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
Dead internet theory
This post made by a normal human person
This post made by a normal human person
Sure thing, 7u5k3n 🤔
My only problem with Oppenheimer is that they should have issued earplugs upon entering the theater. Shit hurt my ears.
Like, I get that bombs are loud, but I don’t need to actually feel pain and probably damage my hearing to get the picture.
Reminds me: do we have an earrumblers community yet
Beep boop
IMO they didn’t crush anything?
The apathetic remained.
Those who have niche communities that aren’t available elsewhere likely remained.
Several of my subscribed subs are completely gone or functionally extinct due to lack of participation.
Anecdotally I find reduced participation in other subs, people seem less willing to have a discussion.
Personally I’ve moved on to Lemmy/KBin/etc. and spend most of my time there now.
But “crushed”?
Crushed is a funny way to spell “all the good people left”
Fucking lol
I know how everyone just wants to pipe up and say, “well it didn’t crush me hur hur”, but I actually watched the video. It’s a good record of what went down. I wish it would’ve mentioned Reddit alternatives, but it’s still solid work.
And to anyone who still maintains that the protest has fatally wounded Reddit, look, I’m on your side but Reddit is still the 800 lb gorilla of link aggregation, and most folks still don’t get why they should care about API pricing.
800 pound gorilla only lasts until a kid falls in the cage
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I’d you disagree with the wrong mod or say something “offensive” banned. They look at your appeal and nothing changes.
At this point it’s just adult children “working” in their parents basement not making any money.
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Even with a modlog, the mods are clearly removing comments. I can’t tell you how many times I’ll click on a link that reads anywhere from 10-25 “more comments in this thread,” only for it to tell me there are no more comments when I click to load them.
I don’t know how bans work over here, but I have seen lemmings complain that they got banned temporarily, but never got any notifications of the ban.
It’s clearly better than what happened to Reddit, but there still seem to be some bad faith actors about.
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I used to go to the The Last of Us subreddit to just vent about the horrible writing in the second part of the game. Jesus, that was s cult. People had to create s second subreddit just to criticize the game. Now, the original subreddit calls names and bans anyone mentioning “the other” subreddit.
Now, I’m from Mexico. The subreddit /r/Mexico is the equivalent to /r/Conservative to the USA. But named after my country, people goes there without knowing this, it’s so damn alienating.
I’m one of the mods of a few subs even though I’m no longer active. I hopped on yesterday and had a chat with the remaining mods of a couple of subs. They’ve been SO busy moderating assholes, propagandists, aggressive conspiracy theorists, and spam bots. They’re suspending and banning accounts every day or two when it used to be an account or two every month. These are all small to medium sized, niche subs dedicated to helping people and sharing various ideas and people are trolling and harassing users like they’ve never seen before.
I checked out some of the subs’s contents and in short order found I let myself get sucked into trying to educate an anti-masker in a sub that really shouldn’t attract that type. It went how you’d expect, and it made me realize I haven’t had a single interaction like that on Lemmy. It’s nicer here.
it’s full of bots who uses AI to spread toxicity. And if you are genuine and report that, you’re going to be permabanned. The site is going down, fast
same. reddit is populated with users who’s comments are generally indistinguishable from those of a 12-15 year old.
Good video, though I feel that it just ended abruptly, almost as if they had more to say.
Reddit did stop the protest and after a month, Reddit was back to business as usual. With that said, due to the protest I got exposed to Lemmy, Mastadon and the Fediverse. And if you are a company, the last thing you want to do, is expose your customers to competition.
From a personal note, outside of a few niche communities I am subbed to on Reddit, like /r/vita. I’ve noticed a decline in quality in the posts, and outside of these small communities discussions are far and few between as well. Lemmy I’ve found is a lot more active, and I am interacting with it more.
I too have noticed a general drop in the quality of content on Reddit. Some of the smaller communities keep providing good information but now it’s a bit harder to find and sort them, others have absolutely went to shit.
From what I’ve heard a lot of subreddits continue to exist but have lost some of their best contributors and mods. Some migrated to the fediverse, some elsewhere, others gave up entirely.
