• ruleman@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    That’s not just any publication, it’s owned by Reddit’s largest shareholder. They must be worried.

    • can@sh.itjust.works
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      Reddit created a way to drive more people to its native apps (where Reddit shows ads and generates revenue) as of July 1. But we can’t overlook that Reddit was built on people’s willingness to provide free content and labor, and the API battle has driven away some of the most popular content and veteran volunteer mods.

      Reddit won the battle for API fees, but the war for desirable content—something no social media platform can ever be complacent about—is at risk. And that’s not the type of problem that ousted mods and forcibly reopened subreddits can fix.

      Advance Publications, which owns Ars Technica parent Condé Nast, is the largest shareholder in Reddit.

      This is too good.

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    AMAs stopped being interesting a while ago. It was more like a quick press release session with celebrities trying to promote their latest stuff.

    I kinda miss the IAmA part of it. People like us in usual or unusual circumstances sharing their daily lives. Like researchers in remote islands, members of ethnicities or cultures that rarely get media attention, cool or unconventional jobs and how they got there, etc. People and their stories.

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      Yep, that’s why it was interesting. Celebs are mostly boring and already have access to platforms if they want to talk to people.

      I want to hear from people who I’d normally never get to listen to and who want to share details of their interests.

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      Agreed, all it is now is a marketing stunt. Usually with responses built by some lawyer or publicist. But anyway, 1 horse sized duck or 100 duck sized horses?

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    1 year ago

    Looks like a certain super talented Australian actress picked the right place to promote “Barbie”.

    Margot Elise Robbie, you’re a genius.

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    Tldr: iama mods are no longer seeking out celebrities or doing any high value organizing like that. They will do only basic modding.

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      1 year ago

      Why are they still doing moderation for free on a horrible website that is reddit? They should just quit & laugh.

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    1 year ago

    Why would they want to do something for free for a company that shows them no appreciation? This is the right move.

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      Honestly, any user or mod that sticks around Reddit after this entire thing…I just don’t get. How can you be so disregarded, have your opinion so thoroughly dismissed, and then just keep creating content and driving traffic to the company? Fuck capitalism, but fuck reddit in this particular instance.

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        Honestly, any user or mod that sticks around Reddit after this entire thing…I just don’t get.

        Because they don’t care. Why do you think people are still sticking with Facebook and TikTok?

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          Because they don’t care.

          Not entirely true.

          Some of us are still occasionally browsing parts of reddit because not every niche community has fully made the transition yet and said niche communities are the ONLY places to get relevant, timely information for those niches.

          I know for me there are some decade+ old MMO communities that haven’t swapped over yet. Since many of the old wikis got shut down years ago when fandom, etc, took over everything, for some games the only choices are youtube and reddit. Personally, I hate youtube’s monetization forcing tiny bits of information to be strung out into 15-20+ minute videos more than I hate what the reddit team is doing, and I hate what’s happened to reddit a LOT.

          The move is going to be an ongoing process for a while.

          Labeling everyone with broad brush strokes misses some of the nuance of the situation, but I look forward to the day I no longer have to visit Reddit for the information I’m looking for.

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            Personally, I hate youtube’s monetization forcing tiny bits of information to be strung out into 15-20+ minute videos

            It’s not perfect, but SponsorBlock helps a bit with that, it can automatically skips reminders and such. And the new YouTube chapter feature is also actually good for finding the info you want in a video, but that depends on the video creator.

            I really miss the old wikis, Fandom is just filled with irrelevant bullshit like recommending me I visit another wiki that has nothing to do with the one I’m using at the moment.