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[–] [email protected] 215 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Fuck spez

[email protected] if you want to help promote Lemmy Piefed Mbin to new users!

[–] AtariDump 70 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I always thought he was a little piss baby but pigboy works too

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Close, but that's Texas Gov Abbott. Easy mistake, as they're both giant pieces of shit.

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[–] MolecularCactus1324 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago

Fuccck spez

[–] [email protected] 185 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] surph_ninja 69 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (15 children)

No, user numbers are not down because of a Google change. User numbers are down because they went ban crazy during the election and Luigi stuff.

If you ban people who produce your content, your site quality & engagement declines. It’s not rocket science.

Btw, they’re definitely reversing some of these bans to try to pull people back, and inflate the number of “returning” users. They permabanned two of my accounts for wrongthink during the election, and they’ve already reversed one with no prompting from me at all, after denying appeals months ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

they are still ban crazy since last week. i and many people had several accs sitewide banned

[–] surph_ninja 0 points 1 day ago

Yeah, my alt account was re-banned after I posted this comment. I guess they unbanned a bunch before the earnings call to boost their numbers? Dunno.

[–] flop_leash_973 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

I got an account strike the other day and a post removed "by Reddit" according to the message for saying something to the effect of "protests without a threat of violence behind it doesn't mean much to those in power these days" on a thread about some ongoing protests.

Something about a site rule violation for advocating for and/or calling for violence.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

At this point, I check every comment I leave on the platform in an incognito window. A good half of them get shadowremoved for no reason. How do they not get that new users are going to leave if nobody reads, votes on, or replies to their comments?

I've had like 5 comments shadowremoved from the conservative subreddit because I guess the large oceanographic feature south of the United States gets caught in their word filter, and they hate the Constitution

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[–] IceColdFury 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A lot of that shit in the media right now. Story today on NPR about how car sales slumped in January and they blamed it on the weather, and while the weather might be a component of a slump i think theirs a lot of people out there nervous about the economy and taking a wait and see attitude, and that contributed more to slumping car sales than the weather.

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[–] Xanthobilly 152 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Reddit has benefited from Google search updates and internal site improvements that have helped it gain a significant amount of new and returning users, which the social company refers to as logged-out users, over the past year and a half. Reddit has said it is working to convince logged-out users to create accounts as logged-in users, which are more lucrative for its business.

Expect to see more login paywall bullshit from Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The best way to increase the usage base of a social media site is to block people from accessing it. Everybody knows that.

[–] Placebonickname 33 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Lol. I was perma banned cause I said something mean about Trump.

[–] grue 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I was "suspended" (by the admins, from the whole site -- not just banned by mods from a particular subreddit) because I accurately reported misinformation in r/conservative and the snowflake mods whined that it was "report abuse."

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

Every ban is a potential new fedi enjoyer

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

-13% after hours on one day is huge. Many stock markets having emergency stops if the main index drops by 10% in a day.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

NVIDIA's stock tanked a month ago, and it's already back up. Nothing really changes. There's no such thing as a "plunge" in the stock market, unless a business is truly going bankrupt.

[–] rational_lib 25 points 5 days ago

It's referring to that after-hours part.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Lemmy poster OBLITERATES claim on NBC article. Readers OUTRAGED.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Reddit has said it is working to convince logged-out users to create accounts as logged-in users, which are more lucrative for its business.

By "convince," they mean:

  • Popup to automatically sign in with Google
  • A button right under where you close that popup that shows a QR code to install the app
  • Bottom bar on mobile telling you to make an account
  • Clicking an upvote or downvote button instantly sending you to the account signup page, even if clicked by accident
  • Full-screen popup only on mobile to download the app if you're accessing anything NSFW (includes posts that simply have too much vulgar language, and are considered "NSFW" in that community, as well as any account page for an account that has ever made an NSFW post)

Yes, very convincing, heavily coercive even!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

I love when I'm troubleshooting something, click on a record link from like 2018, and get a modal encouraging me to "join this trending conversation!"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

old.reddit still works... And it's still a far superior experience to the shit they churned after.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In other news, Lemmy stock mooned infinity% from 0.00 to 0.00 plus beans.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Should we all short it at the same time?

[–] rayquetzalcoatl 27 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Why does his head look like that?

[–] theherk 21 points 5 days ago

Because he’s a greedy little pig boy.

[–] Whirling_Cloudburst 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Its a side effect of a diet that is a little too heavy on the pineal glands, so, I was told.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Jfc that thumbnail of Huffman's face triggered me. How did he manage to make his face look MORE punchable??

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 days ago

It's almost like communication platforms shouldn't have profitability as their main goal... maybe they could be... distributed... like some sort of... federation. Yeah. That's it. Then everyone would follow along like... lemmings or something

[–] lennybird 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Holy hell how much plastic did Huffman invest to look like a dollar general bond villain.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Damn I never noticed but that dude looks like a dollar store knockoff alpharad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

did you ever see him smile, so cringey and creepy

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

Bros face looks like my cats anus while sliding a cookie out.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The stock’s valuation makes no sense at all. A market cap of 38 billion on no revenue and declining growth?

Get fucked, Spez.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

“It primarily affects logged-out users in the U.S.,” he said. “This one was particularly interesting because there really was a swing down, but then a recovery shortly thereafter happened right at the end of the quarter.”

Show me the graph, spez. Pics or it didn't happen!

[–] gimmelemmy 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Reddit shares plunge after missing engagement numbers due to fall off following enshitification

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago
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