Reddit bought giant ads in Paris, urging people to join

“Come make friends on Reddit”

Lmao. Tell me Reddit inc doesn’t understand their product at all without telling me.

No one uses Reddit to make friends. (Yes, I know some jagweed will come with a story about their friends brothers girlfriends nephew that met their best friend on Reddit)

They added functionality that allows you to hide your comment history, so now you have even less information regarding whether you are talking to a real human being or not. Before, they didn't even have to advertise. Now, they've enshittified themselves so much they desperately need new users.

Reddit posting ads for more users is actually hilarious. They were soooo unconcerned with how many users they were going to lose when they made the 3rd party API changes. Like to the point where u/spez basically had a "let them eat cake" moment and just straight up said "were successful enough we dont care if we lose people".

Death rattle

Come meet the most vindictive, aggravated, compulsively argumentative people you've ever met. On Reddit!

Hey you there reading this, I already upvoted all the anti-Reddit comments in this post, you can go rest instead

Maybe they shouldn't have permabanned thousands of active users like me, with a 12 year account and nearly 1 million Karma. People like me built Reddit, and as soon as HitlerPig was inaugurated, the DOGE Goblin demanded that Reddit purge its membership. Now they're stuck with bots, novelty accounts, punsters, Russian Propaganda Farmers, MAGA activists, etc.

Proud to be part of the resistance

I'm staying with my boyfriend because of his dog. Am I horrible?

Is there a Parisian who doesn't do rock climbing, Pilates, or ceramics?

I'm going to the Maldives but I'm composting, does that make up for it?

Just between you and me, who's ever bought fruit on the metro?

So, what do we do with the people on the wrong side of the escalator?

Has anyone ever found the exit at Chatelet, or is that a myth?

Looks like there's enough space to write "lemmy" in there

Who wouldn't want to talk to bots and train "AI"?

Rule of thumb: the more something is advertised, the more shit it is for one reason or another, and you'll do well to avoid it altogether. When I'm advising people on contractors, my number 1 rule is: if they're on TV, they're criminals, I promise you.

Reddit is the most new-user-unfriendly site I have ever been to. You've got to farm an unknown amount of karma before you can post or comment in subreddits. There's a reason I'm at Lemmy now. Fuck Reddit. (Also, 4chan is a toilet. The occasional nuggets of good stuff aren't worth trawling through pages of shitposts for.)

Join, just so they can ban you for bullshit.

Not only in Paris. Saw some of them in Marseille too. At first I thought it was some kind of "anti-ad" joke, where someone was giving them a bad rep because of how stupid it looked.

Guess it was not a joke.

les autres

I prefer "lesbian with autism" merci beaucoup

What the fuck, that looks absolutely desperate! I'm sure it will have the opposite effect. Fuck reddit.

Wow, I've never seen them actually pull ads for membership. Site must be struggling for real users. Bot takeover isn't working out, shouldn't have banned the top users for petty bullshit.

The archive of past posts and problem solving is the greatest value of the site.

That place is a doomer and mental illness circus.

Why don't they just fire up some more bots?

Silly Reddit, bots aren’t going to sign up because of an ad

Now hear me out: we all put together some Money to Buy ads for lemmy lmao

jus engage bro, just give us more data bro, just doomscroll all day, comment all the post bro, just engage bro, we need to keep the users coming bro, so we strike a better deal with google bro

“Make an account”….”get banned before you can even verify”

Reddit is such a cesspool now. I got banned on r/Nintendohelp and r/Nintendo for participating in r/FuckNintendo

I also got banned from r/Pokemongo for participating in r/PGSharp

Reddit is useless nowadays since ai can answer most questions now. It's only good for opinions people have and now even that's in jeopardy.

Cringe.

Yo france, you busy this evening? There are some new canvises we can paint on. A nice "Reddit ist so ein Pimmel" - germany

"Eh merde alors."

The audacity of that asshat running the place, just to please an even bigger bastard by banning anyone insulting the world's right-wingers and despots.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

I have been playing a game, Chasm, I Kickstarted years ago. I am having some difficulties and while Steam discussions are helpful for some, most discussions are on Reddit. The posts are 3+ years old, and every time I try to open one I get a notification that the discussion hasn't been reviewed by the community so I can only read it with the app. Shit website.

I don't know about the rest of the images, but the last one is definitely photoshopped. Check out the reflection on the floor.

take them down

Desperation struck huh?

How is this infuriating? Businesses have ads.

Is France making an effort to untether itself from US tech companies like some other parts of Europe are?

Is that what we were supposed to do on Reddit?

They have millions of posts, and this is the funniest they could find? Sheesh.

I would vandalise those to link to lemmy is I saw them tbh.

Can anyone put lemmy stickers

Reddit has something in common with Russia

There's big money behind it now, I guess. 🤷

Nah dawg. I'm good on the censorship.

What's behind the fake building front?

And damn it's ugly in terms of city and building front and feel. Such a strong color. I wonder how it looks IRL.

I'm not sure about infuriating. Maybe more like pathetic. Can that even make economic sense if you're an ad-driven business yourself?

'tain ça fait tiep 🤣

The worst part is their châtlet joke is actually good 😭.

I hope someone tags over all this.

They even bought TV space. Apart from meeting apps, I'm not sure if I ever saw any other online network advertise on TV. Maybe Facebook did years ago, but I don't think so.