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https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16tqihd/settings_updateschanges_to_ad_personalization/
Reddit just decided it was a good idea to REMOVE the option to disable ad personalisation. Good job u/spez. We know what you're doing.
Time for a new influx. Everyone still on reddit needs to advertise lemmy.
And not join-lemmy.org, that's confusing. Just pick one of the larger servers like lemm.ee or fedia.io and tell people to browse it and click "Sign Up" if they like it.
I'd recommend a smaller community to help spread the load. I originally signed up on .world but they were having some growing pains (And a disgruntled idiot ddosing them) so I moved to .ca which helped tremendously.
I really disagree. For learning lemmy for average people, big instance is best.
There is a point where people who stick around are likely to make a new "real" account on a different smaller server, after they know what they want to browse.
Basically big instances should be like training wheels.
Yeah tbh this is how I did it and I consider myself tEcH sAvVy - still started with .world because I didn't know where else to go.
I went to iusearchlinux.fyi and came back to .world about a week ago. It seems to be doing very well now.
You need to know the special password for .ca
Is it "sorry"?
„Eh“
Dot see eh?
I'm Canadian anyway, so I have it memorized.
Hello Canadian, I’m maple syrup!
We may be related, I'm 40% maple.
I see! I’m actually 33% polar bear and 66% maple, we may be not so distant cousins!
maybe start posting links from lemmy like what happened with digg (i think? wasn't there for it)
Neat, so they are monetising your activities on the plattform. Isn't that great?
Corporate does corporate things.
I’m surprised you’re surprised that others are surprised… because no one is surprised about this.
For-profit company exploits userbase for profit. More at 11:00.
They've always been doing it, they're just gonna stop hiding it now.
This really doesn't sound legal.
I hope spez has good GDPR lawyers!
I was going to ask as well. Doesn't it like infringe on a law madd by California or the EU or some shit?
Oh, okay. I had no idea. I was like "How far do I have to scroll to find out what reddit did this time?"
Wouldn't affect me anyway, because I use an ad blocker.
It still means they're selling your info to advertisers
I think this is the removal of the opt out of selling my data to advertisers?
Yup ads and posts on reddit are becoming even more indistinguishable, the "organic community" is just a selling point for marketing because you can embed yourself in it, basically just exploiting their users. The metrics to gauge ad performance is based on things that make the site shitty as well. Reddit, at least the big subs, haven't been organic in this way for a long time, it's basically a simulation of an organic online community at this point.
Why are these people still there, do they just stick around on reddit to complain about it?
Because other people are there
Network effects are real
Hating Reddit is the usual Reddit routine, the one you may be rewarded for with Reddit's updoots.
I think the average person is not willing to take 5 minutes to figure out how Kbin or Lemmy works.
Kbin, at least, for the end user is just as simple as reddit.
Before I left Reddit, I searched for alternatives and saw that people recommended Lemmy or Kbin. But I didn't know what those things were. I assumed they were just Reddit clones hosted by someone else. I didn't know that I could create an account on Kbin and interact with other posts in the Fediverse. I didn't even know what the Fediverse was. So I was stuck with this decision of "do I try Lemmy or Kbin first?"
When I decided to try Lemmy, the first thing you need to do is sign up on an instance. People recommended beehaw.org, but that required filling out an application to join. That seems weird, since I never had to apply to read Reddit. I decided to try another instance (sh.itjust.works) but was worried that I was missing out on what people had recommended about other instances. Maybe I chose the wrong one? Maybe I should make an account on Lemmy.world instead?
It took me a little while to grasp the concept of federation and realize that it made no difference as an end user which instance I chose. I stuck with it, as did everyone reading this, but I think it's fair to say that the average person has similar barriers to entry. We've overcome them, but many, many people will not.
The app situation is getting much much better. The website UI is inferior to old reddit or the apps. I know some servers support the old reddit UI but it's not discoverable. Stuff like expanding images needs to be easier to do instead of clicking a semi-hidden 10px square each picture.
Sync and Boost are great, though I'm still not happy with the iOS apps (I like Avalon and Mlem, but I don't live either of them, whereas the Android apps feel fantastic).
Boost is lovely and polished and you can see that tons of work has gone into it.
Tell you what though: while I was waiting for Boost, damned if the Voyager (fka wefwef) PWA came out of nowhere with (I think) some of the nicest UX of any of the contenders, plus an insane release schedule because they can just push changes whenever. Voyager is honestly what has kept me here. (...he says, posting from Boost)
you joined early on, you had to work at understanding the fediverse. now there are plenty of places that explain everything.
True, the concept of the fediverse is probably what confuses people, it's never explained clearly. I hope it's growth helps spread information about it, how it works and why you want it.
They should come to Lemmy to complain about Reddit, like the rest of us.
reddit has ads?
Reddit is ads.
Yea, ublock always blocks them on old Reddit. So this technically won't affect me.
I'm sure old.reddit is on its way out in the near future.