Hardly. People are taking the federation and making it more complex than it needs to be. For the average user, you pick the most popular website, you sign up, you subscribe to communities. That’s it. The nuances of the fediverse are irrelevant to a new user.
And make sure not to click on any links. If enough people use chatgpt or other LLM's to generate comments that are wordy but clearly just filler, it'll give advertisers pause and tank the value of the site as training data. Reddit's response will probably be to start banning users it thinks are doing this but normal users will...
It’s too much fluffing around. The absolute simplest and most effective thing you can do is to simply stop using Reddit. I guarantee that their selling point to advertisers is impressions. If they’re not impressing you, they’re selling less ad space - simple as that.
Frankly I now don’t really care what happens to Reddit. I was an 11 year account there but the second I moved over here I kind of stopped caring. I think it would benefit people to not be so emotive over social media.
That said I still muscle memory type Reddit into my search box… maybe it will take some time to get over
Protests on the social platform have entered a new phase, with users shirking the platform’s NSFW content rules en masse. The development has some media buyers on high alert, experts say.
People in /r/redditalternatives are talking about a "Reddit 2.0" What website would fill that role? (kbin.social) en
On Reddit at reddit.com/r/redditalternatives, people are talking about a "Reddit 2.0." What do you suggest?
Instead of deleting your Reddit account, consider using chatgpt to make comments instead (kbin.fedi.cr)
And make sure not to click on any links. If enough people use chatgpt or other LLM's to generate comments that are wordy but clearly just filler, it'll give advertisers pause and tank the value of the site as training data. Reddit's response will probably be to start banning users it thinks are doing this but normal users will...
Reddit Migration (kbin.social) en
The real #redditmigration starts the 30th or the 1st, I hope lemmy and kbin are ready for the traffic!
As Reddit protests turn to porn-bombing, advertisers face increasing brand safety concerns (thedrum.com) en
Protests on the social platform have entered a new phase, with users shirking the platform’s NSFW content rules en masse. The development has some media buyers on high alert, experts say.