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  • Master@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlYou’ll be back…
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    1 year ago

    I check out reddit every few days and tbh lemmy has the same amount of mainstream content. The only difference is that reddit niche subs are more active.

    I think the fact that anyone can make the same community on a new instance diminishes niche communities more. If I pick a game on reddit ill find 2 or so instances with lots of use. On lemmy there will be 10 communities all mostly abandoned.

    You can feel a difference on reddit though. Quality content and content numbers are greatly reduced from even a month ago.











  • The only problem with that, and its not really a big problem yet, is that reddit is using your content to generate money for themselves in increasingly unethical methods. Previously you could see and interact with content without logging in from many different platforms. Now, on mobile, you can only interact with it on one platform (their own app that forces ads etc) and increasingly you need to be logged in to access it (so they can better track your movement and feed user specific ads). It is not unlikely that in the future they rework reddit premium to prevent people from seeing free content.

    So the end result of your content could be that reddit uses it to take advantage of someone in their time of need by forcing them to pay for a month of reddit premium just to get help with their issues which you provided a solution to for free.

    Now, that’s a stretch but only because I dont see how reddit can force a premium subscription on people without everyone rioting and burning the place down. But they seem to have killed all 3rd party apps which was also something I didnt think could possibly happen without bloodshed and it did easily.

    With all that said, I didnt delete my comment history either because I personally feel that it’s better to help people than to hurt reddit. But at the current direction and speed reddit is heading I think it’s not out of the question that I would in the future change my mind and delete everything.




  • Master@lemmy.worldtoReddit@lemmy.worldReddit kills awards and coins
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    1 year ago

    I think they dont like the fact that these awards also grant reddit premium to the user who receives them. But they cant just remove that feature of the rewards without killing rewards otherwise they look really bad. So the new award system will just be a community highlight. Maybe something that changes the background color of the post to highlight it on the front page. Like gold background. Then they will allow advertisers to also pay to make their “paid advertisements” also have background colors to generate a dark pattern where they trick you into clicking ads because you think they are awarded front page posts.

    Thats my guess at least.