I just noticed this when I saw a strange “Achievement Unlocked” notification pop up on Reddit. What do you think of this? It seems like a retention tactic to me, like what Amino had with its streak leaderboards, and GameFAQs currently has with streak achievements for logging on ten days in a row and also for all days of a month.
It’s to keep you feeding their site with data/posts/comments
They are getting desperate
For real with how good Lemmy apps have gotten
No, Reddit is going fine. But they want to do better. So they make up stuff like this and it will work.
True, but they are still desperate for money, that’s all it’s about now.
They have all their bots creating first-class content. They don’t even need mods anymore. They don’t need humans anymore. They are basically a self-sufficient bot word factory and AI breeding ground. Like, if I ever felt the urge to rate babes with my masterful babe-rating skills or use my excellent human-judging skills to discern whether the repost-bot is the asshole in that regurgitated story, I’d go there in a heartbeat.
Makes it tempting to start logging in again and making daily comments consisting of nothing but random punctuation marks.
commonting daily about lemmy, and posting the streak, only to people see the lemmy comments in every post
If you really need, you could farm like how bot accounts build up karma. Just use a private subreddit so your system gaming is out of the public eye.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
the same bullshit from snapchat
Gameification is the “react content” equivalent for lazy social media devs imo.
Retention for bots, probably. Some of my accounts have been shadowbanned for no particular reason smh.
Wait, you need to post every day to get the achievement?
OP has a longer active streak on Reddit than Lemny as of now. SMH.
Lmao that is hilariously thirsty of them
Why reddit is using this shitty method people like me gonna crazy over this because we like to show some pixel on our profile to show we are superior than others.
I was going on 15 years before they shit in the bed.
Dark patterns go brrrrr
tbh i was pretty shocked when i went to the app to check notifications and saw “don’t lose your 2 day reddit streak” or sth
Wow spez does feels so threaten that he felt the need to copy cod 🤦♀️
