Spez really is going full Elon!
I wonder how it’ll work on sites like Reddit. Imagine paying for verification only to get downvoted and "silence brand"ed by people
The next step will be preventing downvotes on branded accounts
It’s actually so cringe how he looks up to Elon and blatantly copies him as if he’s a role model businessman. Just pathetic.
At this rate, he’ll also copy musk’s advertiser turnaround and changes in company valuation
Can’t wait until he renames Reddit to W.
Since when do brands want to be known on Reddit? Isn’t the entire point to make a bunch of fake accounts and post positive comments about said brand, to make them look good?
HEY REDDIT, WHAT’S A BRAND YOU’LL BUY FOR LIFE!?
Queue the thousands of totally not brand accounts posting why said product is so perfect and you’ll never buy any other brand again!
But now the verified account can be like: ooo wow, we are totally humbled by the love for our product thank you so much you guys!!
For guerrilla marketing techniques sure
But for official advertisements I imagine they would want to do them on a verified account.
Reddit doesn’t seem to understand what their platform is for. If people are adding “reddit” to the end of google searches, it shows that they want brands to talk less, and real people to talk more.
no no no, they don’t want you to use google. They want you to use Reddit search instead, because it’s so awesome!
They put the same amount of time, effort, research, and engineering into Reddit search that they put into the official Reddit app!
Every fucking social media company wants to be the same thing. It’s boring as shit.
It’s all in prep for the pump and dump when it IPOs.
Gods I’m glad I left that shithole.
:/
Remember when reddit was people oriented?
So 2013-2014? Lol
This will just make them be down voted to oblivion by default… See EA
Coming soon to reddit patch notes.
- Downvote button removed for recognised brand accounts.
Further proof that Reddit is committed to copying every stupid decision that the Muskrat makes.
Spez loves Musk after all, can’t take his head out of his ass.
Come on, that’s just mean. He obviously doesn’t have his head up Musks ass. His teeth would never be able to fit in there.
I guess there will just be a bunch of verified accounts running around doing “organic” marketing for their latest projects now.
Boy, I am sure glad nobody has ever done that on Lemmy before.
Weren’t they already doing that? I swear, you read some posts and it’s like a PR team is trying to get a story buried. Like after a Leo DiCaprios dating history got air time you started seeing him in more memes the next days, and TILs about how he was a good actor
They were/are. They’re just making it official now.
Just saw a post by Bloomberg and u/Bloomberg has a little green checkmark by their name.
I mean he’s quite memable and he’s a great actor so not sure why both things can’t happen…
They can. It’s just that it happens suspiciously often after there’s a surge in his negative images
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That’s great news, I’m really digging the slow downfall.
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Something something die a hero something something become the villain.
It really feels like they presented a road map at the beginning of the year and are sticking to it no matter what, neither looking at their own user base nor what is happening in the world of big social media right now.
It’s almost impressive.
The only way I can believe Reddit is this stupid is if investors are holding a gun to their head and demand profitability.
If they weren’t before, they would be after an IPO.
What are they raising capital for?
Why IPO without an expansion into new markets that requires funding?
There is no growth on the horizon for reddit that justifys overpaying for ownership at IPO prices.
That’s cool, I think a lot of us here would label Reddit as verifiably stupid.
Silence, brand.
