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Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Digg still exists but it’s a shadow if its former self and nobody cares about it

As far as I'm concerned, so is Reddit. The only reason to go there anymore is for Q&A that get SEO spammed on Google. All the communities I was a part of either died after they changed the API (the only people left are the lurkers and low-effort posters) or had their mods replaced by boot lickers who immediately proceeded to not moderate the subs (which made them dead or full of spam).

But hey, now it sure looks like Reddit is alive and well! Just look at all those ~~ads~~, ~~bots~~, ~~AI replies~~, totally legit user posts!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It wouldn't surprise me if there was some internal discussion at Reddit of what happened to Digg, and in preparation for alienating large groups of users they intentionally put some things in place to artificially inflate user activity.