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The main reason I have largely left Reddit and really hope others do too isn’t just the API stuff or even this behavior. It’s where I see Reddit going. The rea
by api 3y ago
The main reason I have largely left Reddit and really hope others do too isn’t just the API stuff or even this behavior. It’s where I see Reddit going.
The reason they want to kill third party apps, goad you onto their app from the web on mobile, and will probably kill old.reddit is because they want to gather as much telemetry as possible to optimize for engagement.
That means doing things like watching the exact patterns of your fingers on the screen as you scroll, measuring exactly how long you pause on things, etc. to get as much data as possible to tune that dopamine loop.
They want to be more like TikTok.
It means they are following the rest of the industry away from actually social social media and toward modern addictionware where any content you create is mere filler to drive the dopamine loop. There’s no actual community, just random content cut and shuffled and remixed to keep users scrolling.
This kind of media is social like cigarettes are a breathing apparatus.
This is why they really don’t care about the mods or the community that much. They don’t need them for this model. They don’t need the long form posting either. What they really want are the memes, videos, short form snarky posts, and of course the influencers.
Influencers won’t leave because they love platforms like this. An influencer is not a member of your community. They are the obnoxious asshole you would not invite to the next party in real life because they’re a creep and seemed to be trying to sell something.
- indymike 3y ago> This kind of media is social like cigarettes are a breathing apparatus Having quit Facebook and quit smoking in my life, I can say with 100% certainty that quitting social media is a lot easier.
- api 3y agoSure but I do believe they are things of a similar nature.
- eimrine 3y ago> quitting social media is a lot easier I do not believe that anybody who keeps having a smartphone can really quit a social media. It is just impossible that the only beeps it does is from GSM/CDMA activity (calls and sms) and there is no even one Telegram group who use to send you some news. I used to mute all Telegram notifications and delete all Telegram groups and what happened is that some coolhackers used to add their spam groups (very similar to real group I was involved in) into my group list and everytime my smartphone has a connection to Telegram servers it just filled itself with some groups. Only abandoning smartphone with really clear signal to every single friend of mine that the only way to access me is phone for sound and email for text - did the job. I also quit smoking and that was way easier for me that quit using smartphone. At least nobody argues that I must to return to smoking.
- indymike 3y ago> I do not believe that anybody who keeps having a smartphone can really quit a social media. I just quit Facebook, not all social media. On my phone, I have three Telegram groups (one tracks the war, the other is my family, the other is my extended family), a Twitter account I look at every 3-4 days (and that may go away because Twitter just isn't interesting other than a few friends telling jokes), LinkedIn because my company sells software to recruiters and HR (and that's where they all are), and SMS. I run with notifications only on for emails for business from customers and employees, SMS and telegram from family.