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.
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.
good luck with that
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.
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
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.
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
I’m getting closed to hosting an XMPP server and getting the fuck off discord. They can rot in hell
The future?
The present, but also the future, too.
Don’t forget the past
I think we agree, the past is over.
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.
Fuck Spez!
Steve Huffman is a whiny little piss baby
Fuck Spez!
Reddit has become unusable. I had an account there for 7 years and no problem. I tried checking out Reddit again this year and I got permanently banned within a day. You can’t say anything there anymore cause you’ll inevitably piss off a power hungry mod who will ban you for nothing. There’s no longer discussion to be had there.
I made a comment on the Gladiator 2 trailer, asking why Danzel is playing Micrinus, who was North African but of Roman blood and born in Alegeria and raised in Africa as a provincial. And pointed out how it’s similar to that Cleopatra documentary inaccurately thinking that all people in Africa, even Egypt and North Africa were black. I pointed out Micrinus was Berber which were originally a more white race who mixed with Arab blood, so they were like a slightly darker skinned Romans, but not black.
I was banned for “racist commentary and bigotry”
Whaaaa. You mean the volunteer scabs appointed by Reddit admins to replace the “power tripping mods” (pissed off Redditors, 2023) are even more power tripping? I’m shocked, I say! Shocked!
Sorry to disappoint you, but this kind of behavior is not exclusive to Reddit. Lemmy has its own share of power-trip mods in some communities. I thought (wrongly) that someone that took the effort of leaving Reddit and coming here would think differently than the average Reddit mod, but I guess the allure of demonizing anyone that disagrees with you is too irresistible for them.
Cool, fuck off and die.
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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Fuck Spez
Redditors staged a coup and overthrew the CEO once before, why isn’t it happening again?
Because it was Russia overthrowing the CEO to install Spez.
I first read that as ceo nonce. Which makes sense.
Because Ellen Pao (the unpopular CEO who was ousted) was set up as the fall guy. Her entire purpose was to be at the helm while Reddit implemented (at the time) unpopular measures that angered the “free speech absolutists”. Once that was done, she was cast aside so the anointed pigboy they have today could claim his promised seat on the throne and not have to walk back anything.
To go along with your shitty AI written articles!
Wow all 8 of their non-bot users will surely be very disappointed.
While I do miss the subs with thousands, and the very obscure subs for my specific interest, this shit makes me glad I got out
Don’t worry, won’t be long for thousands join Lemmy when Reddit tries the Musk way of running a company into the ground :)
What makes me sad is how a lot of niche communities moved from websites to Reddit, and now they are going to die.
Do you think they will move to lemmy?
No. Most of those communities are dwindling away. The guitar forums on Reddit are all AI shit repost bots. Luckily there are a few good YouTube channels to still get information, but there is no discussion.
