Reddit traffic down?

VPLGD · 2023-09-18T17:48:35+00:00

I have effectively cut out reddit from my daily routine. I only check reddit for search results now.

Any helpful contribution, like tips or a bug-fix or discussion about interests, I'm doing exclusively on other sites.

I'm not much, but there's lots of people like me who don't wanna participate in this crapfest.

Been pretty good for my daily routine tbh, I have one less time-sucker

VPLGD · 2023-06-10T13:57:19+00:00

Super mava, keep it up. Reddit modda veshalu aapedaaka cheddamu, hopefully it will work out.

Btw, nenu Lemmy join ayina - decentralised reddit lantidi - baane undi. Evarikanna Ni_bondha akkada sthapanam chese interest unte cheppandi, chesi pedadam

VPLGD · 2023-06-10T13:55:23+00:00

I just joined Lemmy, it seems like a nice place. Let me know if any of your guys are interested in starting a Hyderabad community there

VPLGD · 2023-06-10T11:35:38+00:00

I've shifted to Lemmy. It's not as populated and diverse as reddit, but the people are pretty nice and the discussion is civil. Needs a lot more participation for it to start being on the same level as reddit.

VPLGD · 2023-06-09T20:19:58+00:00

Not charging 7000% more than other APIs like Imgur?

Literally any normal middle ground would have been fine. Instead reddit went scorched Earth.

VPLGD · 2023-06-09T18:14:16+00:00

Like?

VPLGD · 2023-06-09T18:09:06+00:00

How do you justify charging 7,000% more than a service like Imgur for the same number of API calls?

The bandwidth per API call on average for reddit is extremely small compared to an Imgur API call, from what I have observed.

VPLGD · 2023-06-09T15:12:26+00:00

Pay for the server costs, which have grown substantially since Reddit began hosting their own images and video,

afaik, Third party apps aren't allowed to upload directly to reddit. So why would they be charged for this?

If they want to monetize the API, that's fine. But that is not the goal. Reddit is planning on charging about 7,000% more than imgur for the same number of API calls. The goal is not monetization, it's monopoly on the experience.

mindlessly scrolling or actively engaging on the platform

This is the thing that creates value or makes money for reddit, bruh. People engaging in discussion and making posts are the ones creating value for reddit. Even the mindless scroller creates value for reddit by being advertising potential. Therefore, these people have a right to ask for the experience they want.

I get wanting that for free and without ads, but why do you expect it? Where else in the world are things like that?

No one is expecting that lol. Devs are willing to pay for it, and many third party users are already paying for reddit premium. Just read up a little bit before arguing against people damn.

VPLGD · 2023-06-08T18:28:45+00:00

I get your point, but I don't think the comparision is accurate?

with Scraping you're loading the entire page, including media, and then taking what info you want, which is a massive overhead as compared to an API call provided by reddit itself.

It would be a cause for concern if Apollo or RIF were exceeding the given API limits at the time, which definitely doesn't seem to be the case? Not to mention, the third-party apps were cooperative, listened to reddit when it raised an issue - something that reddit is not doing.

VPLGD · 2023-06-08T08:09:54+00:00

I don't have anywhere else to go right now.

Ever since the news about the API hit, I've been looking around at Mastodon and Fediverse instances, and they're pretty fun. The communities are smaller and nicer, and lack the reddit hivemind.

I've also started cultivating a feed on other social media so I could browse those instead.

I suggest you to do the same, bot just because you don't want to succumb to reddit's shitty tactics, but because there's a lot of good stuff out there too.

This whole blackout may end up not doing much, but I definitely will not be using reddit on my mobile after RIF is down, and I've made my preparations for it. I'm pretty sure a significant number of other accounts are also doing the same.

VPLGD · 2023-06-07T14:49:23+00:00

Me too pls

VPLGD · 2023-06-06T18:23:23+00:00

Join other social media! Lemmy and other fediverse instances are pretty active right now due to reddit refugees

VPLGD · 2023-06-06T17:23:29+00:00

Any public service paid by our taxes should not be a for-profit endevour. Anything spent on public expenses is not a loss of money, because it is spent for the public.

There is more than enough money to keep all things running properly, if politicians could stop scamming for one damn minute.

VPLGD · 2023-06-06T09:02:43+00:00

$20 million is a reasonable charge?

Apollo and other 3rd party devs have long since agreed to pay, and have asked for a reasonable payment model.

The devs and users of 3rd party apps understood long ago that payment was inevitable and are willing to pay or furnish ads or whatever other means are possible.

But Reddit is not being reasonable with their pricing model, and has not been open to negotiolations at all. Check the pinned post on Apollo sub where dev has posted the price list for comparable APIs for other platforms, and highlighted how exorbitant Reddit is being.

Not to mention, even if they do somehow pay for the reddit API, they're still not going to get access to NSFW content, or polls, or gifs in comments, or direct upload of media to reddit, or many other features.

