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.
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.
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
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.
Keep making it worse, that will surely help. I have a suggestion: how about getting your stupid ban-happy admins under control?
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.
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.
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
Yep, not logging in, that killed off the last bit of usage I had for reddit.
Fuck you u/spez and the bots you herd about.
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.
this will make people less likely to click a ad-link. no wonder for the past year they have been going after OF and people who are trying to earn money by directing to thier own site. reddit wasnt getting a piece of the aciton, so they increased thier filter sensitivity every time they do a sweep.
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.”
It’s bad now that they increased the ad size in posts. Now you have to scroll more to see the first comment.
It seems that people running big techs are behaving in a consistently erratic way. There must be something behind it
all that cocaine and ketamine makes people erratic, or is an alien.
They spend too much time with other people in big tech and lose connection with the people who are the source of their income.
This comment section is missing a big ol’
FUCK SPEZ
FUCK SPEZ
I gotchu fam.
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Oh Is it NNN again already?
Reddit’s gonna reddit.
