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Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] puppy 119 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Twitter and Reddit went so much to shit and lowered the bar so much that Meta actually became almost not bad in my eyes, almost.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 25 points 2 months ago

There's a guy in the world of pro wrestling named Jim Cornette that said a quote this reminds me of.

Cornette is known for holding grudges, and being hateful. He keeps a shitlist of people he hates.

Well in the 1980s he was working for a wrestling company, and hated one of his coworkers for a year. Then a new guy came in and was so much worse.

Then one day he says to the first guy "You know, you used to be at the top of my shit list, but with all these new fuckheads coming in, you managed to move down a few spots simply by not doing anything!"

[–] T156 5 points 2 months ago

They're doing a Bradbury, in a way, kind of like Tumblr and Steam. Everyone else is shooting themselves in the foot.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I think Meta is doing a decent job with Instagram. I mean except for collecting all possible data and psychological profiling of users to serve them targeted ads, it's a decent enough platform. And the only one still allowing for engagement with your actual friends rather than exclusively professional content creators.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

WTF are you on about? no one likes instagram shorts and the feed is a jumbled mess of bullshit and advertisements. I deleted mine a long time ago and don't regret it for a second.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

no one likes instagram shorts

it's "reels" i think tiktok recommends better videos, but IG has closed the gap in recent years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I really don't understand how people use Instagram. I've tried, but it's about 45% ads, 10-15% posts by people I don't follow, it's not in chronological order (or any sense of order for that matter), and regardless of whether I was on there yesterday or 2 months ago, it'll show me about 40 posts before saying "You're all caught up from the past 3 days!" and then refuse to show me any more.

I guess this is why I'm here on Lemmy and went crawling back to Tumblr, one of the last vestiges of the old internet. At this point, I'd rather watch a platform die than become marketable to advertisers and shareholders.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes the random feed filled with ads unrelated post suggestions and limited to three days is the main issue. i use an Instagram mod but they didn't manage yet to replace the main feed with the friend only feed you can get by clicking on the Instagram button

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I mean except for collecting all possible data and psychological profiling of users to serve them targeted ads, it’s a decent enough platform.

It's not. Instagram is popular the way it is because "It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests" there.