• @[email protected]
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    Reddit has benefited from Google search updates and internal site improvements that have helped it gain a significant amount of new and returning users, which the social company refers to as logged-out users, over the past year and a half. Reddit has said it is working to convince logged-out users to create accounts as logged-in users, which are more lucrative for its business.

    Expect to see more login paywall bullshit from Reddit.

    • @[email protected]
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      893 months ago

      The best way to increase the usage base of a social media site is to block people from accessing it. Everybody knows that.

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          203 months ago

          I was “suspended” (by the admins, from the whole site – not just banned by mods from a particular subreddit) because I accurately reported misinformation in r/conservative and the snowflake mods whined that it was “report abuse.”

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            lol, I was making fake Gmail and Reddit accounts just to mess with people in r/Conservative lol…good times,.

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            Once you understand how reddit admins are basically mods themselves it kind of makes sense. The company has hired lots of power mods over the years that don’t “respect the human”. And the forces that be want to continue profiting from volunteer mods’ free labor. It says a lot more about the individual reddit admins that they make the lazy decisions they do.

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          I suggested Ukraine started attacking back at Russian civil infrastructure after Russia attacked a shopping mall.

          Spez did not like that one bit, since he’s a Russia supporter.

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          I was also perma banned because I did the same during Trump’s 1st term talking shit about the spray tanned orange turd, as well as cursing too much.

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          I commented on a sub with an alt that I was banned from without knowing, it was public freakout on the front page, I went through all the stages of grief, left an abusive relationship that took all my time

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          I was site banned for saying anti-zionism is not the same as anti-semitism. The mod called me an antisemite and a nazi.

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          I was permabanned because I made fun of anime on a non anime board and it was reported as “bullying and harassment “.

          Fuck your Chinese cartoons.

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      They been putting them up for years now.

      fedi4life

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        Right now the only reason I have t ovisit is ‘wearing powered armor to a magic school’

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      -13% after hours on one day is huge. Many stock markets having emergency stops if the main index drops by 10% in a day.

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        NVIDIA’s stock tanked a month ago, and it’s already back up. Nothing really changes. There’s no such thing as a “plunge” in the stock market, unless a business is truly going bankrupt.

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    In other news, Lemmy stock mooned infinity% from 0.00 to 0.00 plus beans.

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    Reddit has said it is working to convince logged-out users to create accounts as logged-in users, which are more lucrative for its business.

    By “convince,” they mean:

    • Popup to automatically sign in with Google
    • A button right under where you close that popup that shows a QR code to install the app
    • Bottom bar on mobile telling you to make an account
    • Clicking an upvote or downvote button instantly sending you to the account signup page, even if clicked by accident
    • Full-screen popup only on mobile to download the app if you’re accessing anything NSFW (includes posts that simply have too much vulgar language, and are considered “NSFW” in that community, as well as any account page for an account that has ever made an NSFW post)

    Yes, very convincing, heavily coercive even!

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      I love when I’m troubleshooting something, click on a record link from like 2018, and get a modal encouraging me to “join this trending conversation!”

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      old.reddit still works… And it’s still a far superior experience to the shit they churned after.

      • ArchRecord
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        Yep, that’s what I have to use any time I need to look at a Reddit thread. Although the “fuck spez” comments that people replaced their old comments with definitely make the experience worse… as intended. Good for them.

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          It would have been more fun if they pointed out that old.reddit is better, and also a link to RES lol

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      Cant open any unverified communities, which is very arbitrary, any small community now requires the app

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        That’s part of the enshittification rug pull, they take over as the hub of forums for most of the internet and then gatekeep as a power play.

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          How useful is a forum if it doesn’t let outsiders comment or post, every useful forum has no limitation like that, I was posting one day into having a lowendtalk account, extremely helpful, was I supposed to lurk for a year before I could get help lol

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      So glad I got banned from that site (Not for anything wrong, I just pissed off the wrong power hungry mods which resulted in a site wide ban.)

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    No, user numbers are not down because of a Google change. User numbers are down because they went ban crazy during the election and Luigi stuff.

    If you ban people who produce your content, your site quality & engagement declines. It’s not rocket science.

    Btw, they’re definitely reversing some of these bans to try to pull people back, and inflate the number of “returning” users. They permabanned two of my accounts for wrongthink during the election, and they’ve already reversed one with no prompting from me at all, after denying appeals months ago.

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      I got an account strike the other day and a post removed “by Reddit” according to the message for saying something to the effect of “protests without a threat of violence behind it doesn’t mean much to those in power these days” on a thread about some ongoing protests.

      Something about a site rule violation for advocating for and/or calling for violence.

