tldr - “Reddit teases features to make the platform even worse”
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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I feel like I've read this one before.
Ah, so the bad kind of teasing.
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.
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
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
LOL paid subreddits. ok, yea--let me PAY YOU for the privilege of providing content FOR YOU. LOL
get fucked. reddit is a toxic rotting husk of what it used to be. good riddance
Wasn’t that whole the concept behind that reddit gold exclusive subreddit? I’ve never been on there but I heard it was pretty barren anyway.
I was gifted gold once. The subreddit was mostly Austin Powers Goldmember memes at the time.
That sounds like the only acceptable use of that sub to me.
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gold exclusive subreddit
i've been in there, and yea...how many posts about "yay we have gold and we have a subreddit only for us because we're special" does it take before you start to think "this is about the most pointless thing ever..."
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good luck with that
Fuck Spez!
Fuck Spez!
Steve Huffman is a whiny little piss baby
Setting up the stage for a OnlyFans lookalike for all those wild reddit females
Frankly that’s about the only plausible customer base I could see for that.
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Look, Reddit search is already a shit show. Them overhauling it whatever way can't possibly make it much worse anyway.
Paid subreddits though. I didn't know we were already in April.
Cool, fuck off and die.
Some players in the ecosystem have not been transparent with their use of Reddit’s content, and in those instances, we block access to protect Reddit content and user privacy.
Aka "Fuck you, pay me", at least Reddit is transparent that data is for sale and they think they own 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.
haha, lol, paid subreddits:D
And I bet the mods won’t see a nickel of that revenue.
Oh they will it's called exposure. Exposure from the radiation emitted from their monitor.
This is a good thing for the Fediverse.
they're definitely going to finally kill old reddit arent they
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.
Once they killed .compact I was done.
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 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
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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.
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Mods are probably asking for paid subs. They would view it as an easy tool to prevent new spam accounts.
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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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Twitter made a great job with the paid blue check. It's so much easier now to detect an idiot just by looking if they have a paid blue check. In Reddit it will be the same. If someone joins a paid sub, you can already say they are an idiot.
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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.
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
Thanks, I hate it
Can’t wait to pay for the privilege of visiting /r/sinkpissers
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