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
adsposts 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
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.
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
It’s gonna start getting a little old tbh
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?
There was some discussion about meta communities. You’d still need some curating because [email protected] and [email protected] really should be about completely different topics
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
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
Well that’s the problem though isn’t it? If to use the website you need a literal tutorial, then something is fucked. I realize the irony of saying this on Lemmy, but the platform just isn’t very user friendly at all. Hell, you could say the same about the whole Fediverse, it’s an interesting idea and technology, but for the average person it’s too much of a hassle compared to normal social media.
I can’t think of a single social media platform that hasn’t required me to search how to use it at some point. Twitter was like, “So I can send a text message to a website about what kind of soup I had for lunch? I don’t get it.” Facebook is regularly full of posts by people who don’t understand the platform. The internet itself had celebrity ads, and morning news show explainers.
The Fediverse in general does require a different way of thinking. More importantly, it requires advertising (or publicity, anyway). That is one big advantage corporate media will always have - ad money. But the Fediverse has us.
Well that’s definitely true in some areas, like the search bar (it’s just awful, not non-intuitive).
Voyager is pretty intuitive and can be used without even joining a instance
Voyager is the spiritual successor to Apollo and an all around fantastic application.
I’m an android man, and Voyager has my full support
Dayum okay that really slaps.
We say registrations go from 1 or 2 a day to 14 (other instances saw similar upswings). Just on this news. If they do implement it we’ll see another Rexxit with similar big numbers.
Can’t wait to pay for the privilege of visiting /r/sinkpissers
Mods are probably asking for paid subs. They would view it as an easy tool to prevent new spam accounts.
Wouldn’t private subs solve that?
Yes, but then no one makes any money
To go along with your shitty AI written articles!
Last time I’ve been using search on Reddit (ages ago) normal search already produced shitty, useless results. And now he wants to make it even worse by throwing in AI?
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.
Well, glad I jumped ship after the api fee fiasco. I never even used the mobile app, but the tone deaf/elonification, I was done. That’s right he got the great idea from Musk. How’s that IPO working out?
He doesn’t care. His goal is to extract money, period. He’s incredibly jealous of his former colleagues who cashed out for millions. He’s a greedy little pigboy.
I know the average person usually doesn’t care, but surely most of the population of reddit must have realized how shit it is by now.
tldr - “Reddit teases features to make the platform even worse”
I feel like I’ve read this one before.
Ah, so the bad kind of teasing.
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.
Why do you think these people are idiots? I believe Twitter promotes content posted by paid users. Last time I was on Twitter (about a year ago), they were planing to exclude regular users from the “smart” feed. Plus, people could write longer posts instead of threads. Unlike with reddit gold, I see real benefits for content creators.
Personal experience. Every time I see an extremely stupid tweet, it comes from a blue check.
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.
Subscription models are finally coming to Reddit! It’s about time those greedy bastards start milking their userbase.
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.
No please. The Redditors that stayed are insane,I don’t want them in here
Reddit has that effect. I admit I was a little unhinged when I came here, but either people calm down and start acting like real human beings, or else they realize they can’t have their fun being trolls and they leave. It’s a funny thing that happens when an entire platform is centered around people, not profit. Bots and ragebait are great for stonks - they drive “engagement” and inflate MAU - so they are pervasive on every platform with shareholders.
Oh dear Lord. Please don’t. This is still a nice place.
Fucking exactly. It’s regular users that turn everything to shit, or allow it to happen at least.
Very sad but very true
Right, the few good posters left aren’t worth the flood of the others. Remember the first bit of Facebook, when you had to have an invite or a college email? Wasn’t so bad, then they opened the flood gate and continued making poor decisions and today it’s a wonder that anyone uses it, but if you sign on you’ll see not much but political memes being shared making laughably false claims.
