Yeah why is the question never “how can we make peoples lives better?” its always “?whats the profit margin”
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ErinCrush@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I mean why buy shares of reddit? What is it doing? It’s alienating users.
Literally every single change reddit has done in the past few years has angered the user base, and the bot accounts increase day by day. Go to any niche subreddit, like one for a movie series, show, video game, etc. You will see a ton of “what’s your opinion of X or Y?” And it’s always such a weird choice of words, and it’s clearly just a bot farming engagement to inflate numbers to shareholders.
I still use reddit, but I never post or comment. I strictly do that on one of my Lemmy accounts. And every few months, something will happen to make the experience worse. Like now, the frontpage “hot” sorting is broken. Just a bunch of zero up vote posts on weird subreddits I forgot I was subscribed to. Now I can’t really get the news like I used to on reddit. It’s broken, and there is tall that it’s a result of Elon meeting with spez to talk about moderating the surge of Elon/Teslur hate.
Fuck reddit, more niche communities need to come over here, because I’m so tired of having to go through reddit to fine things I’m interested in.
Quadhammer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It was going downhill since they got rid of the woman who was running AMA
itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yeah remember that being an inflection point where I stopped being excited about updates and started dreading them.