What the fuck, that looks absolutely desperate! I’m sure it will have the opposite effect. Fuck reddit.
Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account
Submitted 3 months ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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schmorpel@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 months ago
I don’t know how difference france is from the US, but I generally believe people are kind of ignorant and thoughtless. These will pull in people. People click on “Four things that are secretly unhealthy - #3 will SHOCK you” chum all the time.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 months ago
the buzzfeed clickbait method.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wow, I’ve never seen them actually pull ads for membership. Site must be struggling for real users. Bot takeover isn’t working out, shouldn’t have banned the top users for petty bullshit.
The archive of past posts and problem solving is the greatest value of the site.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
raises hand
Literally in the top 1% of karma users in 2023. Banned in 2024 for…
checks notes
…posting a comment that my bike was stolen when I was 7.
Reddit claims the ban was done by a human. However I just cannot see a human looking at the post I got banned for, and saying “This guy deserves to get banned”.
My best theory, based on the timeline, is that they offered me a presale enter IPO offering before it went public. At the time I was on cancer treatment, and had $0 income, with my two sisters and mom paying for my apartment.
I had no ability to buy an IPO.
3 days after it went public, I still didn’t own stock, and was banned. Because I said my bike was stolen 30+ years earlier.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 months ago
sucks about the bike mang
Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I hope you’re cancer free now.
^^I ^^also ^^hope ^^you ^^get ^^your ^^bike ^^back.
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 months ago
I got banned during women’s March just for cheering. Lemmy is a perfect replacement.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
My ban was for expressing “extreme indifference” about Kissinger taking a dirt nap.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I got banned for saying we should have hanged every part of the Confederate leadership for treason.
Lukaro@piefed.zip 3 months ago
I too got banned for voicing non pc opinions.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
They’ve done it before in the USA. My guess is that they want to push their non-English offerings, which is something they’ve only focused on recently.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 3 months ago
Makes me wonder what the French equivalent of “glue pizza” will be.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Rule of thumb: the more something is advertised, the more shit it is for one reason or another, and you’ll do well to avoid it altogether. When I’m advising people on contractors, my number 1 rule is: if they’re on TV, they’re criminals, I promise you.
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I help friends and family with minor plumbing repairs and they will tell me:
oh I had “x” company come and they did that
" well it’s all wrong "
They charged me a lot of money for that!
" why on earth would you have called them"
Because I saw their advertisement on TV. I thought they were good
" nah they’re crooks"
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Mullvad is good though
Hubi@feddit.org 3 months ago
The only time I’ve seen Mullvad get promoted is by word of mouth.
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Their ads mostly carry a political message, like the one opposing chat control during an EU summit in Sweden…
<!–StartFragment–>
Mullvad VPN - an interview with the Swedish mole
<!–EndFragment–>
Insane_Turnip@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Reddit is the most new-user-unfriendly site I have ever been to. You’ve got to farm an unknown amount of karma before you can post or comment in subreddits. There’s a reason I’m at Lemmy now. Fuck Reddit. (Also, 4chan is a toilet. The occasional nuggets of good stuff aren’t worth trawling through pages of shitposts for.)
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It’s worse than ever. Once you work your way up to being able to say anything - BAN! It’s more of an echo chamber than ever before.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
They don’t even let you see what you were banned for. Links to a comment that doesn’t exist within your ban notification
aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 3 months ago
The good gteen texts always end up on other platforms anyway.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
And get reposted for decadas to come
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 months ago
reddit recently became hostile to new users, and inactive users(users that suddenly decide to use thier old accounts to comment) they just shadowban most of them now. the only people ive seen that succesful are the ones that are using other methods(not vpn) to hide thier device, fingerprinting, IP adress etc. even this is temporary, since reddit is also catching up to the other methods.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Reddit after banning literally everyone: “WE DID IT! WE SAVED REDDIT!”
Psythik@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s funny cause all but one of my alts was banned, which so happened to me the only account I didn’t use the same email address for. So I figured that email is the only tracking method they use. I’ve had no issue making new accounts under different address.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Moved here and haven’t looked back.
I do keep a Reddit account that is strictly used for informational/support type stuff (i.e. “help me figure out what type of widget I should buy for this task”). I avoid anything controversial on that account.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
The fucking acronyms and in-jokes don’t help, either.
_LordMcNuggets_@feddit.org 3 months ago
you have summoned me?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Isn’t 4chan dead and gone?
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Nah, still alive and unwell
TomMasz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Cringe.
SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Because I like pit bulls and deisel VW’s. Nobody here likes them enough to post every day …or even once a month …or even once every 6 months…maybe once a year
But I’m confident they will one day ! Viva la Pit Bulls !!! Viva La Lemmy!!!
