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Reddit stock drops 9% as Google AI content deal nears expiration
qz.com/reddit-stock-google-ai-content-deal-072226
QuartzReddit stock drops 9% as Google AI content deal nears expirationReddit's $60 million-a-year deal with Google is ending soon, and the company is reassessing whether renewing it makes sense
And with them putting old Reddit behind a login, they’re just losing traffic.
They’re going to start getting really desperate to mine data and drive advertising dollars soon.
Replying to @Monument@piefed.world
Sounds like we should get this place ready for another wave of people
Ugh
Replying to @Kurtagag@lemmy.ca
“September again?” he complained after having arrived last September.
The wave has started. I just moved from there to here, after they enforced ID checks and require email or phone number.
Replying to @Lemmybrewbeer81@reddthat.com
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Check out !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca if you have any questions
We’ve also put together a guide, and new users might find these pages helpful:
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You don’t have to post right away, come back later if you want - You can post as
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Fediverse is new to most people. If you’re unsure about something, others are
unsure as well. - Just smile and wave, maybe someone will wave back 👋Thank you :)
Welcome! I know it can be confusing at first.
FYI, Lemmy, MBin/KBin, and Piefed are all different servers. People often say Lemmy when they mean threadiverse as a whole. It’s kinda like email though, even if you use gmail, I can email you from yahoo. The interface may vary a little, but the core function is the same.
Replying to @greybeard@feddit.online
Thank you :)
Fediverse needs that. There’s just not enough people to attain the one cool thing about reddit, that was having a couple people create communities around basically any niche hobby you could think of.
Only very generic topics or ultra-popular stuff get some traction, and in many cases it’s barely a blip.
Replying to @brsrklf@jlai.lu
A problem I’ve seen also is creating a niche community because you don’t want to just get the general content, but since there’s simple fewer users it’s just dead. And when someone else thinks about switching to Lemmy, they see a bunch of dead communities and are like “oh this site is dead.”
It’s annoying but on a newer site(/federation of sites) those niche communities need to be conversations that start in a more generalized community that enough people want to branch it off into it’s own thing. So there’s already core users, so it’s not DOA.
Replying to @Monument@piefed.world
Is it regional or for VPN users or something? I still use old reddit when I need to from search results, and I don’t get asked to log in.
I get asked to login to old.reddit if I set my VPN to USA, but not for the European countries I’ve tested.
It seems to be rolling out region by region I reckon. I’m in the south east Asia and I don’t get asked to log in yet.
Replying to @Monument@piefed.world
they just try to pretend like facebook, Fake engagement by significant amount of bots, which are likely going to be propaganda anyways. Also thier purges last year, probably was the final blow anyways, get rid of actual users, in favor of fake botting, propaganda, and spammers.