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"Despite these concessions, dozens of Redditors promised to stop using the site altogether "
There are dozens of us!! Lol
i think most reluctantly have some use for it still. i only use it for gamethreads and the shittiest of shitposts, or for super niche things that don’t have any equivalent on lemmy. at the end of the day, i think people would rather stay connected with their communities than abandon them, even if it means providing value for some of the stupidest and most malignant people in the world at the same time. look how many people are still using twitter
I had to create a new work account on reddit as it has the by far best community for sysadmins I have ever found, and I needed help with an undocumented issue in a system we use at work.
Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve logged into Reddit since I started using Lenmy
I haven’t really either. Apart from the the odd Google search results here and there, but not actually logging in.
I did a couple of weeks ago, after being off it for a couple of months…it was awful. I closed my account and deleted my saved login info. I only go to it now if it comes up in a search and seems relevant.
no need to exaggerate 😬
I didn’t see you at the convention in Munich last summer.
I teleconferenced in. Did you go to the seminar on chafing?
I’m doing my part. 🫡
“Technical tweaks”? Did the author write this while sucking huffman’s taint?
Did you see spez’s senior prom picture in the article?
Very certainly
In response to such critiques, Reddit spokesperson Rathschmidt said he did not “know of an industry benchmark for scoring content quality”.
(Emphasis mine)
This is the same tone deaf response I’ve come to expect from Reddit for some time now, and is why I’m happy to no longer be a user of their platform.
That same quote caught my eye. It’s just bullshit. Of course they’re no quantitative way to measure quality on a qualitative scale. Any long time user can see there’s not much going on like there used to be.
The only thing that’s changed is all the good modetators have left and the default subs have gotten worse.
God forbid you say anything mildly positive of Palestine on the main politics site. The AIPAC hired mods immediately permaban you.
I don’t disagree, but don’t pretend you haven’t effectively set up the equal and opposite thing here. No mods will ban anyone but other than that every comment section is an implicit competition for best pro-Palestinian talking point, even when decency demands otherwise. We don’t talk about Oct 7, and if we do it was friendly fire, and if it wasn’t it was a natural consequence of Israeli policy in Gaza and that is the real issue. Yeah fine we admit the attack was not a hundred percent morally sound if you insist so much, but we don’t assign a moral weight to it or linger on it because hey when you make innocents suffer, you sow the wind and eventually reap the whirlwind, oh sure Hamas’ response was ugly but what can you do, you know, be a bastard and it comes around. Now it is our moral duty to call loud and clear for a ceasefire – the cycle of violence must stop.
I know what you’re thinking: that’s not fair! That’s not my opinion! Yeah, the circlejerk doesn’t care about your private opinion. You know better than to contradict any of the above around here in writing, and that’s enough. I’m sure a lot of people privately think “oh… tbh that last IDF strike was unconscionable” before posting on /r/worldnews the part of their opinion they know the crowd will like better.
October 7 was a disgrace, Hamas must be destroyed because they don’t ever want a lasting cease fire. Israel’s authoritarian leadership eats dick and must be deradicalised for any chance of lasting peace. What are people gonna do? Down vote me? Please do who gives a shit?
October 7 was a disgrace, Hamas must be destroyed because they don’t ever want a lasting cease fire
You can thank George Bush, the previous terrible choice of most Convicted Rapist Treason Trump voters, for the process that led Hamas to power in Gaza.
I can see this may have been the case. It’s easy to make peace in the moment if you give concessions to the more powerful side. The problem that arises is that it creates an underlying contempt from the weaker side that doesn’t just go away. Especially if there is a sense of humiliation and powerlessness from the deal. The only way for peace is for both sides to give concessions and refocus on common problems with common solutions.
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I am of the belief that reddit just replaced leaving users with LLM drone users to fill the void.
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
Yes. Affirmative.
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Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
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@foggy The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
Tom Cruise.
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now.
The bots were always there, the bot-to-human ratio is just much higher now
reposting the worst quote i heard all year - or perhaps all my life
“There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or AA, or never at all … But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
fuck spez, fuck reddit
Yeah, he doesn’t care about users privacy or well being, all he cares about is being the one to monetize users data.
I hate all silicon valley techbros in general, but spez is on another level. Reddit should never have brought him back on board after he sold the company. He’s useless.
It isn’t like Alexis Ohanian was any better.
Oh, he’s an idiot too. Reddit was better off without the pair of them. He was lucky enough to marry into wealth though, spez had a string of failed start ups before he slunk back to reddit. Now he wants to use it to get rich.
“We don’t want other AI to train on this data, only one we’re involved with.”
Honestly, Fuck Steve Huffman.
I’m excited to see where Lemmy, Mastodon and the Fediverse go as I believe that’s what Aaron Swartz wanted Reddit to be when it merged with Infogami; a user curated platform about anything, and a great source of knowledge.
Haven’t been on there since the event, though I do read some threads if they come up in a search. Not intending on returning, though I haven’t gotten rid of my old account yet
dugg their grave
I’m surprised they didn’t mention us at all. I wonder how many people actually made the transition as a result. I think it’s fewer than many people here want to believe but surely it’s more than dozens?
3.58K users / day
That’s how many people use this sub per day, according to the sidebar. And I would guess it’s one of the bigger ones? So it’s more than dozens, but it’s still a blip for most social media sites. At least until the next spez inflicted fiasco happens and there’s another user surge.
Down with Reddit!
The entire “dozen” agrees!
So say we dozen!
So many comments/posts look like bots.
Reddit always had a “repost” problem. But this time, not only am I feeling like I already saw this post, but also all the top comments? Just regurgitation of posts from years ago.
Whatever. Don’t care. I left my account open but scrubbed twelve years of content, including hundreds (probably thousands) of answers to technical questions and dozens of posts (including guides) to which my reddit post was the only or one of the only search results.
If corporations want to profit from my knowledge, they can do so by exploiting the open source community, just like always.
Same. In the brief window when we still had the API, I deleted every thing I’ve ever posted. Every helpful comment, all the well crafted answers to technical questions. I know they are in the wayback machine somewhere but at least Reddit can’t sell them.
It’s worth googling “reddit /u/username” and rechecking your post history (including changing between hot/top/controversial and different time ranges) every few months.
Googling will show up a lot of the posts/comments you have missed using 3rd party deletion tools.
Reddit caches sometimes pull older content from the database or whatever, and you get “access” to it again.
Slowpoke image: did you guys hear about reddit
What’s a reddit?
Small mammal with long ears, they run around quickly and reproduce just as fast
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In June, thousands of Reddit communities plunged into darkness – making their pages inaccessible to the public in a mass protest of corporate policy changes.
With rumors of an imminent IPO swirling, the company is under pressure to make money – and CEO Huffman has acknowledged as much, stating at the time of the change: “Reddit needs to be a self-sustaining business, and to do that, we can no longer subsidize commercial entities that require large-scale data use.”
Stevie Chancellor, an assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota who has studied Reddit for years, echoed these sentiments.
“It bothers me that social media companies are increasingly restricting our abilities as researchers who care deeply about these sites and who believe they can provide many benefits for people,” Chancellor said.
Reddit’s corporate overlords were ultimately unmoved by the massive blackout, and most of the thousands of dark subreddits went back to normal after a few weeks.
Users who have long been dedicated to the site, some of whom have spent countless unpaid hours working to make it better, are exhausted and resentful – and many have simply left.
The original article contains 1,685 words, the summary contains 195 words. Saved 88%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
