• Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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    Called it - content quality is dropping down considerably. Eventually not even your typical user (who doesn’t really care about API, mod revolts, etc.) will stay. They’ll simply leave.

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      Reddit shat on their content creators and organisers. What did they expect? Reddit could and should be profitable, the fact it’s not shows what a total shitshow it is. Spez clearly lost the poop challenge.

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        I can’t stop laughing at the idea of Spez trying the poop challenge. (And failing it every five minutes.)

        I’m pleasantly surprised though that the content quality is dropping really fast. I seriously wish for a failed IPO - Reddit is lost either way, but a failed IPO means that other businesses will think twice before doing the same.

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            Raising distrust among investors on the platform’s ability to generate profits. Making it look like a risky but not profitable investment. Making it look like “if you invest your money here, consider it gone”.

            In large part, the protests, exodus, content deletion, spam/botting, and spez himself are doing this. We just need to do it harder.

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        I said it from the beginning – the prolific content posters, the ones in it for the lulz and the community, will be the first to exit when you take away their mobile apps and such.

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      The bots that have been clamouring to repost garbage will be unleashed with fewer moderators too

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    damn, reddit is making ifunny look good. I miss the days that people would downvote a post just because it was posted 3 years ago in a different sub

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      Remember when Reddit’s whole thing was pointing out how much better it was than 9gag and ifunny? How the mighty have fallen

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      Just look at the damn asklemmy posts about your username or “you’re now catapulted in the last tv series/videogame/movie you’ve seen, how fucked are you?”.

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        1 year ago

        The German version of that sub has really non-askreddit sounding questions that are actually interesting, so it can work if the mods want to

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    Yep, this has become reeeaaally visible since a week or two.

    I used to regularly browse reddit without being logged in, it was a way to experience the default reddit experience for my region, see what people from my country would discuss as many French speaking subs were included.

    I could scroll a couple of pages worth of moderately interesting and quite diverse content.

    Now it’s mostly garbage, I barely reach the end of the first page. The diversity and the quality has gone way done, it’s like a distilled facebookesq version of summer reddit.

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    Has r/all ever not been shit? Just shit with a different target audience, I guess

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      Back when Reddit was smaller it’s was pretty good, for the last 5 or so years it’s become too big so all the default subs are just Facebook memes and boomer humour.