Dear User,

We will soon begin rolling out changes to Reddit’s User settings. It is getting a refresh that includes changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings.

As part of these changes, we are retiring a setting that you have previously turned on that limited how we used your activity from the Reddit platform to personalize ads. We have replaced the setting with a new option to select categories of ads that you may not wish to see.

More details are available in our announcement and help center.

These changes are rolling out starting today and you may see the changes over the next few days.

Users will be tracked with no opt out. Posts may be monetized, which will make content even worse No refund or any type of usable credit for users that spent hundreds on Reddit coins The entire vibe has done a 180° since all these new “positive changes” are rolled out.

  • TehWorld@lemmy.world
    3584·
    1 year ago

    I’m not spending much time on Reddit these days but in no way is this the end for Reddit. The VAST majority of the user base just doesn’t care. We may see more users trickling in and Lemmy is sure more ready now than ever but people are so used to being advertised to, that this won’t be a big issue long term. People are dumb.

    • Jah348@lemm.ee
      20·
      1 year ago

      This is for sure the final nail, it’s going to collapse just like Facebook and Google did after all that ad stuff. Profiting off a user data is clearly a failed business model and we see that time and time again.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      1281·
      1 year ago

      Idk man, literally asked a bunch (3) of friends how reddit is lately who had no idea what was going on this summer with the API changes and didn’t care when I told them. Here are there responses:

      “They’ve gotten really bad at putting relevant shit in front of me”

      “Been a ton more ads lately”

      And

      “dude thank you for telling me reddit had porn lol”

        • Shush@reddthat.com
          16·
          1 year ago

          I always wondered if there were people oblivious to porn on reddit. It always seemed like common knowledge those days.

          It’s not the usual manufactured porn by companies, it’s usually people showcasing a video of themselves.

          • DrQuint@lemm.ee
            13·
            1 year ago

            A lot of people’s approach to social media is

            • login an absolute total of times equal to one, on an app, and never again, that session better last

            • do zero content curation, what comes is what you eat

            • mostly scroll past shit, don’t interact, don’t produce

            • maybe click on a navigation link once or twice per month

            So of course they don’t know there’s porn. They’re basically only seeing their feed (which is a clone of /r/popular, so a bunch of clones of /r/funny and ragebait) and the default subs, which doesn’t have porn by default ever since reddit removed its ability to show up on default feeds.

            • Shush@reddthat.com
              5·
              1 year ago

              I meant more around “reddit is known for having porn channels” and less “reddit pushes porn in your default feeds”.

              You’re right though, the casual dead-minded scroller wouldn’t know about it.

          • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            It used to be moreso, but before i left reddit it turned into people spamming promoting their onlyfans accounts, some subs felt like scrolling through a gallery of ads.

        • lud@lemm.ee
          6·
          1 year ago

          The amount of porn on reddit is astonishing.

          Just go to r/randnsfw a few times.

    • ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      I completely agree with this!

      Also, it’s an unfortunate rule of thumb that, when you see a sensationalized headline, most likely it won’t have the effect it claims to have…

      Well, let’s hope there’s a steady migration to Lemmy (though numbers are small here)

      Edit: added last line

      • Vanon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        2016: All I need, to have hope for the future, is a large majority of people willing to slightly inconvenience themselves to produce positive changes.

        2023: Human intelligence has peaked, idiocracy is here, I for one welcome our AI overlords, earthonfire.jxl, etc.

    • Rolando@lemmy.world
      691·
      1 year ago

      The hope is that the non-dumb people will leave for here, and that they’re the ones who make quality content.