This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Because Reddit is a nazi sympathizing, brown shirt wearing shithole for jack booted thugs and fascists. It all started when some cunt at Reddit thought “what if my user base was a product?”, and thus the en-digg-ification of Reddit was complete.
Fuck that fascist friendly corpo shithole, it belongs in the dumpster next to Digg.
Reddit feels like walking into a creepy anamatronic exibit alone at night. You keep looking for someone to ask where the exit is, and occasionally you bump into another warm blooded creature that is sometimes human, but you slowly start to realise that most of those shadowy figures aren't alive. You're trapped there until you start listening for the real music softly calling below the ambient noise of the exhibit in the distance.
Five nights at Reddit
Reddit already had ads that appeared in subs that looked like posts with some tiny text saying it's an ad. This'll make it even more insufferable. screw Spez
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
If it wasn't for the AI nonsense, this could've actually been a great idea.
Businesses might want to use Reddit comments as ads.
Reddit says "Hey, let us find those glowing reviews that we have as Reddit comments, and you can link directly to the original source!"
Then the original comment writer could edit their comments to call political figures pedos, and businesses learn their lesson that this kind of stuff is not suited for using Reddit as a primary source, lol
Digitec/Galaxus (local online shop) does this right with user votes.
And statistics.
I enjoyed this ride.
Seems like being banned from Reddit was a blessing.
Here’s hoping they push more people to Lemmy.
Quotes from the original announcement:
Today, Reddit is the most human place on the internet, and one of the last places on the internet where brands can build authentic, trusted and engaged relationships with customers.
Bwahaha, "most human"? Really? Wow.
A scalable, AI-powered social listening tool designed to unlock strategic value
Barf. Oh boy, "social listening tool" - that's a new one...
These are tools for a new era of community marketing, one where brands can tap into Reddit’s authenticity
Yup, because nothing says "authenticity" like artificially realigned messages interspersed with AI slop ads. Such real, much authentic, wow...
By "Most Human" clearly they mean the most flawed and greedy.
Today, Reddit is the most human place on the internet, and one of the last places on the internet where brands can build authentic, trusted and engaged relationships with customers.
That reads like something out of their totalnotrobots subreddit. I TOO LOVE EXPRESSIVE AND AUTHENTIC HUMAN THOUGHTS.
Hahaha, great point :) HELLO FELLOW HUMAN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUILD AN AUTHENTIC, TRUSTED AND ENGAGED RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THAT IS TOTALLY NOT A ROBOT? :D
How better to celebrate the 2-year anniversary of Rexit?
The APIcalypse.
May the api access rest in peace
Joke's on them. I just post and comment negative rants.
I post positive ways to avoid consumerism.
then they'll use your negativity as a reason not to buy their competition
I'm perfectly able to be negative about them and their competition at the same time.
They just won't show the negative parts about them :p
Bastards... I spend a lot of time carefully crafting them :-P
"When I'm cutting people off in traffic, illegally parking in handicap spaces, and racing at 100 mph through school zones, I rely on my Dodge Ram pickup to get it done!"
When I plowed through that kindergarten I didn't get as much as a single dent. If that isn't an endorsement, then I don't know what is.
I mean this isn’t far from the current state of things. I subscribe to /r/fuckcars an anti-car sub and regularly see car ads. These advertisers are wasting their money.
Connecting ads masquerading as posts to bot posts shilling the same crap, got it
So they’re going to take what was once the best place for honest reviews and make it shittier.
Glad they don’t have an API or it would make the internet worse.
Welcome to capitalism!
I mean, they do have an API. It's just so expensive that no one but VC-funded EAcc weirdos can use it
I wonder how far you can push this? Like there was a whole subreddit (can't remember the name) that was dedicated to news that seems positive on the surface but is actually fucked up when you take 2 seconds to think. Could you just get chatgpt to come up with a way to positively frame the worst shit specifically to bait adds next to it?
Isn't it just the majority of posts in r/upliftingnews ? Their news is like "Child working 24/7 in construction site get enough Kickstarter donations to pay for his mother's cancer treatment"
Are you thinking of r/orphancrushingmachine? There’s a c/orphancrushing here on Lemmy.
Yep that's the one! Thanks for the Lemmy reference!
As a single mom, it's hard for me to be proactive about my kids' health, but I have to say that Cerave cream has been a GODSEND for treating the scratches and blisters they get at work.
One more reason to be glad I ditched that hellpit.
"dynamically integrates positive content from Reddit users directly below an advertiser’s creative, putting community conversations front-and-center in the user experience and blending AI-driven efficiency with real human perspectives".
the company is also introducing a “scalable, AI-powered social listening tool. [...] Informed by proprietary metadata, it provides precise, real-time insights that help marketers confidently plan campaigns, validate creative ideas, and make smarter business decisions"
I wonder how much they had to pay a business major to come up with those sentences, or did they just use ChatGPT ....
I have no doubt a way will be found to use this against the companies that deserve it, looking forward to the memes this will produce
This wouldn't be an issue if Reddit always attached relevant posts, including negative ones even if those were the minority, to actually help people make a more informed judgement about an ad based on community sentiment, but I think we all know that won't be the way this goes.
Posts will inevitably only be linked if they are positive, or at the very least neutral about the product being advertised, because that's what would allow Reddit to sell advertisers on their higher ROI. The bandwagon effect is a real psychological effect, and Reddit knows it.
I specifically look for negative reviews before buying something. I haven't really put numbers to a ratio of good to bad where I feel reassured about buying something but I'm sure it's there. If your product has 5000 reviews with no bad ones, something is fucked up. If the majority of the reviews are "the delivery guy spiked the package on my porch and it was broke I'D GIVE ZERO STARS IF I COULD" then that's a little better. Someone somewhere is going to have a legit grievance. I want to know what that is.
Wew, my raging negativity will keep them from buying my data then.
