Crushed? Or drove away tons of OC creators and active members leaving a bot filled wasteland?
I mean, it’s a victory if they shout it loudly enough, right? A lie repeated long enough, so it goes:
Company is going bankrupt, users are gone, laying off the bottom quartile of the company, but they stopped the protest! Etc.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/reddits-golden-geese-foul-up-its-ipo-plans-2023-06-16/
It’s like reading the top two lines of a disaster report and declaring victory. Fuck Reddit.
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Crushed. Lots lots more of over at reddit as well as a smaller percent hours.
Lemmys front page is a ton of bots reposting content from Reddit.
Neither of the services have a lot of OC.
It took a couple weeks but I’ve found that blocking some bot accounts and adjusting the sorting on the app I use has plenty of fresh content with active posts. It isn’t exactly the same as reddit in its prime, but I shouldn’t expect it to be either.
It’s causing me to branch out into other topics and conversations that I probably would’ve missed on a gigantic platform like reddit. I think reddit made it easy to see interesting content because of how long it had to develop into a community. Lemmy is still a bit jumbled and fragmented, but the community seems to be sticking around and forming a new identity apart from reddit.
Mind sharing which bots to block? Some bots are useful, so I’d rather not hide all bots.
I havent used reddit at all since August and from June 12 to August i was on the site for ~10 minutes total. I am a total lemmy user now with no need to use reddit at all. I dont even miss it since i can get everything here i did over their.
Same. I had an account that was probably 12+ years old. Reddit was a huge part of my recreational schedule.
I genuinely prefer Lemmy. The lack of algorithms pushing engagement is good for the soul. It’s here when I want it and I can leave it whenever I’m done.
Reddit was a big part of my day too. I had redreader easily accessible so i could just pop it open whenever i wanted to. Now Thunder has taken its place.
I did the same, but athough I love this place, there’s still a huge scarcity of contents. Sometimes, as a lurker, to find more stuff. Here we’re just an handful, thus I cannot still find here what I used to find on Reddit.
What is really lacking is all the very specific communities centered around common interests. The more specific the harder, especially if it’s not a traditionally nerdy subject. I mean, there’s an obvious bias, and I won’t pretend I am not part of it.
Those used to have dedicated forums, but Reddit manage to capture them all for convenience, and now very few subsist. A good part of what’s left has been abandoned to AI spambots.
Part of this activity is now on discord, but the invite structure isn’t great for those. It makes this content hard to discover and impossible to search if you’re not aware of it.
I’ve only been there when DuckDuckGo has directed me there in a search.
Left reddit and never looked back
Joined Lemmy a few months ago as a direct result of how the responded to the protest
Is “Crushed” a new term for driving away the most active and interesting users away?
I sometimes use Instagram though and it’s soo much bot and ai contend.
Idk Reddit cuz I don’t go there anymore, but it seems the internet is fakker and fakker.
I just hope it’s real people that im messing with here in Lemmy. Because at least y’all still fight and argue XD, the comments aren’t brain dead.
Except for these guys that I just talked to that said they didn’t like Oppenheimer
I for one am a totally normal human person
Beep boop
Reddit didn’t do shit. Lemmy and Kbin crushed it by existing as alternatives. People who were unhappy just went there and settled.
They haven’t crushed Reddit yet, but the fight isn’t over.
I deleted my Reddit accounts on the morning of the apicalypse, I still read Reddit though, but Lemmy has mostly replaced my social media use, and I spend more time on Lemmy than on Reddit these days.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/ikhGvUpdu40
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
It banned me lol and banned so many people that Congress wants to ban banning
Oh yeah I feel soooooo defeated and crushed just like soooooo sad that I have to be here and not with spez
Reddit didn’t do shit. Lemmy and Kbin crushed it by existing as alternatives. People who were unhappy just went there and settled.
Reddit crushed itself more than anything. Sure they ended the protest, but that place is a ghost-town now, all that’s left are the bots and politcal propaganda pushers. Stale links that are several days old populate the front pages of the big subs.
