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The Daily Check-In for Saturday July 29th - Just for Today, We are NOT Drinking! by maple in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Day 49! IWNDWYT!

Seen on reddit: Ran out of advertisers. Why? Yes. by maple in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

This is embarrassing.

What a weak revenue stream. Imagine being a business, investing in a subreddit, only for the subreddit to be inundated by bots.

Reddit is going the way of Twitter and it's astounding to watch.

Lemmy is so good right now for no particular reason by maple in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lemmy reminds me of how Reddit felt between 2008 ~ 2013ish.

There seems to be a disproportionate number of longtime Reddit users defecting to Lemmy and I think that the self-selecting nature of Lemmites(?) is why there are such great vibes here.

Reddit is dead. Long live Lemmy!

Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave by maple in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

At the end of the day, Reddit is just a message board. The absolute hubris to think that one could seriously go public with a message board website... It's baffling.

Honestly, Reddit missed the ship to IPO. They should have done it a decade ago if at all.

Without mods, Reddit will become overrun with bots, rendering the precious data Reddit so desparately tries to monetize practically useless.

“Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” - The Verge by maple in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Reddit can't run without its moderators and it can't monetize without data. I encourage everyone who's defected to Lemmy from Reddit to wipe their old Reddit account using Redact. I just wiped my old account of 15 years worth of comments and post history.