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nexussapphire ,

I mean openai already has.😄

TotalCasual ,

Reddit is dying. Spez is a degenerate freak, a scam artist, and a Nazi. The OpenAI training platform / propaganda website begins to circle the drain. Microsoft is starting to lose the last iota of goodwill they once had.

Nothing about Reddit looks good into the future and no one, with serious cash, is going to invest in a dying platform run by a scam artist, a freak, and a Nazi.

The questions now are, “How long?” and “What’s next?”

gwen ,

when did we find out spez is a nazi? more reason to hate spez and ditch reddit so thats good anyway

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

I remember i almost bought reddit premium

Buddahriffic ,

I was awarded Reddit gold a few times. The private subreddit it gave access to was underwhelming. There were also mixed feelings about someone liking my comment so much that they gave Reddit money for it. I’m sure there were better ways to spend that money that also wouldn’t have affected me much. I generally prefer relies anyways.

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

I generally prefer relies anyways.

Same thought i was the only one

interdimensionalmeme ,

The thing with VIP sections everywhere is that they are filled with the sort of people who seek to obtain VIP access. In other words, losers.

MediaSensationalism ,
@MediaSensationalism@lemmy.world avatar

Reddit getting rid of paid rewards pre-IPO only to reintroduce the feature later on and boast it as a major QOQ increase in non-ad revenue while artificially inflating their on-paper growth was slick.

Buddahriffic ,

Was it also fraud? Some slick fraud?

chemicalprophet ,

I’d download your mom.

zipzoopaboop ,

Fyi Reddit is one of the few recent tech IPOs that increased in value

YeetPics ,

Could it be because the owners are milking it until it’s dead?

Sauerkraut ,

I hope that won’t last for long. I made a joke that Reddit was circling the drain with how hateful and political every subreddit was becoming and then they permanently banned all of my accounts. 10 years on reddit, 10 years of putting effort into my posts and comments with over 250k total karma and I was banned for a half serious joke. My appeal was instantly denied as well. It was unreal. After the API changes that was the final straw for me. Fuck Reddit. I was joking before but now I really am hoping that the company sinks.

Buddahriffic ,

I don’t think the “investment” in Reddit is the usual “invest in company because it will make money directly”, but “use wall st money to give stronger incentives about controlling the narrative than ad revenue was previously able to give”.

I bet employees have to agree to a hefty NDA to remain employed there. I hope someone breaks that NDA at some point.

AndrewZabar ,

I agree! After my initial fury over Spez’s whole tantrum, I found Lemmy, and I gotta say, yeah I really do think we need a lot more communities and diverse topics, but for those of us who remember what the Usenet was early on, it was a paradise for free-thinking, tech-savvy individuals to socialize and share ideas. I’d love to see Lemmy stay under the radar, because once something becomes popular enough, it gets enshittified by people looking to monetize and people looking to just plain shit all over it. If it remains fairly small, but in that it is a concentration of the most desirable people (mostly), I’ll take it. I can always hop over to dread-it if I really need something not here.

sfxrlz ,

Well except for when they start paywalling shit

Sauerkraut ,

Even when Reddit exploded in popularity there were still plenty of great, but smaller, communities. I really enjoyed being part of Reddit until the API changes when all the decent moderators quit. The quality of Reddit went off a cliff shortly after that happened.

So I think Lemmy will be fine even if it explodes in popularity. Capitalist greed that betrayed the OG members and mods who built Reddit is what is making Reddit a cess pool, not the number of users.

probableprotogen ,

I absolutely would download a subreddit thank you very much

Cbright09 ,

I’m Just hoping that more sub reddits move over I know a few have that I use thought (which are dead) it was during the time spez pull this bs just seems like every company lately has gotten more greedy with their product

Allero ,

I think we should stop with copium every time some change happens on Reddit.

It’s not going anywhere and it’s still the front page of the Internet. A few thousand folks migrating to Lemmy doesn’t mean Reddit is gonna die tomorrow.

And the CEO knows that perfectly well. Spez can juice this place more and more, and people, for the most part, will eat that and stay after a tiny show of discontent.

You know what? That might be for the better. While it sucks to have less content here, we at Lemmy also have a healthier demographic, and that’s something we should praise and look after.

If anything, at our best we should not spend our energy shitting on Reddit, but rather direct it to care for Lemmy. Start your cozy or important community and share it! Make new interesting posts, preferably not about Reddit or American politics - plenty of that in here. Leave useful and/or supportive comments. We can for once build our beautiful garden, not a place of powerless hate and spite.

raspberriesareyummy ,

well said!

