Slowpoke image: did you guys hear about reddit
What’s a reddit?
Small mammal with long ears, they run around quickly and reproduce just as fast
The only thing that’s changed is all the good modetators have left and the default subs have gotten worse.
God forbid you say anything mildly positive of Palestine on the main politics site. The AIPAC hired mods immediately permaban you.
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October 7 was a disgrace, Hamas must be destroyed because they don’t ever want a lasting cease fire. Israel’s authoritarian leadership eats dick and must be deradicalised for any chance of lasting peace. What are people gonna do? Down vote me? Please do who gives a shit?
October 7 was a disgrace, Hamas must be destroyed because they don’t ever want a lasting cease fire
You can thank George Bush, the previous terrible choice of most Convicted Rapist Treason Trump voters, for the process that led Hamas to power in Gaza.
I can see this may have been the case. It’s easy to make peace in the moment if you give concessions to the more powerful side. The problem that arises is that it creates an underlying contempt from the weaker side that doesn’t just go away. Especially if there is a sense of humiliation and powerlessness from the deal. The only way for peace is for both sides to give concessions and refocus on common problems with common solutions.
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reposting the worst quote i heard all year - or perhaps all my life
“There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or AA, or never at all … But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
fuck spez, fuck reddit
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It isn’t like Alexis Ohanian was any better.
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“We don’t want other AI to train on this data, only one we’re involved with.”
Ever since earlier this year I’ve had WAY more friends, family and news articles I’ve seen mention or link to reddit than the past. I don’t know if it’s confirmation bias since I left reddit or if it just gained popularity at the same time or what. But I used reddit for ~12 years and few other people in my circle used it heavily. Now it seems like it exploded?
I really notice it on Google. So many more searches point to Reddit in the top few results.
I actually used to rely on that, using site:reddit.com for most searches. Reddit had some of the best in-depth discussion and tech advice I could find. Compared to the multitudes of blogs, YT videos, and decades-old forum posts that normally came up, reddit usually provided useful info. And it’s pretty much the only reason I’m ever on the site now: the only results for some searches are on reddit.
Eventually if the quality of the posts decline, their SEO presence probably will as well. But google has been absolute dogshit for about a year now so who knows what that field will look like in another year. =/
I was a long time user too and I even moderated a few small subs and I was active in the groups I was with. I was a user for ten years and I grew these groups I worked on. After the change I gave up all four of the communities I ran, deleted my account and never looked back.
I think the explosion of popularity came as a result of the API change fiasco and the protests that people created. Reddit became headline news all summer and I think new users flocked to it because of that. The problem is that most people don’t care about creating content, they move over to find content.
Like everyone already said … The Reddit change brought in new lurkers that only want to watch while at the same time most of the popular creators left. There are not that many popular creators or active users who like connecting people because it takes a lot of time and work to do … for sure it literally becomes a full time job. When a website loses those core people, the content changes and becomes less interesting.
I go on Reddit once in a while to check in its status and if you notice, a lot of the popular subs have slightly decreased in activity but if you look at the forums, a lot of the content and activity is recycled from years ago. Reddit can probably live on recycled content for years but it will be a decline and the decline will take a long time before it becomes obvious.
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I was in a very similar position as you. Thirteen year user, moderator for a few smaller subreddits, including one that provided support for a US-based mobile phone carrier, and deleted everything when the API change happened.
It took time and effort to coordinate and help uplift those who generated the great content for those subreddits, but Reddit, Inc., was unwilling to help us moderators who had developed and used the tools necessary to do it. I wasn’t willing to put in the additional time since Reddit was themselves unwilling to, post API change.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In June, thousands of Reddit communities plunged into darkness – making their pages inaccessible to the public in a mass protest of corporate policy changes.
With rumors of an imminent IPO swirling, the company is under pressure to make money – and CEO Huffman has acknowledged as much, stating at the time of the change: “Reddit needs to be a self-sustaining business, and to do that, we can no longer subsidize commercial entities that require large-scale data use.”
Stevie Chancellor, an assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota who has studied Reddit for years, echoed these sentiments.
“It bothers me that social media companies are increasingly restricting our abilities as researchers who care deeply about these sites and who believe they can provide many benefits for people,” Chancellor said.
Reddit’s corporate overlords were ultimately unmoved by the massive blackout, and most of the thousands of dark subreddits went back to normal after a few weeks.
Users who have long been dedicated to the site, some of whom have spent countless unpaid hours working to make it better, are exhausted and resentful – and many have simply left.
The original article contains 1,685 words, the summary contains 195 words. Saved 88%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Can someone message the editor and share how because of this backlash, many moved to other platforms - like lemmy?
This is a Reddit circle jerk article, so no.
So many comments/posts look like bots.
Reddit always had a “repost” problem. But this time, not only am I feeling like I already saw this post, but also all the top comments? Just regurgitation of posts from years ago.
Reddit’s repost problem was brain doners posting rEPOsT!!!1!! on every fucking thread like everyone else was able to no life the internet as hard as them.
How many times did you see something new to you only for the comments section to be a shitstorm of people harassing op for not posting OC like reddit wasn’t a fucking news aggregator designed specifically to repost crap.
Hey have i got a video of a tractor stopping a prairie fire for you!
Its karma farm, they wait to repost a popular post, then post the most popular comments from the old one verbatim. Its gotten really bad
In response to such critiques, Reddit spokesperson Rathschmidt said he did not “know of an industry benchmark for scoring content quality”.
(Emphasis mine)
This is the same tone deaf response I’ve come to expect from Reddit for some time now, and is why I’m happy to no longer be a user of their platform.
That same quote caught my eye. It’s just bullshit. Of course they’re no quantitative way to measure quality on a qualitative scale. Any long time user can see there’s not much going on like there used to be.
Down with Reddit!
The entire “dozen” agrees!
So say we dozen!
“Technical tweaks”? Did the author write this while sucking huffman’s taint?
Did you see spez’s senior prom picture in the article?
Very certainly
dugg their grave
I am of the belief that reddit just replaced leaving users with LLM drone users to fill the void.
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
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Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now.
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
Yes. Affirmative.
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The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
Tom Cruise.
[Huffman said,] “We respect when you and your communities take action to highlight the things you need, including, at times, going private.”
Really? 'Cause that’s not the impression I’ve been getting. :scepticalThor:
Agreed. It didn’t feel respectful when they started replacing mod teams that refused to reopen.
What crap. I was on Reddit for 12 years, and left with the migration, to land in the fediverse. Not going back. We are building a much better place. Onward!
How corporate social media’s biggest user protest, and exodus, rocked reddit, acccording to corporate media - FTFY
