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Reddit kills awards and coins (old.reddit.com)
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[–] [S] 208 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Reddit’s incompetence is so mind-blowing it’s unreal. Even a crackhead can manage Reddit better than spez

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  • [–] 130 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    You mean Musk? Because it seems that whatever insanity that Musk does, Spez wants to copy verbatim

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  • [–] [S] 73 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Nobody said musk was competent 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 66 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Sure but the crackhead part.

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

    coke or meth?

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  • [–] 45 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    All that needs to happen now is for meta to launch a reddit clone that steals away all of reddit's users

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Maybe Elron can buy reddit and finish destroying it

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Wouldn’t surprise me if he did buy reddit

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago*

    If that's the case, maybe reddit thinks if they do the same things Musk is doing to Twitter, it will appeas the Musk and he will want to buy reddit. I mean soon it will have everything that Twitter has: more bots than actual users, more ads, more pointless shit to make crypto boys wet, and fewer eyes on the page due to required signups and logins.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    I have a bad feeling Threads will turn into this. I mean it's literally called threads. Kind of up ends the "threadiverse" name.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not with a 500-character post limit, it’s not. If it decides to change from Instagram in a Twitter suit to Instagram in a Twitter suit in a Reddit flying saucer…?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's kind of how instagram has worked... went from Photo Twitter with filters, to video, then to a Snapchat rip-off, then to a TikTok rip-off. Each time they pretty much forgot about the previous functions and promoted the new style and penalized the old one in the algorithms.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'll have to take your word for how Instagram has developed, since I have used Instagram for a total of about 15 minutes, and found it confusing and unpleasant. And it's definitely a good argument for expecting them to shift ground and go for what's left of Reddit, (maybe after they've mopped up what's left of Twitter, which might not take long, since Twitter is busily mopping itself up).

    When I say "Instagram in a Twitter skin," I'm going off articles saying that Threads uses Instagram's algorithm, which seems a little less likely to change than the user interface/general style...? I can try to find my exact sources, if you like. It seems like Meta might have business justifications for adding a separate Reddit-replacement service, though there could be equally strong reasons to morph Threads for that purpose. I'm morbidly interested in seeing how it develops.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    The main difference between Reddit and Threads is the length and formatting possible for posts. Reddit of course has no limit, but Threads is inspired by Twitter, of course, and Twitter historically did 140 characters and now 280. Threads' limit is 500. Then, Reddit has subs/communities of course while Twitter is focused on following users and hashtags. It's a somewhat subtle difference but is significant. So, all Meta would have to do to make Threads like Reddit is to have a system for communities, and relax the length limit. (I don't actually believe they're interested in that, btw).

    Algorithms for feeds actually do change a fair bit over time. For instance, YouTube's has changed a lot and used to recommend a lot more new things based on what other people who watched a video also watched, and now it recommends a lot of videos you already watched. Facebook went to a lot more 'a friend of yours liked' type posts. Twitter did too, apparently. I wouldn't be surprised if they use the IG algo as a starting point but adapt it to Threads over time.

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  • [–] 62 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    It's truly shocking. Like all the Twitter stuff that musk is doing, seems in some way connected to his ego and they seem like genuine mistakes that he's making because he's completely out of touch and an a******.

    But with Reddit, it's like I can't follow the logic of these decisions at all, I can't tie back these obvious blunders to any sort of logical troubleshooting decision making process for their company.

    Perplexing

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

    The logic is the same as Twitter, Spez said so: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700

    Huffman said he saw Musk’s handling of Twitter, which he purchased last year, as an example for Reddit to follow.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Fucking wat Spez been sniffing gas straight from the pump or wat?

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago

    Please, the Speztic has been fighting to cram his rectum docking nose deeper into the Elongated Muskrat's anus every chance he's gotten. He's the epitome of every single one of Elon's cucked, arse barnacle followers, the only difference is he also had a world class platform to burn to the ground in retarded mimicry of his waste of a good wankstain idol.

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

    The logic is to destabilise public forums ahead of upcoming elections, so the wealthy can consolidate more power.

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

    I hate that this take seems like the conspiracy take but also is totally plausible. Just look to the example of the Arab spring and how instrumental social media was for organizing. By fragmenting all social media it’s a lot less likely you see a massive resistance if shit goes sideways.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    This might be the top-down view, but the bottom-up is Telegram forums, Mastodon, Lemmy, and similar distributed hard to close down spaces.

    "Divide and conquer" is a valid strategy when one can conquer each part separately, "guerrilla warfare" is the aftermath of failing to conquer the divided parts.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If this is the case, I guess it makes sense why these bad, seemingly "money-losing" changes aren't going to be felt by the company or CEO. Soon as they go public, the elite that pushed these changes will buy up the amount they promised, spez will take his payout, and they will have "union-busted" another prominent social media platform used for progressive ideas and discussion.

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

    Regulatory Capture is when corporations install favourable politicians and former employees into positions that enact policies and regulations favourable to the goals of industry (profit).

    I think what we're saying here is Corporate Capture, where malicious players have captured major corporate entities in an attempt to neuter platforms that are used by the masses in an effort to control the messages given to the population.

    People start talking about revolution, and suddenly the mediums used to enable free communication are removed.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago

    Thanks for putting my thoughts into easily digestible words. Enshittification isn't natural, it's deliberate. Any CEO 's who throw up their hands and say they're all of ideas are just trying to pull the rip cords of their golden parachutes, given to them by people who want us to believe it's unavoidable.

    Was not breaking something that hard? No, but it doesn't pay as well.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    And Threads shows up right on cue with a stated deemphasis on news and politics. Meanwhile politicians are pushing to ban TikTok.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Well, TikTok has China, who would love nothing more than to destabilize the US further to increase their global power. Had it not been for COVID, they only needed to wait since tRump was doing his best to help them out. I suspect this is why it's only TikTok they want to ban anymore; it's the only social media platform they can't directly control.

    This has been happening to reddit over the last decade and was only accelerated when reddit was used to facilitate a short squeeze on the market and caused a bunch of "market makers" to lose a lot of money. They couldn't control reddit back then, but they sure can once it's public and they fulfill their fiduciary promises to reddit.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Agreed that Threads is sinister, but I think a lot of the reason politicians dislike Tik Tok is that it’s exporting massive quantities of American users’ data to China. US politicians don’t really take it seriously enough to believe that teenagers could use it to start a revolution, but they are pretty sure the Chinese government can use it to spy on Americans.

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