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        My accounts were permabanned because Trump said Liz Cheney deserved to be shot, and I said I didn’t care because she’s called for the deaths of millions of people overseas. Banned for “advocating violence,” simply because I didn’t clutch my pearls that a warmonger was threatened.

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        I think threats of violence actively detract from the value of protests, its kind of achieving the opposite of its goal when you promote yourself as the enemy of the people you’re asking to change.

        That’s why Fox News displays every protest as a riot, to lessen their effectiveness and to mobilize opposition.

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          You’re probably right, must be time to be done with mere “protests”… How do threats of violence affect revolutions?

          Hopefully soon we’re done asking the enemies of the people to play nice

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            You should take a gander at how revolutions affect governments.

            (90% chance everything gets worse for at least a century)

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      At this point, I check every comment I leave on the platform in an incognito window. A good half of them get shadowremoved for no reason. How do they not get that new users are going to leave if nobody reads, votes on, or replies to their comments?

      I’ve had like 5 comments shadowremoved from the conservative subreddit because I guess the large oceanographic feature south of the United States gets caught in their word filter, and they hate the Constitution

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        That’s the thing about corporate America. As soon as you go public, the only thing that matters is the next quarter. The long term health of the company isn’t even on the radar.

        They don’t care if people eventually leave, so long as they stick around long enough to attract advertisers for this quarter.

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      they are still ban crazy since last week. i and many people had several accs sitewide banned

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        Yeah, my alt account was re-banned after I posted this comment. I guess they unbanned a bunch before the earnings call to boost their numbers? Dunno.

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          seems like they are on the verge of selling reddit off, since they have been banning since NOV, in large waves(3 according to some people). i was in a forum where the people that use of had 10-50+ all gone at once.

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      A lot of that shit in the media right now. Story today on NPR about how car sales slumped in January and they blamed it on the weather, and while the weather might be a component of a slump i think theirs a lot of people out there nervous about the economy and taking a wait and see attitude, and that contributed more to slumping car sales than the weather.

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        NPR has always been capitalist propaganda. They’re happy to be a mouth piece for empire propaganda, including gaslighting people into ignoring their own economic struggles.

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      Honestly in my opinion, the minority of people worshipping Luigi aren’t much different from MAGA cultists.

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        Luckily people with deranged opinions like yours will always have reddit and x to call home.

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            I simply pointed out that siding with the most evil industry on earth, and a rightfully killed CEO who himself killed tens of thousands of people directly due to his actions placed you squarely on the side of corporate bots, cryptobros, billionaires, and people who think they’re capitalists but really just worship them.

            Some of that is maga, most of that is worse.

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        You clearly are not one of the millions of people who have suffered at the hands of this industry, or watched a relative battle insurance goons as they decay.

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          Oh I’m completely 100% against for profit healthcare coverage, I think it should be socialized immediately, but where I differ from Luigi Cultists is I realize the path to get there is legislative in nature. Luigi threw his life and his rich boy education away to accomplish absolutely nothing.

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            It is absolutely wild to see neoliberals cling so fiercely to the belief that all of this can all be resolved through enough dedication to process & procedure. To see this dedication endure, even as they watch a fascist coup unfold in front of their eyes.

            It really seems like a mental illness at this point.

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              It is absolutely wild to see people actively oppose liberalism, and at the same time complain about “us authoritarianism”.

              Exactly what I expect from known Tankie scum surph_ninja

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    Jfc that thumbnail of Huffman’s face triggered me. How did he manage to make his face look MORE punchable??

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      With the power of ai they managed to create the most punchable face ever. So he only had to follow the blueprint laid out for him.

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    It’s almost like communication platforms shouldn’t have profitability as their main goal… maybe they could be… distributed… like some sort of… federation. Yeah. That’s it. Then everyone would follow along like… lemmings or something

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    Holy hell how much plastic did Huffman invest to look like a dollar general bond villain.

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      Dollar General‽ Please. Don’t insult DG like that, dude looks no better than Dollar Tree grade

      (For non-Americans, Dollar General is a “discount” store chain, largely found in “food deserts”. Dollar Tree is a bonafide dollar store where everything (was anyways) just a dollar. Yes, the quality is about as crap as you’d expect (though sometimes they did sell good stuff if they were able to acquire it cheap enough))

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    The stock’s valuation makes no sense at all. A market cap of 38 billion on no revenue and declining growth?

    Get fucked, Spez.

    • Billiam
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      Oh boy, wait til you see Tesla!

      As the saying goes, “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”

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    “It primarily affects logged-out users in the U.S.,” he said. “This one was particularly interesting because there really was a swing down, but then a recovery shortly thereafter happened right at the end of the quarter.”

    Show me the graph, spez. Pics or it didn’t happen!