I decided to take a peek at Reddit to see what kind of activity is happening, a good handful of the subreddits I am subscribed to are still super active with posts and commenters.
There’s quite a few news articles on the front page regarding Spez and the blackouts, I am surprised those articles are even still up for people to see.
The comment section is filled with people saying how they should just kick the mods out of the dark Reddit’s and take over, ofcourse these posts are heavily upvoted…
Perhaps there is some AI activity going on, I mean it’s kind of easy to do in this day and age. You just prompt an army of AI bots to defend Reddit, and try to keep users engaged.
I am so happy I found Lemmy, and I am so happy that there is a comfortable level of activity. Sure it’s only a small fraction of what Reddit is activity wise, but it’s so much more hearty and welcoming.
Reddit has just turned into one big toxic mess. Lemmy reminds me of what Reddit used to be 10 years ago.
You make a good point. I’m not convinced that Reddit is going the way of Digg anytime soon but I do think that they will find themselves in a Facebook situation. What I mean by that they will lose a bunch of users/mods in the form of a slow decay as the site gets worse and worse until all that remains is a self-selected echo chamber.
I have noticed a huge quality decline on reddit. I hope people get fed up and search for other options.
I have noticed a similar dip over the years but it’s hard to tell if that dip is real or just my experience.
Either way you are looking at someone who got fed up and searched for another option. I created an account today and have only made a handful of comments here but I’m really hoping to stick around a bit.
I’m new as well. Made my account a few days ago. First time participating in the fediverse and I am loving it so far. I love the vibe and building new communities. I wish I better knew how to spread the word because up until last week I never knew any of this existed.
We are essentially identical in that respect.
I’m hoping that these communities pick up steam but at the same time I also wouldn’t mind if they stayed just a little under the radar. Once things get too large you start to have problems that were never problems. It’s a fine balance.
There’s been so many threads I’ve read on lemmy where pretty much everyone was able to voice disagreement in some way, but the discourse refrained from being toxic. That seemed so very rare on Reddit. I wonder if this is due to the lack of the total karma metric or something.
I think that it’s because the bad users aren’t here yet.