Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“With Dynamic Product Ads, brands can tap into the rich, high-intent product conversations that people come to Reddit for," Reddit EVP of Business Marketing and Growth Jim Squires said in a statement.
Gross.
rich, high-intent product conversations
these people make me so fucking sick i cannot
i cannot believe this site i spent so many sad years posting on in high school, with pure heart, posting purely out of a desire for interesting interactions and the potential to make insightful, peer-reviewed contributions that others could enjoy, has turned into such fucking dead-eyed garbage.
It makes me so mad…it’s like a company butting into a conversation me and a friend are having in person.
“how do we turn our users into money”
What research is telling them that? Where was the survey? These people are making shit up.
I remember seeing threads like “What was the best purchase that you made for under 100” or some variation every once in a while. I’m sure those got corpo eyes real interested if they weren’t advertising in them already.
also remember the ineeeedit sub? they initially nuked it due to companies using it to secretly sell products then reddit realized they themselves can do it.
See Also: r/thisiswhyimbroke
Oh look, another what “bought for life” thread.
So they started by making polls and surveys not obvious? That makes sense. If people know that a survey is a survey, especially on a site like Reddit, the users will tell each other and attempt to fuck with the results
Yeah, that’s marketing for you.
Based on that quote, AI might have already taken over the leadership also
Ew.
Full of corporate speak BS
Yes, because Malware, Amarican spit, Caremel and insert company name here are all having an intense beutiful pipedream fetishistic relationship with the nice folks at r/darksidesmokingfetish (NSFL)
this is sarcasm not libel!
AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Jfc people came to Reddit because up until now they were getting replies from real people with that have no financial interest in the outcome. This completely subverts everything people valued about Reddit. This fucking guy.
Tacos_y_margaritas@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
If people who are still on Reddit don’t leave over this, I don’t know what will make them leave.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Nothing. Social media (and social-ish media like Reddit) have a strong, strong hold on people. Facebook is still an incredibly popular site. People don’t abandon social media sites until they literally have to, like in the instance of MySpace, vine. A company definitely contributes to that by tanking their own UI and making people leave, which in turn causes a downward spiral of the company grabbing on harder to the dwindling user base, trying to monetize them harder and harder, until they company itself bottoms out and shuts down the servers.
Those of us that left Reddit willingly when we were tired of being used by them are in the very small minority. They lost, what, like 1-2% of their user base when nearly every single comment in any thread about the API debacle that said, “this is the last straw, I’m leaving and deleting my comment was getting massive amounts of support? People on the internet talk a big game, but ultimately are desperately addicted to their routines.
This is all by design, of course. We’re conditioned to open their apps and sites by reflex when we turn on the phone or computer. It fuckin works. But dammit if it doesn’t feel good breaking that spell. But it’s super disappointing others are willing to take every slap to the face and simply say “thank you sir may I have another.”
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Image
nytrixus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Lot of truth to this.
Facebook users know very well that Mark has spent the last 10 years, bastardizing Facebook in every way he can. It’s not a good place for security. He doesn’t give a shit about your privacy. He no longers rely on actual people to help step in and resolve on-site problems, rather rely on a stupid hub system and he’s high on his stupid metaverse shit.
Yet, billions are still there.
Reddit, same way. The worst part about Reddit and even Twitter users is the mental gymnastics they’re willing to go through, to justify and rationalize why they’re staying.
someacnt_@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s so interesting, how so many people did not leave? Well I guess many prolific posters have left but
slaacaa@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, but by completely destroying that they can make the line go up for 2 quarters, so worth it. Also, corpos would actually prefer users not having access to these discussion soaces and the free information they provide, so you would have to rely on overSEOd shit content and ads. I hate what the internet has become
AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They think that the entire reason the Internet exists is to sell things. To make you want to buy things. And if you tell them it’s not, they laugh.
AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
All true, and I hate it too