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.
this is a slapfight I can get behind. I’m with team piss baby on this one.
I don’t really understand what piss baby means but I like the sound of it
I’ll make ‘team piss baby’ shirts for our club.
Fuck spez
Fuccck 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.
It will be a cold day in hell before I make another Reddit account
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”
It’s referring to that after-hours part.
In other news, Lemmy stock mooned infinity% from 0.00 to 0.00 plus beans.
Beans!
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
they are still ban crazy since last week. i and many people had several accs sitewide banned
Yeah, my alt account was re-banned after I posted this comment. I guess they unbanned a bunch before the earnings call to boost their numbers? Dunno.
seems like they are on the verge of selling reddit off, since they have been banning since NOV, in large waves(3 according to some people). i was in a forum where the people that use of had 10-50+ all gone at once.
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.
It is absolutely wild to see people actively oppose liberalism, and at the same time complain about “us authoritarianism”.
Exactly what I expect from known Tankie scum surph_ninja
As expected, scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds.
You certainly are the expert on fascism. You worship it.
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!
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!”
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
Cant open any unverified communities, which is very arbitrary, any small community now requires the app
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.)
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
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…
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))
The stock’s valuation makes no sense at all. A market cap of 38 billion on no revenue and declining growth?
Get fucked, Spez.
Oh boy, wait til you see Tesla!
As the saying goes, “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
Bros face looks like my cats anus while sliding a cookie out.
Reddit shares plunge after missing engagement numbers due to fall off following enshitification
Damn I never noticed but that dude looks like a dollar store knockoff alpharad
did you ever see him smile, so cringey and creepy
It’s only like a month of stock increases, they’re still up 300% since IPO.
I’m not logging in out creating an account, I deleted my hobby account a few months ago and I do not miss participating in Reddit.
I got one of those options to buy lol. Ignored it and happy about it.
Reddit’s sales jumped 71% in the quarter from $250 million a year earlier, the fastest growth rate for any quarter since 2022.
The company said first-quarter sales will be between $360 million and $370 million, ahead of the average analyst estimate of $358 million.
Net income almost quadrupled to $71 million, or 36 cents a share, from $18.5 million, or breakeven on a per-share basis, a year earlier. Reddit reported adjusted earnings of $154 million in the fourth quarter, topping analysts’ expectations of $128 million.
Reddit went public in march at $34 a share and has since seen its stock jump more than sixfold to $216.47 as of Wednesday’s close. The shares were up 32% this year prior to the after-hours selloff.
Sounds like I should have gone all-in on reddit stock. (If I had had money.)
Lemmy: HA! Reddit’s DYING!
Fuck me, the site is poisonous with bots and manipulation, but I’m not going to act like it’s failing. Same exact deal with Facebook. If I find a promising link to those sites, I’ll have a look. Otherwise, don’t participate.
When we say dying, we mean dying as a useful and usable platform for us, the former reddit userbase. The Reddit Corporation is a different thing.
We also mean dying as a place where you can meet and have interesting conversations that even when heated invite you into learning and thinking differently.
Lack of limitless quantity of voices does little inherently to degrade the quality of conversation, though of lack of diversity certainly does.
I have met singular people on the fediverse that I have learned more from and that contain more powerful words than entire swaths of corporate social media. It isn’t because normies suck it is that there is no oxygen in the room in those places like there is here and it leads a culture of constant self betrayal, and a feeling of ever present glare.
