I had been on reddit for well over a decade. Joined because I miss message boards that died when Facebook became a thing. I spent almost 15 years on different message boards for different interests and just wanted that feeling of community back.
And it was fine, until americans decided to go full blown nazi. Now there is nothing but americans shitting on every minority they can get away with and reddit mods do fuck all about it.
Not everyone online is american and the rest of us are fucking done with their bullshit. The internet is a global community not a recruiting platform for nazis.
Remember what an absolute dumpster fire The Donald was? I remember one of their users got a front page post one day and said he called in sick to work to stay home and answer all the comments because he was so excited lol
This doesn’t ring true at all for me. I still like a lot of the people who are on Reddit and it has helpful, interesting content. Much better niche stuff than Lemmy. I just disagree with the way it’s heading administratively and I think it will ultimately mean the community and content aren’t valuable enough to keep visiting. It’s why I’m on lemmy now, not necessarily because all the content here is better yet.
Definetly still alot of good content on reddit. Lemmy is very new so the niche communities arent here, and lemmy doesnt have years of post and comment history to fill things out.
I do think with time those things will happen on lemmy & that the administrative priorities of reddit will slowly make that space less useful. Right now both have their uses, but i have high hopes for the furture of decentralized social media.
Its crazier going back to reddit and asking if each post is really just an advertising for someone’s product. Its surprising how often a post is a commercial vs real content.
I saw one yesterday for a water bouncing scooter thing where a guy rides across a river and delivers a beer. Water scooter gets placed perfectly to showcase the name. Multiple comment chains of “cool this looks fun what is it how does it work” along with explanations and hype threads like its a ginsu knife at a Florida flea market.
Saw a post the other day on AskUk or somewhere similar which was the most blatant astroturfing I’ve seen to date. It was someone asking if people had seen the latest ad for a toilet paper brand on tv with a brief description of the ad. The ad itself sounded like it had been designed to be a bit gross to up the meme potential, didn’t watch it though.
Makes me wonder where these ad people go to air their dirty laundry. Its an industry that never seems to reveal their secrets but we all know they do some crazy stuff. Hell they use to flash images of food in the movies decades ago right before intermission so movie goers would get hungry
Yeah the creative side of it is nuts. They seem to just throw things at the wall to see what sticks. I used to work in adtech doing web attribution so I’ve got some perspective on that. The upshot of it is that like 90% of a marketing budget is always wasted but no one knows which is the good 10%…
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