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I left a couple of months ago. Couldn’t be happier.
The writing is on the wall. The leader thinks the Genius-with-hair-transplants is a superstar, despite destroying a globally recognised brand. Inspired by this, Spez is trying to get Reddit ready for an IPO. This means, maximise profits by any means.
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smug face of superiority for not using reddit, facebook, instagram, snapchat, onlyfans nor tiktok, from my linux machine 😏
Neeeeerd!
Although you’re right.
Arch?
lmao imagine not rolling your own distro
Nah, Tumbleweed 🦎
And let me guess…there are a bunch of Redditors on Reddit posting on Reddit about how awful Reddit is. And they are giving each other gold stars and slaps on the back for how great their Reddit posts are on Reddit on how bad Reddit is.
They actually just got rid of the stars, now you just tip people
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16ryhv9/celebrating_great_content_is_as_good_as_gold/
How long until we see the first karma millionaire…
So much for the “fake internet points”. Now people will act like a downvote is taking food out of their kid’s mouth.
Not acting… spez just manifested a new irl problem
This is where the fun begins…
I’ll just try spinning.
This is hilarious. This is WORSE than Digg v4. (Though Reddit did a Digg v4 yeeeears ago when they installed /popular/ and began inflating vote counts heavily)
Holy shit I left because I was thinking reddit was over (sort of). That post is beyond what I thought reddit would do. It’s like they’re trying to fuck themselves and everyone involved for chump change.
There’s really a guy on there that’s shocked that he spent $300+ on coins that give you nothing and that they turned out to be useless. They also have the same regular users saying that they’ll finally quit this time, but they’re just lying to themselves and for karma. They financially incentivize the website to get worse and are surprised when it does.
It’s absolutely insane to me that anyone would have ever spent money on that shithole of a site, let alone $300 on worthless jerkoff tokens
I honestly find it worse then NFTs. With NFTs you’re only destroying the environment a little bit and supporting much smaller mom & pop ponzi schemers. With Reddit you’re supporting a mega corporation that is actively harmful to a much wider population.
I am guilty of buying reddit gold but it was a long time ago. And it was out of spite. by gawd id do it AGAIN.
That’s the problem with traditional local internet currencies: reddit doesn’t support them anymore and they become useless. If only these coins were crypto-blockchained nfts - if reddit decided to no longer support those, then they’d be just as useless, but much more bureaucratically documented.
I don’t think I’ve read a truer statement on the internet.
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I read the announcement about changes to privacy on their website while signing in to delete my account literal second ago and clicked the link in the official post: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16tqihd/settings_updateschanges_to_ad_personalization/
Safety & Privacy Settings
I kid you not, this is what it shows:
Edit: misspelling
I tried reading them. I can’t because the fucking website doesn’t scale to my phone. It realises something should change, but it’s so shitty I can immediately see the edges and see text, images and flair cross over where it shouldn’t. Ffs.
Fucking capitalists
I got a message from Reddit
https://old.reddit.com/r/u_cy_narrator/comments/16w4uzj/witness_the_carnage/
I still had my Reddit account just for posteroties sake. I don’t anymore now. I refuse to accept changes or rules that allow for them to steal all my data. I’ve not gotten to this point with Google or Microsoft yet, but they’re not far off the chopping block.
BTW, because I use third party apps all my wall posts got turned NSFW even though none of them are. I wonder if it is indeed the end of time.
But there is a second option, the one I plan to do with this current Reddit account and my Facebook account.
Dont delete, dont say you will delete. Just stop using. When its out of sight, it becomes out of mind. Maby deactivate Facebook account at most but I think it will be okay if it just stays there
whats wrong with personalized ads? is it much different from booking different TV channels for different audiences?
Personalized ads would be fine if it had a checklist or tag/category feature. This is straight up data mining.
I’ve wasted a lot of time. but not on reddit 🥀 These sites feel like the big 3 car co’s. future is hard. some looking to cash out
I think 99% of my interactions with Reddit these days are pulling RSS feeds, most of which just get marked as read. I almost never load the actual site anymore.