Tja@programming.dev 3 months ago
Or woodworking. Or drones. Or… basically any sport, including basket and soccer/football. Or Maine coons. Or tiny houses. Or off-grid cabins. Or…
Damaskox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I hate that still some troubleshooting that I need to do is much easier when I look for answers through Reddit…
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 3 months ago
have fun finding a lemmy community on a niche topic thats active
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 months ago
they haven’t yet banned all the anti genocide people.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Given the general demographics of Reddit, it would just be a bunch of bots left if they did this.
LemmyBeMyself@lemmybefree.net 3 months ago
It is still a very good place to have information on a variety of topics.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 months ago
I don’t use it for discussion, but for some information/support it is helpful to have a larger community to discuss with. I stay the fuck away from anything that has a hint of controversy though.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
there is almost no topic specific activity here, aside from Linux and unix
G4Z@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Join, just so they can ban you for bullshit.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 months ago
join, just so they can ban you for calling a Nazi a Nazi.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My favorite reddit ban was when I was making a very obvious joke about how white people suck or something, and some worthless dumbfuck called me racist and I got an immediate permanent ban.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“Make an account”….”get banned before you can even verify”
lietuva@lemmy.world 3 months ago
jus engage bro, just give us more data bro, just doomscroll all day, comment all the post pro, just engage bro, we need to keep the users coming bro, so we strike a better deal with google bro
jcs@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m staying with my boyfriend because of his dog. Am I horrible?
Is there a Parisian who doesn’t do rock climbing, Pilates, or ceramics?
I’m going to the Maldives but I’m composting, does that make up for it?
Just between you and me, who’s ever bought fruit on the metro?
So, what do we do with the people on the wrong side of the escalator?
Has anyone ever found the exit at Chatelet, or is that a myth?
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 3 months ago
These are all valid and important questions that need to be discussed… ;-)
echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Oh good, I was starting to distrust my French.
decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
These were/are popular post from the r/France subreddit. I’m a bit out of touch with reddit some I don’t recognize.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I have been playing a game, Chasm, I Kickstarted years ago. I am having some difficulties and while Steam discussions are helpful for some, most discussions are on Reddit. The posts are 3+ years old, and every time I try to open one I get a notification that the discussion hasn’t been reviewed by the community so I can only read it with the app. Shit website.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
You can insert ‘old.’ before any Reddit link (old.reddit.com) to bypass that crap
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Switching to old Reddit is a still-working loophole for that.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 months ago
I just redirect to a redlib instance, it works 99% of the time.
BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 3 months ago
Hey you there reading this, I already upvoted all the anti-Reddit comments in this post, you can go rest instead
hightrix@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“Come make friends on Reddit”
Lmao. Tell me Reddit inc doesn’t understand their product at all without telling me.
No one uses Reddit to make friends. (Yes, I know some jagweed will come with a story about their friends brothers girlfriends nephew that met their best friend on Reddit)
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Maybe they shouldn’t have permabanned thousands of active users like me, with a 12 year account and nearly 1 million Karma. People like me built Reddit, and as soon as HitlerPig was inaugurated, the DOGE Goblin demanded that Reddit purge its membership. Now they’re stuck with bots, novelty accounts, punsters, Russian Propaganda Farmers, MAGA activists, etc.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Silly Reddit, bots aren’t going to sign up because of an ad
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
take them down
SleepyBear@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Reddit posting ads for more users is actually hilarious. They were soooo unconcerned with how many users they were going to lose when they made the 3rd party API changes. Like to the point where u/spez basically had a “let them eat cake” moment and just straight up said “were successful enough we dont care if we lose people”.
pinesolcario@lemy.lol 3 months ago
That place is a doomer and mental illness circus.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
How is this infuriating? Businesses have ads.
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t know about the rest of the images, but the last one is definitely photoshopped. Check out the reflection on the floor.
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Desperation struck huh?
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 months ago
this is what the fediverse needs
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
They added functionality that allows you to hide your comment history, so now you have even less information regarding whether you are talking to a real human being or not.
LemmyBeMyself@lemmybefree.net 3 months ago
Proud to be part of the resistance
afreshlemmystart@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
“Entre inconnus, on peut tour se dire” “Inconnus” but please sign in using this Google SSO modal.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Come meet the most vindictive, aggravated, arbitrarily argumentative people you’ve ever met. On Reddit!
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Looks like there’s enough space to write “lemmy” in there
twice_hatch@midwest.social 3 months ago
les autres
I prefer “lesbian with autism” merci beaucoup
middlemanSI@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Who wouldn’t want to talk to bots and train “AI”?
bcgm3@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Comme c’est excitant!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 months ago
they banned and shadowbanned so many people, they nu-users to compesate for the loss of engagement.