Reddit forces personalized ads, starts X-like user payment program
arstechnica.com
Like it or not, Reddit wants to "improve ad performance."

I left a couple of months ago. Couldn’t be happier.

The writing is on the wall. The leader thinks the Genius-with-hair-transplants is a superstar, despite destroying a globally recognised brand. Inspired by this, Spez is trying to get Reddit ready for an IPO. This means, maximise profits by any means.

    • cheesepotatoes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      103·
      11 months ago

      No man made organization is infallible. Due to Lemmy’s decentralized nature though it’s objectively more difficult. Astroturfing or completely co-opting all possible instances would be quite an impressive feat.

      • phillaholic@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        You don’t need to, you only need to go after the large ones. I’m already on my third instance, and having to move is such a giant pain in the ass, I don’t think I’d do it again.

        • quicklime@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          What motivated you to switch instances? Did your early ones fill up with junk posts etc? I was thinking that since I use a reader app (Boost for Lemmy) and everything is federated it wouldn’t matter much if I joined one of the large and general-purpose instances.

          Or was it more about performance issues… service/instance traffic overload leading to slow response time?

      • zephyreks@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        It absolutely is, even if your particular instance hasn’t been. Lemmy.world probably takes the brunt of it.