Should we all short it at the same time?
No, user numbers are not down because of a Google change. User numbers are down because they went ban crazy during the election and Luigi stuff.
If you ban people who produce your content, your site quality & engagement declines. It’s not rocket science.
Btw, they’re definitely reversing some of these bans to try to pull people back, and inflate the number of “returning” users. They permabanned two of my accounts for wrongthink during the election, and they’ve already reversed one with no prompting from me at all, after denying appeals months ago.
A lot of that shit in the media right now. Story today on NPR about how car sales slumped in January and they blamed it on the weather, and while the weather might be a component of a slump i think theirs a lot of people out there nervous about the economy and taking a wait and see attitude, and that contributed more to slumping car sales than the weather.
NPR has always been capitalist propaganda. They’re happy to be a mouth piece for empire propaganda, including gaslighting people into ignoring their own economic struggles.
At this point, I check every comment I leave on the platform in an incognito window. A good half of them get shadowremoved for no reason. How do they not get that new users are going to leave if nobody reads, votes on, or replies to their comments?
I’ve had like 5 comments shadowremoved from the conservative subreddit because I guess the large oceanographic feature south of the United States gets caught in their word filter, and they hate the Constitution
That’s the thing about corporate America. As soon as you go public, the only thing that matters is the next quarter. The long term health of the company isn’t even on the radar.
They don’t care if people eventually leave, so long as they stick around long enough to attract advertisers for this quarter.
Honestly in my opinion, the minority of people worshipping Luigi aren’t much different from MAGA cultists.
Luckily people with deranged opinions like yours will always have reddit and x to call home.
HuHuHu you really hit me with that “No, YOU’RE the MAGA!”
I simply pointed out that siding with the most evil industry on earth, and a rightfully killed CEO who himself killed tens of thousands of people directly due to his actions placed you squarely on the side of corporate bots, cryptobros, billionaires, and people who think they’re capitalists but really just worship them.
Some of that is maga, most of that is worse.
I’ve never sided with any industry, and neither have you ever sided against it.
You clearly are not one of the millions of people who have suffered at the hands of this industry, or watched a relative battle insurance goons as they decay.
Oh I’m completely 100% against for profit healthcare coverage, I think it should be socialized immediately, but where I differ from Luigi Cultists is I realize the path to get there is legislative in nature. Luigi threw his life and his rich boy education away to accomplish absolutely nothing.
It is absolutely wild to see neoliberals cling so fiercely to the belief that all of this can all be resolved through enough dedication to process & procedure. To see this dedication endure, even as they watch a fascist coup unfold in front of their eyes.
It really seems like a mental illness at this point.
I got an account strike the other day and a post removed “by Reddit” according to the message for saying something to the effect of “protests without a threat of violence behind it doesn’t mean much to those in power these days” on a thread about some ongoing protests.
Something about a site rule violation for advocating for and/or calling for violence.
I think threats of violence actively detract from the value of protests, its kind of achieving the opposite of its goal when you promote yourself as the enemy of the people you’re asking to change.
That’s why Fox News displays every protest as a riot, to lessen their effectiveness and to mobilize opposition.
You’re probably right, must be time to be done with mere “protests”… How do threats of violence affect revolutions?
Hopefully soon we’re done asking the enemies of the people to play nice
You should take a gander at how revolutions affect governments.
(90% chance everything gets worse for at least a century)
My accounts were permabanned because Trump said Liz Cheney deserved to be shot, and I said I didn’t care because she’s called for the deaths of millions of people overseas. Banned for “advocating violence,” simply because I didn’t clutch my pearls that a warmonger was threatened.
Fuck spez
!fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com if you want to help promote Lemmy Piefed Mbin to new users!
I always thought he was a little piss baby but pigboy works too
Close, but that’s Texas Gov Abbott. Easy mistake, as they’re both giant pieces of shit.
Fuck spez
Fuccck spez
Fuck spez
Reddit has benefited from Google search updates and internal site improvements that have helped it gain a significant amount of new and returning users, which the social company refers to as logged-out users, over the past year and a half. Reddit has said it is working to convince logged-out users to create accounts as logged-in users, which are more lucrative for its business.
Expect to see more login paywall bullshit from Reddit.
The best way to increase the usage base of a social media site is to block people from accessing it. Everybody knows that.
Lol. I was perma banned cause I said something mean about Trump.
I was “suspended” (by the admins, from the whole site – not just banned by mods from a particular subreddit) because I accurately reported misinformation in r/conservative and the snowflake mods whined that it was “report abuse.”
lol, I was making fake Gmail and Reddit accounts just to mess with people in r/Conservative lol…good times,.
Once you understand how reddit admins are basically mods themselves it kind of makes sense. The company has hired lots of power mods over the years that don’t “respect the human”. And the forces that be want to continue profiting from volunteer mods’ free labor. It says a lot more about the individual reddit admins that they make the lazy decisions they do.
Every ban is a potential new fedi enjoyer
I suggested Ukraine started attacking back at Russian civil infrastructure after Russia attacked a shopping mall.
Spez did not like that one bit, since he’s a Russia supporter.
