Trash gang unite!

The trash will still escape Reddit. As evidenced by my being here :)

This is the issue.

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

https://www.redditinc.com/blog/investing-in-what-makes-reddit-unique-introducing-contextual-keyword-targeting-and-product-ads

So they are now going to make it so corporate shills can dilute the quality of their content with a whole lotta shit

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/

Even is Lemmy isn’t right, why not have a look around and see if you can replace Reddit with something else, even if it’s a mix of stuff.

This is the beginning of the enshittification of Reddit - it’s no longer about providing a good user experience, it’s about providing a good corporate experience. This means that the content will get worse and worse , and less and less relevant. Stage 3 is where Reddit fucks over the advertisers and starts making bank, and shortly after that with no users and no corporate support it starts to implode…

And then you will need to move off the platform.

Or - you could move off now. Lemmy is ok, the best for chatting. I’ve been using Imgur for memes but miss NSFW content, and Lemmy is also very NSFW unfriendly. So for me right now it’s a bit of a mix.

I’m working on my own content aggregator with the features of Reddit, but in the end it’s just for me if nobody gives a damn and that’s ok

I’m getting the following error reading this post: “item at index 2 does not exist”

Should I post this on stack overflow or some other Lemmy help community?