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New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion (medium.com)
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[-] SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Reddit's strategy is genuinely brain dead. Just think of the shit they've been up to:

  • Jacking up API prices to unreasonable levels and killing off third party apps that brought millions of users on to your platform
  • Continuously make the UI shittier and shittier to the point where it's unusable
  • Do the same with the app
  • Kill off old Reddit which is the sole reason millions of users still use the site
  • Add awards and expand the feature to basically become paid reaction emojis
  • Remove awards even though they were one of the biggest revenue streams
  • Announce it was a mistake and add the awards again
  • Add avatars that nobody asked for and make some of them paid
  • Add a premium subscription that does nothing and do absolutely nothing to improve it
  • Add a bunch of useless features that nobody uses like Reddit live

Truly the works of geniuses.

[-] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Old Reddit still works.

[-] SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

For now, but they've been chipping away at it slowly but surely.

this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
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