Despite being forced back open after the blackouts etc they are not the same as they were, the tone and quality of discussion has shifted a fair bit.
I was just on Reddit for the first time in awhile and all of my old subs, which are mostly niche interests, aren’t doing too well. There are far fewer quality posts and lots of spam. I was getting Facebook vibes.
Going onto a major subreddit like worldnews is just insane.
On the Palestinian genocide it’s just completely full of IDF posting pro-Israeli content. And all the comments are just propagandists agreeing with each other.
I have to say that I was shocked at the disgusting state of the Reddit commentary over this topic. The amount of shameless genocide apologist rhetoric was unnaturally high.
Totaly, outside the small communities everything feels so generic and bland ppl share such crazy stories all the time. I heard many time it’s filled with boys I’m believing it tbh.
They can spin it that way all they want but personally I just left. Granted, I was mostly a lurker but I’m quite sure they lost many of them.
I was pretty active for about 10-12 years. Then things gradually started changing. As the platform got bigger it also got more toxic. I found myself commenting less and less because when I did I’d often be met by trolls or contrarians who didn’t want to have a discussion in good faith.
Outside a group of fellow mods who I got to know very well (and who I spoke to more outside of reddit anyway) I was disengaging from reddit, and I was getting disillusioned with it.
Lemmy feels a lot like reddit from around 2009/2010. In some ways it feels even better: it doesn’t have that underlying unpleasant corporate odor, and you have more confidence you are talking to a real person who is what they say they are, instead of a bot or a troll.
Saying reddit crushed the protest is accurate in some ways. But the next question is: what did they lose in doing so? I think they lost a lot of their charm, their character, their very essence.
I was already sniffing around for a new reddit before the whole protest thing. Turns out Lemmy is what I had been looking for off and on for the last couple of years.
I’ll take 1.5m or 150k or 20k or whatever the actual user count is over the shit show that has been reddit for the past few years.
Same. Don’t care what reddit does now, cause I’m not there 🤷🏼♂️
Same
I can confirm, I lurk, I left Reddit and am not looking back.
I was a pretty active user. I check in maybe a few times a month now at most.
I moderated a couple dozen specialized communities. I left them after 15 years of being on Reddit, and haven’t been back in 5 months. They’re effectively dead now, weeks between posts and no activity.
Many niche sub’s have been murdered but the big shitsubs are still going strong with bots and spammers, so they have that going for them, I guess.
Thank you for your service.
Oh yeah I feel soooooo defeated and crushed just like soooooo sad that I have to be here and not with spez
It wasn’t really a protest to me. It was more of a migration. Some people stayed I guess. Whatever
I used Reddit from 2010-2023. They crushed the protest alright and also ruined the site. I’ve lost all interest in using it. Fuck Reddit. Fuck Spez.
The title does make it look like reddit is completely fine…when it’s like them burning down their own house to get rid of a house guest that was just staying to long.
It was probably more akin to smashing up the conservatory but the owners have enough money that they just got the windows replaced the week after. The windows have a slight tint to them that wasn’t there before but the owners don’t care enough.
Just looked at Reddit after a long while. That new redesign is horrendous.
I deleted my account and it was liberating. Nowadays I only go there when I want to look up something for a game on Google.
I use a 3rd party API modded app with a burner a and check on niche communities that Lemmy doesn’t have yet…I do not comment, upvote or engage.
The only thing that matters to me is that the vast majority of my interactions on Reddit are shite ones with negative assholes, while the vast majority of my interactions here are pretty chill. Reddit won’t die, but if it did… I wouldn’t miss it one bit.
That’s because instance admins have zero incentive to tolerate even the slightest bit of bullshit. Reddit didn’t care because trolls and jerks generate engagement.
If it did all those assholes would look for somewhere else to go. They might come here…
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.
So… Just like Facebook which is the biggest SoMe platform in the world?
I don’t think reddit cares, as long as user numbers stay roughly the same. They did.
Left reddit and never looked back
I’m almost glad they did this. It cut my social media time down drastically, and really nothing of value was lost.
