It’s quite a shame that the vast majority would rather stay on a platform that hates its users than come here, but I guess that’s how humanity works
Nearly 20 years on Reddit. I survived the Digg Wars, API/RiF fiasco, and the infiltration of bots.
But I am so done with the anti-user direction Reddit has gone. So here I am.
is it fully rolled out in the world? I am still able to access reddit without an account.
Hello guys, thats why I got Lemmy since I have read that today!
Thanks for curing my reddit addiction, spez.
Time to log out from reddit.
I guess I kind of understand why companies want you to be logged in to engage with their platform, as the user metrics are the main selling point to advertisers, but man do I really fucking hate it when a platform forces me to log in by preventing me from using their website. So much so, that I haven’t made an account on Instagram or X or Facebook or whatever dumb social media platform specifically because I can’t browse without signing up. Well, that, and also the greed, the lack of privacy, the tacit endorsement of fascism, et. cetera.
No, I don’t want to make an account.
No, I don’t want to download your app.
No, I don’t want to turn on notifications.
Gah, fuck off with all this horseshit. The internet used to be fun. Now everything is a chore and nobody does anything unless they feel like they can make a profit off of it.
“We’re making the change because it’s better for user experience, better for our ads business, is more in line with safety regulations, and more protective of Reddit data,” he explained.
According to Huffman, Reddit has grown to the point where personalization is increasingly necessary to help users find relevant communities and discussions.
In short- we can’t datamine you if you’re not logged in, we can’t build a behavioral profile on people without accounts, we lick the boots of governments that’ll demand
ID checksage verification, and it makes it harder for AI bots to scrape the site without paying us. Really there’s no downside to anyone at all, it’s a win-win. Oh it’s bad for users and bad for the Internet? Is that important? Those groups don’t pay us, right?lul
You can’t even find news on reddit anymore. Who gives a shit.
Maybe don’t hand out bans like a single old lady on Halloween. I got banned for saying we need to punch all Nazis.
I can log and read a source for some tech help, then leave immediately. If you want engagement, unban everyone and return to the wild west.
According to Huffman, Reddit has grown to the point where personalization is increasingly necessary to help users find relevant communities and discussions.
More lies from Spez.
The change could also benefit Reddit’s advertising business by allowing it to serve more personalized ads
The actual reason.
spez wants a bubble algorithim to feed their users propaganda slop like facebook
This is it right here. Whoever controls social media controls minds.
Probably not a coincidence with the midterm timing. He just wishes he had done this three weeks ago.
Yesterday I browsed “/r/all” for the first time in like 3 or more years (I stopped using reddit altogether a long time ago). Holy shit I felt like my brain would melt, there was so much ragebait and misinformation that asks for primal engagement. The links I opened that seemed interesting lead to nowhere and the comments were so fucking dumb. Despite all that I kept scrolling looking for that sweet hit, I must have spent at least an hour of my time that I threw away. Thank God I jumped ship when I saw the direction it was heading.
Same. I went to reddit yesterday and it of course served me racist trash.
There are two subs for Sweden, one with 300k subscribers for normal people, and one with like 60k subscribers for terminally online fascists. The latter gets 10x exposure on the frontpage.
Fuck reddit, spez and EA.
The only account left that I have there was porn subscriptions only. I scrolled through it recently: It tries to make me mad about some political bull shit in-between all the NSFW. Really strange 🧐
Feed it to the bots
The actual reasons are certainly numerous but also certainly zero of them are “helping users find relevant communities and discussions”.
pretty much code words for “we need more fresh humans to login , because we just have bots running the site now”
How will fresh humans even know whats in the website if they cant look?
The bots are already logged in. Reddit embraced bot traffic eons ago because it “increases engagement”.
It’s not entirely wrong, in that Reddit is so full of bots and junk that a sizeable chunk of the site is unusable. Any animal photo subreddit often has more bots than a farm.
It’s either personalise or have the deluge.
Coincidentally, Reddit has just announced plans to shutter their RSS feeds, so if you were using those to personalise your feed, good luck.
Just because a login is required will not help with bots.
It does not, but you can block/unsubscribe from communities that have too many of them on the main feed, or block particular users from showing up, which can help with the repeats. That otherwise takes more logic on RSS, and isn’t really possible on the website.
that will not stop botting at all, bots already can make accounts very easily because they dont care how much gets banned if they can create more, they can automate it. but normal users cant do that, because they will get banned very quickly. what spez saying is a lie anyways.
also reddits have shown to preference not to filter out most propaganda botting anyways.
most users are lurking because they dont want to have account ban.
All but a proper search function
Pushing people into echo chambers isn’t even needed because people do that themselves. If you’re gonna profile people, autosubscribe all the libs to r/guns and all the conservatives to r/gender theory. At best people will learn something; at worst we’ll get a show.
Also, fuck Spez and fuck surveillance capitalism.
At best people will learn something; at worst we’ll get a show.
You’ll just end up with r/anime_titties situation.
/r/marijuana_enthusiasts vs /r/trees
Drawn birds?
more like AI companies not finding reddit useful anymore to scrap= forcing spez to make reddit a login site only.
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Reddit continues to be the biggest hurdle to Lemmy’s growth; the average person doesn’t care about how much private companies profit off of their personal data, so convincing them to leave the vastly bigger platform for Lemmy is a challenge.
Completely ignoring Reddit and its potential user migration opportunities would be dooming the Threadiverse to not gaining any new users from the most likely place those users would be.
It’s becoming a “fuck this I’m going somewhere else” experience.
it might as well have been already, if you use a VPN you’re surely accustomed to the Fedora Teletubby
It’s a shame because it’s genuinely a useful repository of information. I wish infinite humiliation and discomfort upon Reddit’s leadership.
I just came here from there. Reddit is getting weird AF
