This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Reddit did everything in its power to get rid of the users that made the platform what it is. Or rather, what it once was. It’s barely a shell of the former glory days.
And if you get rid of your power users who make good content and good comments, well, this is what happens.
Good, I hate them both and one shit thing dying isn't gonna lose me sleep
What's this, consequences, who do thunk it?
I just deleted all my comments, first edited them before deletion with power delete suite. It ran for days, but eventually, as far as I can tell, all deleted.
A few of the big subs kept sending me messages, that my comment was removed because I didn't have email verification. My account is 15 years old I think, email wasn't a requirement then. Crazy that some subs now enforce this to post.
I lost my Reddit account because it didn't have email and they locked me out requiring email verification to get back in to an account that didn't have email
Reddit asked me never to post again and I’m ok with that because of the direction they’re going
So many comments in here, I haven't read them all. I have some conjecture.
First, the AI scrapers already have Reddit's most valuable content ... their "virgin" data from the pre-LLM years. All new content is worth substantially less and much harder to differentiate / filter between bots/AI and real human interaction done without AI.
Second, the search engines that used to help drive users to Reddit mostly all have AI summaries / AI answers right there on the main search page these days. A lot of people read those AI results, get what they want right from Google (or otherwise), and never click any links over to Reddit.
Third, Reddit has expanded into other regions besides the western / us-centric world, such as India. The simplest way to put this is that the content and users from those regions costs Reddit US users and by extension advertising dollars.
Fourth, the corporate team's decision making is bad enough to be harmful / fatal in and of itself. It's sheer luck they've done as well as they have this long. Corporate is not only the worst enemy of users and communities, they're also their own worst enemy. It's so bad that if one of them was a competitor or adversary that had infiltrated the company in a covert operation to destroy it or gum it up, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Second, the search engines that used to help drive users to Reddit mostly all have AI summaries / AI answers right there on the main search page these days. A lot of people read those AI results, get what they want right from Google (or otherwise), and never click any links over to Reddit.
Not just that but iirc a decision by reddit causes certain threads to only be displayed in search results without a post title and a description saying "the website doesn't allow us to show you content" so why would anyone click on the Reddit links in a sea of other links?
Wait till google decides to de-rank them for being login-walled. All those search results they're using as leverage.
Big if true
I did not know what Lemmy was a couple weeks ago. Reddit pushed me out. I don't want to be logged in or have an account with the way they harvest data. I got tired of weekly rotating ublock origin scripts and using incognito mode. You don't want me if I'm not a willing data whore? Fine, I'm gone! I am now actively trying to NOT even look at reddit when a random Google search sends me there!
I tend to still get pulled onto it via search results when the stereotypical specific answer to specific answers are basically from there. But Lemmy has really grown so much since I first found out about it a few years ago (one of the big ditch Reddit waves of course). Still not at the "magical answer to the very issue I need info on" levels as subreddits, but getting closer and closer everyday. Also really cool to get and reply to sources from other Fediverse projects that aren't Lemmy if you choose to follow them. Just so fun overall.
Hopefully you just die altogether or end up a shell of yourself like digg
Fuck spez and fuck reddit tbh
I was willing to look the other way until I got banned for essentially no reason
I'm way happier not being on that platform
I don't give a shit if reddit persists, what I want is an alternative to gain enough users that it can replicate what reddit used to be 15 years ago.
Same. From what I can tell, userbase size Is The #1 most important thing, so.just being here and commenting is huge. Posting stuff is even better
And I don't want more users because I saw how much worse Reddit was than dedicated forums.
I’m with you on that. Reddit turned into a bunch of crap. God forbid you have a different opinion.
I was willing to look the other way until I got banned for essentially no reason
Yeah, it's always not a problem until it becomes your problem. Good on the reddit moderation team for taking the moral dilemma out of your hands and helping you on your way, I guess.
Well deserved. First stupid API restrictions now login-wall. Soon google might pull investments out of reddit
You love to see it
Its probably going to drop a lot more now that they require sign in to view once public, indexed threads on google. It was a decent repository of knowledge while it lasted
I love all those "deleted comment" that keeps growing on Reddit. Users are waking up and destroying any contribution to that site, making it ultimately useless.
Now, they’re banning them, which prevents users from deleting their account and annotating comments as a [deleted] account. So, it may be more dead (of users) than it’s letting on.
I never considered that. I got 3 or 5 accounts banned for next to nothing before jumping ship and finding this place.
I wonder if they're doing it on purpose purely to keep the information thats already there intact.
Just tried to comment and got temp banned for just comment. These retards gonna go out of business as they should
Honestly speaking, freedom of speech is practically non-existent on reddit. How else do you explain automated bans, or mods getting triggered over the smallest things? You are not allowed to think or speak freely, critical thinking is virtually zero.
