reddit makes experience worse for users
Other shocking news at 11
reasons to stop using that shitty website 📈
Thank God. I love seeing that place die
It feels like we’re hitting a point similar to politics in America. 30% will hold on no matter what, and the company is going to take them for all their worth because they know they’re die hard loyalists and aren’t leaving.
Now’s a good time to advertise the fediverse, if you’re still on reddit. Just pick your favorite instance, and tell people to check it out and to click “login/register” if they like it.
Glad I’m reading this on Lemmy. Well, “glad” isn’t the right word, but you know…
Glad to have escaped, with gladness tempered by the awareness of the suffering of those who have not escaped
All those religious ads for people “interested in religion” by their participation in /r/atheism
All those political ads for those participating in /r/worldpolitics
Sports ads for members of /r/SuperbOwl
Why don’t I expect Reddit to do this well?
Distantly appreciative?
I am actually glad about it. Lemmy represents a fundamentally different model for how to organize and pay for an online social network. It turns out that you don’t have to monetize socializing if you don’t want to. The worse Reddit becomes the more people will look for an alternative and the more people will be exposed to the concept of “maybe we can just chip in for server costs when we can” as a way of running social media.
In German we have a great proverb: “better a terrible end than unending terror” (rhymes in German, no good equivalent in English).
It’s sad that things “ended” the way they did, but it’s great that we’re finally in an actual open ecosystem which can’t be milked and changed the way Reddit did.
“better a terrible end than unending terror”
Huh. Those Germans. Always have a positive outlook on everything.
That’s what we’re known for!
There’s a regional saying I like even more: “Et kütt wie et kütt, un et hätt noch immer jot jejange”. Roughly: things come as they come, but so far everything turned out well :)
Isn’t that illegal under GDPR or something?
It will be illegal under the DMA, which becomes enforceable next year.
Fuck Reddit.
So they’re preparing to get sued tens of millions of dollors by the EU in March of next year?
The company said that it will still have opt-out controls in “select countries”
They’re not gonna go against EU.
People in “select countries” will still have a toggle.
Maybe I’ll stop getting those “He Gets Us” ads if I cruise the atheist subreddits.
It won’t. Thing about these kind of campaigns is they intend to antagonize.
Is Reddit still alive? I have been away for months 😂
Woah big shocker, anyway
They’re gonna remove old reddit aren’t they?
They cannot for now, old.reddit still drives a LOT of traffic for them and most of the reddit oldheads from what ive seen just use old reddit to surf the site, so if they’re not stupid enough to drive a huge part of their userbase away from their shithole to sites like lemmy and turn into digg 2.0, I don’t see old reddit dying for awhile but remember this is spez we’re talking about in the end, the self proclaimed Elon fanboi, so I cannot expect any intelligent decision from him.
so if they’re not stupid enough to drive a huge part of their userbase away from their shithole to sites like lemmy and turn into digg 2.0
HAHAHAHAHHA oh man that’s funny
If those users are just dead weight to them, it makes business sense to even convert 10% them to their main ad filled product, and let the 90% go away. They want to go public and sell, they are definitely last stage of pulling a cash grab.
I’m actually surprised it’s still running, but it seems inevitable especially when they aren’t milking that sweet sweet af revenue.
All moderation tools were not available on new design last time I was there. It is still not on par with old design
That’s not gonna stop them
With old reddit you can block ads on the side and ads that pretend to be posts have a blueish hue, so it’s easy to scroll past without paying attention.
“New” reddit the images/videos are already open so I’m sure eventually they’ll look at the decrease in ad impressions and make up an excuse to get rid of it.
Assuming none of that has changed in the couple months since I left.
Okay. I stopped using reddit (and cancelled my premium membership) when Apollo stopped working, so hope it works out for them.
Reddit had a premium membership?
Reddit Gold
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I almost exclusively used reddit on my phone and RIF showed an ad once in a blue moon.
I do have RES installed on my computron’s browser, but RIF was just better.
