Reddit's CEO wants me back, and he's not having me this way.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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Will be really interesting to see how this works out for them. They’ll definitely lose a lot of users but I wonder if they’ll end up getting enough of them to download the official app that they decide it was worth it.
I feel like its going to be a lot like the Twitter meltdown after Musk took over: a lot of noise in protest, a shittier experience for the user base, but it will ultimately live on because people would rather adapt to the new paradigm then move onto something unfamilliar.
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But yeah keep going back to their site and watch their ads, that'll show them for sure.
I use old.reddit on computer with ublock origin, I don't even know Reddit has ads, been visiting for 10+ years, never saw single ad, same on mobile where I use Boost + Adaway or Kiwi browser + uBlock origin, I will see how the 3rd party situation works out
I mean, I did too. But you can see why Reddit is grouchy about that. I mean, I have written a lot of content and posted it to Reddit, and maybe that has value that they can monetize. Or maybe there's some value that they can get from data-mining my activity on the server side. But they haven't been making money off my eyeballs directly, or data-mining information available on the client side, and I imagine that that's frustrating when they go crunch the numbers on their costs and revenue.
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So an ad click costs advertisers ten times as much as an ad view/impression. Trick is that you need to view the landing page and follow at least 1-2 links on the server. If you really want to wreck reddit and raise this a few orders of magnitude higher. Go back to reddit and start clicking ads, follow links and close the page, or even next level, directly type the address of a major competitor to the ad generating company and go to this address next. Then delete your cookies and site data. If just 5% of us did this, it would wreck reddit completely over night.
Honestly, I don't really want to go on a crusade to wreck Reddit.
I like the Fediverse, and I expect that I'm going to be using it too, and if it works out better, this is where I'm gonna be. But if Reddit can put out a product that would work well for me, I'd rather they do that than go up in flames. It just doesn't sound like there's much chance of that at this point, given the articles I've been reading for the past few days.
He is so out of touch.
Fuck u/spez
My bet is on Covid brainfog. Someone on this level of intelligence wouldn't have created something amazing like Reddit.
Goddamn I got covid brainfog and it was never this bad for me, worst I had was forgetting everything someone told me within 5 seconds unless I was writing it down
My jaw dropped reading the verge interview. Insane.
what a prick