search referrals a week disappear because Google’s AI answers the question itself,
investors are no longer looking just at the next three or four months, but at how much of Reddit’s audience it will really own in the years ahead,”
said Vitor Madeira, senior market specialist at Capital.com.
Personally I am glad investors are worried they wont own enough users.
Also, didn't Reddit close up and start charging for their API because of this exact issue and related AI stuff? Spez is now mad that there are effects from what they implemented?
I mean, what else were they expecting when they exchanged money for API access to a search engine that explicitly pushed their AI "answer" feature? I'm bewildered at how so many companies complain about not being able to see the consequences of their own actions that were told to their face would happen.
At this point there is no way this isn't intentional from the start.
Reddit used to be a great free to use information source and community creation tool.
It was counter to the commoditization of both.
It was inevitable that capital interests would destroy it.
Private profit from community kind of sucks. Thus, reddit sucks. Fuck them.
I haven't used Reddit with an account for months because they're dead set on attaining my ID just to give me access to my damn account
I found that, if they're asking for ID, you're about to get banned. They do that to make ban evading harder.
Hey, you know what will make it easier for people to read our posts? Log in only. Also if we suck it's googles fault.
finally, the market noticed the fact that I haven't logged in for 3 years now!
Good. Fuck spez.
Burn, burn, burn!
Seems to me the issue here is overall strategy.
The overall strategy seemed to have been foster discussion, then sell that content to AI scrapers and search engines while also collecting ad revenue.
Problem is, if the AI search engine scrapes the answer out of the discussion, they'll often answer the user's question and thus you won't get the ad revenue from the click. And if you need to log in to see the discussion you'll lose the ad revenue from search referrals.
In short- 'we created a business letting others cannibalize the value out of our database and now we're shocked there's less value in our database'.
Reedits value was always in its community. When they started pissing off the community that vanished at which point all they had left was the data set so they sold that because they didn't have anything else of value and now that ship has also sailed.
The way back for Reddit would be to get rid of the toxic leadership but they won't do that so they'll just spiral into irrelevance.
Good, only 70% more to go until we can all tell Spez to gfy one last time!
GOOD
Reddit failed at it's original purpose. Hope you like your yacht payments
love it. Hopefully it continues.
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