No, it’s not. They are just making money by selling it to anyone who will buy. Any alternative that doesn’t do that will immediately take all their traffic.
Want this supposed to be that alternative?
Not really. It’s not an easy barrier to entry.
I was A member for well over 11 years. I handed off subreddits, deleted all my content, then deleted my account.
Never been back other than when it pops up to a very specific question I have. Even then, if I can find the answer somewhere else I will.
How much of the traffic increase is bots. Because we still don’t have those numbers and I still don’t believe this is anything but bot influx and reddit grifting using ads.
For me, there are just a few communities that are missing (or too inactive) here. For example, r/homekit. That being said, I haven’t made much of an effort to post, so I’m part of the problem.
Proliferation of bots ≠ popular.
Yep, not an unexpected outcome. Enshittification usually has a direct correlation with profitability; most people simply love being the product, because the alternative takes a little effort.
Reddit is still hot garbage, though, and that fact is only growing worse according to my friend group that still goes there on occasion. I much prefer Fedi.
I have no clue how people use reddit anymore. If I open the app I am greeted with an unrecognisable mess of stuff I never asked for. Sorting is fucked, my frontpage contains stuff I don’t care for and everything seems to be yelling at me for attention causing me to close the app again.
I remember trying to convince a book sub that “two weeks” is not enough time to stop putting everything behind a spoiler tag/spoiler free titles.
Their argument “don’t come here and you won’t be spoiled”
Meanwhile, Reddit is like hey you want to read this random post from a sub you unsubscribed from last month when the new book came out? its called “thoughts on Wally-Woo’s death”
There’s still third party apps on Android that still work once you patch in your own API key and on the web, old reddit still works.
For me it’s the constant suggestions of other communities and posts on my feed of joined subs.
Next thing I knew my feed was slowly filling up with rage bait, which I never had a problem with a third party app, and I’d close the app angrier and outraged than when I started.
It’s nicer here, lol.
That’s lame
I thinks it’s because youtube, you know? Some guy with AI ‘write’ something, post it, and then another guy, with AI, takes that text and make a video with an AI voice.
Reddit was never “mainstream social media”. Annecdotally, I have heard more people referring to Reddit in casual conversation so maybe it is becoming more widely accepted.
If that’s true, then I still have no regrets about leaving. If I wanted to look at a news feed full of hot garbage I would have stayed on Facebook.
I don’t care what they do as long as they do it over there.
Bad guys always win outside of movies I guess.
