Reddit declined to comment
That means what The Verge says is 100% correct. Reddit will speak when there’s corrections to make. :-)
I saw a couple days ago they are not even respecting subreddits that were actually private from the beginning. I saw the mod of a private breastfeeding group freaking out because they were going to make the whole thing public.
So I assume this means they will open up their shitty lounge that you need Premium to access, right?
The private breastfeeding WHAT? Mother of God, this is vilest of the vile. And, speaking of u/spez, that really is saying something…
Their tools are just not up to keep track of all these things.
If only someone developed some third-party tools that could better help them with their job…
I literally used the default Reddit app all the time, they made so much ad revenue off of me.
Now they are making none.
Reddit is just a Karen now
These actions are further diminishing the public’s trust in them.
Im betting they are counting on most users just not being involved or caring.
They’re probably right, depressingly.
I can’t make anyone else leave, but I did what I could by leaving personally. I am generally enjoying the experience over here more anyway, so I am not missing a whole lot. Maybe a couple niche subs, but I was considering working on launching equivalent communities over here.
That a Welsh username by chance?
And yea, thoroughly depressing… I find the situation similar to the old micro transaction / shit game port situation where the masses couldn’t care less and the small minority rebel and have little to no effect.
Sadly those that care about these things are generally grossly outweighed by those that couldn’t give a toss. I haven’t been back to Reddit for 4-5 weeks now and as a very early Reddit adopter I thought the break would be harder than what it has been. I have mentioned in a few posts here that the most surprisong thing to me is how often I was being served subtle ads guised in the form of content on Reddit. In 4 weeks or more I don’t think I have seen a brand as such mentioned on Lemmy yet with Reddit it was legit every dozen posts. I knew this went on, but it took a week or so on Lemmy for me to realise the actual extent of it…
Good riddance to the place, Lemmy feels like the early doors of the internet and I’m quite comfortable here :)
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actual ad
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weekly repost of video from Youtuber who’s been pushing their content to the front page every week for several months
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random PR post from some Hollywood star’s agency: nobody knows about their secret charity work that we’ve told millions of people about every month!
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comedian advertising their standup show on reddit
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wow look at this tshirt/gadget/macguffin that I absolutely must have! If only I knew where to find it…
It’s ads all the way down.
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Reddit would crumble badly very soon is those unpaid mods just immediately give up. The chaos will definitely doom Reddit and fast.
But it’s clear that mods there would rather suffer than give up their made up power.
Hard to give yo virtual power when its all you have sitting in your mothers basement eating cheezy poof because you’re a good mod…
They are losing 1. Quality in UGC; 2. Quantity in UGC; and 3. Unpaid mods, which are all considered most important assets in terms of their (Spez’s) IPO.
Are they losing enough to have an impact to their ad traffic however? Something reddit definitely have lost is the monopoly on online communities, now there’s a bunch of alternatives that people use which has definitely reduced the value of reddit.
