A quote that always stuck with me was: "'Your ad here' signs are proof that the ad spot doesn't work well, otherwise someone would have put their ad there."
Am I wrong in thinking this is sad as hell? Like seeing an old faded billboard with the same "your ad here!" text that's been there for ages.
It's really sad for me to see a social media platform like reddit crumble. I spent years there.
I spent more time at Reddit then I did in the K-12 education system. I have a lot of good memories and learned a lot from both, but I have no desire to return to either.
I worked there once upon a time. This whole thing has felt like seeing an old friend succumb to addiction and wind up derelict.
Wait… Reddit has ads?
Ya. That is a large part (not the only reason) of why Huffman gambled and lost on killing 3rd party apps. People using Apollo, or any other app that wasn't the trash official app, weren't getting ads at all or were giving their ad dollars to a third party. By killing third party apps, that forces anyone who actually wants to use Reddit to use the official suck ass app or the garbage desktop site which also had alt options that used the API. When users are funneled into only using official Reddit products, that means they're only consuming ads that Reddit makes a profit from.
I used Bacon Reader for almost ten years. It didn't have ads for half a decade and when ads did come, it was a non intrusive banner ad at the bottom. The Reddit app is riddled with obstructive ads. So is the website unless using an ad blocker. Reddit when used the way the admins want, is just one ass blast of shitty ads.
Hats off, that's both an argument for the use of third party apps and for eliminating third party apps at the same time...
I logged in to reddit on my computer the day after rif went dark, and there were noticeably fewer posts on the front page. I think only 8 or so posts were above 10k upvotes. I wouldn't be surprised if advertisers are pulling their ads in response.
I've been wondering what is like over there, I hope it's apocalyptic
Honestly? As another user noted, it's just boring. Not nearly as much is getting posted, and the comments are reminiscent of the days when we'd scramble to write "FIRST" in the comment section. It doesn't feel conversational, if that makes sense. Like people are talking at each other, not with them. Also lots of "lol nothing changed, why was everyone making such a big deal?" But then the front page is mostly politics, shitposting, and recycled ask reddit questions. Not a monumental change, but definitely lower in quality, imo.
We should all club together and get some ads for the fediverse on there.
The best ad I saw for Reddit (back before the grand Digg migration) was one day, everyone agreed to stop posting direct links to articles and instead post the links to the Reddit discussions for said articles.
Suddenly, one day, the entire Digg feed was links to Reddit.
We should do the same thing (on say 8/1) to give time for the different federated instances to get accustomed to the higher traffic, more activity on the feed, and more people to welcome the future Reddit refuges, just like Redditors once welcomed us during the Digg 4.0 exodus.
It would be funny and I'd love to see it but you KNOW spez and his butthurt bootlicking simps are petty enough to block/ban any link that goes to any address that's associated with a Lemmy instance AND instantly "permanently suspend" any account that participates.
Reddit admins even ejected their favorite agitator powermod, u/awkwardthepanda, for posting a John Oliver picture.
They are truly prepared to burn every bridge.
...
But maybe that's the point. Maybe they should be FORCED to burn every bridge and annihilate themselves in the inferno.
Links could be shortened and wouldn't show it points to Lemmy.
God they can't even make the joke right.
An inclusive or joke without the or is amazing. They clearly do not understand their users at all if they can't even get one of the most basic recurring jokes right.
Yea that's honestly worse than begging for advertisers lol
This is embarrassing.
What a weak revenue stream. Imagine being a business, investing in a subreddit, only for the subreddit to be inundated by bots.
Reddit is going the way of Twitter and it's astounding to watch.
Reddit post reading limit, when?
When the surviving 3rd party app users hit their limit for API calls you will absolutely get this message and probably an option to upgrade for $$$ too.
Your post made me think ads had already invaded. So, I hate you.
That's not going to happen on Lemmy. It is technically possible but it's very highly unlikely.
It's an unfortunate reality but that's probably going to have to happen. Instances can't be expected to grow and maintain on pure goodwill. Some might get by with donations but it's pretty known that Mastodon servers that couldn't support themselves on donations vanished. It's a huge ask for someone to pay money, time and effort to run a server for perpetuity. Usually you can only ask for 2 out of the 3 lol.
We already saw the original lemmynsfw get overwhelmed and just want to shut it down and hand it to someone else because they were having to put in so much work.
Hopefully because Lemmy is opt in in every sense, instance owners can do an ad setup that isn't intrusive or over bearing.
Otherwise it's just the big instances that are donation covered that stay and grow and Lemmy just becomes centralized around 5 servers or something.
I saw that on my few last days on Reddit. I was wondering about their rates b/c I was wondering what it would cost to take out an ad calling spez a complete twat.
I hope my username irks him continuously
Somebody on here snagged the username "spez" and that brings me great joy as well
That was scary. Thought Lemmy had ads already!!
I’m fine with ads. It costs money to run servers and build out the platform.
I’m not fine with the absolutely sleezy way spez handled the api changes and the ridiculous price. Utterly disrespectful to the mods, third party app devs, and Reddit users.
I'd rather we all pay a few bucks to not have lemmy get infested with ads.
Problem is that such isn't a stable source of income.
Though I guess Wikipedia makes it work. So I dunno.
Strong "Hello fellow kids" vibe
That's pretty fucking pathetic. Reddit for business my hairy ass.
Jumping on here to advertise my hairy ass too
Well?? Tell us some of its merits at least.
I can confirm: the audience is not there
I though I was going crazy for a second and I thought I went back in time and I was on Reddit via Apollo
If you go to the URL in the ad and click on "get started," you will see something interesting:
An 800 number.
It’s fairly reasonable to assume advertisers are leaving. This isn’t one of those controversies that has two sides, it’s just Reddit being shitty because they want to make more money, and mods, users and disabled people on the other side being annoyed with Reddit.
There’s very little for advertisers to lose by redirecting their ad budget elsewhere, but if they stick around there’s a risk that annoyance spills over to them.
It also doesn’t take much for marketing teams to make a change - they do it all the time to stay on the right side of controversies and avoid things they don’t want to be associated with.
Lol would love to see Lemmy ads on Reddit
I guess there's a limit to how many ads the He Gets Us people will buy.
Having tried to use Reddit advertising for business (a national company), it really wasn’t very good. They had very poor targeting and algorithms.
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