Technology

Kholer, American standard, and other toilet manufacturers are scrambling to match Toto's ad popularity in "the go" ad business.

If you've changed your extractor fan recently, you might have come out of the restroom humming something new or maybe something familiar like the McDonalds jingle. But such feats of advertising have never been part of the true #2!. Things like bidet splash modulation... Lara papa pa!!! Right in the butt! Or flush ads! A display banner integrated on to the flush tank, and if you open the lid you'll get ads around the bowl and in the back of the lid.

Clorox is coming up with a brad new cleaning chemical family. If you forget to clean you'll be presented with scum in the shape of the clorox logo and the proper code and link to Amazon.

Oh yes please! Enshittify the one and only sanctuary we believed we had!

I'm glad I jumped ship back during the ban on 3rd party apps. That was it for me.

imagine charging for displaying content you didn't even make.

the balls are astounding, but this ain't gonna go well for them.

Hi, I think I’m doing this right. Just joined Lemmy lol because of this. Can people see my comment?

Good news for Lemmynites.

I just left, deleted my account of 15ish years tonight, no regrets. Happy to be here.

That's why I left. I regret nothing.

Just came to lemmy again after learning this shit!! mass exodus coming soon

I'm surprised they aren't talking about subscriber subreddits. With the amount of porn/OnlyFans posts, I would have thought they could position Reddit as a friendly and familiar OF alternative.

I haven't had an account since the Apollo purge but fuck Spez.

Digg: "join us reddit..."

Can't wait to see the mental gymnastics subreddit moderators will perform to defend this!

watch them lock old reddit behind a paywall just because it's the best part about reddit

Late this fall, after all of the nonsense on Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram I asked myself a very simple question.

"Is the reason I joined these sites still valid? What do I actually enjoy about social media these days?"

The answer was basically "rose colored glasses."

I joined **Reddit **after the 'deaths' of Slashdot and Digg. It became my source to get new and interesting content I probably wouldn't have found otherwise. Now it's bots arguing with bots and 75+% of the content is just recycled shit by people trying to make money. Much of the rest is from people trying to manipulate you.

Delete.

I joined Facebook to keep in touch with my friends and family - especially those I don't see often. Over time, the amount of good content from people I knew dropped to maybe 25% of my feed. Most of it now is AI-generated bullshit or more of the same recycled content you see on Reddit.

Delete.

I joined Instagram to share some of my landscape photos and view some of the great photos some close friends were sharing. Over time that became less and less. Queue the recycled and AI-bullshit content.

Delete.

So, I challenge everybody to ask themselves do they actually enjoy social media? Do these sites actually add value to your life and in any way remain true to their promise when you joined them so many moons ago. Are you actually making any connections with people? The 'social' in 'social' media? Or just watching people talk at each other, not to each other.

After answering those questions, the answer about whether to stick around is pretty clear.

Man this reddit site sounds awful

Hopefully this will drive even more users to switch over. I find myself finding Reddit less useful as time passes by

Is there anywhere I can find a complete scrape of Reddit threads and comments from before the 3rd party app apocalypse? There was a lot of useful info shared on there, but I don't want anything to do with what that site has become. I'm happy just to CTRL+F a big dataset. It'll probably still work better than either Reddit or Google does nowadays. Without media I imagine I could fit it somewhere.

Also, Spez is a greedy little pig boy.

Reddit has gotten so bad that it’s funny. I love reading about whatever awkward, bumbling cash grab they’re trying next.

What’s a good word for constant, ongoing enshittification? Diarrheafication?