No don't let redditors come here
No don't let redditors come here
Plenty of redditors are here, reddit did originally start with a good crowd. I myself moved during the great fuckery of 2023. However i believe that a lot of the low-effort redditors (or however you would describe them) you are reffing to would find lemmy just that extra step too difficult/inconvenient to get into and wont take it up.
I don't understand this sentiment. Don't you want Lemmy to grow and overtake the big platforms? If there's specific people or instances you don't like, you could block them. I see no reason to gatekeep Lemmy. I say this as an ex-redditer.
Come for the spite toward Reddit, stay for the lack of content and somehow even worse community!
Ok this part made me snarf:
When comments are enabled on free-form ads, there's an increase in community engagement, Reddit claimed, without indicating whether that increase was positive or not.
I remember a long time ago, like maybe a decade or more, the regular we-can-see-they're-ads ads on Reddit could have comments enabled if the ad buyer wanted. I remember jumping in on a few of them and they actually weren't bad, at least in the ones I went into (a biased sample to be sure). If the ads weren't obnoxious or misleading I could see it going not too badly.
At some point adblock got good enough that I stopped seeing ads on Reddit any more, though, so I don't know when they stopped that practice.
Advertisers stopped enabling it around the time it became mostly "MeUndies", "HeGetsUs" and "kraft" ads.
A long time ago the only ads on reddit were for communities inside itself.
I remember reddit was the only exception in my block rules.
Yeah I never understood that. Was it just to drive engagement? Were the moderators paying for those?
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Would they accept money advertising Lemmy? 🤣
Ahead of the Reddit IPO, I'm finally done purging most of my Reddit posting history and subtly modifying the rest to poison whatever AI is trained on it.
I have no doubt Reddit didn't really delete any of the posts I deleted, but I am hoping the poisoned information will find its way verbatim to an AI's training set.
Thank goodness I ran away when I could
They were kinda already doing that before I left
With all this money they'll raise from the IPO, maybe Reddit will finally be profitable! It's definitely not a way for investors to unload their turds on the public.
The social media monster pointed to companies already trialing free-form ads, which include Just Eat Takeaway, Kraft Heinz, and Leica, all of which found the format capable of "driving upper funnel results."
Actually, I'd really like to see a screenshot of these Leica ads if anyone comes across one.
Probably the healthiest decision I've made in the last 24 hours!