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This is the beginning of the end of Reddit.
Literally the reason I’m here right now. Fuck reddit
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I always see you around being a good steward of this place, especially when welcoming new folks. Thank you for doing that
Same thing here.
Let's be honest, reddit has been going downhill since at least 2014. It still exists, and will continue to, but it's such a hollow shell of what it once was.
I’ve seen this statement like a dozen times over the last 15 years but never before has an alternative been quite as robust as Lemmy been available. Might actually see it happen this time
Probably not, reddit, like all modern social media platforms, is essentially "too big to fail". They have captured and cornered their markets and will continue to dominate indefinitely.
Throughout all of these things reddit's user growth has went up, not down. Daily Active Users grow, month over month, more than 20x the entire population of Lemmy., just think about that, there's more growth to the daily active user count on a monthly basis (not the totally user count), then the entire population of Lemmy, x20.
It's depressing to think about. But it's also reality. And reality fucking sucks.
All I can hope is that lemmy and similar continue to grow.
How many of those accounts are bots?
Those are shareholder approved autonomous marketing and engagement agents. Not bots. -Spez
According to ad hoc statistics. Between 25-50% of posters are bots. However posters are only about 10% of the Reddit population.
If we make a completely incorrect assumption and say that every single user is a poster, that still means 10-15x the entire population of Lemmy, it doesn't really change much here.
If you take the difference between posters and lockers into account and you are crazy harsh with the bot numbers you're really only reducing the population of non-bits by like 20% or so.
They reached the end of what reddit used to be a long time ago when they switched to yet another algorithm based flood of crap.
A few small communities might carry on the tradition, but the site as a whole is nothing like the user curated content aggregator that it used to be.
I was considering getting an account after being off Reddit for almost 2 years just because there are some pretty large active transgender communities then I saw this.
I think the end of the secret santa was the beginning of the end for reddit. This is like the second day after the Normandy landing for Germany.
I vaguely remember the secret santa thing. Could you remind us what that was all about.
It was just a thing you could sign up for every year and buy someone else and gift somewhere in the world. You would put your information in and everything would get coordinated so that gifts went all over. It was overall cool. Some people took advantage of course but you'd be banned if you didn't send out a gift and only received a gift.
thanks for refreshing my memory of how it worked
Adios Reddit. Well hello Fediverse. I will switch back to lemmy. First, they took our third-party apps. Now, they are actively censoring. Farewell Reddit. Fuck u/spez
Welcome! A few pointers to help you settle in
Feel free if you have any questions