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I don't give a shit about reddit's DP program.

The first two or three emails I was willing to ignore. But they keep sending these.

How desperate do you have to be?

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 63 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Hey, glad we could find you here. Did you know that the Reddit Directed Share Program deadline is 5 March 2024?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

Lol this would be funny as fuck if they started posting about their dick scam program here on Lemmy.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 56 points 8 months ago

Desperation is a great look for an IPO.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 47 points 8 months ago

Translation “Somebody please hold my bags”

[–] xan1242@lemmy.ml 45 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is this even legal?

Aside from the spam stuff, does the FTC allow this?

[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

Assuming you're in the US, everything is allowed, and an entity as benign as thr FTC can't stop that.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think someone else did that and got banned for "report abuse". Absolutely bonkers.

[–] xan1242@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago

I should've clarified I did that on my email provider lol

Eh, works either way.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not enough bag holders. Spez needs his golden Tesla signed by Elon, and he's still a few million suckers away.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I got a reminder email from them, stating that if you didn't want to join I needn't worry; this would be the last email they'd send about it.

They then sent a DM from u/reddit to my account, meaning I got another email about it.

Even something as simple as that they can't get right.

[–] sysadmin420@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Fucking same I read the email when I received the dm and chuckled about it as the push notification came in.

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They banned me for talking shit on nazis and still spend me spam trying to get me to their website they don't even want me on. And if I do click on it there's a big red banner telling me I'm not welcome. Crazy. Fuck reddit, and most it's users.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I got that email today too for one of my accounts. Oddly, its my old account that I retired long ago. The one I was still using up till the exodus last year, hasnt gotten a second email yet. Theyre really desperate for that cash money arent they?

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I received one for a moderation bot I created

[–] Steve@startrek.website 7 points 8 months ago

🎶 Isn’t it ironic 🎶

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I logged into my old account, replied to the message, and told them to pack sand and that I hoped those WSB numpties short their stock into oblivion.

[–] w2tpmf@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you and the other millions of users opt into receiving marketing emails from them when you signed up?

Let's starts a class action lawsuit.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's a reddit inbox message, not an email

[–] w2tpmf@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

They are also directly emailing people.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I got spammed bt e-mail in old reddit accounts i didn't evem remember having created. Some 6 accounts in total, long abandoned with barely any karma. They are extremely desperate.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They'd probably have better luck launching and rugging a crypto.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 8 months ago

They did ride the NFT wave with NFT avatars. Doubt that was a profitable venture

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

They tried that one.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’d get a better ROI from selling my old account to spammers.

[–] Hux@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’d be open to that. Is there a market place?

[–] sysadmin420@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

Yikes! You’re right. People are selling accounts for roughly 50-100 €, which is much more than what I expected.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 8 months ago

Logged into my porn alt that I barely use for anything ever

It had the original IPO and this message

How the fuck was my randomly generated username porn account that I modded one sub for and used for wracking off to titties enough of a power user to get that when I hadn't used it in like 8 months?

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

They must know that investors have no confidence in their IPO so they're hoping their user base is dumb enough to inflate their price.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lol I saw this too. Who the fuck would want to buy shares in Reddit these days? Who the fuck would buy shares in a failing product with a CEO hellbent on ruining it further?

Had this been 10 years ago, I might have fallen for it.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

The bootlickers and large companies ruining the platform for either profit anor because they're power hungry. Those are the people they expect to buy into their scam.

[–] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

I've gotten it via email and via dm

I've reported as spam in Gmail and blocked the user on old.reddit

Fuck them and their bags.

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 5 points 8 months ago

I reckon closing your account or calling it out on a popular sub could have similar beneficial outcomes here

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

How do i short this shit

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

I just find it funny how Spez thinks his cesspool of a community is marketable enough to be treated as a serious stock exchange. Poorly moderated, asinine engagement, braindead repetition, ban-happy and devoid of this 'intellectualism' Reddit boasts about.

And I want Reddit to go public just to see how hard it'll fail.

[–] Shialac@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

They started to send me this less than a day after the initial mail lmao

[–] spez@lemmus.org 1 points 8 months ago

We need shareholders to make money on our negative revenue product.