The gloomy sentiment around Reddit Inc. has failed to dissipate after its shares fell 50% from a February high, with volatile technology stocks under pressure.
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.
Reddit is kinda dead it now
Everything they touch dies
I left when I couldn’t use the word “idiot” because it was a trigger word.
Sure Jan.
wanna hear some just as ridiculous, apparenlty skin color, and DEMOgraphic was considered a racist word, ever since trump came into power, all the subs became too sensitive around african american words, and it was a removal at best, Immediate sub ban at worst. also around the same time many non-reddit forums became extremely sensitive about words regarding any POC, when its not even meant to be deragatory term.
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.
Lol suck shit reddit. Rot in piss
you won’t be missed!It might be at least a little missed for all the useful info and history that it had accumulated over these decades… But oh well.
They shat this bed they get to lay in it
for all the useful info
Recently, I’ve been questioning how useful the reddit info actually is. I’ve been lurking in multiple subreddits related to things I’m actually quite knowledgeable at, and the amount of times I’ve seen people asking questions and getting absolutely bogus answers that were highly downvoted was just… concerning. Not to mention how often the correct answer was heavily downvoted for absolutely no reason. That’s when I realised - hey, maybe redditors aren’t that smart after all? I can detect the bullshit for the things I actually know, then what about things that I don’t? Should I trust them?
Not to mention that to get the info you want, usually you’ll have to get through a bunch of shitty jokes, going off topic, rants and even some “totally-not-sponsored” comments.
You’re noticing that Gell-Mann Amnesia.
I looked it up yesterday because I kept seeing it in an Angela Collier video title and I realised that despite watching the video and re-checking the info several times, I could never remember what Gell-Mann amnesia was, and that was too ironic to be allowed to continue. So this time instead of looking it up and going “ooohh, that’s right, okay, nevermind”, I went, "okay, now repeat it to yourself until you’re sure you won’t have to look it up again".
have they resurrected that subreddit from 2016 era, name of which i will not repeat, but it was well fuck. i’m still not going to say it. it’s not an “information hazard”, it’s a garbage sphere that accretes garbage
there were ton of reddit that were purged in 17ish when trump came into power, and at the same the gop was complaining about said subreddits.
It’s always been ridiculous to me that what is essentially a forum has shareholders. That’s why I left Reddit during the app debacle and haven’t looked back.
Corporate social media was a mistake. Genuinely, I lay a lot of why the state of the western world is the way it is at the feet of Zuckerberg and his peers.
I’m not sure why anyone would ever buy Reddit stock. There is no money to be made in Reddit. They failed to make any money before they went public, and they’re failing to make any money now.
They tried the whole NFT thing, failed. They’re trying to sell the data to AI companies but once that’s sold they can’t sell any more of it because the benefit of Reddit data was historical data unpolluted by AI, but new Reddit data is polluted by ChatGPT posts and is therefore worth less.
It’s not even about banning people, it’s about the fact that Reddit was never a sustainable business model from the start, at least not in the traditional capitalist sense where you’re actively trying to make a profit to please shareholders.
The only benefit to owning Reddit stock is if you have voting shares and can manipulate the algorithm to benefit you in some way. Suppress some voices, amplify others to back what you want to do etc. but you need money to burn in order to achieve that because you aren’t going to be making money directly by owning Reddit stock and manipulating public opinion takes time.
its only use now is a propaganda machine, much like X is now, or it will be soon like X.
It’s not even about banning people, it’s about the fact that Reddit was never a sustainable business model from the start, at least not in the traditional capitalist sense where you’re actively trying to make a profit to please shareholders
If they’d been stalwart about banning automation and keeping original, legit human content pure, they probably could have used it as a fountain of fresh data for AI, for polling, for engagement farming, and for promotion.
The site was still growing even despite the admin induced atrophy. But they just couldn’t resist killing the Golden Goose.
the mistake was allowing mods to have too much power, and admins to become mods.
And this right here is why I laughed my ass off when they were doing their IPO and offered me an early buy-in. The company has never made a profit to my knowledge, why on earth would I imagine its value would go up?
There is no growth potential at all. They regularly bleed large numbers of users with their rando-bans, and the new user experience is so terrible that there is no reason any new person would ever want to use it.
Yup. What’s left of their user-base is cranky, well-entrenched against their bullshit, and not afraid to show it. See: the APIpocalypse, etc. I would bet they lost millions of users over that, and now they’re alienating tens or hundreds of thousands more. They have a pretty shit business model which largely relies on enshittification.
This time, they overdid it. Since Nov 5th there were at least 3 ban waves by Feb 13th. The same time I got banned, now we are in the 5th to 6th ban wave right now. This way more than normal. Most of them culled OF, and advertisers, for good measure to look fairz they ban the legitimate problem Bots too.
It’s continued to get worse since I left a couple weeks ago? I’m shocked. Shocked, I say!
They’ve banned all of the good people that made up the site. I used to do Secret Santa. For 10 years! And I had mothers thank me for making their kids holidays. And they banned me. Because I made a death joke about how old McConnell was. Dude looks like death walking. Prove me wrong.