I was also perma banned because I did the same during Trump’s 1st term talking shit about the spray tanned orange turd, as well as cursing too much.
I commented on a sub with an alt that I was banned from without knowing, it was public freakout on the front page, I went through all the stages of grief, left an abusive relationship that took all my time
Same, haha
I was permabanned because I made fun of anime on a non anime board and it was reported as “bullying and harassment “.
Fuck your Chinese cartoons.
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What if every time you logged back in Spez would get kicked in the balls?
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They should make an app for that.
Well, maybe deleting my account
Fair point
What if they paid you in real life money?
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How very “Landed Gentry” of you.
(I am assuming that whole debacle is how you got your username? Haha)
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I mean sure, I would do it if it paid well…and then donate all the money to awesome fediverse projects and communities!
It’s too bad when one person on planet Earth has published a solution to a problem you have. And it’s some random commenter on Reddit from a few years ago. And under optimal conditions, the only thing to do would be to give a little thank you.
Vaat majority of time that account is deleted, banned, or inactive
It will be a cold day in hell before I make another Reddit account
They been putting them up for years now.
fedi4life
Give me more reasons to not visit!
Right now the only reason I have t ovisit is ‘wearing powered armor to a magic school’
“Plunge”
Lemmy poster OBLITERATES claim on NBC article. Readers OUTRAGED.
NBC SLAMMED by commenters from the fedisphere. Atlas SHRUGGED, twice!
Hot NBCs in your area want to FUCK.
-13% after hours on one day is huge. Many stock markets having emergency stops if the main index drops by 10% in a day.
NVIDIA’s stock tanked a month ago, and it’s already back up. Nothing really changes. There’s no such thing as a “plunge” in the stock market, unless a business is truly going bankrupt.
It’s referring to that after-hours part.
Damn I never noticed but that dude looks like a dollar store knockoff alpharad
Why does his head look like that?
Because he’s a greedy little pig boy.
Its a side effect of a diet that is a little too heavy on the pineal glands, so, I was told.
He eats pineal glands??
Dollar store Ken.
Leftover lube residue from him removing it from his ass moments before the picture was taken? I didn’t click on the thumbnail just my default assumption…
Reddit has said it is working to convince logged-out users to create accounts as logged-in users, which are more lucrative for its business.
By “convince,” they mean:
- Popup to automatically sign in with Google
- A button right under where you close that popup that shows a QR code to install the app
- Bottom bar on mobile telling you to make an account
- Clicking an upvote or downvote button instantly sending you to the account signup page, even if clicked by accident
- Full-screen popup only on mobile to download the app if you’re accessing anything NSFW (includes posts that simply have too much vulgar language, and are considered “NSFW” in that community, as well as any account page for an account that has ever made an NSFW post)
Yes, very convincing, heavily coercive even!
old.reddit still works… And it’s still a far superior experience to the shit they churned after.
Yep, that’s what I have to use any time I need to look at a Reddit thread. Although the “fuck spez” comments that people replaced their old comments with definitely make the experience worse… as intended. Good for them.
It would have been more fun if they pointed out that old.reddit is better, and also a link to RES lol
I love when I’m troubleshooting something, click on a record link from like 2018, and get a modal encouraging me to “join this trending conversation!”
Cant open any unverified communities, which is very arbitrary, any small community now requires the app
That’s part of the enshittification rug pull, they take over as the hub of forums for most of the internet and then gatekeep as a power play.
How useful is a forum if it doesn’t let outsiders comment or post, every useful forum has no limitation like that, I was posting one day into having a lowendtalk account, extremely helpful, was I supposed to lurk for a year before I could get help lol
Just deleted my account I’ve had for the past… six years.
So glad I got banned from that site (Not for anything wrong, I just pissed off the wrong power hungry mods which resulted in a site wide ban.)
Same here. The mods there are just power-hungry wankers.
In other news, Lemmy stock mooned infinity% from 0.00 to 0.00 plus beans.
Beans!
Jfc that thumbnail of Huffman’s face triggered me. How did he manage to make his face look MORE punchable??
With the power of ai they managed to create the most punchable face ever. So he only had to follow the blueprint laid out for him.
It’s almost like communication platforms shouldn’t have profitability as their main goal… maybe they could be… distributed… like some sort of… federation. Yeah. That’s it. Then everyone would follow along like… lemmings or something
Holy hell how much plastic did Huffman invest to look like a dollar general bond villain.
Dollar General‽ Please. Don’t insult DG like that, dude looks no better than Dollar Tree grade
(For non-Americans, Dollar General is a “discount” store chain, largely found in “food deserts”. Dollar Tree is a bonafide dollar store where everything (was anyways) just a dollar. Yes, the quality is about as crap as you’d expect (though sometimes they did sell good stuff if they were able to acquire it cheap enough))
Bros face looks like my cats anus while sliding a cookie out.
As someone who has to check reddit once in a while, they’ve begun to completely hide the topic and replies of some threads. Luckily, old.reddit still works. I’m not going to log in to see shit that is public.
I wonder if the “google search benefit” also includes google down ranking lemmy instances
