I’m 70 and found Reddit about 7 years ago. Was wonderful. Ended up getting banned probably for commenting on the fat stupid incompetent pedophile rapist Donald Trump. Fuck em. Time to move on.
Maybe Spez should charge a smol fee per search. Then another lil fee when the user clicks a result. Then he could charge a small fee per minute of reading the linked result. Spez sure is smart!
I hope Spez burns alive in a literal sense.
Ah yes, people will come flocking back when you throw even more bullshit ads in
just like facebook did, its just filled with AI bots now and their ads are more intrusive too.
only let logged in users use the site
traffic declines
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I don’t use reddit anymore because <obvious reasons> but sometimes a relevant thread comes up in a web search. But since they force you to log in they lost even the last bit of my traffic.
they dont want lurkers, they want people that logged in. the thing is they ban so many people last year, most became lurkers to protect thier accounts. There is enough old content on reddit you dont really need to login anyways, for question you might have for specific niche, which was og reddit is made for to replace fourms. not the current events slop.
I still use the same app to access Lemmy me that I did to access Reddit. There’s zero reason for me to go back.
It’s been declining for years but I guess they felt that they needed to accelerate things.
Yep, not logging in, that killed off the last bit of usage I had for reddit.
Agree “many obvious reasons”. That said I feel as though there may be some merit to the “we need a way to keep AI bots from just taking all our content and reselling it via AI”.
There are a million other reasons to stop using Reddit and I won’t be going back.
But for years they built up a ton of great user contributed content. Just like it’s unfair for art, music, other content to be absorbed / plagiarized and repackaged as AI… it is also unfair that web bots steal all the old/good Reddit content and don’t give credit + make money off content generated by old Reddit.
Note: reddit bad. Also AI plagiarism bad.
Reddit’s problems started before the recent increase of capability in AI.
It started with all the AMA stuff, then the API BS convinced a lot of people to leave and that was before AI bots were really a thing. In the olden days when moderation was still being done the bots would have been eliminated, via various measures, but now no one cares, and it makes it look like the site is more active than it really is so the admins are not that bothered either.
On that note, reddit didn’t generate most of that content either.
I mean I’m in my 50s and for years Reddit was awesome for me. Sure “Reddit” didn’t make all those posts themselves - but they created a space where folks like me could (and did) enjoy contributing and engaging.
Has been getting worse for a long time, but that doesn’t mean it was never good.
I don’t mind that Reddit in some ways profited from the content I contributed- because
- I got enormous value from the site and it was 100% free for me
- I intentionally was contributing to the site knowing that they would host my content and potentially profit from it.
AI takes without consent and charges for benefit
I already successfully block all Reddit ads. I use Old Reddit exclusively, as I cannot stand New Reddit.
So if Old Reddit goes, so do I.
To me it’s already gone since you have to login to use old reddit now
Keep making it worse, that will surely help. I have a suggestion: how about getting your stupid ban-happy admins under control?
So, they did everything that users said would kill the site and it… killed the site?
Good thing they already banned or drove out all the top human contributors. There’s no one left to say “I told you so.”
Fuck you u/spez and the bots you herd about.
This comment section is missing a big ol’
FUCK SPEZ
FUCK SPEZ
I gotchu fam.
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Idk, I think that even in late stage capitalism demanding constant “growth” when they used to be one of the most visited websites of the entire internet is just delusional.
Not to mention while also doing a lot of things hostile to their users. But yeah, even if they could go back to what it was in 2012, perpetual growth isn’t sustainable.
It was good. Long long ago. Entertaining. Infuriating. Educational. For the most part civil.
Now its mostly swamp. it’s the trump era turd swamp. It’s more a cesspool - swamps are great places - trumpville cesspool.
Ending anonymity is 180° out from its starting point. Taken over by corporate it’s like everything else they ‘buy’ - for their profit.
reddit was never good, it was tolerable at best. The fact that in the early days the jailbait sub was allowed to be one of the biggest on the site and was only pulled after national media attention is really all you need to know to reinforce that belief, though we could also point to so much more.
Reddit is now so far away from what made it great in the beginning that it really isn’t even the same site. It just sucks now.
Agreed. It’s midwest facebook now. Corporate reddit.
its facebook 2.0, just havnt fully become its clone yet. is suspect the next step is eliminating OLD reddit with a few months for logged in users. and then require Facial recognition and valid DL too.
Steve was always going to fuck it up. I recall a incident where he thought it would be cute to directly edit a comment in the database, bypassing the indicator that a comment had been edited after the fact. He never had any kind of good sense.
Fuck reddit and fuck Steve Huffman.
You are downvoted now for what used to be standard reddit etiquette. That site lost its entire identity. 2 days ago they rolled out age verification in some European countries. So, I naturallt redacted all my posts and comments and left.
They’ll put it back. I did that too and deleted the account, go look now and it’s all there. Oddly they left the last things which were very critical so I doubt they even looked at what was there.
How did you delete your comments? I’m thinking about doing the same.
There were scripts that would replaced the text and remove the comment, they don’t work anymore after the api fuckery.
You might be able to find one that runs in your browser but it’ll be really slow.
Never had that problem with older accounts. I guess I have to go in there to be permabanned. Shouldn’t take more than a comment or two.
“Israel is doing genocide to the Palestine peoples”, boom. Banned.
he apparently idolizes Musk, so thats whats he aiming for. thats why there have been so many purges, because of musk telling spez to suppress dissent.
He’s a nazi, therefore a sociopathic parasite.
“Wait our traffic is down? I know! Let’s give people more of what they hate!”
It seems that people running big techs are behaving in a consistently erratic way. There must be something behind it
They spend too much time with other people in big tech and lose connection with the people who are the source of their income.
all that cocaine and ketamine makes people erratic, or is an alien.
Anyone actually uses Reddit search? That thing has been so horribly broken since the very beginning that some of the best subreddits (AskHistorians, for example) openly recommend using a standard search engine with the “site:reddit.com” parameter.
It’s depressingly hilarious how awful the search is. I don’t think anyone could make a worse search if they tried. Half the time it doesn’t even work for exact matches.
I didn’t think they could make it worse… But apparently they found a way, according to the title of this story. 😄
Windows start menu search exists
Back when I used to visit that site and tried the search, it was pretty much on par with Outlook’s search. You couldn’t find what you were looking for, basically.
Outlook at least works if the keyword is in the subject line. Reddit search can’t even do that.
😂 pathetic
No, its useless, i suspect they made it that way so people would use google to search for specific reddit question, and of course the question you typed in google is what pops up for the question you are looking for 90% of the time.
