Good.
I love all those “deleted comment” that keeps growing on Reddit. Users are waking up and destroying any contribution to that site, making it ultimately useless.
so they want more of those AI deals that tell you to mix in glue with your pizza cheese or to eat rocks? yeah curious how not more of this has happened…
What I think of reddit:
I can’t see any useful application of AI within Reddit although I could see AI companies salivating at the prospect of hoovering up data from the site which could be monetized in all sorts of unimaginable ways.
It’s fucking laughable “us daily users metric dissapoints”. What the fuck do they expect when they ban their long time users permanently with no appeal process, make it so you can only view the site through the app censor any revolt and start bringing on nazis.
It’s literally the antithesis of how and why reddit became so popular in the first place.
they ban your current accounts, because they participated in posts that got you “banned” in one or more subs, and even if lifted. but apparently they allow for future accs but you have to wait a long time. another post on lemmy said they mad an acct after shadowbans, waiting months to a year using a different browser/fork , this assuming you wernt using hordes of accounts that got ban though.
So is Reddit still good for porn? Redgifs is still pretty popular from what I see, and sites like Scroller and Reddtastic are still usable for browsing porn.
I’m in Nebraska so I have to use thunder vpn free for porn. Fkn republicans in my state. but still go to sites like youporn and redtube
it still has those subs, but you will have to look for it(most of them peddle OF though)
they changed the default search settings a while back to exclude “adult” results. then they realized this effectively doubled the searches and then they went back on it real quick…
"What’s behind the move: The user discussion platform company’s latest earnings report did not announce any new artificial intelligence data licensing agreements, disappointing investors who were expecting more revenue opportunities from AI partnerships.
Revenue of $804.9 million beat estimates of $731.8 million. However, US daily active users came in at 53.2 million, just shy of expectations of 54 million. The company’s total daily active users grew by 18% to 130.3 million versus estimates of 130.07 million. "
Lmao. 53.2 vs 54, and the headline says that’s why it’s tumbling? Nah, it’s gotta be just the AI. I bet most of the reddit investors were also invested in AI stock and wanted to use reddit to pump the others. Hilarious. The entire value of Reddit is human UGC.
and that 130million users arnt real people either. at least of half of them are propa bots, or bots used by people to drive traffic to thier own “business/marketing” sites, 1 person or an agency can use hundreds if not thousands of accounts at a time, something reddit most targets for bans, and is why they are aggressive with it, and yes they sorta ignore propaganda ones.
The user discussion platform company’s latest earnings report did not announce any new artificial intelligence data licensing agreements
AI scraping was a one-time deal, Reddit chased off a huge portion of their users, and AI companies need pre-AI comments, not the current AI-infused comments.
Yeah idk how the investors could be so dumb. Well, I mean, I do. But still. Exactly as you said, AI companies can just… Steal the data they want. Sooo
The company’s total daily active users grew by 18% to 130.3 million versus estimates of 130.07 million.
I’m guessing all of that increase is bots.
1.8 million daily US users is significant…
It’s not the main reason, which is why it was the second one listed. But it’s still substantial.
And the reddit investors wanted AI deals, because that’s about the only way to monetize Reddit.
If an AI company says they’ll pay money for data Reddit has, that would make Reddits stock price go up.
Like, what are you even talking about?
First off, that’s a difference of 0.8M, not 1.8M. So you’ve got that significance overestimated by more than 100%.
The stock dropped 22%, which a metric missed by 1.48% does not at all explain. I don’t think it’s substantial at all. They essentially hit the target. Meanwhile revenue was $70M more than expected, which would be the main value of users anyways (aside from data selling, but then of course we get into the other factor…) So how does that possibly equate to 22% price drop? It could only be because the AI partnerships were essentially the only concern. Hence why I said the only value was human UGC. Because AI corps aren’t willing to pay for that UGC, Reddits value plummets.
I’m talking about the annoying trend of stock market articles to try to explain things that hardly make sense. It’s trying to make it sound like reddit’s user count is in trouble when it’s clearly not.
0.8 million.
What’s this, consequences, who do thunk it?
They have screwed it up so bad I literally find myself on Facebook more often then Reddit and that’s after being gone from Facebook for like 20 years lmao
I’m on Facebook as often per year as I am on Reddit these days. Hint: you can count it on one hand. F— both of those sites.
Ya exactly… How crazy
It’s easy to see the effects of users moving to the fediverse. Reddit has been sad since it nerfed /r/All. In fact, it seems like a thinly veiled attempt to control what its users see under the guise of providing a more tailored user experience. For me, the overall effect is that it’s homogeneous, boring and I don’t want to be there anymore.
The moderation team is just not the same without Ghislaine Maxwell
They removed porn from r/all but if you browse enough you get naked drawn children. Fucking hell.
there still "hentai-related/adjacent subs that are pushed from r/all
oh no, you went to the thing that (is supposed to) have everything and found something you didn’t like
Ehh, I don’t know if we have that big of an effect on Reddit. I’d see more of their older, more traditional users going back to their ubb hobby boards for whatever their main interest is, which are very still out there.
I appreciate lemmy/Piefed being here as an alternative either way.
I just got permanently banned from Reddit FOR THE SECOND TIME.
This time they said it was because they detected automated activity on my account…
These guys are sons a bitches
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
So many anti-user choices. I battled through with extensions and user scripts for a while…
My final straw was when they got rid of /all including the workarounds.