I was a good user. Dark humor isn’t hurting anyone. Reddit will die. Just like every other popular site.
I was sign up number 3. I emailed Spez his own source code because he had the error reporting on his Web Server set to “VERBOSE”.
I was permanently banned for an answer in an AskReddit thread that amounted to “what is true in your line of work that you can’t say”. My answer was that (edit: as I work in a highly female-dominated field of social work 30 women for every man)… non-males are insanely violent and one of the huge lies that is held in the public consciousness is that “men are the violent ones” when the reality is all people are violent, and there’s a tremendous amount of IPV especially in same-sex partnerships. Banned for “advocating violence”.
Edit oops I edited the wrong comment lol
I reported a comment for basically saying that men are the only violent sex, and they temp-banned me for abusing the reporting system. The explanation message (canned, I’m sure) said that abusively reporting people is a form of harassment or bullying, or something like that.
Eat shit reddit, and fuck spez.
edit: Based on my experience and what others are saying, I have to wonder, were they trying to burn it down from the inside?
I believe I was warned once for that same comment, and banned on another account. I was saying the same thing violence in relationship are overwhelming men in every way. Sure there is done by women
Consider conducting some actual research and study, instead of deciding your and biased ideas represent reality.
The fact is that in terms of frequency non-males are worst. Males more severe physical damage per incident.
But don’t argue with me here, if you wanted actual knowledge on the subject you’d have it already.
Got banned over there a month ago, came here hoping to find something of a Sonic community in the same vein as the one over there (very involved in that fanbase, did a lot of my discussion on reddit), has not materialized yet, not enough fans over here, hopefully that changes at some point. I thought at first that it was the open support of Luigi’s alleged actions that got me banned, I could be ok with that, I get it, supporting violence and whatnot, I broke the rules, and they were sensible rules more or less, but the longer I look at the current happenings over there, the more suspicious I am that it was because his name came up at ALL, multiple times. That’s annoying. That feels less justified.
Also becoming more and more glad it happened when it did. Lot of overt, fascist appeasing censorship going on over there. Like it’s not even subtle. There’s no ambiguity in it, it’s just “this post criticized or disparaged Musk or Trump in some way. (Removed from Reddit).”
I haven’t used Reddit since the api change but I suspect stating that Luigi mangione is a hero who did nothing wrong would get me banned on Reddit. Social murder is completely cool and ok. But actually killing the man who oversees the system of social murder? How dare you!?
it got worst after that api apocalypse, which culiminated into musk/luigi , it became increasingly harder to
Any criticism of conservatism is grounds for removal now. I can’t believe it’s gotten this far.
Is there any Sonic community on Lemmy? Did you make one? I’m a casual fan, but I’d join.
i love it that TROLLS and conservatives ever though right wingers were ever censored. no, almost any one the “left” was censored in most medias.
lmao, they tried to suspend my account for “harassing” a scam post.
They 7-day banned me for ‘encouraging violence’ for saying I didn’t think Mangione deserved to go to jail for what he did. I appealed it and it was lifted, but not before it was upgraded to a permanent ban for ban-evasion on other accounts (I’ve never had more than one account in my 14 years of reddit.) The perma-ban was lifted on appeal too, but by that point I was just like fuuuuck off.
I appealed it and it was lifted, but not before it was upgraded to a permanent ban for ban-evasion on other accounts (I’ve never had more than one account in my 14 years of reddit.)
Reddit has a feature where there helpfully link your account to stranger’s accounts. When the stranger is banned from any sub, you are too. But you don’t know you are banned from those subs. So when you innocently post, you get perma-banned.
I had no idea that was a thing, nor who I would have done it with considering none of my friends or family use reddit. Much less how I could’ve done it without even knowing about it.
Same thing happened to me. I told a guy to fuck off and got banned for not being nice. I appealed, but before that process completed, they permanbanned my 14 year account. I like that on Lemmy I can say normally uncontroversial things like “Nazi scum fuck off”.
Indeed, Nazi scum can fuck off.
i’ve had various accounts over the years and never gotten hit for “ban evasion”. that being said that suspension was my last straw and i deleted my account.
Yeah, what’s even funnier is after noticing and appealing the temp ban I logged off and the only time I went back was to check my mail for a response which is when I noticed the perma-ban, so between those two time periods I was literally not even on reddit, so I have no idea what the fuck they were on about.
I heard they did that a bunch of other users too, temp ban, resulted in perma ban of other accounts as soon as the temp ban was lifted.
I was perma-banned like 11 hours before my temp-ban was lifted, per the timing on the messages in my inbox, so I think the admins just got a lil carried away with the fashy bullshit and then walked it back a little.
I wonder how long until they ban porn. That’ll kill it dead for sure.
literally one of the 2 reasons I haven’t quit reddit completely (the other being I’m slowly deleting all my comments)
you can use powersuite delete i believe, and there are extensions, but much slower than the github one.
Idk, I doubt the advertising partners really have a problem with reddit porn. This dip is likely a reflection of the article linking reddit moderation policies to Elon Musk (absolutely hilarious that he’s so toxic to stocks he’s killing other people’s companies now). I don’t think this is even a reflection of a drop in users yet,
