• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well shucks, all they did was drive out their most active content makers and cut themselves off from hundreds of thousands of dollars in free moderation labor. Who could possibly have seen this coming?

  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Reddit’s value as a social media platform drops as it’s value to advertisers rises. The karma system is democratic, the userbase shapes the visual content on the site, that’s was makes it useful. The more mutilated it becomes in service of extracting money from advertising, the less genuine it is, and the less people will seek to use it.

    Spez would like to believe Reddit is a cow that can be milked forever.

    In reality Reddit is a pig that Spez seems to believe he can get bacon from forever. Except to get that bacon, you have to kill it, and you can only do that once.

  • iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Reddit who?

    If I can’t browse my way, I simply don’t use the site.

    If reddit pops up in a search result on my browser, wellll best believe I have multiple adblockers making sure their ads don’t load.

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      1 year ago

      And every time a Reddit results show up, I’m immediately reminded why I don’t want to go there by an error telling me that I can’t use the site without logging in.

      Fortunately, just changing the link to old.reddit.com still works even through VPN, but removed this behavior. I do that only for questions I really need an answer and couldn’t find anywhere else, and most of the time the replies are shit anyway.

  • steve_floof@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I read somewhere that Reddit cannot advertise on its sexually explicit subs, so I use Reddit exclusively for smut. Lemmy for all my non-smut needs