Remember Digg? It once made a big mistake. Everyone left Digg and joined Reddit. Someday, history will repeat itself. That day, Reddit stock will crash post-IPO. Their entire businesses are based on users, and they have been hostile to users for some time.
@nixCraft You say that, but I’ve seen so many people bounce back to #reddit and #twitter after they got bored with the alternatives, or forgot why they were mad at those platforms.
Doesn’t help that fed’s answer to Reddit #lemmy ended up being taken over by chuds.
TIL I learned that there's a subreddit devoted to mocking "ridiculous" names given to children by their parents (usually unusual spellings, and yes, some go completely overboard). I made it three posts before I found my daughter's name on one of their lists. Daddy is mad!!!
Visit #FanFiction.net, and you too can try to decide who you dislike more: #CloudFlare, the website admins, or the authors who keep posting there (hint: the last one is kind of unreasonable but not entirely without merit). Most websites give you at least one reason to hate them in 2024, but this is a three-for-one deal. For even more choice, get your #fanfic recommendations through #Reddit, where everybody ends up linking to the terrible, unnecessary mobile-specific version of the site because they have a terrible, unnecessary mobile-specific version of the site. #fanfiction
It's been a long time since I was invited to leave Twitter, and I left (now I'm the happiest person in the world in Mastodon). Now they invite me to leave Reddit... where am I going? #twittermigration#reddit#helpmastodon
You are on a privacy-offending Cloudflare site (#LemmyWorld), so Tor users are blocked from seeing your Cloudflare-jailed image. If you care about privacy you will bounce from that instance.
Without seeing the image, I have to ask how an anonymous user gets #GDPR rights. Or has #Reddit started supporting an identification mechanism of some kind? When I start the reg process, it asks for an email address, username, and pw, not a first + lastname (but my test stopped when a Google reCAPTCHA push was attempted). I have zero sympathy for Reddit -- they are rotten to the core scumbags, but I do not see how the GDPR can be applied to anonymous accounts.
(edit) I gather from other comments you must have posted an email. Would be great if you could copy the text of the email into the body of your post so everyone can see it and so people using screen readers can hear it. Thanks!
Github dislikes email "aliases" so much that they will shadow ban your otherwise normal activities for months, and once flagged, support will request not only a "valid" email domain but also that you remove the "alias" email from the account completely.
{ Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early stages of monetizing our user base,” and proceeds to say that it will continue to sell users’ content to companies that want to train LLMs and that it will also begin “increased use of artificial intelligence in our advertising solutions.” }
@dangillmor I've nearly finished manually deleting all my #Reddit posts and comments - one by one - only to discover there's an app for that: redact.dev
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I've been a moderator there for nearly ten years but am not going to let them profit from my work for their #enshittification of the web.
@dangillmor#reddit is an echo chamber cesspool, ruled by some of the most toxic and vindictive mods that care nothing about free speech, and a lot more about controlling others. Using Reddit to train AI models is great for producing troll farms tho!
I gotta say, Reddit has some stones calling us “landed gentry,” forcefully removing/threatening to remove mods, and demonstrating just a general disdain for their own userbase, then following up it all up with “pwetty pwease buy our stock and tell us your real name” barely half a year later.
Reddit is going public via the IPO route. Last year, the CEO got $193 million, but moderators are not paid and expected to work free past IPO. Only some moderators and active users in the USA can apply for Reddit's initial public offering to buy stock at a special price. Most Reddit users are motivated by fake karma points and likes. Also, they banned all unofficial Reddit mobile clients. Meanwhile, the CEO profits while everyone provides free labor.
@nixCraft I never spent money on #Reddit gold coins or avatar tweaks. I only saw it as a way for them to further line their pockets with cash with zero value-add to the user.
On the surface, it's a #free forum site with communities for just about every topic imaginable. Under the surface, the users ARE the product. Every other conglomerate-owned #socialmedia platform does this.
However, this one feels different, especially where other platforms have tripped and fallen over major #greed driven changes which also have major #ethical ramifications. The lessons learned from these other platforms were seemingly ignored and valuable case studies were overlooked, again.
When the #api drama unfolded last summer surrounding 3rd party apps, Musk was well underway destroying #Twitter. More missed opportunities on how NOT to run a social media platform.
Reddit already admitted another blackout will hurt them. This will do the same.
@nixCraft #reddit to most mods: we’ll pay you in karma for that invaluable addictive #dopamine hit you so desperately need.
Mods: yeah we takes it, better than nothing.
@arstechnica I just got a message from my old account inviting me to participate in the IPO. Are they serious? Can anyone who knows more about this educate me on whether they would be a good investment or not? Not because I can afford to invest, I'm just curious about their standing and what people think they're going to do. #reddit#IPO
If you've ever posted anything on Reddit, your words are going to be sucked up into an "AI" database. The people who profit from this are Reddit and the "AI" company.
What do you get? Screwed, again, by tech companies that have pure contempt for your privacy and rights.
Reddit sent me invitations to their IPO to my "deleted" accounts! That's a GDPR violation! ( lemmy.world )
Any pointers on how to report them?...
Github vs. Email Aliases
Github dislikes email "aliases" so much that they will shadow ban your otherwise normal activities for months, and once flagged, support will request not only a "valid" email domain but also that you remove the "alias" email from the account completely.