Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth.
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At this point Spez's idiocy is common knowledge.
The whole 3rd party app debacle cemented it.
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Reddit gives Google access to everything so that Google can train their AI
Reddit sold access. For short term gains. Because the quarter needed more money to beat the previous quarter.
If this isn't a leopard eating their face moment, I don't know what is.
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The AI moderation was it for me.
The only way reddit is useful to me now is for finding user's answers to questions using a google search. For which I do not need to login or contribute to the site.
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spez has too much money to care.
What's the point of being Uberwealthy if you can't just do whatever you want, whenever you want?
People keep quoting that Musk gave DT $250million to support his campaign, like hell... Musk bought Twitter and ran it into the ground to support DT's campaign, that was far more significant, and far more costly than a mere $250M.
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Is that why my multiple accounts with hundreds of thousands of karma were all nuked simultaneously and I was never told why?
Fuckin AI nuked my shit?
I tried to appeal but it was instantly denied and even though I asked what rule they are claiming I broke I still got no answers.
Fuckin AI....
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Yeah that's exactly it. I no longer use reddit. when I do searches reddit does come up. But I don't need to go onto reddit because AI summarizes things. And I skip reddit anyways in the search results.
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99% sure - all the messages say "this action was performed automatically" and if I DO get a reply to a service ticket via email, it says "Thank you for your request, it has been received!" Which means they're continually closing the ticket I'm replying to asking for help.
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Well sucks for them I guess. Maybe they shouldn't have banned a contributing user for no apparent reason.
Oh well. Couldn't have happened to a worse website.
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Capitalism will sell you the rope to hang it.
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How much of that growth is bots?
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That is EXACTLY what happened. And whats worse is there are people on Lemmy, who left before that started, who say things like "nobody is banned for nothing. You probably deserved it."
And yet I've had countless encounters who seemingly fit the same criteria.
Long time regular user, didn't buy the reddit IPO, many were offered but not all. Then one day, permanently suspended and all appeals fail. Most instantly, but none so far taking longer than a day.
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Uhm, didn't they block every crawler except Googles?
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There are better alternatives to this site that aren't controlled by corporate interests.
If we post about it then we get banned tho.
I think i can postt this:
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Honestly such a poor excuse given literally every other google search yields reddit as a top result.
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Yes, AND STILL - for someone whose only connection to those communities is online, still really sucks. Hopefully they reform elsewhere after the eventual implosion.
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Not only that, but they actively hindered any external tools. If you're Blind and Reddit's accessibility isn't good enough? Tough luck.
Whereas back in the day, someone might have built a more accessible app, if Reddit hadn't had one.
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anyone with a tenth of a percentage of business sense could tell you a business that produces nothing but eyeballs to advertisers will be a massive failure if said business does anything to piss the owners of said eyeballs off.
and experts are confused why traded-on-the-markets social media companies are in freefall.
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Except this isn't 100% true.
- Google continues to add more ads per page, despite people complaining
- Netflix now has ads even in paid tiers. Their subscribers count grew
- YouTube continues to push ads even to the point of aggressive blocking ad blockers
There isn't a single platform that has reduced the number of ads it serves.
Businesses have learned that the majority of users will take it.
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Well the Lemmy devs should respect thosw deva efforts and make it the default then.
Not that its a problem I deal with tho I almost exclusively use eternity.
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It'll be deeply satisfying if spez ends up with nothing. His mismanagement and tolerance for fascism are why I quit using the site.
