Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform
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It's not that everyone's getting used to the current hellscape of the internet. Kids born today have never experienced a world without it. I watched my niece playing on my dad's phone, and she was just blasting through every single ad, interacting with every ad until it took her to the install page, and then she moved on to the next ad. People were upset about the tiktok ban cause they didnt care about their data. Shit like that is wild to me, coming from the early internet era.
Unless countries step up with better tech laws, I only see it getting worse from here.
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I figure as long as you visit with adblock enabled and don't post anything, you're not contributing to them in any meaningful way.
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You have my respect. I'm guessing all the mods with a tad of integrity left during this time, leaving their subreddits closed
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Do it, please, the subreddits need to migrate here
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There are ads in comments now?
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Yea adds have been in comments for at least a year now
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Yeah, people like me and I assume you, who used to browse reddit via a third party app or with RES + an adblocker on pc did not see it but it's a bit insanely how much ads there's already on reddit right now. I migrated to GNU and firefox last week and forgot to add the extensions as I was just looking for some information in the Endeavour subreddit and I was shocked at the state of "default" reddit.... I'm glad I left and I hope most of the userbase will...
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Yep, ads masquerading as comments. It's awful. I'm so glad I moved to Lemmy.
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Over half of us in r/Android left and while a few of headed over here and made our very own instance, some stopped on and, I paraphrase
I'm not seeing some shitheel coming and doing spezs deeds, and I'll just mass approve/remove shite
Brave fucker that mod.
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You’re gonna pay the mods then, right?
Right?
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fuck /u/spez
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History, reputation, relationships (this a nuch bigger problem on mastofon) (yes migration as a lurker is easy)
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Agreed, and to be fair I still stop in at niche subreddits I used to follow to see what's new, but never logged in.
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Thank you! I literally signed up 30 mins ago after seeing Lemmy mentioned a few times on Reddit. I'm at the 'what the heck is this, where am I' stage but feel like I understand how it works a bit better now!
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They snuck them in during some AB testing like 5 years ago, they didn't stick though obv
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This is what people always seen to ignore about YouTube. It's not just another database frontend to use generated content. That is definitely part of it, but behind that is probably the largest public facing content library on the Internet with a full video recoding infrastructure attached. YouTube is the platform for which I understand that they need to monetize.
Sure, nowadays there's also tiktok as another big video service. But I like to think that YouTube is way bigger in most metrics.
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Lemmy was hard to use a year ago or so.
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Well Reddit started off with a bunch of sock puppet accounts to make the site look larger than it was. Now they have bots doing that so when you refresh Reddit it’s always new. Back when it was good there was a point where you’d just run out of Reddit. It was a meme. They figured out how to stop that feeling.
But that feeling is good! We will have to get used to the fact that real human sites don’t constantly update if we want nice things.
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well, not all of them.
I can think of a handful I would much rather see thrown into a furnace.
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No it wasnt.
