This is literally just the r/nyt subreddit about The New York Times.

Given he apparently takes inspiration from Elon Musk, it’s only a matter of time until u/spez starts adding post view limits unless you pay extra.

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    Someone should answer the phone because we all fucking called it.

    What’s next in the Reddit bingo?

    The removal of old reddit?

    Limiting the number of posts we can see per day as a normal user?

    Buy upvotes?

    The slippery slope logical fallacy doesn’t count when there is actual factual evidence.

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        I’m 100% out once that happens. Well technically I pretty much am currently. I may look at r/all for a couple minutes then head over here for a good portion of time.

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      Buy upvotes?

      The sad part is, I can absolutely see this happening. Not as an outright “gib money get updoot” but something more roudabout but effectively the same thing.

      “Be heard louder with Reddit Premium! Your comments on posts will be displayed closer to the top for others to see!”

      To reiterate, the above is just something I mocked up. May not be upvotes, but still rigging threads by paying Reddit money. I just wouldn’t be surprised at this point.

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        A new tier: reddit ultimate

        With reddit ultimate you get all the benefits of reddit premium plus you get the ability to link your online and offline personas as well as a weekly free loot box.

        Loot boxes (8USD each or 10 for 50USD) may contain one of the following perks:

        • a week of free Reddit ultimate.
        • “3 nuclear downvotes”, like a normal downvote but counts as 50.
        • “karma MSG”, for 12 hours all karma you get or lose is counted twice.
        • “look into the shadows”, get a complete list of all your shadow bans.
        • “STFU”, mute all chats for a week.
        • “sacrificial lamb”, remove any or all non-ultimate users from your followers.
        • “heeeere’s Johnny!”, banned from a sub? Guess again, and this time you can’t get banned by non-ultimate mods for a week.
        • 5 gold awards, appears in 17 out of 24 loot boxes

        A as a new democracy oriented initiative, for 50USD you get to dethrone one mod for a month.

        The loot boxes would actually be able to get me back, not to buy them of course, but to see the havoc it would bring to r/Conservative.

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        It’s sort of what World of Warcraft did with gold.

        The gold farms were making TONS of money selling illegal gold in much the same way upvote farms are making a killing.

        Upvotes are free for them to give, and they would have a money printer on their hands.

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      What’s next in the Reddit bingo?

      See what stupid shit Musk pulled with Twitter a month ago, and that’ll be what Reddit does in a few days.

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      Everything you listed is on the table for them. I hope they do it so it dies quickly.

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      Honestly, I’m surprised Old Reddit has lasted this long at all, even before all this.

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      The slippery slope is only a fallacy when you’re making leaps. To go from enacting exorbitant API fees to removal of old Reddit is a logical step so doesn’t make for a fallacy. Intent also plays a part for the same reason. If you can prove that enacting exorbitant API fees was for the purpose of restricting user access then limiting number of posts for users not logged in is a logical step. Slippery slope gets a bad rap but it can be a valid point and not a fallacy when done properly.

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        People get “slippery slope” wrong. Not every sequence of events is a slope.

        The idea of slippery slope is that one small action is said to kick off an unstoppable chain reaction. It doesn’t just mean that A leads to B. It means that A inevitably leads to B, even if it didn’t intend to, and B happening can’t be stopped once A happens. And maybe even the people that wanted A don’t want B but can’t stop it, because we’ve slipped and we’re sliding uncontrollably down the slope. That’s the whole concept, that we’re stuck sliding.

        Reddit doing one restrictive action, and then later choosing to do another restrictive action, probably doesn’t apply. There’s seemingly no slope, just an easily foreseeable sequence of events.

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          When the slope is engineered and intentionally constructed per design it likely isn’t slippery. This Reddit slide is decline, which is a type of slope in some context, but it isn’t slippery.

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        What’s the difference between new.reddit and sh.reddit? They look nearly identical, but with different margins and padding.

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          I don’t really know because I haven’t spent much time with it. I do remember either in one of the mod summits or somewhere that Spez admitted that new reddit was bad and that they were already working on the next version of reddit, which is what sh.reddit is supposed to be. New reddit is an abomination and I’ve only ever used it for settings old reddit does not have.

          But to be honest with you, I haven’t really spent any time on sh.reddit because you used to not be able to log in to it.

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    They’re doing great work on their destroy any positive community sentiment Speedrun, it’s been shocking decision after terrible change

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      Yeah, it’ll be interesting to see how it compares to Twitter’s attempt, Elon Musk seems to have a lot of natural talent at bad decisions.

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        A techbro saw Elon’s dumpster-fire handling of twitter and went “Yes, this makes sense!” Oh Spez, this is why we don’t idolize idiots.

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    My operating assumption here is that Reddit can collect more data to sell if people are logged in and use their app.

    Does not matter if you destroy 75% of the usefulness of the system if the remaining 25% can be more effectively monetized.

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      Does reddit have an ideology ? Without one, I think it is very difficult surviving on long run even if founders were on good will

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      exactly. People keep saying Spez is an idiot. Him and the board ran the numbers, knew there’d be attrition and still think they’ll come out ahead so they went with it. They expected people to get pissed off but for enough suckers to stick around to make things profitable under the new paradigm

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      There’s a reason so many sites force users to sign in if they reject cookies. It’s all about tracking data.

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    Degenerate rich kids don’t like how they’re being talked about. The only worse thing than elites is their children.

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    I genuinely believe that Reddit and Twitter are concerned about AI scraping their website thus allowing users to access the data without visiting the actual websites.

    This, to me, is another benefit of the fediverse. These instances don’t care if AI is scraping their data because they aren’t in it to monopolize the user created content. They don’t create the content and they recognize they don’t own the content.

    So long as the instances are financially solvent, they are happy.

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      install Reddit enhancement suite and run this script in the developer tools console:

      var $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'), currentTime = 0, timeInterval = 1500; $domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() { var _this = $(this); currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval; setTimeout(function() { _this.click(); }, currentTime);});

      You even keep your karma that way

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    I’m sure this has been said, but they did that for a while at least on my end. Mostly big front page content was blocked in my experience

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    I go there for a couple of smaller subreddits I still visit (barely starting out on Lemmy, tough). But a lot of content seems to be slowing down, like 2 day-old threads on the home tab (I only go on desktop with adblockers).

    This is obviously anecdotal, and have no numbers to back it up. We’ll have to see how it goes into the future. Reddit just keeps pissing off their core users time and time again.

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      My anecdotal experience is pretty much the same. My home country’s sub (the only one I really look at “new” on) slowed down a lot since the Reddit blackout. Before, you could expect a new post every 15 minutes or so. Now? A whole day can go by with one or two new posts. It’s weird. I still see the usual names in the comments, but posting in general is extremely slow. My “Best” tab in the homepage (this is old reddit mind you, I don’t know if that’s a thing on nuddit) also holds the same few posts at the top for the entire day, whereas it used to cycle a lot faster before the blackout.

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      I’ve noticed the same thing. Subs that used to have a vibrant /new feed now seem to have just a few recent posts.