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"I wonder what we did to drive away engagement."
I don't think you can count on that level of introspection.
They have screwed it up so bad I literally find myself on Facebook more often then Reddit and that's after being gone from Facebook for like 20 years lmao
I'm on Facebook as often per year as I am on Reddit these days. Hint: you can count it on one hand. F— both of those sites.
It’s all bots and influence ops over there anymore
Let’s mods indiscriminately block users for arbitrary reasons; why do we keep losing users??
"please install our app to continue"
I don't browse Reddit since I switched entirely to Lemmy the day the API migration happened, but I did still reluctantly have to reference reddit on occasion. Now I can't even do that for niche issues I run into. I am so upset that millions of people donated their time and energy into making Reddit the place it was just to have all of that entirely gated off. I know we're likely all in the same boat, but there really are no words for what spez did. He ruined a really great place for community and knowledge and turned it into a slop fest.
I learned that lesson with experts-exchange even before stack overflow. All sites will be bought out and enshittified.
but there really are no words for what spez did.
Profited. That's the word.
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There were so many fun reddit moments that the community got behind and some not so great like the Boston Marathon bombing.
But the Snapining was one of my favorite events reddit did for infinity war
It's easy to see the effects of users moving to the fediverse. Reddit has been sad since it nerfed /r/All. In fact, it seems like a thinly veiled attempt to control what its users see under the guise of providing a more tailored user experience. For me, the overall effect is that it's homogeneous, boring and I don't want to be there anymore.
The cat fuckers getting what he deserves.
what
I assume this is some reddit meme that came up after I left 3 years ago
Good.
CEO Steve Huffman said, "These deals aren't binary. They have to make sense for Reddit, but there are many ways, I think, for the value to return to Reddit."
lol - “The value has left Reddit”
-/u/spez
Who could imagine when you piss off:
- third party devs who make the apps your best contributers use
- your unpaid content creators
- your unpaid moderators
…that the “value” would leave 🤣
I actually got an award as being in the top 1% of reddit karma earners for 2022.
In 2023 they banned me because I didn't buy stock when it was being introduced.
You'd think they'd want me there. Creating content. For free. I'm sure they thought I'd just create a new account. Nope. I just came here.
Weird thing is, I've had two main running jokes for years. One is being obsessed with corn. The other is calling George Clooney a smug bastard.
George Clooney really is a smug bastard.
I was also invited to participate in the IPO (in 2024) due to my “top tier” karma.
Didn’t get a ban for not participating but wouldn’t have given a shit if I did.
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Reddit never was the same after the whole API/Mod fiasco. Many subreddits simpy died. Old users that made the site what it is left and there were new ones, but the whole vibe shifted.
Yep, it was the API thing that finally did it for me, but looking back, I should have seen it coming after all of the other stuff.
Remember when YouTube started having AI narrated posts from r/askreddit in its shorts? And how that slowly morphed into the AI generated slop stories about how one family member give the rest of them their comeuppance because the Henderson account valued results instead of random cheap business practices involving Sgt Menendez and his cheating ex girlfriend?
(This stuff is like candy to Boomers because it mirrors the reader write in sections of Reader's Digest.)
I should have noticed this earlier, but it dawned on me a few weeks back.
For me it was the way they treated the Apollo developer Christian Selig leading up to the whole API thing. Absolutely heinous.
Third party apps made Reddit a dream on mobile, a big part of its success were the passionate people. And they showed us all the middle finger
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aw shucks
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I'm almost glad Reddit permbanned me two months ago. It's a shame Anonymous hasn't tried to DDoS u/Spez. Reddit needs the Ol' Yeller treatment.
It's fucking laughable "us daily users metric dissapoints". What the fuck do they expect when they ban their long time users permanently with no appeal process, make it so you can only view the site through the app censor any revolt and start bringing on nazis.
It's literally the antithesis of how and why reddit became so popular in the first place.
It is genuinely impressive how unusable Reddit has gotten in the last 6 months, especially. Login walls, no All, Best instead of Hot default sorting, constant popups to use the app (RIP RIF, you were the best), obvious AI posts everywhere. Really speedrunning the Digg experience.
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