Reddit forces personalized ads, starts X-like user payment program
arstechnica.com
Like it or not, Reddit wants to "improve ad performance."

I left a couple of months ago. Couldn’t be happier.

The writing is on the wall. The leader thinks the Genius-with-hair-transplants is a superstar, despite destroying a globally recognised brand. Inspired by this, Spez is trying to get Reddit ready for an IPO. This means, maximise profits by any means.

  • @debuglazy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26•9 months ago

    They haven’t been trustworthy in years! Reddit is heavily astroturfed by government agents. Ft Elgin was the “most reddit addicted” city and it’s also where they conduct propaganda ops. They quietly scrubbed that fact. If you like reddit you must be waiting for your pension from uncle sam otherwise you’re a zuck style dumb fuck

    • phillaholicEnglish
      25•9 months ago

      Don’t act like Lemmy can’t be immediately astroturfed as well.

      • cheesepotatoesEnglish
        8•9 months ago

        No man made organization is infallible. Due to Lemmy’s decentralized nature though it’s objectively more difficult. Astroturfing or completely co-opting all possible instances would be quite an impressive feat.

        • phillaholicEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          You don’t need to, you only need to go after the large ones. I’m already on my third instance, and having to move is such a giant pain in the ass, I don’t think I’d do it again.

          • quicklimeEnglish
            1•9 months ago

            What motivated you to switch instances? Did your early ones fill up with junk posts etc? I was thinking that since I use a reader app (Boost for Lemmy) and everything is federated it wouldn’t matter much if I joined one of the large and general-purpose instances.

            Or was it more about performance issues… service/instance traffic overload leading to slow response time?

            • phillaholicEnglish
              1•9 months ago

              Performance issues, which of course is the issue with federation. Sometimes it was my instance having issues, other times it was the instance I was posting too. One of them defederated from a large one and didn’t allow downvoting, which I would forget via a third party app and it would hang before erroring out.

              • quicklimeEnglish
                1•9 months ago

                Thanks for the info! Yeah, it’s going to take the fediverse in general some time to get smoother. I’m excited to watch it improve even if the pace is slow.

        • @zephyreks@lemmy.caEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          It absolutely is, even if your particular instance hasn’t been. Lemmy.world probably takes the brunt of it.