Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed
arstechnica.com
Reddit says its "communities are naturally commercial."

Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

#For sale: Ads that look like legit Reddit user posts

“We highly recommend only mentioning the brand name of your product since mentioning links in posts makes the post more likely to be reported as spam and hidden. We find that humans don’t usually type out full URLs in natural conversation and plus, most Internet users are happy to do a quick Google Search,” ReplyGuy’s website reads.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I left in a huff when they jumped the shark and dropped 3party app support. I was a pretty heavy user / contributor and fully thought I might crawl back at some point. Turns out I’m doing fine without going back and the alternatives, while massively smaller, are so much less crappy feeling. I think a lot of people would feel the same way if we could just get them to try the green eggs and ham. I think it’s great that Kagi is starting to index Lemmy, but the one gateway to get people over here that might actually work would be if Google searches started turning up Lemmy content. I think that would grab some attention.

    • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I literally only go back for one niche sub and only using that sweet, sweet adblock.

      • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Agreed. I just bought a used Sony a7iii and the sonyalpha sub is a great place for knowledge.

        Granted eventually that stuff will filter off reddit… but in the mean time I’m only there on desktop with pihole and unlock origin.

        Once old.reddit dies I’ll never go back.

        Sent from my boost for Lemmy app.

      • Hello Hotel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Id do the same, but Im in a verry stupid situation, I dont have a reddit account and dont want to be advertising-group stalked due to being a sensitive subject.

        plus it was already half taken over by ads because the sex industry is bad, some of the subs are just filled with “this is a thing you can buy, look how sexy!”. I dont want what your selling, the way your selling it.

        on lemmy, the subreddit is dead, minus some guy trying to revive it. Like many others, its owner posted 5 posts, and… nobody kept the pace up. 🤕

    • Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Just gonna suggest searxng as an alternative to kagi if you want something open-source, free, and still customizable.

      Most searxng instances also index lemmy.

    • bean@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Same! Also a Kagi subscriber. Hello! I thought Reddit might cave on the 3rd party thing for a while. Then they were doubling down and treated the developers of those apps like shit. I was a happy Apollo user, and I trusted what he said about how Reddit acted. I moved to Lemmy. It was confusing at the start but now I feel as at home here as I did in Reddit. If not more actually, since our user base is smaller, I feel like community is closer and has a little more tech know-how too. I do miss some fun Reddit things but I think Lemmy and the fediverse has a ton of potential and I want to be part of it ☺️

    • Pips@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I was very similar, heavy Reddit user that quit over thr 3PA shitshow last year. Not sure if you’ve noticed the same effect, but my attention span has gone way up.