ShadowRunner

I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.

Have a good day.

If you see no reasons why someone would switch accounts, then you just haven't really thought it through. And you do people a serious disservice by painting all of them who use multiple accounts with the same brush.

For one thing, people treat comments by moderators differently then they treat comments by everyone else. So if a moderator wishes to contribute a point of view to their own sub, but don't want people to assign it special weight, it makes sense to post it under a non-moderator account.

And if you don't understand the importance of sex in the human experience, then that's something you'll have to figure out on your own. But consider that without an interest in sex, you would not be alive.

There's nothing wrong with desiring sex and having sexual attraction to others. It's literally the genetic hardwiring that is responsible for the procreation and survival of our species as well as many others.

It's not uncommon for people to have one account configured to show NSFW content and another account used at work that does not - for obvious reasons of professional behavior.

And for those who are NSFW content creators, they have an even more obvious reason to separate that side of themselves from other discussions.

Another reason why someone would have separate accounts is to have one account where they expose their profession in order to be able to contribute as a subject matter expert, and another account where they participate in discussions without that link to their life. So a lawyer might use one account to offer legal opinions and another account to talk about their gaming hobbies without being constantly asked for legal help.

Just because you, personally, don't feel a need to have multiple accounts does not mean that there is no good reason for others to do so.

Doesn't matter. The more people who use reddit, the more additional people who will be attracted to reddit. Not only will a percentage of those people use platforms that do support ads, but both groups increase the engagement with reddit, which means more content being added, more discussions being had, more subreddits being created covering new topics.

Ultimately, it still contributes to reddit.

There is an option that reddit has zero ability to stop:

If redditors band together and commit to boycott any company who advertises through reddit until reddit reverses their changes.

Companies have been very careful about trying to not get tied into the protests. But now we make it so that reddit is poisoned fruit.

There is nothing reddit can do to stop this. No rules they can change to subvert it, because we can publicize this boycott on any and every other platform if they try to silence us.

Boycott companies that advertise through reddit, and that will throw a major wrench in their current income as well as further sour their IPO prospects.

This works if we're only talking about static images.

However, if a thread links to, let's say, something from redgifs.com, then you'll only get the static image instead of the animated gif that you would hovering over a direct link.

Do you know how we can reach the underlying linked URL and use Imagus based on that?

It'd be awesome to be a classier/more serious version of Reddit.

Those things are not mutually exclusive. You can have higher standards for the serious subs we host as well as having porn related subs as well.

Just subscribe to the ones you want and ignore the others.

I understand what you're saying. However, echo chambers aside, I found reddit very useful for political discourse. Even for subjects that had a hive mind response, there were often a few comments that presented the other side in a very well thought out way, with details and citations which would give some folks a reason to rethink their knee-jerk response.

In addition, one of the biggest problems in the US is that lack of political engagement by younger folks. So having those news articles and discussions on a popular forum gives them that visibility into the world of governance and allows them to both develop a desire to vote for change as well as having better knowledge of the issues and how different political figures have acted and what they really stand for.

So I welcome that discourse and having political subs.

On reddit, one of my favorite communities was r/AskMen. However, one of the biggest complaints was that the reddit mods were too lax about allowing women to answer questions, since at that point, it might as well have been r/AskReddit.

But someone else (not one of the reddit mods) created https://kbin.social/m/AskMen and fixed that problem.

So even though, like many magazines from the reddit migration, it's new and short on content for the moment, I'm really happy that it's here and that it's improved.

I look forward to its growth with this much better community of people.

You're ignoring the other effects of third party apps - which is to have significantly added to the number of users they have to show ads to in the first place.

Making their API free encouraged active development which increased user engagement. So it absolutely did increase their revenue because it helped to increase the popularity of their site in the first place.

This is not reddit... Lol

You know what, reddit was filled with people who got upset when others tried to help them improve. Let's not take that with us here.

I, for one, am grateful when others point out a mistake because it helps me to become better. That's the mentality we should encourage here.