• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    7 hours ago

    Yep, not an unexpected outcome. Enshittification usually has a direct correlation with profitability; most people simply love being the product, because the alternative takes a little effort.

    Reddit is still hot garbage, though, and that fact is only growing worse according to my friend group that still goes there on occasion. I much prefer Fedi.

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    3 hours ago

    I thinks it’s because youtube, you know? Some guy with AI ‘write’ something, post it, and then another guy, with AI, takes that text and make a video with an AI voice.

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    6 hours ago

    I was A member for well over 11 years. I handed off subreddits, deleted all my content, then deleted my account.

    Never been back other than when it pops up to a very specific question I have. Even then, if I can find the answer somewhere else I will.

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    6 hours ago

    I have no clue how people use reddit anymore. If I open the app I am greeted with an unrecognisable mess of stuff I never asked for. Sorting is fucked, my frontpage contains stuff I don’t care for and everything seems to be yelling at me for attention causing me to close the app again.

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      16 minutes ago

      There’s still third party apps on Android that still work once you patch in your own API key and on the web, old reddit still works.

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      5 hours ago

      I remember trying to convince a book sub that “two weeks” is not enough time to stop putting everything behind a spoiler tag/spoiler free titles.

      Their argument “don’t come here and you won’t be spoiled”

      Meanwhile, Reddit is like hey you want to read this random post from a sub you unsubscribed from last month when the new book came out? its called “thoughts on Wally-Woo’s death”

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    6 hours ago

    No, it’s not. They are just making money by selling it to anyone who will buy. Any alternative that doesn’t do that will immediately take all their traffic.

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    5 hours ago

    How much of the traffic increase is bots. Because we still don’t have those numbers and I still don’t believe this is anything but bot influx and reddit grifting using ads.