cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
I just realized I'm taking my ad-free experience in Lemmy for granted. It's refreshing to have a little corner of the internet that doesn't slam you with advertising.
Support your fediverse instance if you can, many servers accept donations.
Uh oh! You’ve reached your daily limit of free Lemmy™ posts. Please tap here to spend 45 Lembux™ and refresh your post allowance.
My ublock origin icon has been at a steady 0 ads blocked in my entire time browsing Lemmy. It feels weird.
On several sites that counter climbs like crazy. I'm watching a YouTube video right now that's only 12 minutes long. The uBlock counter just hit 60.
Soon, when things go smoother, I absolutely wouldn't mind either having ads or paying a low annual fee.
The problem with Reddit was seeking out vulture capital. Turning a small profit, enough to pay people something resembling wages, isn't a bad thing.
The start of ads seems to always lead to a path of enshitification. One of the reasons I really like jellyfin is because they realized this and intentionally disabled recurrent donations. They saw what it does to Plex and saw the eventually the leadership's will try to sell out and sell the company or IPO.
Jellyfin saw the way every service seemed to go once the revenue picked up and decided they want to prevent that.
plenty of instances including mine and some massive ones like lemmy.world are fully funded by donations.There's absolutely no need for ads
Wikipedia is funded via donations, de-centralized social media could be too
It is too crazy for a company as big as Reddit to make a pretty good app that will make you not want to install 3rd party ones? well, seems like it is...
the hilarious part is the entire Reddit app is built on top of Alien Blue, which used to be the de-facto best Reddit app ever. They bought the entire app out way back in 2014 and built the current slow, buggy, security-hole-infested clusterfuck right over the top of what used to be a good app. During the official app beta, every beta tester complained about every problem they still have- poor battery life, shitty performance, unintuitive and space-inefficient UI, excessive ad placement. Reddit made exactly zero changes as a result of this feedback. Nothing has ever been truely fixed.
They could have done literally nothing but put a tiny bit more advertising in to Alien Blue and made every other 3rd party app basically become irrelevant. But no. They are simply outright incompetent and driven by standard corporate middle managers chasing the next KPI.
Fuck Reddit. Fuck Reddit.
During the official app beta, every beta tester complained about every problem they still have- poor battery life, shitty performance, unintuitive and space-inefficient UI, excessive ad placement. Reddit made exactly zero changes as a result of this feedback.
Ah, the Activision Blizzard playbook.
They are simply outright incompetent and driven by standard corporate middle managers chasing the next KPI.
Recent comments from the CEO confirm it. Bloodless money-grubbing techbro shitbag.
Well, kind of. They were already working on the official app. Buying AlienBlue was simply a way to force a migration. AlienBlue actually had very little impact on the official app’s functionality, because they weren’t interested in AlienBlue’s code at all; The buyout was for the user base, not the app itself.
This most recent API change is simply the next step in the process. They realized they couldn’t buy out every single third party app, so they just cut off access instead.
Spez thinks that redditors are junkies who are hooked and can't leave. It was easier than I thought it would be to leave. I only log in once a week for 5 minutes to delete any posts or comments they've restored against my will.
What a garbage C-team Reddit has, such a shame
Wait, I can redeem cash prizes?!?
You sure can! You can redeem your prize by selling your account to your closest advertiser!
Seriously thought for a second there when scrolling that lemmy had added ads
It was a horrible feeling man
The author of Lemmy is really tired of ads and big tech so will never happen. :)
I'm sorry bro cause I gotta hide this cause it's so bad but I appreciate the glimpse into what that place looks like
obligatory "charge yo damn phone."
It was fully charged ten minutes ago, when the official Reddit app started opening.
That's worse than last time I used it, which is when they were still giving free awards to use but you had to use their app to get them.
Hold on. CASH PRIZES? why wasn’t I told!
The hottest of garbage
I'm not installing that crap and therefor I'm not browsing Reddit from my phone.
I'm also not browsing reddit from my desktop as I spend most of my time online on the Fediverse now. Lemmy and Mastodon are great!
what a piece of shit. meanwhile apps like Memmy and wefwef are miles ahead with a clean interface in just such a short amount of time.
The newest update for Jerboa cleaned it up so nicely and fixed all the little issues I'd been having with it over the past month. So happy to have made the switch when I did. It feels so much more complete now!
Their podcast ads are the worst. "Why take care of everyday things when you can pretend to gamble!?!"
Ads should be illegal TBH.
Who needs that in their life? If your product can't stand on its own merit and you need to bathe swaths of the general public with nonsense to sell anything then maybe your product deserves to fail?
Don't post ads on lemmy! Giving them free exposure!
Ah yes, another day not getting spammed with ads and tracking software, lovely.
All of the people still using Reddit who called protesters whiners and power hungry mods are going to realize what we were protesting soon enough. Dumbshits. Enjoy the show, it’s gonna keep getting worse.
Do they have Farm with Friends? It’s the game that was on Facebook where I could farm while waiting for my friends to post updates. Maybe they could add a way to use karma to speed up the upgrade clock so I can cache in on my posts and comments.