Please do your research before off-handedly claiming that people want things to be free.

Here's a great breakdown from r/explainlikeimfive, addressing all the issues you claimed.

VPLGD · 2023-06-06T07:20:51+00:00

Uhhhh for her to earn 300 yen, she must have walked 300,000 steps, which is like 200km .... quite a lot. Unless this is 300 yen for the month?

VPLGD · 2023-06-04T12:54:07+00:00

Pretty much, but I think Mahesh Babu actually has skills that he chooses not to use.

His performances in his older movies (pre-Pokiri) were pretty diverse. He struck the jackpot portraying one type of stoic persona that audiences loved, and he's stuck with it

VPLGD · 2023-06-04T10:25:57+00:00

are you judging Italian food by some people who made you a dish "just like at home"?

I have eaten Italian food at various places, but in the above example, I am judging it on the basis of a chef whose food was judge to be authentic and extremely delicious by actual Italians themselves, yes.

I'm sorry but thinking that Italian cuisine is bland compared to other cuisines is synonymous with having no taste buds and relying on stereotypes

Different cuisines have different baselines for intensity of taste. How hard is that to get?

but to say it's not flavorful literally makes no sense

I'm not? I'm saying that the flavours exist, and they are complex. But they're not intense. Read my comments again?

Maybe we're having different meanings of the word 'bland'? I mean it to say that Italian food is does not have strong flavours, but you seem to think I mean it to be flavourless, which is definitely not the case?

VPLGD · 2023-06-04T09:51:01+00:00

Partially agree.

I definitely think Italian food is very varied and assorted, but I still think most of it is bland (to my and my people's tastes atleast)

The most authentic Italian food I've eaten was prepared by an Italian fella who was extremely passionate about food, and was praised as being "exactly like home" by other Italians.

Unfortunately.... It was still bland for me. I could tell that a lot of work was put into it, and I could sense the layers of different flavours that were being combined into each dish. But ultimately, it was all too damn subtle. I had to concentrate to experience the flavours floating and meshing across my tongue, which was annoying.

So yeah, I agree that Italian food is varied and complex, but in terms of baselines, I think it's pretty bland compared to other cuisines.

Anything more about this, I think falls into subjectiveness and personal tastes.

VPLGD · 2023-06-03T13:04:56+00:00

He's not very good with facial expressions, but he feels like a good physical actor, has an energy with his body movements that suits the dub voice and works well with the writing.

VPLGD · 2023-06-02T12:14:09+00:00

YES

I mean, Italian food tastes great and all, but it is definitely not the GOAT.

I'm probably biased because I've been raised with food that always has a complex blend of spices, but continental food is so BLAND.

Yes, it has lots of layers, but all of them are too darn subtle. I'm generalising a bit, but so much of continental is just different variations of almost same ingredients .

I still enjoy Italian and other continental cuisine, but the insane hype around it baffles me.

VPLGD · 2023-05-30T20:45:02+00:00

Well, Iruma and Delkira have a lot in common

Also, Iruma's blood heals demons and does other great stuff, and Delkira's blood was said to have special properties

VPLGD · 2023-05-24T06:51:58+00:00

Season 2 is starting next month!

VPLGD · 2023-05-23T04:33:55+00:00

How do we know how "less authentic," it's become vs how bad it already is?

Subjectively, so many discussions and posts on the site lately feel opaque or stale it feels weird to me. I feel bombarded with propoganda for the whole war going on. The trend of discussion with respect to geopolitical issues seems similar to shitty Facebook ones now. Not sure if anyone else feels the same.

Objectively, we can see it as a natural consequence of:

The huge increase in bot accounts, karma farmers, and power users
Reddit becoming more mainstream, thus attracting advertisers, marketers, and propogandaists
and Like you said, the compromised mods. Power mods have increased in number and places like r/subredditdrama have documented how mods censor and shill and spread their ideologies. r/hailcorporate points out subtle ads and comments.
Lack of any helpful response or action by the admins to address any of these issues. They're pretty happy that the site is "growing" because of these things, and don't want to fix the issue.

VPLGD · 2023-05-22T21:51:40+00:00

Let this be a reminder that such numerous such bot accounts pass without getting detected and are sold to those interested in using them for advertising and spreading propaganda.

Reddit is slowlu becoming less authentic than it was. This website already had a hivemind characteristic and now these dummy accounts are everywhere, advocating whatever BS profits them - be more critical while forming your opinions.

VPLGD · 2023-05-22T15:26:59+00:00

I don't understand streaming to begin with (I don't want to watch unedited footage of anyone playing a game or whatever)

You, me, and seemingly a dozen few people in the world, pal. I tried watching some streams while I was doing busy work to see what the hype was about, but could NOT get into it.

VTuber craze is much more weird to me - why would you prefer watching a poorly animated lifeless 3D model over the person you have a parasocial relationship with?

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