Even if there was a balance and the ads were non-intrusive?

I don’t need propaganda telling me to want to buy shit that I otherwise wouldn’t want to buy, no. I’ll go to other consumers (and, more specifically, people I trust) to determine what things are worth, not entities with a conflict of interest in the matter.

The whole marketing/advertising industry is illegitimate and harmful, and I’m “boycotting” the whole thing until we finish the job of destroying capitalism and it’s no longer needed anyway.

I’d rather view a few reasonable ads than have a site try to mine and sell my data.

The corporations are going to try to mine and sell your data anyway. Why wouldn’t they? You think just because they have a revenue stream through ads that they’ll give up another revenue stream from fucking over your privacy? Then I’ve got this nice bridge to sell you, too…

We’d probably be willing to view ads if the experience wasn’t literally jarring.

Not me, sorry. Fuck ads. I’ve been ad-free for like a decade, and I’m not interested in regressing.

Yes. I give it like a week before the FOSS community figures out how to bypass again. LOL.

It’s a natural consequence of the “enshittification” cycle: The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok — Or how, exactly, platforms die

In other words: yeah, it’s systemic, and Reddit is very likely to continue going that way. Whether it has one, big moment where users just mass abandon it or it’ss a long, drawn-out process of attrition, the end result will almost certainly be the same.

Hmm. Hate to be a downer, but that sounds like there needs to be a way for the service itself to block (ban) users and material, not for users to be able to bock other users. So I wouldn’t be too optimistic about Apple’s response…

blackout.photon-reddit.com

Damn. That is only a tiny little dip in the post/comment rate so far relative to the historical cycle. What, maybe 5%, assuming the vertical axis crosses at zero? Not terribly encouraging…