“Come make friends on Reddit”
“Come make friends on Reddit”
Lmao. Tell me Reddit inc doesn’t understand their product at all without telling me.
No one uses Reddit to make friends. (Yes, I know some jagweed will come with a story about their friends brothers girlfriends nephew that met their best friend on Reddit)
I have never noted anyone’s username regularly on Reddit. Unless it’s because they consistently had terrible comments, then they would stand out as either a troll or an idiot; honestly, it could go either way with many of them.
Lemmy is small enough that I see some of your names daily.
Y’all better stay off my lawn.
I used to have an iOS client for Reddit that would hide usernames. That was actually fantastic.
I don’t care who you are, just what you say.
where is satan’s maggoty cumfart when we need him?
I make friends on aita all the time. The room is always full of people. They cheer me when I’m right, and ai’m always right.
They say I need help because I talk to myself all the time, and that I haven’t cleaned the roon in ages, but they told me that i’mactuakly right, on reddit.
/but really, I rareky used a platform as antisocial as modern reddit. It used to have a place for information sharing. Now it’s facebook. But it has a red snoo as a mascot and not a blue f. And yes the reddit alien mascot is called a snoo.
They added functionality that allows you to hide your comment history, so now you have even less information regarding whether you are talking to a real human being or not. Before, they didn’t even have to advertise. Now, they’ve enshittified themselves so much they desperately need new users.
They desperately need real users.
They have plenty of fake ones.
That little baby new account icon and comment history are two ways to check for bot, bad faith or both. Not saying you are, but it’s one of the flags
The new account icon tells very little in comparison to the comment history.
If, say, my account was created today as I’m posting in a very politically radicalized topic, it can be very suggestive about the type of user I am. If the account seems to be speaking from experience and awareness of the social network they are speaking to and it is new, it can indicate they are an alt, like a newly created one from one that closed down like lemm.ee.
But aside from that, it can do very little. It is the comment history that is most revealing to the type of user you are interacting with. With comment history and a recently created account, it can pretty much nail why someone created the account for sure, whereas if you just have a new account participating and just see a single comment with the signs of a dog whistle in a very politically radicalized topic from them, that might be suggestive, but nowhere near what a flurry of hate filled comment history would be that you might have been denied the chance to check up on with Reddit.
Some people can outgrow their comment history, akin to what “right to forget”, but I’d argue for something more like the ability to be able to tack on that you have done that, how, why, and what shows it, so more akin to a right to forgive. The only thing that should have a hard right to forget IMO is strictly doxxable and harassable private data.That’s a different but tangential type of discussion.
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”.
Netflix made up their minds the same way before tanking their subscriptions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Come meet the most vindictive, aggravated, compulsively argumentative people you’ve ever met. On Reddit!
Would that be true for Parisians?
Haha I don’t know enough about Parisian culture to be comfortable taking such potshots!
Neither do I, but I am vindictive and someone in Paris was rude to me once!
the french tried to invade me once in victoria 3, that should be enough
Why don’t they just fire up some more bots?
Like they don’t have enough already…
Not only in Paris. Saw some of them in Marseille too. At first I thought it was some kind of “anti-ad” joke, where someone was giving them a bad rep because of how stupid it looked.
Guess it was not a joke.
Yo france, you busy this evening? There are some new canvises we can paint on. A nice “Reddit ist so ein Pimmel” - germany
I’m just so thankful for Lemmy not having built in posts that are ads. I hate it so much on Reddit.
Death rattle
“Eh merde alors.”
The audacity of that asshat running the place, just to please an even bigger bastard by banning anyone insulting the world’s right-wingers and despots.
Reddit is such a cesspool now. I got banned on r/Nintendohelp and r/Nintendo for participating in r/FuckNintendo
I also got banned from r/Pokemongo for participating in r/PGSharp
Reddit is useless nowadays since ai can answer most questions now. It’s only good for opinions people have and now even that’s in jeopardy.
My account of 12 years with a nearly pristine history got permabanned presumably after the mods of /r/portland made false reports about me to the admins because my advocacy for the homeless wasn’t what they wanted their controlled discourse to look like. They harassed me across other subreddits before doing so, too. I’m pretty sure one of the mods was an admin or knew admins because at one point in modmail they let slip an implication that they had access to Reddit’s browser fingerprinting. I was the main moderator of a somewhat popular NYC-based subreddit (I’d moved across the country), that sub was suddenly lawless after I poof disappeared and I have no way of explaining to the sub members what happened. Reddit is just a cesspool at this point.
12 year account permabamned for making fun of actual nazis and telling them to fuck off.
I got a three day ban for “violence” for using the phrase “i’m an australian and i’d punt the fucker”
We were talking about whether or not having a partner call you a cunt would be a breakup moment.
Who wouldn’t want to talk to bots and train “AI”?
Comme c’est excitant!
they banned and shadowbanned so many people, they nu-users to compesate for the loss of engagement.
What the fuck, that looks absolutely desperate! I’m sure it will have the opposite effect. Fuck reddit.
I don’t know how difference france is from the US, but I generally believe people are kind of ignorant and thoughtless. These will pull in people. People click on “Four things that are secretly unhealthy - #3 will SHOCK you” chum all the time.
Wait what’s number 3
Reddit
Not knowing what number 3 is
Dying.
the buzzfeed clickbait method.
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.
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.
sucks about the bike mang
I hope you’re cancer free now.
^^I ^^also ^^hope ^^you ^^get ^^your ^^bike ^^back.
I got banned during women’s March just for cheering. Lemmy is a perfect replacement.
My ban was for expressing “extreme indifference” about Kissinger taking a dirt nap.
Mine was for a direct quote from trump.
Fair enough, really.
I’m happy he’s dead. I wish he died as a miscarriage.
I got banned for saying we should have hanged every part of the Confederate leadership for treason.
I too got banned for voicing non pc opinions.
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.
Makes me wonder what the French equivalent of “glue pizza” will be.
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.
I help friends and family with minor plumbing repairs and they will tell me:
oh I had “x” company come and they did that
" well it’s all wrong "
They charged me a lot of money for that!
" why on earth would you have called them"
Because I saw their advertisement on TV. I thought they were good
" nah they’re crooks"
Mullvad is good though
The only time I’ve seen Mullvad get promoted is by word of mouth.
Nah I see mullvad billboards around me a lot
Times Square had massive Mullvad ads last time I was there.
This is the only advertising that listen too. I wish online reviews were 10% as useful.
Their ads mostly carry a political message, like the one opposing chat control during an EU summit in Sweden…
