I guess reddit was feeding me all those ads out of the kindness of their hearts and took no money for hosting them. “Altruistic”, lol.
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tiramichu@lemm.ee 6 months ago
There’s nothing ‘altruistic’ about reddit
Vanth@reddthat.com 6 months ago
AutomaticUpdates@monero.town 6 months ago
The altruistic, free version of Reddit is Lemmy.
Telorand@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Free*
*Except for very real server costs.
AutomaticUpdates@monero.town 6 months ago
Free*
*as in Freedom, but you’re absolutely right
Telorand@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Not saying you meant it that way, but people often forget that the Fediverse costs money to run; unlike companies like Reddit, though, the admins are usually not trying to also turn a profit at the same time.
merc@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
The users used to be altruistic, helping other people just because they wanted to be friendly. Because the site used to feel like a real community. But, now that the site is so clearly for-profit I think a lot of users are going to be much less helpful to strangers.
It’s hard to quit the site because it gets so much traffic, which means so much stuff gets posted there. On the other hand, I think the high-quality comments from someone trying to help out are less common.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If anything, they’re the ones benefiting from altruistic users giving them free labor to profit off of.
pleasejustdie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Pretty much, when they removed search engines who wouldn’t pay them was the final straw and I went back to reddit 1 last time and replaced all my 26,000 karma worth of comments with “Comment removed in protest of Reddit blocking search engines.” Took me a while, but meh, if they want to hasten its enshitification, I don’t mind doing my part.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Some users have actually reported Reddit going back and restoring those very comments.
pleasejustdie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
yeah, I had heard of that, I’m hoping that since it was a while ago and most of them were the ones done by automated systems and not going through it comment by comment editing them, but I’ll keep at it, if I have to sneak one edit through a day or something.
Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 6 months ago
Can confirm. At least, mass deleting via api no longer worked last I tried.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
They have an edit history for every piece of content on the site. All you’ve done is post a giant flagpole on all your content stating “this account was previously owned by a real live human” and increased the value of those comments for AI scraping. Unfortunately your protest has done nothing but help them.
The best way to stick it to reddit these days is to not interact with it at all. Don’t add to their data store, don’t give them traffic, don’t click on them in search results. Don’t protest-edit your content because you’re just helping them separate wheat from chaff.
Gigasser@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Might help just to subtly edit your comment in a way that make any advice or content you’ve given shittier. Like if you have some sort of tech support comment, just edit it in a way so that the piece of tech support you’ve offered is some standard answer for the problem that doesn’t fix anything. And while you’re at it, move the comment which offers the fix or piece of advice to Lemmy.
btaf45@lemmy.world 6 months ago
How about just replace some of your content with this stuff from time to time.
loremipsum.io
Fapper_McFapper@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I did the same thing except I deleted all of my comments instead of replacing them. Not only did Reddit undo my deletion they locked me out of my account and no matter what I tried to do I was never able to gain ownership of the account again. Then they sent me letters asking me to buy into their shitty IPO. Fuck Reddit and a very special fuck you to spez.
EnderMB@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Spare a thought for those that have bought Reddit Gold over the years, only to then discover just how much the CEO was paid, up against how much Reddit actually makes as a platform.
It’s not just free labour. They’re literally paying him.