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I’m doing my part! thanks ublock!
Came from using it daily to only going there only when google forces me to use it
Many of such cases I assume
Me too. It was the constant popups making me download their app that did it for me.
tHiS cOmmUnIty MiGhT hAvE sEnSiTiVe CONTENT, dOwNlOaD OuR ApP pLeAsE!
Didn’t it die together with all other 3rd party clients?
No, instead of using the official (now paid and ridiculously priced) API, Libreddit uses web scraping. This leads to some instances getting temporarily blocked, but it should work most of the time. That caused some admins to shut down their instances, which is really dumb, because we need more instances, not less. Maybe they can implement IP address rotation like Invidious https://docs.invidious.io/ipv6-rotator/, that would definitely get around the IP blocks.
Just give me my porn, you fucks
I don’t know if reddit ads provide a good roas. We tried a few campaigns and gave up because it was so far off what we see on other platforms. The community is super anti-advertising, the targeting is really limited by community and geo.
People go to reddit to veg out, not to shop. I think the only times I’ve made purchases based on things I’ve seen are when there’s a discussion and numerous people make a recommendation for the same thing, or maybe a few cases when the op is showcasing something they had a personal part in creating.
Back when Reddit was good the ads used to be like regular posts with a comment section, so you could actually talk about the product and exchange experiences, and the advertiser would sometimes respond. I found it to be a transparent and valuable way of advertising, and I actually liked the ads back then because there was a social and learning aspect to them. But of course they got rid of that, supposedly because what if somebody says something bad. They don’t understand that the lack of honesty and dialogue is what makes people loathe ads.
Sad but its true, also mqrketing ppl seens dont undestards diff between have buyers from ads to have buyers with engage other ppl to buy the product
From my most recent memory, advertisers can still enable the option to allow comments. It was an interesting idea, and I too appreciate it when advertisers went in there to communicate about valid questions and concerns with their product.
My suspicion is that the big advertisers are using marketing agencies who don’t have the time or budget to go and moderate inauthentic conversations in those comment threads however.
Fuck advertising, but that’s a brilliant idea.
Reddit doesn’t allow targeting by community?! To me that seems like the most obvious feature.
No it does, I think it’s limited to only community and geo
I agree and I also think companies will (or are) going to try more “organic” marketing by going into comments and pretending to be customers and recommend their products.
I thought about that when I went to a new hair salon and in their new customer form one of the questions was “how did you hear about us” and one of the options was Reddit.
I kind of would rather have ads if I had to because they are easier to identify. Now I can’t trust people in the Reddit comments.
If an advertiser figured out how to orchestrate that swarm of comments getting behind a recommendation that all seem very natural it would be difficult to tell that it’s an ad and not just organic feedback.
I share your worry as well that it may already be happening.
I check 4chan more than I check reddit these days.
Well yeah, I’m probably not the only daily active user who stopped visiting all together… after 10+ years of daily active use. They brought this on themselves.
Same, but only a few years user. Sync for lemmy is so much better.
I loved Sync for Reddit as an app. But I already was seeing Reddit go downhill even before they killed the apps, that just sealed the deal for me. I was a digg refugee so sadly I’ve been through this before already.
Does your user name mean that you’re a lover of misspelling ready?
In honor of Spez’ stupidity.
Reddit is going to be a prime short opportunity on IPO.
Their IPO will be below valuation. I’m gonna guess 10% below.
No way I’d take that risk. The last thing I need is to give the investors money, rewarding their awful decisions.
Biggest short squeeze since gamestop
oh no! anyways…
Good. fuck’em.
Is it wrong that I really really hope he makes less than $6 million out of this whole deal in the end? It just seems fitting…
Why even that much?
$6 million
Why that amount? I’m guessing I’m missing some backstory.
That’s about how much he got out of selling Reddit to Conde Nast, which he was unhappy about after seeing the hundreds of millions other people got for selling their platforms like Myspace.
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It’s in the article. They were aiming for 1B, grew 800m.
Which is kind of funny because it’s still a 4 out of 5 ratio.
Is that a CC license for your comment? I wonder if it actually works, legally, because I do like the idea that (for example) commercial LLMs wouldn’t be allowed to train on my comments.
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Falling short of growth means their going to take aggressive action.
This is typical traded-company bullshit. You have to reach quarterly projections. Even if you’re in the black, if you don’t reach the projection the shareholders will react accordingly.
So, to avoid missing their next quarter, they will enshittify to meet shareholder demands. And it may work, for a while. But it will continually drain their userbase to nothing.
Bruh, are you putting a licence on every single comment? Lol.
What do you hope that will accomplish?
Btw, don’t you actually have to say in the comment that the comment is licenced using “CC BY-NC-SA 4.0”? Just linking to it seems like it’s not enough.
Falling short of growth targets doesn’t mean they made a negative. Hitting 4% growth instead of 5% is still pretty good for example.
If you like this comment I made, feel free to tip me with PayPal.
I have sent the money.
Consider it a bribe.
Since there’s a paywall, I can’t see the whole article but does this imply there was still positive ad growth and they just missed their goal or there was no or negative ad growth?
20% growth to $800M
How unfortunate
It’s such bullshit, Reddit could have been so much more. Researching my latest purchase/obsession, and the only way to find anything that isn’t corporate sponsored reviews or AI content farming is to add the word “Reddit” to the end of the search.
As someone with an 11 year old account that I deleted during the TPA debacle, I fully recognise that there’s a huge problem here. Reddit created a place where people wanted to put their thoughts, ideas, and opinions, and now that they are cashing out TOO FUCKING BAD LAME EBD USER.
Edit: /oblig fuck you spez. Slimy little arsehole sold everyone out and thinks he deserves to be rich because his shitty site isn’t absolutely irredeemable.
11 year old account on Reddit too and I left it during TPA too. Had nearly 2 million karma. Same username as this one.
Reddit was like the StackOverflow for life
…sometimes coding too We’re like regressing to friend’s or known in person people’s opinions, because Internet will be full of bot and sponsored content and opinions. Either way, double money for corporations, sponsored content ->more sales; people not trusting reviews and trying out stuff just to find out it’s rubbish ->more sales
I wish Elon would scare away Reddit’s advertisers instead of twitter’s.
I love seeing this man fail
Smoke a turd, spez. 😘
