I guess I kind of understand why companies want you to be logged in to engage with their platform, as the user metrics are the main selling point to advertisers, but man do I really fucking hate it when a platform forces me to log in by preventing me from using their website. So much so, that I haven’t made an account on Instagram or X or Facebook or whatever dumb social media platform specifically because I can’t browse without signing up. Well, that, and also the greed, the lack of privacy, the tacit endorsement of fascism, et. cetera.

No, I don’t want to make an account.

No, I don’t want to download your app.

No, I don’t want to turn on notifications.

Gah, fuck off with all this horseshit. The internet used to be fun. Now everything is a chore and nobody does anything unless they feel like they can make a profit off of it.

It hurt itself in its confusion.

lul

i bounced at the cookie consent dialogue of the linked post. 1751 partners and no umbrella reject, fuck off 🤣

i would not mind reddit becoming life in only if it didn’t feed and feed on ai on the side, ie. if it became a truly human discussion (again). it’s that their plan?

Typical “product owner/manager” mentality to show percentages of engagement growth or whatever stupid KPI they came up with. And those shitheads are the most incompetent and the most high off AI. I just hope enshittification will be complete some day and everything will be brown and smelly (just like those Claude UIs).

mv reddit /dev/null

I thought it had been like that for a while

I remain utterly discombobulated that 90% of redditors haven’t already migrated here. What exactly are they waiting for? Lemmy clearly is more than good enough already.

These posts and comments about reddit are akin to stalking your ex on Facebook and reveling in their unraveling.

They just want to know which accounts are permitted to scrape them for textual LLM training material (because Reddit Inc has a contract with them) vs which ones are not permitted.

The byproduct of this is intensifying a cult like environment where its easier to gaslight people, but that’s ancillary.

Even being able to better drown the user base in more, and more specifically targetted ads, even that ain’t the main thing. Everybody in the online advertising world knows that the actual metrics that ‘describe’ how effective ads are… are largely bullshit, and theyre only going to become more bullshit as more LLM bots are spun up and the average person just has less money.

Its enshittification 101, when user base growth phase stops/plateaus, lock in the user base, squeeze harder and harder untill there just isn’t any money left.

The main thing is maximize profit, ie wealth extraction.

“and more protective of Reddit data”

It’s not Reddit data, it’s our fucking data, which, BTW, you have already sold.

The platform is yours and the shareholder’s, the data is ours.

This is an opportunity for Lemmy and the community.

We must be more free and decentralized. NO to impositions and opposition to freedom of expression! I’ve just joined Lemmy after REDFASCISTS banned me, also my country -Türkiye- is going to start ID verification to use social platforms that’s another why I migrated to Lemmy.

Freedom in speech, Freedom in decision!

Let’s ask DuckDuckGo, Brave and other privacy-centric search engines to index Fediverse contents at the top of pages how Kagi has option to search them via a dedicated button.

People are still being routed to Reddit and other enshittificated trash platforms because of search results. At least privacy based SE must route here and Fediverse networks!

Such loss to the internet and every single guide over internet…

No more 7yo [removed by moderator] and [deleted by user] most precious tutorials, hints, guides, solutions.

Oh no. Anyway.