Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows.
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It was going downhill since they got rid of the woman who was running AMA
Yeah remember that being an inflection point where I stopped being excited about updates and started dreading them.
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Seems like putting your efforts behind censoring and banning your user base while simultaneously trying to give a pass to a facist oligarchy is a bad idea. That's the thing about oligarchy, it's a small club and if you weren't already in it, you're not going to be any time soon. Facebook and Xitter don't want to share the money from ads and adversarial state\private actors
This is basically it. It is just harder to run a fascist oligarchy these days. People are way too connected and are sympathetic to other people from other countries. The propaganda can only go so far.
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MySpace will make a comeback.
It currently belongs to Viant Technology LLC, an advertising company that's deeply invested into the AI bubble. Perhaps they'll sell it off after the crash but honestly, MySpace's downfall and sellout is kind of what's wrong with Internet culture anyway so I don't see any benefit in a restart. I'd rather see a complete reset.
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The gloomy sentiment around Reddit Inc. has failed to dissipate after its shares fell 50% from a February high, with volatile technology stocks under pressure.
Good. As shitty as they've been and as hostile as they've become to their own users, I'd live little more than watching the entire damned things crash and burn. More (but still not very) likely though is them desperately selling off before it completely self destructs. Of course if they do sell it, whoever they sell to will likely either make things worse or just shutter it. Most likely they'll stay the course and continue hemorrhaging usefulness and thus popularity.
Any way you read the cards Reddit is in a tailspin that they seem unwilling to do what is necessary to pull out of. Which is to say, they're too stubbornly idiotic to reverse their stupid, stupid changes and make a more open, user friendly, and community friendly platform. And I don't see Spez being that smart.
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I got banned in 2022 for hate speech against Cops. Ive been lurking with libreddit.
If you like rap, or well, even if you don't, listen to Death of a Constable by Brian Ennals and Infinity Knives.
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Reddit refuge here.
I do miss all the niche subreddits. As the saying goes, “there’s a subreddit for everything.”
But I think with time, Lemmy can grow to fill that gap.
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I think I linked to it before here months ago but Reddit won't let mods go dark without prior authorization. The mods basically gave up any means of meaningful protest outside of leaving by capitulating during the API revolt.
The mods that didn't capitulate were forcibly removed
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Same. I'm not sure Lemmy is any better tho. I know, I'm a hypocrite.
It’s better in many ways, but one that I feel is quite important is that there’s no profit motive to keep users on the platform and engaging with advertisers for as long as possible, and therefore no need to develop the kind of exploitative algorithms that drive screen addiction and engagement through rage.
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If I had to find something to critique, it is that bad-faith agenda-pushing is still rampant here, from "both sides" - rather all conceivable sides.
Not like I have a solution for it. Maybe forums shouldn't be this big, and we shouldn't primarily be talking to strangers.
Bad faith agenda pushing was a problem in the days of forums and BBS too, although admittedly to a lesser extent because those platforms were smaller and less commercial. As long as people are able to talk to each other over the internet, that will be a problem. I think the best way to tackle that is being able to spot it and call it out when it happens.
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Piefed sucks bigtime.
It's better than Reddit, badumtis!
(Yeah, a very low bar indeed) When was the last time you tried it? It gets better literally weekly.
Genuinely there are elements that I prefer using in Lemmy, and other elements I prefer PieFed, with the balance overall being 90:10 PieFed to Lemmy. And PieFed is growing by leaps and bounds. Lemmy is growing too but more slowly (it also might end up being more stable at larger scales - I dunno, though PieFed also sends like 25x less data per post iirc so the reverse could rather be true).
Still, use whichever you prefer - the Fediverse is fantastic in offering us so many choices, all for free! Much respect to the dev teams of both, and Mbin too, as well as instance admins and most mods who donate their time to keep it all going!
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And that gum you like is going to come back into style .
And your hair will grow back like it used to.
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Oh no! Anyways, what's everyone's Friday plans?
I have to write an informative speech outline
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The gloomy sentiment around Reddit Inc. has failed to dissipate after its shares fell 50% from a February high, with volatile technology stocks under pressure.
Musk strikes again
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I don"'t like that solution because that means Huffman walks away with a golden payday instead of losing it all.
Maybe he'll get bored with retirement, have a mid-no-life crisis and the resulting breakdown will generate some interesting news stories.
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The gloomy sentiment around Reddit Inc. has failed to dissipate after its shares fell 50% from a February high, with volatile technology stocks under pressure.
Oh no... anyway
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Same. I'm not sure Lemmy is any better tho. I know, I'm a hypocrite.
Right now it is ok. But I worry that AI will enshittify even the Feddiverse.
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Digg is excited about "AI" moderation. So, they're gonna be going the route of banning users for wrongthink just as Reddit did. I don't think it's going to be that popular.
Normally platforms are around for a while before enshittification kicks in, I see that Digg are cutting straight to the chase before the site even launches.
I probably will check the new Digg out, but I’ve come to the conclusion that all corporate-run social media platforms will go down the road of fucking over their users eventually. I’m not willing to move to another one and build up connections and communities just for some rich fuck to destroy it on a whim. I’m far more interested in helping to build and grow federated platforms like Lemmy so that there is a true alternative outside of their sphere of influence entirely.
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The gloomy sentiment around Reddit Inc. has failed to dissipate after its shares fell 50% from a February high, with volatile technology stocks under pressure.
Probably they tried to own the libs. Lol
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What do you mean my that? Like, your own posts or those of others?
Not sure I'm seeing that on my side. Could be wrong tho
It depends on the version of Lemmy that your instance is running. My account is on sh.itjust.works which upgraded Lemmy versions a few months ago. Apparently it changed a parameter name that keeps track if a post has been read or not.
So on Sync, you can click on posts, but they never show as read. It's super annoying, so I went back to Voyager.
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Sync for me, but same. Plus I didn't like their attitude.
Complete with intermittent abandonment, just like the old days.
