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.
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I’d not be surprised if they would join lemmy to explore this untapped opportunities as well.
Nah, lemmy is way too small for them, and it has the wrong kind of users.
That explains why I like it here.
Quite a few instances have a "no advertising" rule, so theoretically if a user joins and their entire post and comment history is plugging products from a biased perspective (outside of ~~a~~ communities dedicated to said products) they'd probably end up with an admin warning or ban
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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
I am a bit slow but what does this even mean? Looks like corporate speak cranked up to 11.
This almost reads like a parody.
these updates will improve multiple metrics for ad-buyers by selling new, even more structured and valuable data. We'll do it by tapping into our value as an information monopsony
And have we mentioned that not only would getting deindexed on our platform hurt your sales, we have "other" offers we can't admit to out in the open
It's like they read the enshittification essay and thought "wow! There's some great ideas here"
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corporate speak cranked up to 11.
Hardly! My old boss wrote to the group that we should "effort to action these asks on the spends" and I realized he was one of them now.
But 'uplevel' is wonderfully stupid and you do have a solid argument.
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Well now I'm glad I deleted my entire history as well as my account. FUCK THAT. I haven't been on FB, Twitter or any of that other data grubbing bullshit in years.
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Welp, time to delete my Reddit account, I guess. I thought there was a (small) chance Reddit would come to their senses vis a vis the API, but with this shit, even if they do, who cares?
Thanks, Reddit. It was fun while it lasted.
Can someone explain what this means in laymans terms? How will this affect the Reddit user experience?
My interpretation is that you won't be able to trust any advice or recommendations because you'll have no way of knowing if you're reading the words of a genuine person or a well-placed ad. From the business perspective, your ads will be more valuable because it's a "better" way of targeting your market.
I could be wrong, but that's how I read it.
Even more targeted advertising aimed at reddit users.