tldr - “Reddit teases features to make the platform even worse”
Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits
Submitted 2 months ago by shish_mish@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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breadsmasher@lemmy.world 2 months ago
tpihkal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel like I’ve read this one before.
saltesc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah, so the bad kind of teasing.
9point6@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh cool so we’re gonna get another wave of users joining lemmy, it’s nice that they keep fucking up at such a regular cadence
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I don’t think there’s really going to be some noticeable influx, but I hope so. Even though Lemmy isn’t nearly intuitive as it could be, but it did improve atleast by some degree.
Petter1@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Voyager is pretty intuitive and can be used without even joining a instance
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reddit isn’t really intuitive either. Most platforms have at least some learning curve. We have a great ecosystem of apps that help. I only wish a YouTuber would make a good explainer.
Here’s one for the Fediverse that I saw recently: youtu.be/QzYozbNneVc
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Using Boost on both it’s like I never left. Biggest differences are a bit less diversity here, duplicate communities from different instances, and the spoiler tags don’t work.
Emperor@feddit.uk 1 month ago
We say registrations go from 1 or 2 a day to 14 (other instances saw similar upswings). Just on this news. If they do implement it we’ll see another Rexxit with similar big numbers.
5redie8@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s gonna start getting a little old tbh
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Left Reddit over a year ago, haven’t been back once. It was surprisingly easy, and a year on, it’s getting easier for others too.
Streamwave@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I miss some of the more casual subreddits, and somehow Lemmy is even more of an echo chamber than Reddit is, but otherwise yeah, Lemmy is fine. Especially with the Photon frontend.
Asafum@feddit.nl 2 months ago
It makes sense, those that backed off Reddit were more than likely against Corpo greed while conservatives cheer it on. Lemmy was created by leftists supposedly and more left leaning people joined after leaving reddit so it’s no surprise. Reddit kept the bootlickers and the lazy, Lemmy gained the anti-greed political left.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lemmy is even more of an echo chamber than Reddit is,
Yeah I really miss the trumpers responding constantly to anything about him with absolute bullshit lies. That really added perspective to my worldview. Now, if we could only get some more people to join Lemmy who despise Linux /s
Katrisia@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I mean, it’s our fault as leftists that it is an echo chamber. We have forgotten how to talk about polemic issues among ourselves. I bet we lemmings have big differences (in the details) but we are afraid of bans or talking to walls, so…
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I left also, the API thing was the nudge I needed; I admit I’ve gone back for niche things: the fan groups of 2-3 bands and two TV shows. Reddit is their defacto fan forum for lots of things
Sabata11792@ani.social 2 months ago
I was desperately waiting for an alternative to show up years before even the API changes. Anything that came up got taken over by Nazis and died shortly after. Lemmy is the only one that manages to actually take off.
Waveform@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The worst part to me is the shadowbanning. It’s easy enough to tell if you’re shadowbanned (check subs or comment threads when signed out and in private mode to see if your stuff shows up), but you can’t see comments from other people who are shadowbanned. I want to see all points of view. And after the API changes, the sites for viewing removed or hidden comments stopped working :|
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hear hear Shadow banning has been out of control on that site for years
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I tried checking it out recently just for the amount of content. The site is unusable now. Don’t bother to comment anything beyond a useless lol comment or you’ll get banned for every little thing. The mods really went power mad over there
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AI to summarize and recommend content, helping users dive deeper into products, shows, games
Notice they don’t talk about hobbies or common interests, just “shit we can sell them”
orclev@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m sure in his wet dreams Reddit is no longer a community site but a thinly veiled astroturfing platform that’s paid billions by large corporations to get their
adsposts in front of users.SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, that’s de definition of enshitification.
- Make a platform that becomes popular
- Lock in users and start to milk them
- Use large user base to draw in companies with ads and influence
- Lock in companies and squeeze them for all their worth
4am@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I mean there had been complaining for years that it was becoming just that; it’s just that they were trying to do it without anyone noticing and then all the tech bros got into a hold-my-beer contest
nutsack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
what a goddamn shithole. the darkest thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it. it’s where the most users and content are.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it
That’s what many social media companies have said, lol.
