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Reddit embracing all out enshittification (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

#For sale: Ads that look like legit Reddit user posts

"We highly recommend only mentioning the brand name of your product since mentioning links in posts makes the post more likely to be reported as spam and hidden. We find that humans don't usually type out full URLs in natural conversation and plus, most Internet users are happy to do a quick Google Search," ReplyGuy's website reads.

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[–] 282 points 2 years ago (27 children)

I've been on Lemmy ever since the reddit API fracas. To date, I have not seen a reason to return. I have, however, seen many reasons to stay away.

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  • [–] 71 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    There are just certain communities that haven't picked up over on Lemmy. D&D, Pathfinder, LFG, and I'm sure many others. I hate reddit with a passion but there is still stuff there.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah of course you can find everything on Reddit and clearly not that much on Lemmy.

    But Lemmy is the perfect alternative for me. I only go on Reddit through web search results on Ecosia. It’s really only useful for when I’m looking for a specific answer to a specific subject.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    About that, how do we get good search results from Lemmy? I feel like the most important thing to me is finding info through google searches

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Fuck id kill for Grimdank on here.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    There's already one. Just be active in it and cross posted some stuff from reddit if needed

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Whats it called cause I cant find it when I search grimdank or even something as simple as 40k?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I'm surprised you didn't find it. It's the first and only hit on lemmy search https://lemmyverse.link/c/grimdank@lemmy.world

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  • [–] [B] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !grimdank@lemmy.world

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yea, I pray this gets better. The only really active non-tehnical communities I have seen here are political and... woke ones. I really hope at least some gaming ones would switch.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    The larger engagement is a potential reason..lots of smaller niche lemmy communities users won't engage or comment..I just lurk on Reddit with an API modded sync client. If they ban my throw away or block the API I'm done

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    Larger engagement requires people to make and join communities/subs and we all need to help that happen. It took years for reddit to have what you're talking about and it'll take time here too. Sadly we're at a point in internet history now where many people have tried their hand at being mods and admits and most of those discovered how much it can suck. We're past the point of it being some exciting new thing so I think a push for better tools and options for those that might consider it is needed. People also have less time and mental energy to take on such roles now than 10-15 years ago.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    There is only one thing Reddit has (or had anyway) that I regret not having on Lemmy, which is a robust community for my U.S. state and a small one for my specific town. There's really no good place for discussions of that nature that approach anywhere near anything beyond flame wars anywhere else on the internet that I can find.

    But I'm still not going back.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    Amen. I should have seen it earlier, but the API debacle told me that Reddit is run by "my way or the highway" management. And they showed they didn't care at all about their users. I used to post spicy OC memes. Realized there's no point in adding value to a platform that does not value it's own people one iota.

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