Reddit is making a major change to how users access the platform - Dexerto
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Reddit is preparing to make a major change to how people access the platform, with plans to move toward a primarily logged-in experience.
  • saarth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Vast majority of ‘old redditors’ still believe reddit is their home. Its not, there are so many more normies on reddit now, that it is legitimately a normie space. And making it a walled garden is the only way Reddit Inc can grow.

  • chrash0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    hot take: Reddit has been a “logged-in-only experience” since i started using it 15 years ago. default subs and front page have always been trash brainrot, and the real value of Reddit has always been in niche communities, ie a curated user-specific homepage.

    that said, their incessant insistence on brainrot like AITA and AskReddit got me off that platform years ago at this point.

  • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    This is like owning a million pounds of dog shit and making sure you lock your garage so nobody steals it while you are out.

    There has to be way more info out there on the internet now than in 2001, but because of these kinds of assholes it’s mostly unsearchable, and locked in walled gardens. I hope someday soon Reddit is met with more laughter, dismissal, and cringing than an AOL email address. I hope Spez eats some of that South American beef and shits himself.

  • 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I used to look at Reddit every day, several times per day. Anymore, it is once or twice per month. And never very long, becaues the experience has fallen to a terrible low. My only disappointment in Lemmy is that a lot of the niche subs I used to use on Reddit are not here or are very small.

  • stealth_cookies@lemmy.caEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Do we know what percentage of visits are from not logged in visitors? I imagine that all the people that visit reddit through searches for information are not likely to be signing up for a account, so they will be losing a bunch of that traffic and ad revenue.

    Putting all that community generated information behind a login screen is a massive loss even if you don’t use the site regularly.

  • Lucius Finkter@piefed.socialEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I wonder how much of Reddit’s operating costs stem from the decision to host images and video. Seems like if it was just text, it would be dirt cheap.

  • zlatiah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    For those of you who are interested and still want to go on Reddit for any reason, Redlib still works… kind of. My personal instance running Nachtalb’s fork still works, but not sure for how long

    There are still a small shortlist of public instances that are up, and ppl are pushing fixes that circumvent whatever shenanigans Reddit is pulling. Although, some folks are suspecting that Reddit SWEs are monitoring the redlib project with close attention & trying to shut down any workarounds the redlib team finds

  • SlayersFan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    According to FediDB there has been a 1.7% growth this month. Meaning 244,051 new accounts have been created on fediverse on the past 30days. Almost 250thousand people in a month. I’m sure this is completely coincidental