what a goddamn shithole. the dark 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. so many communities were completely erased during the mod strike and it didn’t matter. they knew they would be completely fine. the future is an authoritarian world effectively governed by companies like this.
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.
Yeah as soon as I am directed to discord for anything , I move on with something else in life instead.
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.
Yah, I don’t get this. So I log into Discord to ask a question, and the only people that will see it are the ones that are currently on at the time. The likelihood of it being seen by the person that can answer it are low, and it’s not like it’s going to be visible for when that person logs back in. This is all besides the fact that I could probably have answered it myself with a search of old questions on some platform that can be indexed. It’s utterly bizarre.
If you’re running a FOSS project or a community that needs support, you have rocks in your goddamn head if you think Discord is how to do it.
The one thing Discord is good at is engagement, aka pinging people on their phones, repeating conversations that have been answered a million times, getting people drawn into rambling discussions…
Yeah it’s kind of a nightmare lol.
Exactly instead of a bunch of publicly searchable information silos we have a whole bunch of fragmented private ones with absolutely no overlap and far less useful. We need a publicly funded site of some kind.
They’re not private. Advertisers have full access and that’s what actually matters.
It’s the most popular alternative, simple as that. There’s (sadly) no where else obvious the average community knows to go.
Discord is such a piece of fucking shit
I’m getting closed to hosting an XMPP server and getting the fuck off discord. They can rot in hell
The future?
The present, but also the future, too.
Don’t forget the past
Last time I’ve been using search on Reddit (ages ago) normal search already produced shitty, useless results. And now he wants to make it even worse by throwing in AI?
they’re definitely going to finally kill old reddit arent they
Once they killed .compact I was done.
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.
tldr - “Reddit teases features to make the platform even worse”
Ah, so the bad kind of teasing.
I feel like I’ve read this one before.
Thanks, I hate it
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.
Oh dear Lord. Please don’t. This is still a nice place.
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.
Fucking exactly. It’s regular users that turn everything to shit, or allow it to happen at least.
Very sad but very true
No please. The Redditors that stayed are insane,I don’t want them in here
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.
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
Don’t worry, won’t be long for thousands join Lemmy when Reddit tries the Musk way of running a company into the ground :)
What makes me sad is how a lot of niche communities moved from websites to Reddit, and now they are going to die.
Do you think they will move to lemmy?
No. Most of those communities are dwindling away. The guitar forums on Reddit are all AI shit repost bots. Luckily there are a few good YouTube channels to still get information, but there is no discussion.
Redditor staged a coup and overthrew the CEO once before, why isn’t it happening again?
I first read that as ceo nonce. Which makes sense.
Because Ellen Pao (the unpopular CEO who was ousted) was set up as the fall guy. Her entire purpose was to be at the helm while Reddit implemented (at the time) unpopular measures that angered the “free speech absolutists”. Once that was done, she was cast aside so the anointed pigboy they have today could claim his promised seat on the throne and not have to walk back anything.
Because it was Russia overthrowing the CEO to install Spez.
Wow all 8 of their non-bot users will surely be very disappointed.
To go along with your shitty AI written articles!
That’s an interesting way of writing “Reddit CEO proves there’s no such thing as enough when you suffer from dragon syndrome.”
I think he already got pay-to-search and AI-infiltrated subreddits.
He’s just trying new combos.
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.
Remember when they tried to pretend he was not really involved? And then the time the removed his name? Insert pepperage farm meme graphic.
Can’t wait to pay for the privilege of visiting /r/sinkpissers
I know the average person usually doesn’t care, but surely most of the population of reddit must have realized how shit it is by now.
