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this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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What a myopic ding dong
Fuck u/spez
Reddit's CEO wants me back, and he's not having me this way.
Will be really interesting to see how this works out for them. They’ll definitely lose a lot of users but I wonder if they’ll end up getting enough of them to download the official app that they decide it was worth it.
I feel like its going to be a lot like the Twitter meltdown after Musk took over: a lot of noise in protest, a shittier experience for the user base, but it will ultimately live on because people would rather adapt to the new paradigm then move onto something unfamilliar.
I don't think its fair to compare to Twitter though. Most people use Twitter to follow celebrities, not for user generated content. That's why this place needs to keep its momentum going and attract users beyond the initial spite created by reddit.
My bet is on Covid brainfog. Someone on this level of intelligence wouldn't have created something amazing like Reddit.
Who's up to make work of scab mods harder?
So an ad click costs advertisers ten times as much as an ad view/impression. Trick is that you need to view the landing page and follow at least 1-2 links on the server. If you really want to wreck reddit and raise this a few orders of magnitude higher. Go back to reddit and start clicking ads, follow links and close the page, or even next level, directly type the address of a major competitor to the ad generating company and go to this address next. Then delete your cookies and site data. If just 5% of us did this, it would wreck reddit completely over night.
Honestly, I don't really want to go on a crusade to wreck Reddit.
I like the Fediverse, and I expect that I'm going to be using it too, and if it works out better, this is where I'm gonna be. But if Reddit can put out a product that would work well for me, I'd rather they do that than go up in flames. It just doesn't sound like there's much chance of that at this point, given the articles I've been reading for the past few days.