“Come make friends on Reddit”

    • Alerian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      12 days ago

      No they are remaking the building exterior so they put up a scaffolding, hidden behind the add and fake windows. It’s a common practice in Paris, though there are talks of banning the adds to reduce visual pollution

  • Lucky_777@lemmy.worldEnglish
    711·
    13 days ago

    Wow, I’ve never seen them actually pull ads for membership. Site must be struggling for real users. Bot takeover isn’t working out, shouldn’t have banned the top users for petty bullshit.

    The archive of past posts and problem solving is the greatest value of the site.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      13 days ago

      raises hand

      Literally in the top 1% of karma users in 2023. Banned in 2024 for…

      checks notes

      …posting a comment that my bike was stolen when I was 7.

      Reddit claims the ban was done by a human. However I just cannot see a human looking at the post I got banned for, and saying “This guy deserves to get banned”.

      My best theory, based on the timeline, is that they offered me a presale enter IPO offering before it went public. At the time I was on cancer treatment, and had $0 income, with my two sisters and mom paying for my apartment.

      I had no ability to buy an IPO.

      3 days after it went public, I still didn’t own stock, and was banned. Because I said my bike was stolen 30+ years earlier.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
      8·
      13 days ago

      They’ve done it before in the USA. My guess is that they want to push their non-English offerings, which is something they’ve only focused on recently.

  • Cocopanda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    I’m just so thankful for Lemmy not having built in posts that are ads. I hate it so much on Reddit.

  • Supervisor194@lemmy.worldEnglish
    681·
    13 days ago

    Rule of thumb: the more something is advertised, the more shit it is for one reason or another, and you’ll do well to avoid it altogether. When I’m advising people on contractors, my number 1 rule is: if they’re on TV, they’re criminals, I promise you.

  • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    13 days ago

    I have been playing a game, Chasm, I Kickstarted years ago. I am having some difficulties and while Steam discussions are helpful for some, most discussions are on Reddit. The posts are 3+ years old, and every time I try to open one I get a notification that the discussion hasn’t been reviewed by the community so I can only read it with the app. Shit website.

  • schmorp@slrpnk.netEnglish
    104·
    13 days ago

    What the fuck, that looks absolutely desperate! I’m sure it will have the opposite effect. Fuck reddit.

  • SleepyBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    12 days ago

    Reddit posting ads for more users is actually hilarious. They were soooo unconcerned with how many users they were going to lose when they made the 3rd party API changes. Like to the point where u/spez basically had a “let them eat cake” moment and just straight up said “were successful enough we dont care if we lose people”.

      • markovs_gun@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        I mean from a business standpoint it makes sense. You make more money selling 5 hamburgers at $21 a piece than you do selling 10 at $10 a piece, as long as costs are similar. Having fewer users you’re making more money from can make sense.

        • SleepyBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          See I dislike this mentality though. Shouldnt the point of business be to make a product thats widely popular and accessible to essentially everyone? Unless of course your burgers are made with higher quality meat than your competitors(as an example), so you pay a little more in costs for the product itself. I really think this culture of businesses being viewed as successful only if they post “record” profits every quarter (while simultaneously rolling back policies that made the business good/popular because it cost more money) is going to absolutely break the consumers back at some point.

          • markovs_gun@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 days ago

            I mean it’s simple math. Would you rather make more money or less money if you’re the business owner? It’s not good, but it’s easily explainable.

        • dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          11 days ago

          Not even from business standpoint. Or maybe I’m misinterpreting the bottom line, but a business should be conscious about it’s business model.

          Why do people go to reddit? Funny memes and great comments. It started to become boring when the people started to act like bots (echochamber), now it’s mostly bots echoing arguments and memes of past. With your restaurant analogy, it is more like they started selling the support beams instead of product.