• zcd@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Crushed? Or drove away tons of OC creators and active members leaving a bot filled wasteland?

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      1 year ago

      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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      1 year ago

      🙄

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          Mind sharing which bots to block? Some bots are useful, so I’d rather not hide all bots.