Reddit is going to let you turn gold into money

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Reddit is going to let you turn gold into money
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They’re getting desperate to get people back on their site. It’s such a shitshow that they need to bribe users to post.

I have no idea what you’re talking about. I peeked in on Reddit yesterday, the first post was some creep trying to find his step aunt’s Only Fans site. Advertisers are sure to love that.

was it even his step aunts OF, or was it an advertisement of that OF account?

I know some people left reddit, but are we sure they actually lost more users than they gained from all the noise?

I haven't used reddit or even visited the site since the policy change, which was the last drop for me. So I only know what I hear and read from other people, and I never see any solid data.

Just from casually checking traffic stats on various websites it doesn't seem to have changed much, though I have no idea how accurate those sites are. This is more likely just Spez copying Elon's dumb ideas in an effort to increase monetization

Overall users? Probably not. The casual lurker does not know or care what an API is.

But the vast majority of content is made by a tiny fraction of the user base, and that fraction are the ones they pissed off. The quality of posts on large subs very much went down, with repost bots becoming even more prominent than before.

I have occasionally checked my former favorite sub since leaving - the stats are still the same (~900k users) but the content has gone downhill in a very obvious way. Each time I checked, the sub was filled to the brim with lazy, unfunny shitposts, extremely obvious t-shirt scammers and repost bots, offtopic content, conterfeit merch and sometimes an actually interesting post with like 12 upvotes or so, and you would have to dig quite deep to reach it.

And the sub creator seems to have abandoned it entirely. The description still says that the sub has gone private due to spez' decisions and that you need to use discord instead (the sub has been public again since the initial protest, just the description was never updated) and they haven't touched their own sub in 3+ months.

PS: I just checked again and they have a 2 day old screenshot of a dead frog with 2k upvotes as the current top post.

Wow, I don't like reddit anymore, but that sounds sad. I still remember good times there a few years back. 😐

Just adding to the testimony of others: overall quality of both posts and comments have dropped very noticeably. I visit occasionally on my desktop but there isn’t much to keep me there. I find more good content here.