“Come make friends on Reddit”
There’s big money behind it now, I guess. 🤷
Reddit: “Come make friends on Reddit, France!”
Also Reddit: “Ew… French 🤢”
Not only in Paris. Saw some of them in Marseille too. At first I thought it was some kind of “anti-ad” joke, where someone was giving them a bad rep because of how stupid it looked.
Guess it was not a joke.
Desperation struck huh?
What the fuck, that looks absolutely desperate! I’m sure it will have the opposite effect. Fuck reddit.
I don’t know how difference france is from the US, but I generally believe people are kind of ignorant and thoughtless. These will pull in people. People click on “Four things that are secretly unhealthy - #3 will SHOCK you” chum all the time.
Wait what’s number 3
Dying.
Reddit
Not knowing what number 3 is
the buzzfeed clickbait method.
I have been playing a game, Chasm, I Kickstarted years ago. I am having some difficulties and while Steam discussions are helpful for some, most discussions are on Reddit. The posts are 3+ years old, and every time I try to open one I get a notification that the discussion hasn’t been reviewed by the community so I can only read it with the app. Shit website.
I just redirect to a redlib instance, it works 99% of the time.
You can insert ‘old.’ before any Reddit link (old.reddit.com) to bypass that crap
Switching to old Reddit is a still-working loophole for that.
“Entre inconnus, on peut tour se dire” “Inconnus” but please sign in using this Google SSO modal.
Reddit has something in common with Russia
Full of bots.
do we have lemmy posters (as in the paper kind?)
With some flour you can bring fediverse posters to your area!
I would vandalise those to link to lemmy is I saw them tbh.
Cringe.
this is what the fediverse needs
Nah, this is one more landmark on the eventual enshitifcation of every platform. This is only happening because as company that is publicly traded, so someone at Reddit HQ realized that they could make more money off new french users than the cost of ads. So then they have a fiduciary duty to do exactly that. Just like the reddit API-ocalypse, the finical benefits data from every redditors mobile by being forced to use the official app was determined to be more profitable than those that left.
Either Lemmy dies or it grows enough to do the same eventually.
Well but as far as I am aware Lemmy has no fiduciary responsibility, as it is not a corporation, is open source and uses a web standard to communicate. Therefore there is no requirement for instance server managers to use the “official” version of Lemmy and could refuse to implement anti-user features, like specific app requirements. So I would say it would be really really hard to enshittificate Lemmy, if not borderline impossible, because users would just use their own fork, which would still be interoperable.
But lemmy cant be controlled like a company
Maybe it gets smaller because people switch to piefed or something but i dont see how lemmy can enshitify the way corpo platforms canA particular instance could absolutely enshittify, but it being easy(ish) to move off any particular instance if that happens makes it both less likely and the impact of it smaller.
Seems pretty easy to ‘improve’ with some paint?
r becomes f, add a .org
How is this infuriating? Businesses have ads.
Lol glad someone else had this thought. I get that people hate reddit here but this post is inane.
Advertising is cancer and part of the enshitification process where capital is wasted
I know a lot of it works but that’s due to to people having poor media literacy
Is that what we were supposed to do on Reddit?
Evidently they were friends, because they told me about Lemmy.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
The guy that used to mod /r/jailbait? Yup. That guy.
the alien called spez.
It seems we are ruled by child rapists so it makes sense executives are into it too.
