note that they (r/technology or Reddit?) censor PieFed, I had to say
Pie-Fed (without the hyphen, Reddit is censoring these comments)
Billionaires need their skin peeled off
Slowly.
Off the backs of the people still giving reddit free content for some reason
It’s the same with twitter (moreso really). I don’t understand how people stay on these shit platforms
The number of people I still see on Twitter, or having their Twitter link as their main social contact on their website, is insane. Not just conservatives either.
Yeah, it was nice while it lasted. I mostly replied to comments but after I got banned, I managed to pull every post I made that was a “how-to” tutorial.
Will rewrite some of the VintageApple posts I made and put them on lemmy.zip shortly. Mostly stuff to tinker with old kit and logic board swaps and unsupported installs and the like… I think I’ve worked out even better instructions now.
that’s how social media works
reddit really hasn’t changed much since all 50,000 lemmings left
I’d argue it definitely has changed, significantly. It was once a super useful research tool where lots of real users posted content. Most of the power users that posted “first page of Google” level responses nuked their accounts when they left, and it really shows.
Used to you could google a rather niche question and find a pretty active Reddit thread about it
Now it feels like almost every time I’m reading search results on Reddit, half the comments have been deleted, and the remaining ones are all 2 years old. Most newer threads are filled the the brim with generic fake engagement slop.
Fuck you, Spaz.
He’s only a billionaire from reddit stock, and that is a bubble prime to pop.
Bots don’t buy goods and services, they only generate numbers on spreadsheets. I can see larger companies being OK with bad sales numbers because they can spread the blame around, show the board what great engagement they’re getting for their spend, but that cannot last. Eventually your advertising dollar has to bring sales.
And imagine being the CEO of a smaller company where you have more control and leeway.
“What’s our reddit spend over the last 4 quarters? How many views we getting? What percentage leads to a sale (forgot the word for that)? What?! Fuck all that!”
Saw an article the other day where the author did some digging, even wrote some software to help, came back with 72% of ad views being bots. Now what if I told you 72% of your advertising spend was for the privilege of having bots view your product? Aw hell no.
I mean, he has all the qualifications to be a billionaire. For once, he is a douchebag.
Fuck spez
Thank you for sharing
Fucking hell
At some point I realized that I feel sorry for this guy. Even assuming he grows up enough to realize what he did, if he reforms, if he becomes like-able enough to make real human connections, if they’re disconnected enough to not know how he made his billions, still they will eventually learn the true story from someone and won’t ever see him the same again.
Try as he might, he will never escape his betrayal, because there is no next-town-over at such a scale of global connectedness. He is doomed to, at best, acquire friends that are like him, which is to say he will never have any real friends again until the day he dies. It’s a cautionary tale as old as time and yet he chose it. He chose the truest form of poverty we know.
Never feel sorry for a billionaire.
I don’t think people at that level have friends, more like business aquintences. And all they do is work; feed their net worth value must increase addiction.
Yeah, we have “every great fortune” truisms to that effect. I just can’t help feeling that his case is special. Somehow even worse than Zuck. Haven’t put my finger on it.
Maybe it’s because what he fed into the monetization machine was community itself? Or because it was such a direct betrayal of the open ethos at the core of the original platform? I’m not sure.
It’s special bc Reddit had a lot of close-knit communities that felt like they were more than just another social network. Facebook was always just some company building things, but Reddit seemed like it really was about the people. Spez looked at that and said he’d rather just have a lot of money. I mean… has he even done anything interesting with his money?
btw I don’t mean to bring you down, but billionaires always have hangers-on who honestly think the billionaire is some kind of genius and who genuinely want to be just like them, even apart from catching what few scraps they might get off the table.
he looks like a humanoid alien though. plus he idolizes musk, and zuckerberg how they turned into a right wing profit-making machine through AI/bots.
