cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
I just realized I'm taking my ad-free experience in Lemmy for granted. It's refreshing to have a little corner of the internet that doesn't slam you with advertising.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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My ublock origin icon has been at a steady 0 ads blocked in my entire time browsing Lemmy. It feels weird.
On several sites that counter climbs like crazy. I'm watching a YouTube video right now that's only 12 minutes long. The uBlock counter just hit 60.
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Soon, when things go smoother, I absolutely wouldn't mind either having ads or paying a low annual fee.
The problem with Reddit was seeking out vulture capital. Turning a small profit, enough to pay people something resembling wages, isn't a bad thing.
The start of ads seems to always lead to a path of enshitification. One of the reasons I really like jellyfin is because they realized this and intentionally disabled recurrent donations. They saw what it does to Plex and saw the eventually the leadership's will try to sell out and sell the company or IPO.
Jellyfin saw the way every service seemed to go once the revenue picked up and decided they want to prevent that.
plenty of instances including mine and some massive ones like lemmy.world are fully funded by donations.There's absolutely no need for ads
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Wikipedia is funded via donations, de-centralized social media could be too
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It is too crazy for a company as big as Reddit to make a pretty good app that will make you not want to install 3rd party ones? well, seems like it is...
the hilarious part is the entire Reddit app is built on top of Alien Blue, which used to be the de-facto best Reddit app ever. They bought the entire app out way back in 2014 and built the current slow, buggy, security-hole-infested clusterfuck right over the top of what used to be a good app. During the official app beta, every beta tester complained about every problem they still have- poor battery life, shitty performance, unintuitive and space-inefficient UI, excessive ad placement. Reddit made exactly zero changes as a result of this feedback. Nothing has ever been truely fixed.
They could have done literally nothing but put a tiny bit more advertising in to Alien Blue and made every other 3rd party app basically become irrelevant. But no. They are simply outright incompetent and driven by standard corporate middle managers chasing the next KPI.
Fuck Reddit. Fuck Reddit.
During the official app beta, every beta tester complained about every problem they still have- poor battery life, shitty performance, unintuitive and space-inefficient UI, excessive ad placement. Reddit made exactly zero changes as a result of this feedback.
Ah, the Activision Blizzard playbook.
They are simply outright incompetent and driven by standard corporate middle managers chasing the next KPI.
Recent comments from the CEO confirm it. Bloodless money-grubbing techbro shitbag.
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It depresses me that millions of people don’t see any issue with this
Reddit's newest users use it like Tiktok, thus pushing short videos to the front page all the time. It will become a Tiktok clone within the next six months. Mark my words.
IMO this already happened. I've been seeing too many short videos content on reddit lately. That's why I've been slowly abandoning reddit. Eventually API changes made me switch to lemmy which is turning out fine right now.
Yeah I try to not think about how it's now normal to see ads everywhere. What kind of normal is that... It's sick.
OP has a view setting that magnifies ads. In my view setting (as close to third party apps as it gets), the ads take up much less space and there is no trending section. OP is choosing a bad layout to exaggerate their point.
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Spez thinks that redditors are junkies who are hooked and can't leave. It was easier than I thought it would be to leave. I only log in once a week for 5 minutes to delete any posts or comments they've restored against my will.
What a garbage C-team Reddit has, such a shame
Wait, I can redeem cash prizes?!?
You sure can! You can redeem your prize by selling your account to your closest advertiser!
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Seriously thought for a second there when scrolling that lemmy had added ads
It was a horrible feeling man
The author of Lemmy is really tired of ads and big tech so will never happen. :)
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I'm sorry bro cause I gotta hide this cause it's so bad but I appreciate the glimpse into what that place looks like
obligatory "charge yo damn phone."
It was fully charged ten minutes ago, when the official Reddit app started opening.
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That's worse than last time I used it, which is when they were still giving free awards to use but you had to use their app to get them.
Hold on. CASH PRIZES? why wasn’t I told!
The hottest of garbage
I'm not installing that crap and therefor I'm not browsing Reddit from my phone.
I'm also not browsing reddit from my desktop as I spend most of my time online on the Fediverse now. Lemmy and Mastodon are great!
The newest update for Jerboa cleaned it up so nicely and fixed all the little issues I'd been having with it over the past month. So happy to have made the switch when I did. It feels so much more complete now!
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what a piece of shit. meanwhile apps like Memmy and wefwef are miles ahead with a clean interface in just such a short amount of time.
Ads should be illegal TBH.
Who needs that in their life? If your product can't stand on its own merit and you need to bathe swaths of the general public with nonsense to sell anything then maybe your product deserves to fail?
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Their podcast ads are the worst. "Why take care of everyday things when you can pretend to gamble!?!"
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Don't post ads on lemmy! Giving them free exposure!
I’m really disappointed in what happened to Reddit, but wow did Lemmy seem to step up! My daily procrastination and general time wastage barely saw a blip!
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Ah yes, another day not getting spammed with ads and tracking software, lovely.
All of the people still using Reddit who called protesters whiners and power hungry mods are going to realize what we were protesting soon enough. Dumbshits. Enjoy the show, it’s gonna keep getting worse.
Maybe they won't, maybe they'll just stay addicted to clicking on bot generated content, and arguing with bots. Reddit has become yet another website that drives unhealthy and toxic behaviours, because profit, and it can be hard for people to get out of that. Honestly, thank fuck all this API stuff finally made a bunch of us leave, because I'm glad I'm out of there and over here, it's such a relief.
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