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.)
Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account
Submitted 12 hours ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Insane_Turnip@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 27 minutes ago
The good gteen texts always end up on other platforms anyway.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 4 hours 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 1 hour 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 hours ago
Mullvad is good though
Hubi@feddit.org 3 hours ago
The only time I’ve seen Mullvad get promoted is by word of mouth.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Silly Reddit, bots aren’t going to sign up because of an ad
middlemanSI@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Who wouldn’t want to talk to bots and train “AI”?
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 8 hours 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 7 hours 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 6 hours ago
sucks about the bike mang
altphoto@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
I got banned during women’s March just for cheering. Lemmy is a perfect replacement.
Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I hope you’re cancer free now.
^^I ^^also ^^hope ^^you ^^get ^^your ^^bike ^^back.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I got banned for saying we should have hanged every part of the Confederate leadership for treason.
Lukaro@piefed.zip 3 hours ago
I too got banned for voicing non pc opinions.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 hours 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.
SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 1 hour 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 58 minutes 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…
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
they haven’t yet banned all the anti genocide people.
Damaskox@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I hate that still some troubleshooting that I need to do is much easier when I look for answers through Reddit…
schmorpel@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
What the fuck, that looks absolutely desperate! I’m sure it will have the opposite effect. Fuck reddit.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 10 hours 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.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
The guy that used to mod /r/jailbait? Yup. That guy.
lietuva@lemmy.world 9 hours 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
Smoogs@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
“Make an account”….”get banned before you can even verify”
TomMasz@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Cringe.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 10 hours 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 8 hours ago
You can insert ‘old.’ before any Reddit link (old.reddit.com) to bypass that crap
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 hours ago
Switching to old Reddit is a still-working loophole for that.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 6 hours ago
I just redirect to a redlib instance, it works 99% of the time.
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 5 hours 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.
vxx@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The second picture on the house seems suspicious as well.
By exception, advertising is forbidden at the following locations:
On the walls of buildings except when these walls are blind or have at least one opening with a unit area of less than 0,50 m²
Within 100 meters and in the field of visibility of buildings with an aesthetic, historic or picturesque character
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
take them down
Pechente@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Put the sticker of a lemmy instance over the Reddit logo
freebee@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Put a different QR code over the QR code
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
How is this infuriating? Businesses have ads.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Lol glad someone else had this thought. I get that people hate reddit here but this post is inane.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
There’s big money behind it now, I guess. 🤷
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
I would vandalise those to link to lemmy is I saw them tbh.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
this is what the fediverse needs
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Nah, this is one more landmark on the eventual enshitifcation of every platform. This is only happening because as company that is publicly traded, so someone at Reddit HQ realized that they could make more money off new french users than the cost of ads. So then they have a feduciary duty to do exactly that. Just like the reddit API-ocalypse, the finicial benefits data from every redditors mobile by being forced to use the offical app was determined to be more profitable than those that left.
Yay capitlism! Either Lemmy dies or it grows enough to do the same eventually.
KmlSlmk64@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Well but as far as I am aware Lemmy has no fiduciary responsibility, as it is not a corporation, is open source and uses a web standard to communicate. Therefore there is no requirement for instance server managers to use the “official” version of Lemmy and could refuse to implement anti-user features, like specific app requirements. So I would say it would be really really hard to enshittificate Lemmy, if not borderline impossible, because users would just use their own fork, which would still be interoperable.
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
But lemmy cant be controlled like a company
Maybe it gets smaller because people switch to piefed or something but i dont see how lemmy can enshitify the way corpo platforms can
ms_lane@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Seems pretty easy to ‘improve’ with some paint?
r becomes f, add a .org
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Desperation struck huh?
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
They have millions of posts, and this is the funniest they could find? Sheesh.
afreshlemmystart@lemmynsfw.com 11 hours ago
“Entre inconnus, on peut tour se dire” “Inconnus” but please sign in using this Google SSO modal.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 hours ago
Reddit: “Come make friends on Reddit, France!”
Also Reddit: “Ew… French 🤢”
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Nah dawg. I’m good on the censorship.
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 9 hours ago
Can anyone put lemmy stickers
Burninator05@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Is that what we were supposed to do on Reddit?
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Evidently they were friends, because they told me about Lemmy.
Kissaki@feddit.org 6 hours ago
What’s behind the fake building front?
And damn it’s ugly in terms of city and building front and feel. Such a strong color. I wonder how it looks IRL.
Bourff@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Behind the front is a building that looks a lot like what you’re seeing.That’s a common practice to make the construction work less visible. Of course, it’s less useful when there’s a giant red banner in the middle of it.
Chookitypok@piefed.social 5 hours ago
'tain ça fait tiep 🤣
renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 11 hours ago
Reddit has something in common with Russia
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Run by a clown?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Full of bots.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 hours ago
I’m not sure about infuriating. Maybe more like pathetic. Can that even make economic sense if you’re an ad-driven business yourself?
G4Z@feddit.uk 56 minutes ago
Join, just so they can ban you for bullshit.