Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO

• mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My reddit account is 15 years old. I removed myself as a mod from the communities I took care of before signing out.

  If they want to shit on the mods, they can handle the job themselves.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was transitioning out, but it just felt disgusting to even open the site so I stopped doing it. I probably have a bunch of unread messages because of that.

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  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As 10+ year vet, I still go back for certain things. Mostly communities that have not been recreated here yet in any meaningful sense, and there are a lot of those. There are people here, yes, but the niches, the non-general topics, are lacking a true community. That will come with time, but I still can’t substitute Lemmy for reddit 100% yet, much as I might want to. Unless I only want to talk technology, news, and politics all day.

    But I will say Boost for Lemmy has taken the spot RIF once had on my mobile home screen. Lemmy is what I open reflexively now. I only go back to reddit when I need to see something specific, I’m not browsing there. Partially because it’s very, very tedious to navigate old.reddit on mobile, but partially because I just don’t want to spend too much time there anymore.

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  • psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I had a reply to a four year ago comment I made. Up until that moment I had thought everything was archived.

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• laverabe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  same here, since 2008. Pretty much every user of the site was on the same standard default subreddits. I don’t like what Reddit has become but I don’t blame them like a lot of people here.

  Honestly they were a corporation from the get-go, out to make money once it became popular. They built something no one else did.

  But going forward, the little reddit escapade from their corporate suite shows that freedom of speech can only thrive when there is no driving profit motive.

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  • prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They weren’t a corporation from the get-go though? They were a Y-Combonator project that became successful, and were eventually bought by Conde Nast.

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    • laverabe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think profit was always the end goal, except for Aaron Swartz. They might not have been incorporated but the intent always seemed like profit.

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• CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Same except I was at about 10 years. I don’t even find it useful to include “reddit” in my Google searches as many communities are locked down unless you sign in to an account. Can’t say I feel too bad for them.

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I didn’t return either… to be fair, it’s because I was one of the ones who got a bullshit permaban

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