Reddit is dead. Long live the Fediverse.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16tqihd/settings_updateschanges_to_ad_personalization/
Reddit just decided it was a good idea to REMOVE the option to disable ad personalisation. Good job u/spez. We know what you're doing.
- Oh, okay. I had no idea. I was like "How far do I have to scroll to find out what reddit did this time?"
  Wouldn't affect me anyway, because I use an ad blocker.
  
  It still means they're selling your info to advertisers
  
  I think this is the removal of the opt out of selling my data to advertisers?
- This really doesn't sound legal.
  
  I hope spez has good GDPR lawyers!
- Neat, so they are monetising your activities on the plattform. Isn't that great?
  
  Corporate does corporate things.
  
  They've always been doing it, they're just gonna stop hiding it now.
- reddit has ads?
  
  Reddit is ads.
  
  Yea, ublock always blocks them on old Reddit. So this technically won't affect me.
  
  I'm sure old.reddit is on its way out in the near future.
- Why are these people still there, do they just stick around on reddit to complain about it?
  
  Because other people are there
  
  Network effects are real
  
  They should come to Lemmy to complain about Reddit, like the rest of us.
  
  Hating Reddit is the usual Reddit routine, the one you may be rewarded for with Reddit's updoots.
  
  I think the average person is not willing to take 5 minutes to figure out how Kbin or Lemmy works.
  
  Kbin, at least, for the end user is just as simple as reddit.
  
  Before I left Reddit, I searched for alternatives and saw that people recommended Lemmy or Kbin. But I didn't know what those things were. I assumed they were just Reddit clones hosted by someone else. I didn't know that I could create an account on Kbin and interact with other posts in the Fediverse. I didn't even know what the Fediverse was. So I was stuck with this decision of "do I try Lemmy or Kbin first?"
  When I decided to try Lemmy, the first thing you need to do is sign up on an instance. People recommended beehaw.org, but that required filling out an application to join. That seems weird, since I never had to apply to read Reddit. I decided to try another instance (sh.itjust.works) but was worried that I was missing out on what people had recommended about other instances. Maybe I chose the wrong one? Maybe I should make an account on Lemmy.world instead?
  It took me a little while to grasp the concept of federation and realize that it made no difference as an end user which instance I chose. I stuck with it, as did everyone reading this, but I think it's fair to say that the average person has similar barriers to entry. We've overcome them, but many, many people will not.
  
  you joined early on, you had to work at understanding the fediverse. now there are plenty of places that explain everything.

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