Plenty of redditors are here, reddit did originally start with a good crowd. I myself moved during the great fuckery of 2023. However i believe that a lot of the low-effort redditors (or however you would describe them) you are reffing to would find lemmy just that extra step too difficult/inconvenient to get into and wont take it up.

FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

I don't understand this sentiment. Don't you want Lemmy to grow and overtake the big platforms? If there's specific people or instances you don't like, you could block them. I see no reason to gatekeep Lemmy. I say this as an ex-redditer.

hydrospanner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Come for the spite toward Reddit, stay for the lack of content and somehow even worse community!

Taleya@aussie.zone · 35 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Ok this part made me snarf:

When comments are enabled on free-form ads, there's an increase in community engagement, Reddit claimed, without indicating whether that increase was positive or not.

FaceDeer@fedia.io · 18 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I remember a long time ago, like maybe a decade or more, the regular we-can-see-they're-ads ads on Reddit could have comments enabled if the ad buyer wanted. I remember jumping in on a few of them and they actually weren't bad, at least in the ones I went into (a biased sample to be sure). If the ads weren't obnoxious or misleading I could see it going not too badly.

At some point adblock got good enough that I stopped seeing ads on Reddit any more, though, so I don't know when they stopped that practice.

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 2y

Advertisers stopped enabling it around the time it became mostly "MeUndies", "HeGetsUs" and "kraft" ads.

ryo@lemmy.eco.br · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

A long time ago the only ads on reddit were for communities inside itself.

I remember reddit was the only exception in my block rules.

Lojcs@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

Yeah I never understood that. Was it just to drive engagement? Were the moderators paying for those?

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Taleya@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_wC46bW1kI4

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Zugyuk@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Would they accept money advertising Lemmy? 🤣

ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 2y

Ahead of the Reddit IPO, I'm finally done purging most of my Reddit posting history and subtly modifying the rest to poison whatever AI is trained on it.

I have no doubt Reddit didn't really delete any of the posts I deleted, but I am hoping the poisoned information will find its way verbatim to an AI's training set.

Resol@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

Thank goodness I ran away when I could

cmbabul@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

They were kinda already doing that before I left

profdc9@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

With all this money they'll raise from the IPO, maybe Reddit will finally be profitable! It's definitely not a way for investors to unload their turds on the public.

oxjox@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

The social media monster pointed to companies already trialing free-form ads, which include Just Eat Takeaway, Kraft Heinz, and Leica, all of which found the format capable of "driving upper funnel results."

Actually, I'd really like to see a screenshot of these Leica ads if anyone comes across one.