Called it - content quality is dropping down considerably. Eventually not even your typical user (who doesn't really care about API, mod revolts, etc.) will stay. They'll simply leave.
Reddit shat on their content creators and organisers. What did they expect? Reddit could and should be profitable, the fact it's not shows what a total shitshow it is. Spez clearly lost the poop challenge.
I can't stop laughing at the idea of Spez trying the poop challenge. (And failing it every five minutes.)
I'm pleasantly surprised though that the content quality is dropping really fast. I seriously wish for a failed IPO - Reddit is lost either way, but a failed IPO means that other businesses will think twice before doing the same.
Is there a way we can create a failed IPO?
Raising distrust among investors on the platform's ability to generate profits. Making it look like a risky but not profitable investment. Making it look like "if you invest your money here, consider it gone".
In large part, the protests, exodus, content deletion, spam/botting, and spez himself are doing this. We just need to do it harder.
I said it from the beginning -- the prolific content posters, the ones in it for the lulz and the community, will be the first to exit when you take away their mobile apps and such.
They broke our toys.
The bots that have been clamouring to repost garbage will be unleashed with fewer moderators too
"I lasted three days."
What the hell?
That’s only three words
You are supposed to say "questionmark".
damn, reddit is making ifunny look good. I miss the days that people would downvote a post just because it was posted 3 years ago in a different sub
Remember when Reddit's whole thing was pointing out how much better it was than 9gag and ifunny? How the mighty have fallen
My expectations for r/all were low, but damn
Turning Lemmy into Reddit I see...
Needs more tiktok
Yep, this has become reeeaaally visible since a week or two.
I used to regularly browse reddit without being logged in, it was a way to experience the default reddit experience for my region, see what people from my country would discuss as many French speaking subs were included.
I could scroll a couple of pages worth of moderately interesting and quite diverse content.
Now it's mostly garbage, I barely reach the end of the first page. The diversity and the quality has gone way done, it's like a distilled facebookesq version of summer reddit.
It is unequivocally Facebook now, both Twitter & Reddit are a barrage of Facebook users and it shows.
Reddit literally made their newReddit interface to look like Facebook, because their users are worth more money. Spez knew that Reddit would turn into a copy of Facebook, quality and all and decided it was worth it years ago.
The Reddit we used 10 years ago, the one with it's own unique culture, is half dead and it's only going further in that direction.
"Here's my lemmy account"
It's free real estate
The dishes are done
The children are missing
"Sex Taxes and Love"
I didn't do it
Has r/all ever not been shit? Just shit with a different target audience, I guess
Back when Reddit was smaller it's was pretty good, for the last 5 or so years it's become too big so all the default subs are just Facebook memes and boomer humour.
I cleaned the litterbox.