But the sad thing is many communities will (and already have) move to Discord. Which is even worse, as Discord is a siloed information black hole.
restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I still don’t know how that works. Discord seems like the worst possible substitute for reddit. It doesn’t work at all the same way and search sucks.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah as soon as I am directed to discord for anything , I move on with something else in life instead.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Discord is such a piece of fucking shit
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I’m getting closed to hosting an XMPP server and getting the fuck off discord. They can rot in hell
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The future?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The present, but also the future, too.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cool, I’ve heard that people love paying for access to their own content that used to be free.
This is a good time for anyone still on the site to share some Lemmy links.
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No please. The Redditors that stayed are insane,I don’t want them in here
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reddit has that effect. I admit I was a little unhinged when I came here, but either people calm down and start acting like real human beings, or else they realize they can’t have their fun being trolls and they leave. It’s a funny thing that happens when an entire platform is centered around people, not profit. Bots and ragebait are great for stonks - they drive “engagement” and inflate MAU - so they are pervasive on every platform with shareholders.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh dear Lord. Please don’t. This is still a nice place.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fucking exactly. It’s regular users that turn everything to shit, or allow it to happen at least.
Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Right, the few good posters left aren’t worth the flood of the others. Remember the first bit of Facebook, when you had to have an invite or a college email? Wasn’t so bad, then they opened the flood gate and continued making poor decisions and today it’s a wonder that anyone uses it, but if you sign on you’ll see not much but political memes being shared making laughably false claims.
maniel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
haha, lol, paid subreddits:D
Dan68@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And I bet the mods won’t see a nickel of that revenue.
wabafee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh they will it’s called exposure. Exposure from the radiation emitted from their monitor.
Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If they made money, their only joy in life wouldn’t be mindless, power-trip bannings.
itsathursday@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can’t wait to pay for the privilege of visiting /r/sinkpissers
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Fuck Spez!
MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Fuck Spez!
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Steve Huffman is a whiny little piss baby
db2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
While I do miss the subs with thousands, and the very obscure subs for my specific interest, this shit makes me glad I got out
Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
What makes me sad is how a lot of niche communities moved from websites to Reddit, and now they are going to die.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t worry, won’t be long for thousands join Lemmy when Reddit tries the Musk way of running a company into the ground :)
index@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Don’t post reddit ads on lemmy thanks.
Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Honestly, I think it’s pretty hard to call this an ad lol
index@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“Lemmy CEO teases users with cookies and free subs” would be removed from reddit in 1 second
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I haven’t looked back since they killed Apollo, the only headline I want to see is bankruptcy
db2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And the CEO in prison for insider trading.
ticklesyourinsides@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I miss apollo. It was so good and the reddit app is so shit!
grahamja@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Fixing reddit search? Just insert a 2021 google search bar on old.reddit. I just saved you millions you dingus. Thank goodness Aaron Swartz doesn’t have to see what happened to his joint venture.
TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Remember when they tried to pretend he was not really involved? And then the time the removed his name? Insert pepperage farm meme graphic.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
they’re definitely going to finally kill old reddit arent they
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Schrodinger’s old. for me, I haven’t had a reason to check if it still exists, and will never see for myself that it does/has been killed.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Once they killed .compact I was done.
