Wait… Reddit has ads?
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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Hats off, that's both an argument for the use of third party apps and for eliminating third party apps at the same time...
Reddit gold ran the platform. Going for profit killed the API.
As all adblocking solutions, Yay from the user, Nay from the corporate.
We are just saving them money, imagine the amount of API calls for serving Ads to everyone /s
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unfortunately. and they are just s bad as you think
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I saw that on my few last days on Reddit. I was wondering about their rates b/c I was wondering what it would cost to take out an ad calling spez a complete twat.
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That was scary. Thought Lemmy had ads already!!
I’m fine with ads. It costs money to run servers and build out the platform.
I’m not fine with the absolutely sleezy way spez handled the api changes and the ridiculous price. Utterly disrespectful to the mods, third party app devs, and Reddit users.
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Your post made me think ads had already invaded. So, I hate you.
That's not going to happen on Lemmy. It is technically possible but it's very highly unlikely.
It's an unfortunate reality but that's probably going to have to happen. Instances can't be expected to grow and maintain on pure goodwill. Some might get by with donations but it's pretty known that Mastodon servers that couldn't support themselves on donations vanished. It's a huge ask for someone to pay money, time and effort to run a server for perpetuity. Usually you can only ask for 2 out of the 3 lol.
We already saw the original lemmynsfw get overwhelmed and just want to shut it down and hand it to someone else because they were having to put in so much work.
Hopefully because Lemmy is opt in in every sense, instance owners can do an ad setup that isn't intrusive or over bearing.
Otherwise it's just the big instances that are donation covered that stay and grow and Lemmy just becomes centralized around 5 servers or something.
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Ha same here, it really is like being back on Reddit!
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Step 1: Announce very unpopular changes Step 2: Ignore backlash, go through with the plan Step 3: Predictably, lose users and advertisers Step 4: ???? Step 5: Why advertise on reddit?
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I logged in to reddit on my computer the day after rif went dark, and there were noticeably fewer posts on the front page. I think only 8 or so posts were above 10k upvotes. I wouldn't be surprised if advertisers are pulling their ads in response.
I wvisited to see what it's like, but I didn't log in. Pretty boring place, mostly links from like, CNN, The Guardian, etc. Different subs trending, often with very boring political opinion stuff and sports.
Advertisers may not notice a difference, sad to say. The people wso stayed are exactly the people they want.
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I wonder if advertisers have been leaving Reddit and if so, how many? I've honestly never seen a social media website/company ask for advertisers like this tbh.
I'm not a lot on social media to begin with, so I'm not sure.
Well few days ago their valuation by I think Fidelity got cut from 10b to 5.5b. That should tell you something
That was before the whole clown show. The valuation cut was dated May 31st
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Am I wrong in thinking this is sad as hell? Like seeing an old faded billboard with the same "your ad here!" text that's been there for ages.
Sad, but I ain't mad. This is the bed that Wish.com "Elon" made for Reddit
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It's really sad for me to see a social media platform like reddit crumble. I spent years there.
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Lol would love to see Lemmy ads on Reddit
NGL the random Sync for Lemmy that landed on my front page might as well have been an ad for Lemmy. I don't even use Sync but it led me here.
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A quote that always stuck with me was: "'Your ad here' signs are proof that the ad spot doesn't work well, otherwise someone would have put their ad there."
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Lol you know a website is running out of advertisement because they start promote their own website 😂 lol
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Having tried to use Reddit advertising for business (a national company), it really wasn’t very good. They had very poor targeting and algorithms.
Reddit has attempted, multiple times, to reach out to Andrew Tate to partner with him on advertisements, including twice while he was imprisoned.
I know this because their numbskull marketing folks can’t proofread the email address they’re sending outreach to, and I received the outreach emails as a result. Thanks, Reddit!
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I have a family member that runs their company digital advertising strategy. Said the same thing… and that it was hard to track conversions. They ended up pulling their ads.
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Ran out of advertisers, Why? Because we made some really "great" decisions at reddit!
Even in their ads for ads they have to get their content from their user base
u/Spez is following Elon's playbook and it might start the downfall of Reddit
The downfall has already begun. The post quality has decreased severely over the last couple of weeks.
Hell for the past couple years the site has had a significant drop in quality.
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I keep seeing this as well. Probably the most frequent ad I've seen.
We should all club together and get some ads for the fediverse on there.
The best ad I saw for Reddit (back before the grand Digg migration) was one day, everyone agreed to stop posting direct links to articles and instead post the links to the Reddit discussions for said articles.
Suddenly, one day, the entire Digg feed was links to Reddit.
We should do the same thing (on say 8/1) to give time for the different federated instances to get accustomed to the higher traffic, more activity on the feed, and more people to welcome the future Reddit refuges, just like Redditors once welcomed us during the Digg 4.0 exodus.
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I can confirm: the audience is not there
This is embarrassing.
What a weak revenue stream. Imagine being a business, investing in a subreddit, only for the subreddit to be inundated by bots.
Reddit is going the way of Twitter and it's astounding to watch.
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