Good. Let it burn to the ground

Good, only 70% more to go until we can all tell Spez to gfy one last time!

Gosh. You mean making it harder and harder to access their platform without giving up anonymity is hurting their business model? Well jack me off and call me Betty. When will it all make sense.

GOOD

“When more than a million search referrals a week disappear because Google’s AI answers the question itself,

investors are no longer looking just at the next three or four months, but at how much of Reddit’s audience it will really own in the years ahead,”

said Vitor Madeira, senior market specialist at Capital.com.

Personally I am glad investors are worried they wont own enough users.

Reddit’s failure was inevitable; once capital exerts excessive control, it’s time for people to leave. Everyone has surely had the infuriating experience of being bombarded by trashy ads on Reddit often with no human customer support available to address complaints. It has become a hub overrun by bots and scams; when you enter a subreddit, almost everything you see is just bots.

love it. Hopefully it continues.

I haven't used Reddit with an account for months because they're dead set on attaining my ID just to give me access to my damn account

Fuck you u/spez. Fucking usurper.

Hey, you know what will make it easier for people to read our posts? Log in only. Also if we suck it's googles fault.

Good.

I enjoyed pre-COVID Reddit, where you could find all political stripes and religions, a virtual "melting pot".

Today? It's like Lemmy but with advertising. So much more homogeneous, and the moderators are deranged. Let them rule their dying empire with furry fists, have at it, it's yours now

Reminded now, right before I left Reddit I was banned from r/pics for being a member somewhere that they don't approve of, I can no longer recall which sub but it was lightly Republican flavored (my favorite political adversaries).

Why would they care? How would they know what the sub was intolerable without joining themselves? Why didn't they ban themselves then? They were despoiled, like me.

Senseless. I haven't visited since the login requirement, piss off

Private profit from community kind of sucks. Thus, reddit sucks. Fuck them.

It's still surprising to me that 2 years later, it's still double the value it was when it went public.

There was never any believable story where they would go public and become profitable.

finally, the market noticed the fact that I haven't logged in for 3 years now!

Reddit failed at it's original purpose. Hope you like your yacht payments

Whats the point to appear in google search, when you gonna lock your platform to have accounts to view the content.. Just asking.

Seems to me the issue here is overall strategy.

The overall strategy seemed to have been foster discussion, then sell that content to AI scrapers and search engines while also collecting ad revenue.

Problem is, if the AI search engine scrapes the answer out of the discussion, they'll often answer the user's question and thus you won't get the ad revenue from the click. And if you need to log in to see the discussion you'll lose the ad revenue from search referrals.

In short- 'we created a business letting others cannibalize the value out of our database and now we're shocked there's less value in our database'.

they hurt thier own traffic by banning users, and the people who use accounts to earn money through the site or OF in general, and not the propaganda bots.