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breadsmasher ,
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

tldr - “Reddit teases features to make the platform even worse”

saltesc ,

Ah, so the bad kind of teasing.

tpihkal ,

I feel like I’ve read this one before.

sexy_peach ,
@sexy_peach@feddit.org avatar

good luck with that

octopus_ink ,

Fuck Spez!

MrSebSin ,

Fuck Spez!

Socsa ,

Steve Huffman is a whiny little piss baby

db2 ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5ec5f7dc-1a37-4946-bebd-f36da5a3eb30.jpeg

ASDraptor ,

Twitter made a great job with the paid blue check. It’s so much easier now to detect an idiot just by looking if they have a paid blue check. In Reddit it will be the same. If someone joins a paid sub, you can already say they are an idiot.

AlexanderESmith ,

The best way to detect an idiot is seeing them on Twitter at all

cheddar ,
@cheddar@programming.dev avatar

Why do you think these people are idiots? I believe Twitter promotes content posted by paid users. Last time I was on Twitter (about a year ago), they were planing to exclude regular users from the “smart” feed. Plus, people could write longer posts instead of threads. Unlike with reddit gold, I see real benefits for content creators.

ASDraptor ,

Personal experience. Every time I see an extremely stupid tweet, it comes from a blue check.

MimicJar ,

Some players in the ecosystem have not been transparent with their use of Reddit’s content, and in those instances, we block access to protect Reddit content and user privacy.

Aka “Fuck you, pay me”, at least Reddit is transparent that data is for sale and they think they own it.

maniel ,

haha, lol, paid subreddits:D

Dan68 ,
@Dan68@lemmy.world avatar

And I bet the mods won’t see a nickel of that revenue.

wabafee ,
@wabafee@lemmy.world avatar

Oh they will it’s called exposure. Exposure from the radiation emitted from their monitor.

Goodmorningsunshine ,

If they made money, their only joy in life wouldn’t be mindless, power-trip bannings.

eran_morad ,

Cool, fuck off and die.

solsangraal ,

LOL paid subreddits. ok, yea–let me PAY YOU for the privilege of providing content FOR YOU. LOL

get fucked. reddit is a toxic rotting husk of what it used to be. good riddance

FireWire400 ,
@FireWire400@lemmy.world avatar

Wasn’t that whole the concept behind that reddit gold exclusive subreddit? I’ve never been on there but I heard it was pretty barren anyway.

Dead_or_Alive ,

I was gifted gold once. The subreddit was mostly Austin Powers Goldmember memes at the time.

orclev ,

That sounds like the only acceptable use of that sub to me.

JudahBenHur ,

I’m sorry? I don’t speak freaky-deeky Dutch

Quetzalcutlass ,

There are two things I can’t stand in this world: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures… and the Dutch.

db2 ,

I bought Gold when that was the only perk to it, back when they were supposedly trying to independently fund the site.

I deeply regret doing so at this point.

Serinus ,

You shouldn’t. Reddit was a different place then.

You supported it when it was good, and abandoned it after it sold out. You can be a little proud of that.

solsangraal ,

gold exclusive subreddit

i’ve been in there, and yea…how many posts about “yay we have gold and we have a subreddit only for us because we’re special” does it take before you start to think “this is about the most pointless thing ever…”

Serinus ,

It was a wholesome way to fund the site before they sold out. There was nothing wrong with it being mostly pointless. In fact, it’s better that way. Money gated subs outside of that one meme seems pretty terrible.

Crackhappy ,
@Crackhappy@lemmy.world avatar

I was in the century club on there, it was actually a pretty nice group of folks. Far less toxic.

solsangraal ,

i was in there for a minute. my one post was “what is this” and then i was replaced a week later. not my thing i guess

Quill7513 ,

I also got added to that sub. I still don’t… Understand what it was

noodlejetski ,

basically /r/CasualConversation for people with too high post/comment karma for their own good. I’ve made a bunch of good friends over there, but the place has become watered down over time as it became so much easier to get the required amount of points.

DudeImMacGyver ,
@DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works avatar

It was not an impressive sub

Sabata11792 ,

It was a “I got gold” circle jerk.

DudeImMacGyver ,
@DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works avatar

Like century club but somehow worse

Teal ,

The Lounge is where you were given access. That subreddit was ok on its own but really it was a good place to hang out, be friendly and helpful which sometimes resulted in being invited to other private sections of Reddit.

Some of those private subs have a true sense of community who are truly kind, respect each other and fun to interact with. Before the awards went away there were many games with prizes and multi-day parties with lots of engagement and fun. Not anything like the regular Reddit.

