Good, Reddit has no place in the stock market and no amount of enshittification can save them from this fate.
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2025
1694 points (99.2% liked)
Technology
68066 readers
3929 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Daily reminder that Reddit automatically gathers your data.
If you still have a Reddit account, change your privacy settings right now :
its pretty given, seeing as how they are using googles recaptcha technology, and OPEN AI to allow access to data/content, plus its useful for troll farms from russia in general, since its allows targeted propaganda messaging.
specifically REDDIT like google as recaptcha v3, which is a more spyware-ish where it records your acitivty on the site to "looking for botting" behaviour.
Everything they touch dies
Fuck Reddit.
Reddit is kinda dead it now
Well played. Take my upvote.
The value of Reddit is the content which it is able to create. If users aren’t free to create content, there is not value.
remember the first purges in 16-17' when trump was in power, GOP started complaining about online spaces hosting these "violent, illegal" activities, and subs got banned asap. now again, musk is complaining about the same thing.
It certainly was what people drove there. That doesn't make money. The only value that counts for the bottom line is the data ultimately for marketing purposes. And the reach and trust that makes it great to sell shit.
It'll also be a great propaganda vehicle. Which might be worth even more in the current climate.
Anyways Reddit is dead. It ran far longer than many thought. But I think the cadaver won't stay fresh long enough to be eaten.
I think many of the tech giants are becoming scared. Because it might be a bit of hassle to just use another platform ultimately it's fucking easy to migrate and the when the momentum is there it can go pretty fast. No one really needs Amazon or Facebook or Reddit. And people really are pissed off. Fuck them. All these valuations for tech are just ludicrous when in the end the main driver is selling people shit more effectively.
forums are still alive and kicking, to certain niches though, not an "news/politics aggregate site like reddit. FB has enshittified itself when they went soely distributing russian propaganda intentionally, also require much more aggressive Data mining to sign up for the service, similar tow hat Glassdoor has become for job hunters.