Lizardking27@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wow all 8 of their non-bot users will surely be very disappointed.
vikinghoarder@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Setting up the stage for a OnlyFans lookalike for all those wild reddit females
mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Frankly that’s about the only plausible customer base I could see for that.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s not what they are going to advertise it as, lol.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Females? That’s so chauvinist. They prefer to be called M’ladys
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fuck Spez
UsernameNotFound@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Fuck reddit, I got banned from Worldnews for asking when Ukraine would attack other targets. I was banned for “call for violence” it was a lost about the war. So stupid
Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pretty sure worldnews is modded by the same people as r/Zion. It’s so easy to get banned from there - just call a genocide a genocide
Crikeste@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I got banned for suggesting a man who violently pushed a woman off a bike should be pushed himself. Lmao “advocating for violence”
Fuckin’ spineless idiots
Veneroso@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, glad I jumped ship after the api fee fiasco. I never even used the mobile app, but the tone deaf/elonification, I was done. That’s right he got the great idea from Musk. How’s that IPO working out?
db2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He doesn’t care. His goal is to extract money, period. He’s incredibly jealous of his former colleagues who cashed out for millions. He’s a greedy little pigboy.
Hubi@feddit.org 2 months ago
This is a good thing for the Fediverse.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 2 months ago
good luck with that
MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Some players in the ecosystem have not been transparent with their use of Reddit’s content, and in those instances, we block access to protect Reddit content and user privacy.
Aka “Fuck you, pay me”, at least Reddit is transparent that data is for sale and they think they own it.
ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place 2 months ago
Twitter made a great job with the paid blue check. It’s so much easier now to detect an idiot just by looking if they have a paid blue check. In Reddit it will be the same. If someone joins a paid sub, you can already say they are an idiot.
cheddar@programming.dev 2 months ago
Why do you think these people are idiots? I believe Twitter promotes content posted by paid users. Last time I was on Twitter (about a year ago), they were planing to exclude regular users from the “smart” feed. Plus, people could write longer posts instead of threads. Unlike with reddit gold, I see real benefits for content creators.
TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Reddit CEO teases new ways to damage and eventually kill Reddit”
Zip2@feddit.uk 2 months ago
“Tease” doing a lot of heavy lifting there. It’s only a tease if it’s something people actually want.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a tease for shareholders desperate for more and more elaborate ways to squeeze a few more cents per user
eran_morad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cool, fuck off and die.
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reddit has become unusable. I had an account there for 7 years and no problem. I tried checking out Reddit again this year and I got permanently banned within a day. You can’t say anything there anymore cause you’ll inevitably piss off a power hungry mod who will ban you for nothing. There’s no longer discussion to be had there.
I made a comment on the Gladiator 2 trailer, asking why Danzel is playing Micrinus, who was North African but of Roman blood and born in North Africa as a provincial. And pointed out how it’s similar to that Cleopatra documentary inaccurately thinking that all people born in Africa, even Egypt and North Africa were black.
I was banned for “racist commentary and bigotry”
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Who tf still uses Reddit? It’s all bots and power tripping mods nowadays. Lemmy is a million times better imo.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Look, Reddit search is already a shit show. Them overhauling it whatever way can’t possibly make it much worse anyway.
Paid subreddits though. I didn’t know we were already in April.
Asafum@feddit.nl 2 months ago
That’s an interesting way of writing “Reddit CEO proves there’s no such thing as enough when you suffer from dragon syndrome.”
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
LOL paid subreddits. ok, yea–let me PAY YOU for the privilege of providing content FOR YOU. LOL
get fucked. reddit is a toxic rotting husk of what it used to be. good riddance
FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wasn’t that whole the concept behind that reddit gold exclusive subreddit? I’ve never been on there but I heard it was pretty barren anyway.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
i’ve been in there, and yea…how many posts about “yay we have gold and we have a subreddit only for us because we’re special” does it take before you start to think “this is about the most pointless thing ever…”
Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was gifted gold once. The subreddit was mostly Austin Powers Goldmember memes at the time.
Teal@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The Lounge is where you were given access. That subreddit was ok on its own but really it was a good place to hang out, be friendly and helpful which sometimes resulted in being invited to other private sections of Reddit.
Some of those private subs have a true sense of community who are truly kind, respect each other and fun to interact with. Before the awards went away there were many games with prizes and multi-day parties with lots of engagement and fun. Not anything like the regular Reddit.
Those places still exist but activity has declined since most third party apps and the awards/coin system were taken away. That decision not only damaged the public Reddit subs but also the private ones.
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It was.