Those places still exist but activity has declined since most third party apps and the awards/coin system were taken away. That decision not only damaged the public Reddit subs but also the private ones.

Hubi ,
@Hubi@feddit.org avatar

This is a good thing for the Fediverse.

ObviouslyNotBanana ,
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

Look, Reddit search is already a shit show. Them overhauling it whatever way can’t possibly make it much worse anyway.

Paid subreddits though. I didn’t know we were already in April.

vikinghoarder ,

Setting up the stage for a OnlyFans lookalike for all those wild reddit females

mostlikelyaperson ,

Frankly that’s about the only plausible customer base I could see for that.

brucethemoose ,

That’s not what they are going to advertise it as, lol.

gedaliyah ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Females? That’s so chauvinist. They prefer to be called M’ladys

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

they’re definitely going to finally kill old reddit arent they

LifeInMultipleChoice ,

Schrodinger’s old. for me, I haven’t had a reason to check if it still exists, and will never see for myself that it does/has been killed.

AbidanYre ,

Once they killed .compact I was done.

9point6 ,

Oh cool so we’re gonna get another wave of users joining lemmy, it’s nice that they keep fucking up at such a regular cadence

5redie8 ,

It’s gonna start getting a little old tbh

PrivateNoob ,

I don’t think there’s really going to be some noticeable influx, but I hope so. Even though Lemmy isn’t nearly intuitive as it could be, but it did improve atleast by some degree.

Petter1 ,

Voyager is pretty intuitive and can be used without even joining a instance

PrivateNoob ,

Dayum okay that really slaps.

thal3s ,
@thal3s@sh.itjust.works avatar

Voyager is the spiritual successor to Apollo and an all around fantastic application.

datavoid ,

I’m an android man, and Voyager has my full support

gedaliyah ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Reddit isn’t really intuitive either. Most platforms have at least some learning curve. We have a great ecosystem of apps that help. I only wish a YouTuber would make a good explainer.

Here’s one for the Fediverse that I saw recently: youtu.be/QzYozbNneVc

PrivateNoob ,

Well that’s definitely true in some areas, like the search bar (it’s just awful, not non-intuitive).

Caligvla ,
@Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Well that’s the problem though isn’t it? If to use the website you need a literal tutorial, then something is fucked. I realize the irony of saying this on Lemmy, but the platform just isn’t very user friendly at all. Hell, you could say the same about the whole Fediverse, it’s an interesting idea and technology, but for the average person it’s too much of a hassle compared to normal social media.

gedaliyah ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

I can’t think of a single social media platform that hasn’t required me to search how to use it at some point. Twitter was like, “So I can send a text message to a website about what kind of soup I had for lunch? I don’t get it.” Facebook is regularly full of posts by people who don’t understand the platform. The internet itself had celebrity ads, and morning news show explainers.

The Fediverse in general does require a different way of thinking. More importantly, it requires advertising (or publicity, anyway). That is one big advantage corporate media will always have - ad money. But the Fediverse has us.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Using Boost on both it’s like I never left. Biggest differences are a bit less diversity here, duplicate communities from different instances, and the spoiler tags don’t work.

9point6 ,

It’s funny because the demographics here remind me very much of old 2010-era Reddit—very techy and/or progressive types making up 90% of discussion.

I think about 2014ish is about the point where Reddit peaked in quality, so we’re at least replaying from a good save state here. I fully anticipate lemmy will hit the same peak in a few years and hopefully continues on to surpass it

PrivateNoob ,

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/ea55774c-6273-47d9-ac20-b4771b11d93e.webp

Chee_Koala ,

The duplicate community across instances could really use a solution, maybe like a multimunity?

Quill7513 ,

There was some discussion about meta communities. You’d still need some curating because !news and !news really should be about completely different topics

Emperor ,
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We say registrations go from 1 or 2 a day to 14 (other instances saw similar upswings). Just on this news. If they do implement it we’ll see another Rexxit with similar big numbers.

AdamEatsAss ,

Mods are probably asking for paid subs. They would view it as an easy tool to prevent new spam accounts.

brucethemoose ,

Wouldn’t private subs solve that?

AdamEatsAss ,

Yes, but then no one makes any money

TheEighthDoctor ,

AI to summarize and recommend content, helping users dive deeper into products, shows, games

Notice they don’t talk about hobbies or common interests, just “shit we can sell them”

orclev ,

I’m sure in his wet dreams Reddit is no longer a community site but a thinly veiled astroturfing platform that’s paid billions by large corporations to get their adsposts in front of users.

4am ,

I mean there had been complaining for years that it was becoming just that; it’s just that they were trying to do it without anyone noticing and then all the tech bros got into a hold-my-beer contest

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