• Shin
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    61 day ago

    Mmmmmm I love not being on Reddit

  • @notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world
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    222 days ago

    Because Reddit is a nazi sympathizing, brown shirt wearing shithole for jack booted thugs and fascists. It all started when some cunt at Reddit thought “what if my user base was a product?”, and thus the en-digg-ification of Reddit was complete.

    Fuck that fascist friendly corpo shithole, it belongs in the dumpster next to Digg.

  • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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    572 days ago

    If it wasn’t for the AI nonsense, this could’ve actually been a great idea.

    Businesses might want to use Reddit comments as ads.

    Reddit says “Hey, let us find those glowing reviews that we have as Reddit comments, and you can link directly to the original source!”

    Then the original comment writer could edit their comments to call political figures pedos, and businesses learn their lesson that this kind of stuff is not suited for using Reddit as a primary source, lol

  • @fossilesque@mander.xyz
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    202 days ago

    Reddit feels like walking into a creepy anamatronic exibit alone at night. You keep looking for someone to ask where the exit is, and occasionally you bump into another warm blooded creature that is sometimes human, but you slowly start to realise that most of those shadowy figures aren’t alive. You’re trapped there until you start listening for the real music softly calling below the ambient noise of the exhibit in the distance.

  • Sundray
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    713 days ago

    “When I’m cutting people off in traffic, illegally parking in handicap spaces, and racing at 100 mph through school zones, I rely on my Dodge Ram pickup to get it done!”

    • @const_void@lemmy.ml
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      263 days ago

      I mean this isn’t far from the current state of things. I subscribe to /r/fuckcars an anti-car sub and regularly see car ads. These advertisers are wasting their money.

      • chaosCruiser
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        All of this spying and data hoarding has resulted in a finely tuned advertising machine that directs car ads to people who specifically hate cars with a burning passion. Peak of targeted advertising.👌

        And people still wonder why I use every means within my disposal to block ads. Even if I allowed ads, they aren’t targeted enough to be much more than an annoyance. Even when they somehow manage to show me something I care about, I’m seeing an interesting product from the highest paying company. It’s not the best product in that category, nor is the one that would serve me best. It’s the one from the company that was willing to pay more than any other. Advertising is just so broken in every way you can think of.

    • @musubibreakfast@lemm.ee
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      92 days ago

      When I plowed through that kindergarten I didn’t get as much as a single dent. If that isn’t an endorsement, then I don’t know what is.

  • @doctortofu@reddthat.com
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    423 days ago

    Quotes from the original announcement:

    Today, Reddit is the most human place on the internet, and one of the last places on the internet where brands can build authentic, trusted and engaged relationships with customers.

    Bwahaha, “most human”? Really? Wow.

    A scalable, AI-powered social listening tool designed to unlock strategic value

    Barf. Oh boy, “social listening tool” - that’s a new one…

    These are tools for a new era of community marketing, one where brands can tap into Reddit’s authenticity

    Yup, because nothing says “authenticity” like artificially realigned messages interspersed with AI slop ads. Such real, much authentic, wow…

    • @nthavoc@lemmy.today
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      213 days ago

      Today, Reddit is the most human place on the internet, and one of the last places on the internet where brands can build authentic, trusted and engaged relationships with customers.

      That reads like something out of their totalnotrobots subreddit. I TOO LOVE EXPRESSIVE AND AUTHENTIC HUMAN THOUGHTS.

      • @doctortofu@reddthat.com
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        82 days ago

        Hahaha, great point :) HELLO FELLOW HUMAN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUILD AN AUTHENTIC, TRUSTED AND ENGAGED RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THAT IS TOTALLY NOT A ROBOT? :D

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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    433 days ago

    So they’re going to take what was once the best place for honest reviews and make it shittier.

    Glad they don’t have an API or it would make the internet worse.

  • Frenchfryenjoyer (she/her)
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    82 days ago

    Reddit already had ads that appeared in subs that looked like posts with some tiny text saying it’s an ad. This’ll make it even more insufferable. screw Spez

  • @BlueLineBae@midwest.social
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    283 days ago

    I wonder how far you can push this? Like there was a whole subreddit (can’t remember the name) that was dedicated to news that seems positive on the surface but is actually fucked up when you take 2 seconds to think. Could you just get chatgpt to come up with a way to positively frame the worst shit specifically to bait adds next to it?

  • aramis87
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    193 days ago

    “dynamically integrates positive content from Reddit users directly below an advertiser’s creative, putting community conversations front-and-center in the user experience and blending AI-driven efficiency with real human perspectives”.

    the company is also introducing a “scalable, AI-powered social listening tool. […] Informed by proprietary metadata, it provides precise, real-time insights that help marketers confidently plan campaigns, validate creative ideas, and make smarter business decisions"

    I wonder how much they had to pay a business major to come up with those sentences, or did they just use ChatGPT …

  • Engywook
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    72 days ago

    Joke’s on them. I just post and comment negative rants.

    • @Rin@lemm.ee
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      12 days ago

      then they’ll use your negativity as a reason not to buy their competition

      • Engywook
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        42 days ago

        I’m perfectly able to be negative about them and their competition at the same time.

          • Engywook
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            22 days ago

            Bastards… I spend a lot of time carefully crafting them :-P