The Picard Maneuver/r/theoryofreddit post asking why reddit seems dead
voracitudeI’m sure it’s nothing and everything is fine. Now, who wants to buy some of this Reddit stock? I’ll cut you a special deal so you don’t miss out! … Anyone?
I was interested in buying a share just to be in for the ride, but then they asked for my real name to be associated with my handle. It’s like they never understood what reddit was about at all.
Reddit has never been about privacy or anominity. Think of all the celebrity AMAs.
Who were the specific individuals asking questions in those?
AMAs weren’t celebrities on Reddit originally my friend, they were real people with interesting jobs at first
Some great posts back in the day, and definitely some not so great posts haha. I had to unsub after it turned into celebrities hocking their products.
The vacuum cleaner guy was one of the all time greats. I miss that era.
the time I broke both my hands…
also the time I used a coconut
also the time I used a coconut
Good god that broken arm kid. He played it completely straight too if i remembered right, sloowly getting worse and worse. Legend
Can we please keep this about Rampart.
theneverfoxYou can post on 4chan as anon and prove your identity too
Reddit is (or at least was) psuedo-anonymous. You can easily get identities, and they’re not linked to you
For a lot of people, I’d say most in the early years (at least in my experience), you didn’t share usernames with your friends on the platform… Irl Redditors loved to identify themselves as a Redditor, we shared communities and memes, but only two of my closest friends ever knew my main account
I kept a second account that could potentially be tied to me (more work related stuff), because on my main account I always had the freedom to discard it if I embarrassed myself enough. That knowledge makes me far more likely to hit post instead of discard
A special deal? Doesn’t the message basically say “give us your data so you maybe have a chance at buying stock at full price, and be thankful we’re not marking it up”?
Probably part of some side grift to sell more information to data brokers
The whole idea is a grift. They are directly appealing to people who largely should not be buying shares due to their financial situation and are a lot less critical of the pretty poor numbers they published than professional exploiters investors will be.
Obviously this is done in hopes of selling more shares and binding users long term, though that will probably just accelerate the enshittification because suddenly the last remaining power users are turned into shareholders instead
Right but the whole “give us all your info and MAYBE you can buy stock” is the part that sounds like a secondary grift. If they wanted to pump they could just have some set amount and do a first come first serve right off the bat.
Well, at IPO price. A couple of decades ago, that used to mean it was discounted. Nowadays, it doesn’t, but not everybody knows that.
Sabata11792Free shorts?
Can I borrow some stock?
that would be called “shorting” and it totally is a thing.
Yeah, the big short is even a movie! One positive i got from hanging around stonks, amc and gme subs was how much i learned about how fucked the stock market is.
Waaaaay more fucked, gamified, and straight up broken than even the most cynical citizen thinks.
Look, I’m not trying to short okay? I’m sure Reddit will do great. Just let me borrow your stock and I’ll make sure you have it back in like 6 months or so
Semi-Hemi-Demigod"We have never made a profit and may never make a profit. Please buy our stock."
I got a Message offering me to buy too. In the Message it says i need to be a permanent Resident of the US.
Buddy, you had me enter my Country when i created the Account. You know full-well I’m from the EU. Why not just sort me out of the Mailing-list?
Why not just sort me out of the Mailing-list?
Because that would cost their time instead of yours
Perhaps you moved from Europe to the States in the interim like I did.
They actually tweaked the upbote/down vote stuff back then to stop actually showing the true amount of upvotes and down votes, directly. They started fuzzing votes to supposedly help prevent manipulation.
p5yk0t1km1r4geThe timing DOES seem Auspicious…
Yes, everything that could possibly be posted and discussed has been done. Humanity has officially run it’s course, that is the only explanation for a reduction in the amount of content on Reddit.
I knew it. Wrap it up, we’re going home
Congratulations. You have reached the end of the internet.
Finally!
Do we turn the tape over and now begin from side B?
Cosmic ClericUse an 8-track tape.
Well done everyone, it was kinda horrible
It had its moments
There were cat memes. It wasn’t all bad.
Don’t forget the Sugar Free Haribo reviews.
Sure, some of those would have been in a local newspaper or something and possibly collected in a book akin to “Strange Red Cow”, but that was a beautiful moment of people going “This makes you violently shit yourself? I gotta try this”.
Suddenly I understand how non-americans feel when Americans discuss world issues.
That would be better than the extremely “interesting” future that awaits us
Yeah i feel like chicken little sometimes just watching other folks going about their business like shits not actually going down right in front of us.
Tbf our future technologically is pretty wild too, so of you’re in a developed country and rampant inflation hasnt made you homeless, there likely cool extreme changes to go alongside the horrifying ones!
*its
Monty Python’s Flying Circus!
Wow, I even hear the music playing in my head when I read that.
I almost added *Liberty Bell March starts playing*. Happy to see it wasn’t necessary.
got the link? OP’s account is (suspiciously?) deleted
I hyst assumed that everyone with a username of word-word-number there was a bot or sockpuppet.
It’s also people who create throwaways. Reddit gives a randomized username following that format.
NeatoInteresting. I wonder if there were any mod tools (before reddit broke them) that automatically banned accounts like that. I doubt serious bot creators would use that auto-name style but it might’ve gotten rid of some spam.
It’s not serious bot creators that you need to worry about. Trolls use the “adjective noun number” format on their new accounts. Restricting those users, accounts less than 3 days old, and accounts with less than zero karma will virtually eliminate trolling.
If trolls had patience and foresight, they wouldn’t be trolls.
ParadoxOn the subreddits I moderated, I used a big regexp to preemptively filter their comments
Letting one through was a rare event
I think reddit gives new accounts a default username with that format.
I found this screenshot elsewhere, where people were sharing stuff about reddit feeling worse and worse.
Just did some googling and found the original post for this one, and it looks like it’s from August or September, so not that long after a significant chunk of users gave up on the site.
I can’t get over the people in the comments there complaining about reddit being a literal communist platform. Meanwhile here we have actual communist instances, reddit isn’t even lukewarm left leaning. Liberal at best.
we also have fascist instances no?, black instances ofc mut still
Do you have one in mind? I don’t know of any besides besides maybe basedcount, and as far as I am aware that are mostly just pcm users so calling them outright fascists seems a bit extreme. If that instance even still exists, I haven’t seen much from their users.
clifIs anyone going to tell them?
squid_slimeIts because we’ve all moved here
/s
BeigeAgendaAll the important ones moved, the rest can have Reddit for themselves.
Pepsilol nobody important from anywhere is on lemmy