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!fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com if you want to help promote Lemmy Piefed Mbin to new users!

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Reddit has benefited from Google search updates and internal site improvements that have helped it gain a significant amount of new and returning users, which the social company refers to as logged-out users, over the past year and a half. Reddit has said it is working to convince logged-out users to create accounts as logged-in users, which are more lucrative for its business.

Expect to see more login paywall bullshit from Reddit.

"Plunge"

Reddit has said it is working to convince logged-out users to create accounts as logged-in users, which are more lucrative for its business.

By "convince," they mean:

• Popup to automatically sign in with Google
• A button right under where you close that popup that shows a QR code to install the app
• Bottom bar on mobile telling you to make an account
• Clicking an upvote or downvote button instantly sending you to the account signup page, even if clicked by accident
• Full-screen popup only on mobile to download the app if you're accessing anything NSFW (includes posts that simply have too much vulgar language, and are considered "NSFW" in that community, as well as any account page for an account that has ever made an NSFW post)

Yes, very convincing, heavily coercive even!

In other news, Lemmy stock mooned infinity% from 0.00 to 0.00 plus beans.

No, user numbers are not down because of a Google change. User numbers are down because they went ban crazy during the election and Luigi stuff.

If you ban people who produce your content, your site quality & engagement declines. It’s not rocket science.

Btw, they’re definitely reversing some of these bans to try to pull people back, and inflate the number of “returning” users. They permabanned two of my accounts for wrongthink during the election, and they’ve already reversed one with no prompting from me at all, after denying appeals months ago.

Jfc that thumbnail of Huffman's face triggered me. How did he manage to make his face look MORE punchable??

It's almost like communication platforms shouldn't have profitability as their main goal... maybe they could be... distributed... like some sort of... federation. Yeah. That's it. Then everyone would follow along like... lemmings or something

Holy hell how much plastic did Huffman invest to look like a dollar general bond villain.

Why does his head look like that?

Bros face looks like my cats anus while sliding a cookie out.

“It primarily affects logged-out users in the U.S.,” he said. “This one was particularly interesting because there really was a swing down, but then a recovery shortly thereafter happened right at the end of the quarter.”

Show me the graph, spez. Pics or it didn't happen!

Reddit shares plunge after missing engagement numbers due to fall off following enshitification

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It’s only like a month of stock increases, they’re still up 300% since IPO.

I’m not logging in out creating an account, I deleted my hobby account a few months ago and I do not miss participating in Reddit.

Damn I never noticed but that dude looks like a dollar store knockoff alpharad

As someone who has to check reddit once in a while, they've begun to completely hide the topic and replies of some threads. Luckily, old.reddit still works. I'm not going to log in to see shit that is public.

I wonder if the "google search benefit" also includes google down ranking lemmy instances

Has there been an r/place since 2023's epic FUCK SPEZ?

It feels like the tech bros are teaming up to punish reddit and other companies/entities that hurt Elon, Trump, and others feelings.

Off topic but... Is that pic of spez doing the Poison Brett Michael's thing?