Enshittification intensifies.
spez is slow walking Reddit to the graveyard.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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Late this fall, after all of the nonsense on Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram I asked myself a very simple question.
"Is the reason I joined these sites still valid? What do I actually enjoy about social media these days?"
The answer was basically "rose colored glasses."
I joined **Reddit **after the 'deaths' of Slashdot and Digg. It became my source to get new and interesting content I probably wouldn't have found otherwise. Now it's bots arguing with bots and 75+% of the content is just recycled shit by people trying to make money. Much of the rest is from people trying to manipulate you.
Delete.
I joined Facebook to keep in touch with my friends and family - especially those I don't see often. Over time, the amount of good content from people I knew dropped to maybe 25% of my feed. Most of it now is AI-generated bullshit or more of the same recycled content you see on Reddit.
Delete.
I joined Instagram to share some of my landscape photos and view some of the great photos some close friends were sharing. Over time that became less and less. Queue the recycled and AI-bullshit content.
Delete.
So, I challenge everybody to ask themselves do they actually enjoy social media? Do these sites actually add value to your life and in any way remain true to their promise when you joined them so many moons ago. Are you actually making any connections with people? The 'social' in 'social' media? Or just watching people talk at each other, not to each other.
After answering those questions, the answer about whether to stick around is pretty clear.
Reddit, Facebook, Instagram:
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"more ads" as if it isn't already as flooded as meta sites.
I can't imagine what sub-reddits they think people would willingly participate in that are paid-only. Decreasing visibility and potential participation group automatically makes those worse in most cases.
Reddit has gotten so bad that it’s funny. I love reading about whatever awkward, bumbling cash grab they’re trying next.
What’s a good word for constant, ongoing enshittification? Diarrheafication?
Funny and sad at the same time, to be honest... That douche busted up a lot of awesome communities with wonderful people, and he's on the right track to ruin things completely...
If small dick energy had a face it would be Steve Huffman's.
Wait, I thought he was the guy who had the woflds most punchable face....
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Please reddit, make more bad decisions faster so people can overcome switching costs finally
imagine charging for displaying content you didn't even make.
the balls are astounding, but this ain't gonna go well for them.
It's like using the failed Reddit Gold lounge as a business model. A sub of awkward dudes that paid to be there and random people passing through and not sure WTF is going on with the awkward party.
Have they stopped that now? I remember being in it at one point. I didn't post and didn't really look at it
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I'm going to frame your comment and sell it!
Not to mention that paywalled content being moderated by unpaid volunteers.
And commented and reposted by bots.
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I disagree. I hate the decisions they make and personally, along with you, I think it's idiotic.
But while I hate on them, they will get away with it. Theyre not stupid. The decisions don't align with its users but it will still work.
Look at netflix raising prices for arguably worse content. Working for them.
Reddit; Charging for the API essentially killing almost all 3rd party apps. Not sure the effect but reddit doesn't seem to really be hurting. Users want to move but reddit is just too good. I even still use it because the user content on there is amazing. I try to ask all my questions/have discussions on lemmy, but I'm one person. Reddit has infinity more always contributing. I think the management sucks, but the platform just isn't fully rivaled yet so they can keep milking their audience.
I agree that it won't go bad for them. It costs them almost nothing to implement and when you have a big enough userbase there are always rubes who will pay for anything you charge for.
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Reddit; Charging for the API essentially killing almost all 3rd party apps.
The secret is they made it easy to bypass, the API still works if you moderate any subreddit, even if it's one you just made. They made it just difficult enough to move the 99% of normie users to their own app.
Are you certain it works this way? I find it hard to believe
Yes, I'm still using Joey just fine. A lot of the apps were disabled by their creators, although there's apparently revanced patches for some.
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Netflix was always a paid service though. I don’t know if people will want to pay for something they’ve had for free for over a decade, especially if the free subreddits will still exist.
I’d also imagine that for any paid subreddit, someone will make a free version with similar content.
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