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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/341887

So yeah water is wet. reddit doesnt care and its great lemmy exists.

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[–] setsneedtofeed 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

spez doesn’t care about Reddit the platform. He just wants to sell it to Wall Street and get his money.

Yeah, I get all that. I just figured making it look good during the IPO, even if it crumbled long term was part of the goal. I figured there would have been a bit of meeting room wargaming going on before they set the plans into motion, even if it was on a crunched timeline, how hard could it have been to get their developers to copy even some of the features of 3PA before announcing the changes. They already have developers on staff, I don't understand what they are being paid for if not to develop. Again, I understand features wanted by users and features wanted for monetization won't always be the same, but even just adding stuff like the blind accessibility features before the community browbeat them seems like it would have been an obvious part of a gameplan.

[–] DocMcStuffin 5 points 1 year ago

They're developing for ads. I'll quote myself from the previous week.

Reddit is only going to get worst over the next year. I came across this article a couple days ago while searching for early news coverage of the (then planned) blackout:

Reddit launches new ad products to boost conversions (archive.ph mirror)

Reddit has launched Contextual Keyword Targeting and Product Ads, to help advertisers reach new and valuable audiences.

The article reads like an ad, but what I got out of it was Reddit is going to have more tracking and intrusive advertising. Not a good experience.

I lost the link, but someone looked at their job listings a few days ago. They are looking to hire people in machine learning w.r.t advertising.

And the community has been browbeating them for 8 years for better mod tools. r/AskHistorians had a long post (mirror) about Reddit's empty promises. Reddit dropping the ball on accessibility features is the norm given their history.