The final nail in Reddit's coffin dropped today:
Dear User,
We will soon begin rolling out changes to Reddit's User settings. It is getting a refresh that includes changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings.
As part of these changes, we are retiring a setting that you have previously turned on that limited how we used your activity from the Reddit platform to personalize ads. We have replaced the setting with a new option to select categories of ads that you may not wish to see.
More details are available in our announcement and help center.
These changes are rolling out starting today and you may see the changes over the next few days.
Users will be tracked with no opt out. Posts may be monetized, which will make content even worse No refund or any type of usable credit for users that spent hundreds on Reddit coins The entire vibe has done a 180° since all these new "positive changes" are rolled out.
ah yes, just like how the oh so mighty mods pissed their panties with the blackouts, really killed reddit too that one huh
I mean, yeah. Have you been on reddit since the API stuff? It's absolutely flooded with bots trying to make up the difference. Which is like, reddit playbook 2009. The broken links are pretty prolific too at this point.
It's not going to like, close its doors, but it certainly isn't in the position it was just a few months ago.
I hope you're right and I'll take your word for it. I don't go to that site anymore.
no difference, why you may ask?
just look at youtube, same shit different color, it keeps getting worse but they are still the king in terms of video hsoting
Yes but the emperor has no clothes, and more and more people are realising this.
Also reddit is made up primarily by users and the posts/comments they make, YouTube is made up by paid video creators. YouTubers don't have anywhere else to go, but reddit users do and just need a critical mass somewhere else for reddit to go the way of digg.
i just hope, honestly, that you are right
Digg and MySpace still technically exist
Although it makes it harder for me, I actually quite like hitting a Google result on Reddit and seeing swaths of editted/deleted comments.
Yeah I think it's pretty clear at this point that 99% of reddit users don't care about this, which is why reddit continues to thrive while lemmy is facing lower and lower user numbers
Do you mean lower growth in numbers? Lemmy.world recently posted users for August and it grew by a healthy amount.
I'm referring to this link that showed the active monthly users for lemmy as a whole across all instances trending downward
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/4010705
The numbers of comments is growing. I would take that as the reliable engagement metric. The falling number of active users could be a sign of people settling on a main account.
Is Lemmy? I've been pretty happy over here, frequent it often once I learned of it not long ago.
I disagree. I think more ppl are leaving Reddit each day. My irl friends are bailing on it one by one.
I also feel the same, Lemmy is well..,. an echo chamber supporting Lemmy . Communties I used visit are doing just fine on reddit. But I a happy with the lower numbers and better quality of discussions