this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The beautiful thing is their valuation probably also went down

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

3rd party (so unreliable) numbers suggest they lost around 6% user engagement. I woukd guess that serving adds to all the people that switched from 3rd party to official apps probably made up for it in the short term.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As always everything gets destroyed by greed.

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

I just enjoy a new beginning

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Once upon a time, reddit was an open-source platform. Never again it has the same face when it decided to close the sources, then the UI changes, then the ads, then the API charges. All of those are for the profits of them, not of users'.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

They don't even try hiding it, they are blatant and egregious about it. They are gonna just eng up chasing all their users away.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Anyone else finding it hard to comment or post today? Is Lemmy struggling with all the extra traffic?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep, I end up having to specify the language as English in the dropdown otherwise I sometimes get language not allowed.

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

That is because of the users settings that you're relying to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure, I really think it might be a bug.

[–] Aztech 4 points 2 years ago
[–] realz 2 points 2 years ago

A true horror story

[–] roddin 2 points 2 years ago

i laughed more loud than i should 😂😂