Allero ,

Thanks :)

big_slap ,

While it sucks to have less content here, we at Lemmy also have a healthier demographic, and that’s something we should praise and look after.

yes, say it louder for the people in the back!!

quality > quantity, and my interactions on the fediverse, compared to reddit, are so much more fruitful 😁

Allero ,

They get much more kind and productive - that’s for certain!

People are more willing to engage in a positive way and not algorithmically trained to hate.

Sauerkraut ,

People are more willing to engage in a positive way and not algorithmically trained to hate.

This times 100x. It is almost as if Reddit, Youtube and Facebook are all possessed by Cyber-Succubuses that intentionally suck the life out of you just to drive up their ad revenue.

charleroi2 ,

Lemmy also have a healthier demographic

Maybe overall, but have you seen worldnews folk?

Allero ,

Overall, indeed. Same with noncredibledefense etc. etc.

Lizardking27 ,

It’s not “copium”, reddit is genuinely heavily populated by bots, advertisers, and sponsored content. There aren’t nearly as many actual people using it as before. I’m not saying they all came here, but reddit is definitely not “the front page of the internet” anymore, and hasn’t been since long before the api exodus occurred.

Nobody talks about reddit in daily conversation like insta, tiktok, youtube, or even facebook. The majority of people on the internet do not know it exists. It’s a weird, niche website desperately failing to claw it’s way to the mainstream, when the whole charm of it was that it wasn’t mainstream social media.

However, I agree that I’d like to stop hearing about it here.

Allero ,

Fair points on your side!

Sauerkraut ,

Nobody talks about reddit in daily conversation like insta, tiktok, youtube, or even facebook. The majority of people on the internet do not know it exists.

The movie “Good on paper” had a joke about Reddit, but the joke basically implied that Reddit is full of sexist incels… so I get the feeling that most people have heard of Reddit but that Reddit is not viewed very favorably by the average person.

Casual_Harper ,

I went back to reddit after being away for six years and I’m already done with the mods, the toxicity, the fakeness, just the whole thing. So here I am.

MelonYellow ,
@MelonYellow@lemmy.ca avatar

Welcome to Lemmy:)

Allero ,

Welcome to Lemmy!

If you want to have peace here - beware of political spaces, they are often just as toxic. Other than that - the place does magic for mental wellbeing.

foreverunsure ,

welcome!

rarbg ,

Welcome (⁀ᗢ⁀)

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

Welcome to lemmy my man

NastyNative ,

Lemmy you my only friend!

youtu.be/VUZ91XxtuZw?feature=shared

PunchingWood ,

Can’t say I’m sad.

I got permabanned on Reddit because of events involving powertripping moderators and every appeal I tried has been met only with generic bot auto replies. It seems impossible to get an actual human to look at my case for which I provided a lot of detail on what went wrong and how I was incorrectly permabanned (I was confronting moderators of one of my favorite subs about them violating their own Subreddit and Reddit’s policy).

I’ve been trying for over 9 months but there’s literally no way to get it fixed. And every new account eventually gets permabanned as well.

I’m so done with that garbage platform. Shame about the small fun communities I was in. But the downfall of Reddit can’t come soon enough.

Qbanrev ,

Reddits an echo chamber for the worst ppl 9f the left. Disagree and you get a ban. We need more online places where there is no banning and people can just disagree and learn that they are not the only type of person.

CptEnder ,

ppl of the left

Shh no one tell him lmao

echodot ,

All those damn Republicans are so damn liberal. They don’t even let you eat babies, damn liberals

sparkle , (edited )

I’m gonna let you know right know, Lemmy isn’t the place for alt-right nutters who had disgusting enough views to get banned from Reddit of all places (a pretty conservative community in general) for being too right-wing. Lemmy is literally a gradient of full-on communists to centrists that at least agree we should have basic social welfare. Even the prominent conservatives here aren’t openly vehemently anti-lgbt and anti-social welfare like American conservatives usually are.

Lemmy isn’t exactly politically extremist, but even the relatively right-wing-friendly Lemmy instances (like world) look communist compared to Reddit

echodot ,

Jesus dude there’s something wrong with you because Reddit is pretty right wing. If you think they’re lefties then good God you must be some kind of extremist or something.

You’re not going to have a fun time over here I’m telling you that for sure.

Emmie , (edited )
@Emmie@lemmings.world avatar

It’s not about political views but more about certain outrage culture that maybe is less noticeable than twitter but is more annoying.
Redditors are just kinda special and happily ride any moral high horses and such with zero room in the brain for hey maybe I am wrong. Whole Reddit is confidently wrong usually with this annoying absolutism that leaves no room for anything else.
I cannot describe in words how much contempt I feel for users of AITA or the like. Just imagine posting your family shit online for some strangers to have fun with it. I hope the servers burn and erase all these archives of cringe

lath ,

He’s rich and giggling. Quite likely does not give a shit.

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