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[–] [email protected] 12 points 43 minutes ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago)

No, user numbers are not down because of a Google change. User numbers are down because they went ban crazy during the election and Luigi stuff.

If you ban people who produce your content, your site quality & engagement declines. It’s not rocket science.

Btw, they’re definitely reversing some of these bans to try to pull people back, and inflate the number of “returning” users. They permabanned two of my accounts for wrongthink during the election, and they’ve already reversed one with no prompting from me at all.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Why does his head look like that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 26 minutes ago

Because he’s a greedy little pig boy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

Its a side effect of a diet that is a little too heavy on the pineal glands, so, I was told.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

As someone who has to check reddit once in a while, they've begun to completely hide the topic and replies of some threads. Luckily, old.reddit still works. I'm not going to log in to see shit that is public.

I wonder if the "google search benefit" also includes google down ranking lemmy instances

[–] [email protected] 77 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

-13% after hours on one day is huge. Many stock markets having emergency stops if the main index drops by 10% in a day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 35 minutes ago

NVIDIA's stock tanked a month ago, and it's already back up. Nothing really changes. There's no such thing as a "plunge" in the stock market, unless a business is truly going bankrupt.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 hours ago

It's referring to that after-hours part.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago

Bros face looks like my cats anus while sliding a cookie out.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Jfc that thumbnail of Huffman's face triggered me. How did he manage to make his face look MORE punchable??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

With the power of ai they managed to create the most punchable face ever. So he only had to follow the blueprint laid out for him.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

Reddit has said it is working to convince logged-out users to create accounts as logged-in users, which are more lucrative for its business.

By "convince," they mean:

  • Popup to automatically sign in with Google
  • A button right under where you close that popup that shows a QR code to install the app
  • Bottom bar on mobile telling you to make an account
  • Clicking an upvote or downvote button instantly sending you to the account signup page, even if clicked by accident
  • Full-screen popup only on mobile to download the app if you're accessing anything NSFW (includes posts that simply have too much vulgar language, and are considered "NSFW" in that community, as well as any account page for an account that has ever made an NSFW post)

Yes, very convincing, heavily coercive even!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 50 minutes ago

old.reddit still works... And it's still a far superior experience to the shit they churned after.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So glad I got banned from that site (Not for anything wrong, I just pissed off the wrong power hungry mods which resulted in a site wide ban.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Same here. The mods there are just power-hungry wankers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Cant open any unverified communities, which is very arbitrary, any small community now requires the app

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

That's part of the enshittification rug pull, they take over as the hub of forums for most of the internet and then gatekeep as a power play.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 hours ago

I love when I'm troubleshooting something, click on a record link from like 2018, and get a modal encouraging me to "join this trending conversation!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

Just deleted my account I've had for the past... six years.

[–] [email protected] 162 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 182 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Fuck spez

[email protected] if you want to help promote Lemmy Piefed Mbin to new users!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I always thought he was a little piss baby but pigboy works too

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago

Close, but that's Texas Gov Abbott. Easy mistake, as they're both giant pieces of shit.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 14 hours ago

Fuccck spez

[–] [email protected] 125 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

Reddit has benefited from Google search updates and internal site improvements that have helped it gain a significant amount of new and returning users, which the social company refers to as logged-out users, over the past year and a half. Reddit has said it is working to convince logged-out users to create accounts as logged-in users, which are more lucrative for its business.

Expect to see more login paywall bullshit from Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The best way to increase the usage base of a social media site is to block people from accessing it. Everybody knows that.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

Lol. I was perma banned cause I said something mean about Trump.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I was "suspended" (by the admins, from the whole site -- not just banned by mods from a particular subreddit) because I accurately reported misinformation in r/conservative and the snowflake mods whined that it was "report abuse."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Once you understand how reddit admins are basically mods themselves it kind of makes sense. The company has hired lots of power mods over the years that don't "respect the human". And the forces that be want to continue profiting from volunteer mods' free labor. It says a lot more about the individual reddit admins that they make the lazy decisions they do.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

There isn’t one damn thing that shit hole site could ever do to get me to log back in.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

What if every time you logged back in Spez would get kicked in the balls?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

They should make an app for that.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 13 hours ago

Fuck. You found one of my many weaknesses.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 13 hours ago

It's almost like communication platforms shouldn't have profitability as their main goal... maybe they could be... distributed... like some sort of... federation. Yeah. That's it. Then everyone would follow along like... lemmings or something

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Reddit shares plunge after missing engagement numbers due to fall off following enshitification

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Lol fake news would never admit that a company got punished for taking a dump on its user baze's heads

[–] Rentlar 65 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

In other news, Lemmy stock mooned infinity% from 0.00 to 0.00 plus beans.

[–] wise_pancake 26 points 14 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Holy hell how much plastic did Huffman invest to look like a dollar general bond villain.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 15 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The stock’s valuation makes no sense at all. A market cap of 38 billion on no revenue and declining growth?

Get fucked, Spez.

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