Damn…i gotta do this…so many threads though… I did this a while back with youtube and it was very much worth it.
Any app or so to do that? Would love an RSS feed Reddit just for reading
I use Inoreader, works quite well for reddit.
After posting, I actually found Stealth to be just what I needed. It webscrapes Reddit so no api, but also no Interaction which is fine for me.
I guess they didn’t make API millions by charging usage fees? Scraping the bottom of the barrel now while people use the site less and less.
I bet the they lost single percent of people. And most use it and don’t care.
I still use it with patched Boost. The moment the API is gone I am too.
The API fees clearly weren’t made to make money directly though, it was meant to get rid of 3rd party clients so they could more effectively do what the OP is about.
We don’t know their actual engagement numbers, what I do know is: quality on non-default subs has pitfalled. That is subjective, but its common across other reddit users I know.
Both the quality has declined, and the tone seems consistently more negative. Like there’s an even bigger majority of angry teenagers running the site.
I’ve also heavily felt the quality decline.
I’ve kept using reddit because relay for reddit kept working without paying… until today.
Fuck spez
Reddit’s announcement, authored by Reddit’s head of privacy, going by “snoo-tuh” on the platform (Reddit has refused to confirm the identity of admins representing Reddit on the site),
Irony
someone on the article’s discussion outed the person because she used that title (“head of privacy of reddit”) on linkedin
She got outed again today by the reporter of The Verge article.
Reminds me of this classic: Anonymous government officials push for open government
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Regardless. Fuck what Reddit has become. I really hope that people will see the light and move to Lemmy.
Amen.
This.
Haha! Reddit moment!
Yeah, my Comment was intended as a Parody
Seems people didn’t quite get that
Poes law. This isn’t Internet 101. Catch up.
Negative votes and no [deleted], what kind of knockoff parody is this!?
I mean, California bans this as well and they aren’t exempt despite being where Reddit is located. Spez doesn’t seem to care what is legal.
A testament to how important good legislation is… most—if not all—privacy issues that we face today are in large part due to legislative failures.
Legislation and enforcement. There are countless laws on the books that are not enforced. Generally speaking, they may as well not exist.
I love GDPR so much, EU does not fuck around with that. I can’t remember when I last felt that my rights were being considered and protected by governmental entities., but that one sure warms my heart.
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Yeah I gotta say, I make sure to vote in every election to the European parliament, and I have always voted for the representatives with the strongest privacy oriented agendas, and over the decades I have been blown away by some of the great legislation we have seen with regards to regulating the capitalist hydra trying to devour our freedom of speech and interaction online.
Holding gargantuan companies accountable like Google, Microsoft, FaceBook et al, dishing out serious fines, GDPR… EU may not do everything right, but these things alone makes me happy to be in it.
As I said in an earlier post, better get out now and migrate while the communities are still intact rather than slowly bleeding out due to these policies. There is going to be one kind of content on Reddit and that’s the ad-friendly, corporate supported kind.
Ars and Reddit are under the same parent company, conde nast or however that’s all structured. I also have noticed ars seems to write very frequently about Reddit, even if it is usually in a critical light.
I get mixed feelings about articles like this one.
They’ve been separate for more than a decade now
It’s at the bottom of the article:
Advance Publications, which owns Ars Technica parent Condé Nast, is the largest shareholder in Reddit.
No they got bought back a few years later. They’re majority owned by the same parent company as Ars. Tencent also has some pretty big investments in Reddit.
They spell the correct relationship out clearly in the article:
Advance Publications, which owns Ars Technica parent Condé Nast, is the largest shareholder in Reddit.
I wouldn’t say they have a disproportionate amount of Reddit coverage, spez’ shenanigans are well within their usual scope. Before the api-pocilipse I don’t remember the last Reddit column they put out.
It think the editorial direction follows the interests of the kind of readers they get. Not so many Facebook or Tiktok stories unless there’s particularly egregious behaviour. Their readers are too young to care as much about the former and too old to care about the latter.
Out of all the social media, xitter gets the most, but then every day is clownshoes there. As Reddit started aping them, they got more coverage.
Thanks for the reminder. Reddit account deleted.
