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I installed the official Reddit app and went on it to see what the old place was looking like now. My inbox was filled with spam. The "home feed" shows subs I never subscribed to. There are so many ads. Between the ads and the the extra subs in the feed, it's hard to just scroll. I also noted a lot of spam in some of the subs. Maybe they are subs with no mods? I'm not sure what's up with that.

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[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Don't know what you mean. I don't have hard statistics but it seems pretty apparent that Reddit weathered the storm well, just as he said they would.

Sure, some users got very angry with Spez and Reddit but ultimately didn't go anywhere. They continue to complain about Reddit on Reddit.

Sure, some users left entirely but I'm certain many many more chose to subject themselves to the data-mining, ads, and pop-up notifications in the official app, thereby continuing to contribute to increasing Reddit's value.

If Twitter has taught us anything, it's that once you've built a sufficient userbase, there's almost nothing they won't tolerate.

[-] vivadanang@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t have hard statistics but it seems pretty apparent that Reddit weathered the storm well, just as he said they would.

did I say I had hard statistics saying Reddit was going down?

No, no I didn't, but you imagined that and just ran with a few paragraphs retorting it lol.

Damn Spez, way to shoot yourself in the face you fucking bellend.

he's lost thousands of mods. you know, the idiots (like me) who did exceptional amounts of free labor, keeping the place clean and fun. you can already see the effect in multiple subs, the spammers are back in force.

that's how he's shot himself in the face. They're never going to go back after this shit, and now that lemmy exists, people are moving on to the better alternative.

LOL, oh yeah, Twitter's doing great. How's that advertising working for 'em?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/twitter-ad-sales-musk.html

Please, don't reply to something you're making up in your head in response.

bwahahahaha all the new rising posts on reddit are crypto scams. https://lemm.ee/post/6038434

that's working out great for spezzo

[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

did I say I had hard statistics saying Reddit was going down?

...did I say you did?

No, no I didn't, but you imagined that

Please, don't reply to something you're making up in your head in response.

Pot meet kettle.

oh yeah, Twitter's doing great. How's that advertising working for 'em?

What does advertising have to do with the number of people on the platform?

[-] vivadanang@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

silly me, I didn't know how accurate your username was. gonna block this idiotic discourse because you either can't or won't read, or are just shitposting.

[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

More like blocking me because of what a giant buffoon you've made of yourself

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