For anyone concerned about traffic to reddit, the absolute best thing you can do is find ads next to "offensive" content and e-mail the CEOs and marketing departments of those companies saying you won't use those products due to their ad placement on reddit. Literally nothing else will hurt them faster.
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I'm fairly sure leaving the platform will hurt more. I left June 30th. Haven't looked back.
If you use an ad blocker and don't buy premium then reddit doesn't benefit from you outside of any content you post
You increase the daily/monthly active users count if they count only visiting people as well. Only by 1, but still. If they are using that number in any kind of negotiation with other companies to persuade them to do business with them (ad-related or otherwise), you probably wouldn't want to increase that number.
Not much, but it's honest work.
Edit: I'm not talking about this message in r/place in particular. I think this is awesome!
Wow, we were allowed a few pixels for a few minutes, granted by our corporate overlords whom valiantly watch over every pixel to ensure they get the maximum IPO value! Just kidding, the bots decided to make it another flag or osu image or some stupid shit.
The message has been there since day 1 surprisingly they haven't tried censoring it yet.
edit: sorry should have fact checked it's being overwritten by shitstains with some W1 poster whatever thats supposed to be (bots of course)
edit2: TIL its the logo for KICK of course that explains everything
edit3: they're mostly back now 😎👍
Nobody will come to lemmy if they don't know it exists so it's worth it even if it gives reddit so engagement
Sadly this message is already being overwritten by bots
Edit: the message about 3rd party apps is also being overwritten
Luckily the group doing the message about third-party apps is very coordinated so they have so far been able to protect it for a few days now
So it didn't take long for Reddit to turn into bots interacting with other bots
Dead Internet theory
Not a theory anymore. It's becoming a real life experiment at this point.
That is spooky. Of course I had to go look it up. Contrary to that first part of the Wikipedia page, this is no longer conspiracy. It’s becoming the reality.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
That’s Reddit for real now. Especially with the rise of AI and similar
Reddit is Deaddit.
I was going to ask if anyone was using bots to keep their messages up. That's cool!
I love how it's kind of anti-aliased with the gray pixels
I'm using the script now thanks for sharing is it only for the join-lemmy message?
Spez ist ein hurensohn!
You can tell reddit sucks now cuz r/place doesn't have gay and trans rainbows shooting all over
I'm just not interested in Reddit anymore. Haven't logged in since July 1st. Deleted the app and, I'm just lurking to see how this shitshow will end up. My 2 cents is that Reddit will gradually fall since a lot of the content creators, moderators and engaged people have left and a lot more will leave. It will take a lot of time but it will.
Great work guys. Now let's keep lemmy on there
Hehehe, This is amazing!
I actually feel a little sad seeing the BaconReader logo there. I had been using it for so long, and for the last 4 or so years it was the only way I used Reddit.
When I signed out of BaconReader that was the only place I was signed in, and I was pretty sad when I uninstalled it. Seeing the logo there brought that emotion back.
Who fucks a pez?
I honestly kinda don't want the general population of Reddit to join. I like that this place feels like pre-redesign Reddit.
The culture of the community massively started shifting around the time Alien Blue got bought out.
Everyone deserves to be able to find salvation from Reddit
Yeah you're right
eh maybe, I thought each server would have it's own little community culture unlike reddit. if you want to see less people and enjoy a more specific culture you could join a server akin to what u want, was hoping it'd be less one place than the many interterting places i was sold
Federation makes it feel like one big site. I'm not saying I want to exclude people though. I just selfishly like the vibe right now
Y'know...Thats based.
but we need lemmy to grow! I would say that the benefits on Lemmy growing outweighs a few members being "bad." (couldn't think of a better word)
Just signed up because of the banner. However…its got “.org” at the end currently. I’ll commit to helping keep it correct then swear off Reddit.
Thank you!