Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth.
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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.
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That's been happening for a while, even before AI came in. Fascist mods pretending to be on the spectrum had the same result: bizarre, contorted interpretations of rules, selectively applied with zero-tolerance. Always in subs with a population of fascist mods, and always applied against people making anti-fascist comments. What a fucking coincidence.
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I made sure to replace all my comments and posts with obscene lorem ipsum before leaving.
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That seems like a lot more work that it's worth lol
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CEOs rarely end up with nothing, unfortunately
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the answer they want from those AI generated answers Google generated from Reddit comments
Basically Reddit has now exported being confidently incorrect.
At least on actual reddit you could scroll down and find the actual answer. Some of those AI summaries are hot garbage.
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Would love to see him be forced to sell his corny fucking doomsday bunker
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All of those platforms have sources of revenue besides ads.
