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The gloomy sentiment around Reddit Inc. has failed to dissipate after its shares fell 50% from a February high, with volatile technology stocks under pressure.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (11 children)

lmao, they tried to suspend my account for "harassing" a scam post.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I got in trouble for “report abuse” as I reported every post for sexualizing minors in a sub dedicated to a certain musician/OnlyFans model “in their prime” aka before they were 18.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (7 children)

All I use reddit for is porn now, so the ads are really easy to spot. Like if I see someone trying to show me tupperware when I was just looking at goth girls and femboys, I know to keep scrolling.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reddit Revanced my brother.

Search for Update me app in F-Droid.

No ads and disable all the other unnecessary functions.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Oh no! Anyways, what's everyone's Friday plans?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With the push to please investors, user experience will likely suffer even more.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Not just investors, but the fascist US government.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (5 children)

So I work in advertising for a company that is top 20 on the Fortune 500. We advertise everywhere including Reddit.

The returns on Reddit isn't even very good. We still spend money there as a pure name recognition play.

As of now, for the company I work for, it's not working.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I just don't understand why a person would choose to invest in Reddit. What exactly is the value proposition here?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Eat shit Spaz. Fuck you.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Fuck reddit , its becoming weird being on there ... its feels off , like you're in an uncanny valley not knowing if you are taljing to a bot , a person or a troll

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The LLMs already got trained with all the reddit data ...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I'm gonna try to guess the most likely LLM response to your post, trained on reddit data:

"This."

How'd I do?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

BUY THE DIP!

I BELIEVE DIGG IS VERY INEXPENSIVE AS WELL!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's what you get for supporting fascism. Fuck you spez.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean why buy shares of reddit? What is it doing? It's alienating users.

Literally every single change reddit has done in the past few years has angered the user base, and the bot accounts increase day by day. Go to any niche subreddit, like one for a movie series, show, video game, etc. You will see a ton of "what's your opinion of X or Y?" And it's always such a weird choice of words, and it's clearly just a bot farming engagement to inflate numbers to shareholders.

I still use reddit, but I never post or comment. I strictly do that on one of my Lemmy accounts. And every few months, something will happen to make the experience worse. Like now, the frontpage "hot" sorting is broken. Just a bunch of zero up vote posts on weird subreddits I forgot I was subscribed to. Now I can't really get the news like I used to on reddit. It's broken, and there is tall that it's a result of Elon meeting with spez to talk about moderating the surge of Elon/Teslur hate.

Fuck reddit, more niche communities need to come over here, because I'm so tired of having to go through reddit to fine things I'm interested in.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was going downhill since they got rid of the woman who was running AMA

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Good. As shitty as they've been and as hostile as they've become to their own users, I'd live little more than watching the entire damned things crash and burn. More (but still not very) likely though is them desperately selling off before it completely self destructs. Of course if they do sell it, whoever they sell to will likely either make things worse or just shutter it. Most likely they'll stay the course and continue hemorrhaging usefulness and thus popularity.

Any way you read the cards Reddit is in a tailspin that they seem unwilling to do what is necessary to pull out of. Which is to say, they're too stubbornly idiotic to reverse their stupid, stupid changes and make a more open, user friendly, and community friendly platform. And I don't see Spez being that smart.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

I mean. Elon Musk is exerting control of the platform too. Do you really want THAT shit in your cereal?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

And my Reddit account is now gone, I nuked it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good, hopefully spez will get what's coming to him. He really ran the site into the ground.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Get! Wreckt! Spaz!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I see the fall of big social media into fascism as a big problem, despite the fact that it makes them less popular. The nazis are actively destroying spaces for communication of opposing opinions. They don't mind the medias are harmed by that. The important thing is that what remains becomes a fascist echo chamber. Most normal people won't be able to find alternatives like lemmy, so it makes the numbers of people with opposing views who are able to communicate smaller with every fall of a medium, social or other.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Far too many bots on reddit. Half the time I wasn't sure if I was talking to a real person.

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