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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago
[–] unsaid0415@szmer.info 19 points 11 months ago
[–] suckmyspez@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago
[–] Binthinkin@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago

That place has become a reposting bot haven. The niche market is still hanging around but the main content drivers seem to be broken or gone.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Fuck Reddit

[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I wonder how ad view counts are affected when you actively drive away your hard core content posting audience? Hmm...

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[–] DrGonzo@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 11 months ago

Smoke a massive bag of dicks spez

[–] TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Those targets seem unrealistic even without driving off a core group of heavy users.

[–] jaschen@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

The company I work for spends ads on social media companies for ransomware protection and regularly spend is regularly negative. That means we spend more money on advertising than we do in income. We only do it to maintain some market share but otherwise it's just a pure loss on that platform.

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[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 16 points 11 months ago

Nobody saw this coming… /s

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I need to figure out the details of shorting an IPO between now and TBD 2024.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago (6 children)

You open a brokerage account and get margin approval.

When it IPOs, you do a short sale at your brokerage.
You get the cash for the sale immediately, and get charged interest for your brokerage "lending" you the shares you sold.
Later, you buy the shares back or "buy to cover" and that makes you square with your brokerage.

Hopefully the price went down enough so that the difference between what you sold at and bought at was greater than the interest you paid.

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[–] ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub 14 points 11 months ago

Spez looks like Ken trying to figure out how the human world works in "Barbie"

[–] anarchyrabbit@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Spez can suck a sick

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago
[–] porksoda@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

I wonder if this is the motivation behind removing the auth-gate on mobile. Previously, if I browsed the mobile site on my phone in a non-signed-in state (I deleted my account), I could view 5-8 top-level comments and that's it. Clicking "Show more comments" or trying to expand child comments would show a modal asking me to sign in or download the app.

That changed last week along with a complete rework of the mobile site. I'm betting that they saw a huge increase in unauthenticated mobile users with a far below-average time-on-site metric and decided to open it up.

Overall, I appreciate the change because I still lurk in many of the niche subs that I still haven't found a good replacement for. self-hosted, datahoarder, webdev, 3dprinting, et al. have analogs here, but the content isn't as deep.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago (8 children)
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[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

fuck reddit

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