Reddit shares plunge after Google algorithm change contributes to miss in user numbers
Reddit reported better-than-expected results, but the company issued disappointing user numbers.
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No, user numbers are not down because of a Google change. User numbers are down because they went ban crazy during the election and Luigi stuff.
If you ban people who produce your content, your site quality & engagement declines. It’s not rocket science.
Btw, they’re definitely reversing some of these bans to try to pull people back, and inflate the number of “returning” users. They permabanned two of my accounts for wrongthink during the election, and they’ve already reversed one with no prompting from me at all, after denying appeals months ago.
they are still ban crazy since last week. i and many people had several accs sitewide banned
Yeah, my alt account was re-banned after I posted this comment. I guess they unbanned a bunch before the earnings call to boost their numbers? Dunno.
seems like they are on the verge of selling reddit off, since they have been banning since NOV, in large waves(3 according to some people). i was in a forum where the people that use of had 10-50+ all gone at once.
I got an account strike the other day and a post removed "by Reddit" according to the message for saying something to the effect of "protests without a threat of violence behind it doesn't mean much to those in power these days" on a thread about some ongoing protests.
Something about a site rule violation for advocating for and/or calling for violence.
My accounts were permabanned because Trump said Liz Cheney deserved to be shot, and I said I didn’t care because she’s called for the deaths of millions of people overseas. Banned for “advocating violence,” simply because I didn’t clutch my pearls that a warmonger was threatened.
I think threats of violence actively detract from the value of protests, its kind of achieving the opposite of its goal when you promote yourself as the enemy of the people you're asking to change.
That's why Fox News displays every protest as a riot, to lessen their effectiveness and to mobilize opposition.
You're probably right, must be time to be done with mere "protests"... How do threats of violence affect revolutions?
Hopefully soon we're done asking the enemies of the people to play nice
You should take a gander at how revolutions affect governments.
(90% chance everything gets worse for at least a century)
At this point, I check every comment I leave on the platform in an incognito window. A good half of them get shadowremoved for no reason. How do they not get that new users are going to leave if nobody reads, votes on, or replies to their comments?
I've had like 5 comments shadowremoved from the conservative subreddit because I guess the large oceanographic feature south of the United States gets caught in their word filter, and they hate the Constitution
That’s the thing about corporate America. As soon as you go public, the only thing that matters is the next quarter. The long term health of the company isn’t even on the radar.
They don’t care if people eventually leave, so long as they stick around long enough to attract advertisers for this quarter.
A lot of that shit in the media right now. Story today on NPR about how car sales slumped in January and they blamed it on the weather, and while the weather might be a component of a slump i think theirs a lot of people out there nervous about the economy and taking a wait and see attitude, and that contributed more to slumping car sales than the weather.
NPR has always been capitalist propaganda. They’re happy to be a mouth piece for empire propaganda, including gaslighting people into ignoring their own economic struggles.
Honestly in my opinion, the minority of people worshipping Luigi aren't much different from MAGA cultists.
Luckily people with deranged opinions like yours will always have reddit and x to call home.
HuHuHu you really hit me with that "No, YOU'RE the MAGA!"
I simply pointed out that siding with the most evil industry on earth, and a rightfully killed CEO who himself killed tens of thousands of people directly due to his actions placed you squarely on the side of corporate bots, cryptobros, billionaires, and people who think they're capitalists but really just worship them.
Some of that is maga, most of that is worse.
I've never sided with any industry, and neither have you ever sided against it.
You clearly are not one of the millions of people who have suffered at the hands of this industry, or watched a relative battle insurance goons as they decay.
Oh I'm completely 100% against for profit healthcare coverage, I think it should be socialized immediately, but where I differ from Luigi Cultists is I realize the path to get there is legislative in nature. Luigi threw his life and his rich boy education away to accomplish absolutely nothing.
It is absolutely wild to see neoliberals cling so fiercely to the belief that all of this can all be resolved through enough dedication to process & procedure. To see this dedication endure, even as they watch a fascist coup unfold in front of their eyes.
It really seems like a mental illness at this point.
It is absolutely wild to see people actively oppose liberalism, and at the same time complain about "us authoritarianism".
Exactly what I expect from known Tankie scum surph_ninja
As expected, scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds.
You certainly are the expert on fascism. You worship it.
