To go along with your shitty AI written articles!
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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what a goddamn shithole. the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it. it's where the most users and content are. so many communities were completely erased during the mod strike and it didn't matter. they knew they would be completely fine. the future is an authoritarian world effectively governed by companies like this.
the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it
That's what many social media companies have said, lol.
But the sad thing is many communities will (and already have) move to Discord. Which is even worse, as Discord is a siloed information black hole.
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Can’t wait to pay for the privilege of visiting /r/sinkpissers
I think he already got pay-to-search and AI-infiltrated subreddits.
He's just trying new combos.
That's an interesting way of writing "Reddit CEO proves there's no such thing as enough when you suffer from dragon syndrome."
Cool, I've heard that people love paying for access to their own content that used to be free.
This is a good time for anyone still on the site to share some Lemmy links.
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Thanks, I hate it
They're already demanding search engines pay to search Reddit; will they have to pay even more to search paid subreddits?
Maybe the search engines could pass on the cost to the user, so you can pay to search the subreddits you pay again to view, which link to websites you pay to view. Add a sprinkle of tracking and targeted ads and some email offers from trusted partners, and you've got yourself a business model.
Left Reddit over a year ago, haven't been back once. It was surprisingly easy, and a year on, it's getting easier for others too.
I miss some of the more casual subreddits, and somehow Lemmy is even more of an echo chamber than Reddit is, but otherwise yeah, Lemmy is fine. Especially with the Photon frontend.
It makes sense, those that backed off Reddit were more than likely against Corpo greed while conservatives cheer it on. Lemmy was created by leftists supposedly and more left leaning people joined after leaving reddit so it's no surprise. Reddit kept the bootlickers and the lazy, Lemmy gained the anti-greed political left so we were sort of destined to be an echo chamber unfortunately.
Reddit kept the bootlickers and the lazy, Lemmy gained the anti-greed political left
sigh...
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I left also, the API thing was the nudge I needed; I admit I've gone back for niche things: the fan groups of 2-3 bands and two TV shows. Reddit is their defacto fan forum for lots of things
I was desperately waiting for an alternative to show up years before even the API changes. Anything that came up got taken over by Nazis and died shortly after. Lemmy is the only one that managed to actually take off.
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AI to summarize and recommend content, helping users dive deeper into products, shows, games
Notice they don't talk about hobbies or common interests, just "shit we can sell them"
I'm sure in his wet dreams Reddit is no longer a community site but a thinly veiled astroturfing platform that's paid billions by large corporations to get their ~~ads~~posts in front of users.
Yeah, that's the definition of enshittification.
- Make a platform that becomes popular
- Lock in users and start to milk them
- Use large user base to draw in companies with ads and influence
- Lock in companies and squeeze them for all their worth
I mean there had been complaining for years that it was becoming just that; it’s just that they were trying to do it without anyone noticing and then all the tech bros got into a hold-my-beer contest
Mods are probably asking for paid subs. They would view it as an easy tool to prevent new spam accounts.
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Oh cool so we're gonna get another wave of users joining lemmy, it's nice that they keep fucking up at such a regular cadence
I don't think there's really going to be some noticeable influx, but I hope so. Even though Lemmy isn't nearly intuitive as it could be, but it did improve atleast by some degree.
Using Boost on both it's like I never left. Biggest differences are a bit less diversity here, duplicate communities from different instances, and the spoiler tags don't work.
The duplicate community across instances could really use a solution, maybe like a multimunity?
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It's funny because the demographics here remind me very much of old 2010-era Reddit—very techy and/or progressive types making up 90% of discussion.
I think about 2014ish is about the point where Reddit peaked in quality, so we're at least replaying from a good save state here. I fully anticipate lemmy will hit the same peak in a few years and hopefully continues on to surpass it
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Reddit isn't really intuitive either. Most platforms have at least some learning curve. We have a great ecosystem of apps that help. I only wish a YouTuber would make a good explainer.
Here's one for the Fediverse that I saw recently: https://youtu.be/QzYozbNneVc
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Voyager is pretty intuitive and can be used without even joining a instance
Dayum okay that really slaps.
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It's gonna start getting a little old tbh
they're definitely going to finally kill old reddit arent they
Once they killed .compact I was done.
Schrodinger's old. for me, I haven't had a reason to check if it still exists, and will never see for myself that it does/has been killed.