“We’ve known for over a decade that people come to Reddit to talk about the products they love – take r/BuyItForLife for example, a community of over 1.5 million redditors who have been sharing recommendations and advice about their lifelong, must-have purchases since 2011. These updates will uplevel the search-and-discover experience for both brands and our users by tapping into our differentiated value as a hub for actionable conversation”
So paid manipulation of the sub that was designed to inform users of genuinely good quality products, this probably will be the case for every major subreddit about any consumer product.
Reddit is about to go significantly downhill.
Reading this shit makes my blood boil. Is it too much to ask to not be simmered down to a product instead of a human?
Of course it is
This is incredible, reddit will become unusable with all those ads everywhere, it will effectively kill all the discussion that they are trying to sell in that article.
Probably at least 80% of Reddit users, they are probably still there making the best of what’s left.
Consider they are testing blocking mobile browsers
I hope just enough active users will come here so I can waste my time here. For me it’s almost there.
I couldn’t have picked a better time to leave that platform. And Lemmy is getting better by the minute!
Jerboa :p
It still needs a lot of work, and there are some annoying bugs (particularly when using backspace in a comment) but it can only get better.
I’d not be surprised if they would join lemmy to explore this untapped opportunities as well.
