Surprises me there is still some… normal stuff. I guess there a still people just normally using reddit lel?
You severely underestimated how many casual normies Reddit has. Protests had no major impact and things will resume as if nothing happened.
I used Boost until Reddit shut it down, and I must say, that has not been my experience.
Reddit is a shell of what it was before. /r/All and /r/Popular showed absolutely nothing. The most random subreddits would pop up, and have like 200 upvotes. The front page was so boring and blank.
When subs started coming back, they limited posts, so you’d get like 1 post per day instead of 50-100. Some subs turned into posting memes only, or pics of only one thing/person.
Reddit was absolutely harmed in this. I was already preparing to leave, but Reddit actually became really boring and useless that last month to the point where I rarely opened the app.
Yeah I figured haha. But yeah, big doesn’t equal good, I like the communities on lemmy better by now, without a lot of randoms.
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Didn‘t know they brought it back. They probably need to fix their engagement numbers for the IPO…
This is 100% why
“We brought all the users back, buy us!”
“But they’re all saying they hate you. Like, really REALLY hate you.”
“Trust me, it’s a great deal!”
I would love to see comparison numbers to previous Places
Long live the Blue Corner!
I really want to keep updated on this, bit don’t want to visit Reddit at all. Is there a way for me to do it other then relying on some one here posting it?
Last year there were twitch streamers getting their followers to make pictures for them, so maybe check twitch?
I get a lot of pleasure, even laughing by myself hysterically, when I help “Deep Rock” become “Deer Cock”, when I help make “Connecting” into “Cumnecting”, and when with one little pixel I make “Factorio” into a slur…
Is there something wrong with me?
You’re just doing the Lord’s work, thank you for your service 👍
I fought against the Canadian flag last time. I’m off reddit now, but will remember the good memes.
Place has always been a bit shit. The first time was interesting and novel because all the factions emerged with different ideologies that actually created personas and identities for themselves, but ever since then it’s just been 50/50 nationalism or consumer products. There’s so many more interesting things that could be painted and yet half of it will be flags of bourgeoise states.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but the amount and intensity of data they must get out of this is huge. They will know all the accounts that are anti-spez which they can monitor and algorithmically demote (soft censorship).
Reddit, like most captive-tech these days, is shifting to optimizing only for providing endless distraction to the 90% of mindless hoards which are easy to monetize.
I suspect Youtube will be next in line to squeeze the lemon, now that they are trying to block adblockers.
If they haven’t figured out which accounts are anti-Spez from their plain text comments I doubt they’ll get much extra insight out of pixels on the canvas.
You also give too much credit to what Spez & co. are doing (his little tantrums aside). Reddit has no value as a free platform, which is why they don’t care if those values get destroyed. They want to sell the content, get their money and call it a day.
Then Reddit gets fed into a LLM and becomes a sandtrap for the clueless netizens who stumble across it. It will be a bot-filled cesspit within the year after the sale/IPO.
What I dung understand is why they’re all trying to become tictok when advertisers are starting to pay less and less for endless-scrolling platforms.
Yeah, people will spend hours zombie-scrolling through 30-second content, but within 2 minutes they’ve forgotten what they’ve watched. That makes ads on the platforms worthless.
Youtube is on the way to doing it right. Use the shorts to get people to follow an account and then start watching longer videos.
Yeah I thought ads are worthless too, as everyone I know just blocks them. But that’s when I realized the people like us who block ads ARE the 10% they now neglect! the other clueless 90% of masses are the ones they are after. There are so many more of them and they are so much easier to monetize
They gave up on us because we are too smart and they cant squeeze anything out of us.
IMO that’s why we have to accept that its time to leave and build our own better internet lol
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i entered to see how it was, and it seems that there are only like 8 colors? so it is worse than the last time? like, the trans flag can’t be done correctly, and probably the pixel art is going to look much worse. truly enshitification for literally no reason
But what about the advertisers! Supporting trans communities is scawwyy 😢 😢 Reddit has priorities after all.
Scary? No, BigCorps love trans gay furry rights!
As long as it stays well contained in a specified month per year, that is. No reason to go overboard.
But not if someone complains. We can’t do it if someone complains.
And as long as no one complains. If they do, it’s time to backpedal.
the admins are using their powers to remove things.
Is that an anus?
He asks; looking directly at u/spez
BONER KEBAB
Is that a G on Factorio 💀
you can see the eness stream of black dots harassing the LGBT flag.
I’m glad I finally found someone referencing this. It made me so sad to see. I really feel like this wave of anti LGBTQ+ sentiment is spreading and all from a fucking pointless culture war started by absolute morons.
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