This is just a standard “clearing house” measure. Remove the dissidents, ignore the howls of complaint.. surround yourselves with “yes men” and then you are set
detwaft
joined 1 year ago
That makes two of us!
Top quality meme but I’m wondering which thing we’re referring to this time?
Kbin is to reddit as mastodon is to twitter, IMO.
The tutorials and guides on reddit are invariably reposts from somewhere else. There will be the occasional gem that is nowhere to be found but on balance I’d say reddit could vanish and it wouldn’t matter in the long run.
Niche web forums still exist around a discrete interest group, they have lost a lot of traffic to enshittified giants but I think the people who post their lazy questions on facebook groups are better off there anyway. Repeat questions was an issue on web forums and still is, but I think having an additional torrent of ask-before-search users would make forums untenable now.
The internet was amazing when only technically-capable people were on it. Or in other words, everything gets ruined by being too popular.
Kinda interesting to hear of that happening but at the end of the day, if they want to roll back my posts good luck to them, it will cost them more effort than it did for me to run a script to edit/delete
I decided I was done there and did mine before the 12th
I tried to look at a reddit link via mobile web browser and it said something really stupid like.. we can't show you this on the web you need to use the app.
Dafuq? Hell no. I guess I'm not looking at it then. Jumped the shark, well and truly.
Ads are an anti-pattern for me. If I have to sit through your bullshit I am NOT buying your product. It’s in your best interests for me to run an ad blocker. I also run Sponsorblock to skip the product-shilling parts, similar reasons. I buy things on merit after researching, not because I saw it on a video.
Still, by watching the video, it will be recommended to other people because it’s popular. Being a little tounge-in-cheek here but I like to think that by watching it, I am crowdsourcing the ad revenue aspect to other viewers who will sit through the ads.
Great article and demonstrates why we should not care about the demise of reddit. There is no clear date when the giant has been slain. It will simply attrit away over time if we all move on to the next thing, which is happening. Look forwards, not backwards, and enjoy the fediverse
The OOTB experience of everything is declining