“Come make friends on Reddit”

  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    They added functionality that allows you to hide your comment history, so now you have even less information regarding whether you are talking to a real human being or not. Before, they didn’t even have to advertise. Now, they’ve enshittified themselves so much they desperately need new users.

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      That little baby new account icon and comment history are two ways to check for bot, bad faith or both. Not saying you are, but it’s one of the flags

  • hightrix@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    “Come make friends on Reddit”

    Lmao. Tell me Reddit inc doesn’t understand their product at all without telling me.

    No one uses Reddit to make friends. (Yes, I know some jagweed will come with a story about their friends brothers girlfriends nephew that met their best friend on Reddit)

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      I have never noted anyone’s username regularly on Reddit. Unless it’s because they consistently had terrible comments, then they would stand out as either a troll or an idiot; honestly, it could go either way with many of them.

      Lemmy is small enough that I see some of your names daily.

      Y’all better stay off my lawn.

    • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      I make friends on aita all the time. The room is always full of people. They cheer me when I’m right, and ai’m always right.

      They say I need help because I talk to myself all the time, and that I haven’t cleaned the roon in ages, but they told me that i’mactuakly right, on reddit.

      /but really, I rareky used a platform as antisocial as modern reddit. It used to have a place for information sharing. Now it’s facebook. But it has a red snoo as a mascot and not a blue f. And yes the reddit alien mascot is called a snoo.

  • SleepyBear@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Reddit posting ads for more users is actually hilarious. They were soooo unconcerned with how many users they were going to lose when they made the 3rd party API changes. Like to the point where u/spez basically had a “let them eat cake” moment and just straight up said “were successful enough we dont care if we lose people”.

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        6 hours ago

        I mean from a business standpoint it makes sense. You make more money selling 5 hamburgers at $21 a piece than you do selling 10 at $10 a piece, as long as costs are similar. Having fewer users you’re making more money from can make sense.

        • dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Not even from business standpoint. Or maybe I’m misinterpreting the bottom line, but a business should be conscious about it’s business model.

          Why do people go to reddit? Funny memes and great comments. It started to become boring when the people started to act like bots (echochamber), now it’s mostly bots echoing arguments and memes of past. With your restaurant analogy, it is more like they started selling the support beams instead of product.

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    11 hours ago

    Come meet the most vindictive, aggravated, compulsively argumentative people you’ve ever met. On Reddit!

  • NoodlePoint@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    “Eh merde alors.”

    The audacity of that asshat running the place, just to please an even bigger bastard by banning anyone insulting the world’s right-wingers and despots.

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    8 hours ago

    I’m just so thankful for Lemmy not having built in posts that are ads. I hate it so much on Reddit.

  • cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Not only in Paris. Saw some of them in Marseille too. At first I thought it was some kind of “anti-ad” joke, where someone was giving them a bad rep because of how stupid it looked.

    Guess it was not a joke.

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    Maybe they shouldn’t have permabanned thousands of active users like me, with a 12 year account and nearly 1 million Karma. People like me built Reddit, and as soon as HitlerPig was inaugurated, the DOGE Goblin demanded that Reddit purge its membership. Now they’re stuck with bots, novelty accounts, punsters, Russian Propaganda Farmers, MAGA activists, etc.

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        I got banned for “advocating violence” in a comment that simply said “I work in support services and I can personally attest that women can be extremely physically and emotionally violent, and to continually portray men as ‘the violent ones’ in our society, we tacitly deny protection to all people”

        Banned for expressing this horrid thought.

        • LemmyBeMyself@lemmybefree.net
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          12 hours ago

          You should be locked up, obviously. (I am kidding)

          No appeal procedure is proposed?

          Have you encountered the same problems on Lemmy?

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            12 hours ago

            I appealed (not because I actually gave a fuck) and they denied it saying it was reviewed by a human, it clearly was not reviewed by a human lol

            Fuck that place anyways

      • KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca
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        13 hours ago

        Not OP, but the story is the same. Personally I said something bad about Elon. I don’t remember what but it didn’t break their rules.

        The problem is they delete the “offending comment” and don’t tell you what it was and don’t give you a chance to argue your case. I got banned from a subredit once just by posting some lyrics to a song from Nightmare Before Christmas (Kidnap the Santy Claus). There is no point trying to make sense of it. Websites all die eventually and others take their place.

        It’s Reddit’s time.

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          12 hours ago

          Personally I said something bad about Elon. I don’t remember what but it didn’t break their rules.

          It does not look good, how do you know it did not break their rules?

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            9 hours ago

            Because I know what I post there. I don’t know exactly what was said because it was from days ago and I posted quite a bit in the comments. they of course won’t tell you what the comment was because they deleted it.

            I think all of my anti-Musk posts were basically saying he was a douche or a dickhead in so many words. I’m sure it got reported, some basement knob mod banned me because they want to be Musk, and that’s the end of that.

            If me and my posts (both comments and original posts) are what they’re selling, and I can’t express my opinion about someone, then the place isn’t worth my time. Reddit can go the bots and repost karma whores for all I care.

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    I’m staying with my boyfriend because of his dog. Am I horrible?

    Is there a Parisian who doesn’t do rock climbing, Pilates, or ceramics?

    I’m going to the Maldives but I’m composting, does that make up for it?

    Just between you and me, who’s ever bought fruit on the metro?

    So, what do we do with the people on the wrong side of the escalator?

    Has anyone ever found the exit at Chatelet, or is that a myth?