Technology

They lost me when they started charging for their api. It pushed out so many good apps. It was shitty.

i'm only here cos reddit sucks donkey dick now. I think they just sold out and in turn have lost support. I went there for the news, before it broke else where. Now I never get breaking news and 80% of the posts I see feel like they are for teenagers. For Profit Pigs

Reddit did everything in its power to get rid of the users that made the platform what it is. Or rather, what it once was. It’s barely a shell of the former glory days.

And if you get rid of your power users who make good content and good comments, well, this is what happens.

Good, I hate them both and one shit thing dying isn't gonna lose me sleep

What's this, consequences, who do thunk it?

So many comments in here, I haven't read them all. I have some conjecture.

First, the AI scrapers already have Reddit's most valuable content ... their "virgin" data from the pre-LLM years. All new content is worth substantially less and much harder to differentiate / filter between bots/AI and real human interaction done without AI.

Second, the search engines that used to help drive users to Reddit mostly all have AI summaries / AI answers right there on the main search page these days. A lot of people read those AI results, get what they want right from Google (or otherwise), and never click any links over to Reddit.

Third, Reddit has expanded into other regions besides the western / us-centric world, such as India. The simplest way to put this is that the content and users from those regions costs Reddit US users and by extension advertising dollars.

Fourth, the corporate team's decision making is bad enough to be harmful / fatal in and of itself. It's sheer luck they've done as well as they have this long. Corporate is not only the worst enemy of users and communities, they're also their own worst enemy. It's so bad that if one of them was a competitor or adversary that had infiltrated the company in a covert operation to destroy it or gum it up, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Wait till google decides to de-rank them for being login-walled. All those search results they're using as leverage.

I did not know what Lemmy was a couple weeks ago. Reddit pushed me out. I don't want to be logged in or have an account with the way they harvest data. I got tired of weekly rotating ublock origin scripts and using incognito mode. You don't want me if I'm not a willing data whore? Fine, I'm gone! I am now actively trying to NOT even look at reddit when a random Google search sends me there!

Hopefully you just die altogether or end up a shell of yourself like digg

Fuck spez and fuck reddit tbh

I was willing to look the other way until I got banned for essentially no reason

I'm way happier not being on that platform

Well deserved. First stupid API restrictions now login-wall. Soon google might pull investments out of reddit

You love to see it

Its probably going to drop a lot more now that they require sign in to view once public, indexed threads on google. It was a decent repository of knowledge while it lasted

I love all those "deleted comment" that keeps growing on Reddit. Users are waking up and destroying any contribution to that site, making it ultimately useless.

Just tried to comment and got temp banned for just comment. These retards gonna go out of business as they should

Honestly speaking, freedom of speech is practically non-existent on reddit. How else do you explain automated bans, or mods getting triggered over the smallest things? You are not allowed to think or speak freely, critical thinking is virtually zero.

If anything this shows how totally fucked equity markets are.

• Predicted $732MM revenue, reported $805MM (10% higher than projected)
• Expected 54MM DAU, got 53.2MM (1.5% lower than projected)
• Expected daily users growth of 130.07MM, actual growth 130.3MM (0.2% higher than projected)

So they're making way more money than expected, but they haven't sold out their users fast enough so dump the stock?