Submitted 1 year ago by airdi1@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
Since when do brands want to be known on Reddit? Isn’t the entire point to make a bunch of fake accounts and post positive comments about said brand, to make them look good?
HEY REDDIT, WHAT’S A BRAND YOU’LL BUY FOR LIFE!?
Queue the thousands of totally not brand accounts posting why said product is so perfect and you’ll never buy any other brand again!
But now the verified account can be like: ooo wow, we are totally humbled by the love for our product thank you so much you guys!!
Then that will get screenshottef and posted on r/wholesome r/wholesomememes and r/mademesmile then make the rounds there forever.
For guerrilla marketing techniques sure
But for official advertisements I imagine they would want to do them on a verified account.
Like that disgusting “Samsung AMA” which was just a campaign for their S20-something. They deleted any question that wasn’t basically, “what’s so cool about [this feature] on the S20-something that I’m planning to get?”
Have on official account to post announcements then bots to upvote it.
They would of course keep their astroturfing accounts unmarked, of course. But they might want a corporate mountpiece account. Like they have on twitter.
Reddit doesn’t seem to understand what their platform is for. If people are adding “reddit” to the end of google searches, it shows that they want brands to talk less, and real people to talk more.
no no no, they don't want you to use google. They want you to use Reddit search instead, because it's so awesome!
They put the same amount of time, effort, research, and engineering into Reddit search that they put into the official Reddit app!
This will just make them be down voted to oblivion by default… See EA
Coming soon to reddit patch notes.
That’s great news, I’m really digging the slow downfall.
It really feels like they presented a road map at the beginning of the year and are sticking to it no matter what, neither looking at their own user base nor what is happening in the world of big social media right now.
It’s almost impressive.
I wish I had their resolution and obliviousness… I just have inertia and anxiety…
The only way I can believe Reddit is this stupid is if investors are holding a gun to their head and demand profitability.
If they weren’t before, they would be after an IPO.
:/
Silence, brand.
adam@fedi.alc.im 1 year ago
Spez really is going full Elon!
gosling@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wonder how it’ll work on sites like Reddit. Imagine paying for verification only to get downvoted and "silence brand"ed by people
FlippyOne@kbin.social 1 year ago
The next step will be preventing downvotes on branded accounts
Chriszz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s actually so cringe how he looks up to Elon and copies him as if he’s a role model businessman. Just pathetic.
edythecullen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can’t wait until he renames Reddit to W.