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Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits (www.engadget.com)

submitted 3 months ago by shish_mish@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 330 points 3 months ago (1 children)

LOL paid subreddits. ok, yea--let me PAY YOU for the privilege of providing content FOR YOU. LOL

get fucked. reddit is a toxic rotting husk of what it used to be. good riddance

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 65 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Wasn’t that whole the concept behind that reddit gold exclusive subreddit? I’ve never been on there but I heard it was pretty barren anyway.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 78 points 3 months ago (5 children)

gold exclusive subreddit

i've been in there, and yea...how many posts about "yay we have gold and we have a subreddit only for us because we're special" does it take before you start to think "this is about the most pointless thing ever..."

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago

It was a wholesome way to fund the site before they sold out. There was nothing wrong with it being mostly pointless. In fact, it's better that way. Money gated subs outside of that one meme seems pretty terrible.

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[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I was gifted gold once. The subreddit was mostly Austin Powers Goldmember memes at the time.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That sounds like the only acceptable use of that sub to me.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 143 points 3 months ago (2 children)

tldr - “Reddit teases features to make the platform even worse”

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

I feel like I've read this one before.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 142 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh cool so we're gonna get another wave of users joining lemmy, it's nice that they keep fucking up at such a regular cadence

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 35 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I don't think there's really going to be some noticeable influx, but I hope so. Even though Lemmy isn't nearly intuitive as it could be, but it did improve atleast by some degree.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 29 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Voyager is pretty intuitive and can be used without even joining a instance

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Reddit isn't really intuitive either. Most platforms have at least some learning curve. We have a great ecosystem of apps that help. I only wish a YouTuber would make a good explainer.

Here's one for the Fediverse that I saw recently: https://youtu.be/QzYozbNneVc

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[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 110 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Left Reddit over a year ago, haven't been back once. It was surprisingly easy, and a year on, it's getting easier for others too.

[–] Streamwave@feddit.uk 38 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I miss some of the more casual subreddits, and somehow Lemmy is even more of an echo chamber than Reddit is, but otherwise yeah, Lemmy is fine. Especially with the Photon frontend.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

It makes sense, those that backed off Reddit were more than likely against Corpo greed while conservatives cheer it on. Lemmy was created by leftists supposedly and more left leaning people joined after leaving reddit so it's no surprise. Reddit kept the bootlickers and the lazy, Lemmy gained the anti-greed political left so we were sort of destined to be an echo chamber unfortunately.

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[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 32 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I left also, the API thing was the nudge I needed; I admit I've gone back for niche things: the fan groups of 2-3 bands and two TV shows. Reddit is their defacto fan forum for lots of things

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[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 97 points 3 months ago (1 children)

AI to summarize and recommend content, helping users dive deeper into products, shows, games

Notice they don't talk about hobbies or common interests, just "shit we can sell them"

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm sure in his wet dreams Reddit is no longer a community site but a thinly veiled astroturfing platform that's paid billions by large corporations to get their ~~ads~~posts in front of users.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, that's the definition of enshittification.

Make a platform that becomes popular
Lock in users and start to milk them
Use large user base to draw in companies with ads and influence
Lock in companies and squeeze them for all their worth

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 79 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

what a goddamn shithole. the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it. it's where the most users and content are. so many communities were completely erased during the mod strike and it didn't matter. they knew they would be completely fine. the future is an authoritarian world effectively governed by companies like this.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago (4 children)

the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it

That's what many social media companies have said, lol.

But the sad thing is many communities will (and already have) move to Discord. Which is even worse, as Discord is a siloed information black hole.

[–] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I still don't know how that works. Discord seems like the worst possible substitute for reddit. It doesn't work at all the same way and search sucks.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yah, I don't get this. So I log into Discord to ask a question, and the only people that will see it are the ones that are currently on at the time. The likelihood of it being seen by the person that can answer it are low, and it's not like it's going to be visible for when that person logs back in. This is all besides the fact that I could probably have answered it myself with a search of old questions on some platform that can be indexed. It's utterly bizarre.

If you're running a FOSS project or a community that needs support, you have rocks in your goddamn head if you think Discord is how to do it.

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[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Yeah as soon as I am directed to discord for anything , I move on with something else in life instead.

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 73 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Cool, I've heard that people love paying for access to their own content that used to be free.

This is a good time for anyone still on the site to share some Lemmy links.

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[–] maniel@sopuli.xyz 67 points 3 months ago (1 children)

haha, lol, paid subreddits:D

[–] Dan68@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And I bet the mods won’t see a nickel of that revenue.

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Oh they will it's called exposure. Exposure from the radiation emitted from their monitor.

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[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago

Can’t wait to pay for the privilege of visiting /r/sinkpissers

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 46 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Fuck Spez!

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[–] Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 3 months ago (2 children)

While I do miss the subs with thousands, and the very obscure subs for my specific interest, this shit makes me glad I got out

[–] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What makes me sad is how a lot of niche communities moved from websites to Reddit, and now they are going to die.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

they're definitely going to finally kill old reddit arent they

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[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fixing reddit search? Just insert a 2021 google search bar on old.reddit. I just saved you millions you dingus. Thank goodness Aaron Swartz doesn't have to see what happened to his joint venture.

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[–] Lizardking27@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Wow all 8 of their non-bot users will surely be very disappointed.

[–] vikinghoarder@infosec.pub 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Setting up the stage for a OnlyFans lookalike for all those wild reddit females

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Frankly that’s about the only plausible customer base I could see for that.

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Fuck Spez

[–] Veneroso@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, glad I jumped ship after the api fee fiasco. I never even used the mobile app, but the tone deaf/elonification, I was done. That's right he got the great idea from Musk. How's that IPO working out?

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[–] Hubi@feddit.org 23 points 3 months ago

This is a good thing for the Fediverse.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Don't post reddit ads on lemmy thanks.

[–] Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Honestly, I think it's pretty hard to call this an ad lol

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[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I haven’t looked back since they killed Apollo, the only headline I want to see is bankruptcy

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[–] ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Twitter made a great job with the paid blue check. It's so much easier now to detect an idiot just by looking if they have a paid blue check. In Reddit it will be the same. If someone joins a paid sub, you can already say they are an idiot.

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 20 points 3 months ago

good luck with that

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Some players in the ecosystem have not been transparent with their use of Reddit’s content, and in those instances, we block access to protect Reddit content and user privacy.

Aka "Fuck you, pay me", at least Reddit is transparent that data is for sale and they think they own it.

[–] UsernameNotFound@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Fuck reddit, I got banned from Worldnews for asking when Ukraine would attack other targets. I was banned for "call for violence" it was a post about the war. So stupid

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Pretty sure worldnews is modded by the same people as r/Zion. It's so easy to get banned from there - just call a genocide a genocide

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[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

"Reddit CEO teases new ways to damage and eventually kill Reddit"

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

“Tease” doing a lot of heavy lifting there. It’s only a tease if it’s something people actually want.

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