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Anarki ,

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    fannymcslap ,

    I mean we’re all here because we don’t like Reddit, it’s very pertinent to us

    danhab99 ,
    @danhab99@programming.dev avatar

    Yeah the ads were always just a reddit post places on top of the page… I guess this is for new reddit?

    anarchyrabbit ,

    I cannot wait to see this Reddit IPO fail, it will be the fucking most glorious thing when fuck face spez has to face the music.

    Olgratin_Magmatoe ,

    Don’t worry, the rich always get golden parachutes.

    bitwolf ,

    The worst thing is when you open the sidebar. If you click too fast on a sidebar item it registers as a click on the first ad in your feed.

    I report the ad as offensive every time this happens which is almost every time.

    werefreeatlast ,

    Why stay there? Make the shift permanent!

    I used nails in the past and I never went around telling people how I keep hitting my thumb with the hammer 😭. 😂. I just learned to not put my thumb there and problem solved! So just take your thumb and bring it here! No ads here! I can’t believe they finally did put ads there.

    unconsciousvoidling ,

    I haven’t been there in a long time but i remember ads being all over the damn place and they had a certain feel where i knew it wasn’t a regular post and if you looked closely it said promoted. So is this the same thing or are they straight up not even including the promoted tag anymore ?

    bitwolf ,

    I am mostly on Lemmy now. There are still one or two niche communities still only on Reddit that I frequent.

    Thankfully this list keeps shrinking as time goes on 🙂

    werefreeatlast ,

    I still Google stuff like “can I use bananas in kombucha reddit” unfortunately reddit is where the actual Internet population had a voice. No more. Lemmy works differently but I’m going to start using it as a search term and hopefully soon we’ll be getting good results there too…or here I should say.

    drctrl ,

    Is this something that uBO can detect?

    MonkderZweite ,

    Pretty sure ads have to be identifiable as ads almost everywhere, against misinformation (because ads usually lie).

    Thedogspaw ,
    @Thedogspaw@midwest.social avatar

    It’s so annoying when your reading a comment and realize your reading an add god loved so wash feet add you are making me hate Jesus

    kromem ,

    But maybe if you keep reading you’ll find out it was actually leading into telling you about the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.

    btaf45 ,

    If the ads allow me to comment and say “your product sucks” then I don’t mind.

    frogfruit ,

    They delete those

    TangledHyphae ,

    There’s probably even a ‘sentiment’ tracking system to automatically remove negative comments at this point.

    AdmiralShat ,

    The site has so many ad posts and shilling mods that this is basically no change at all

    Mastengwe ,

    There’s nothing stopping anyone from shitposting all through the comments of these ads, is there?

    downhomechunk ,
    @downhomechunk@midwest.social avatar

    I bet these ads will be very well moderated

    considine ,

    Purchased upvotes and downvotes that make criticism invisible

    Nobody ,

    All those moderators spent all those years fighting bot spam, and now the admins are deliberately opening the floodgates for the IPO.

    I wish I could say I was shocked, but this was 100% foreseeable given their behavior since the third party app fiasco.

    sunbytes ,

    Subverting the will and attention autonomy of the user is a premium feature now.

    affiliate ,

    the platform’s most popular post types, the megathread, which is a sort of one-stop-shop for discussions about popular topics. Similar to megathreads, free-form ads are meant to help readers get the information they need quickly. The company says the new ad format would be a good way to do things like launch a product or introduce a brand to a new audience.

    imagine seeing a new mega thread each time a brand releases a new flavor of deodorant or something

    Krackalot ,

    I don’t know about the people still on Reddit, but I personally do not eat my deodorant.

    considine ,

    That’s because you haven’t tried cool ranch yet

    altima_neo ,
    @altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

    Your missing out. Old Spice is like a pumpkin pie.

    lagomorphlecture ,

    flavor of deodorant

    Something isn’t right about that…

    RunningInRVA ,

    Edible deodorant of course.

    makyo ,

    I still use it for some of the niche communities I can’t get here but I’m more than happy to drop it if these new ads somehow manage to get past uBlock

    4am ,

    They probably will. The next evolution in ads is going to be serving them within other organic content, your browser can’t block them if it can’t tell the difference. Now you can just pay Reddit to astroturf for you.

    Drop them, they’re literally QVC.

    lagomorphlecture ,

    Haha that’s such a great point. I love your comment almost as much as plants love Brawndo. It’s what plants crave. You can get Brawndo at every major retailer by the way and President Camacho fully endorses Brawndo.

    4am ,

    Go away! Baitin’!

    KingThrillgore ,
    @KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

    I remember when blog network Federated Media pulled this and it didn’t work for them, it was a straight march into an acquisition.

    Socsa ,

    So reddit is going to start selling the thing literally every company has been doing for free?

    exanime ,

    So if ads are just like user posts, why would companies pay for advertising when they can just have an intern, paid in “experience and exposure”, make regular posts and maintain any different aliases?

    Kissaki ,

    Ads get shown because they’re paid. Regular posts compete with all other posts, and user filters and subscriptions.

    phoenixz ,

    Eh, not too hard to fix. Make it so that paid ads will automatically get 10,000 up votes, that would do it.

    Why are people still using Reddit ?

    Chakravanti ,

    Why is any one at all using FaceBook Inc.?

    If you can answer that question the yours swallows the crumbles falling out the mouth.

    starman2112 , (edited )
    @starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Why are people still using Reddit?

    Looking at the first page of my latest comments on reddit, I have some from /r/Wichita, /r/dndmemes, /r/titanfall, /r/KSPMemes, /r/wendigoon, /r/HeyRiddleRiddle, /r/DungeonMeshi, /r/Mythbusters, /r/TheLastAirbender, /r/gurrenlagann, /r/astrophotography, /r/haibanerenmei, /r/yourlieinapril, and /r/LandOfTheLustrous. There are far more, but that’s just the first page.

    A few of these have fediverse equivalents, most of them don’t. None of them ever see active discussion on this platform. Even the ones that do will often go weeks or months between posts. Contrast that with /r/Wichita, which let me know 6 hours in advance that a capsule returning astronauts from the space station was going to fly over us at 4:38 AM on March 12th. Being able to see that made using reddit that day absolutely worth it.

    4am ,

    Artificial ranking. Without an API it’s much less reliable for botnets to astroturf; now they’re said “if you can’t beat em, join em” and closed the API and everything is for sale: Even the honesty of the site.

    exanime ,

    We should start a viral campaign promising to boycott anything advertised on Reddit just before the IPO

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