It’s insane that it’s been some weeks since the API changes and axing of the third party apps. Yet r place has shown people are still willing to use Reddit after all this time and proclaiming “fuck spez”
IMHO reddit’s been declining for quite a while. The only reason it was less noticeable was repost/comment bots.
I mean, a subreddit like /r/videos which claimed to have 30 millions subscribers, but the top post would often have no more than 200 upvotes.
Very little original content either. Askreddit is mostly reposts, elsewhere it’s reposts from facebook, twitter and snapchat. You notice the decline less when you’re on reddit daily. Take a longer break, and it becomes more noticeable.
Sure there are less people here, but at least you know you’re likely interacting with a human. On reddit I’d often see people interacting with comment bots who’d copy pasted the top comment.
Pretty depressing if interacting with a bot is what you do to fulfill the human need for social connection and validation.
And on lemmy, a few weeks ago they went and deleted so many bot accounts to prevent vote manipulation that the total number of accounts actually decreased sharply for a few seconds and then continued growing as usual
Still dealing with weirdos on Lemmy who have nothing better to do than stalk my profile and try to pick fights with me elsewhere if I dare to disagree with them on a post, so not much has changed…
Everyone clapping their own backs by helping to write fuck spez in a Reddit game sure is something. Just childish.
I’m thinking about going back, at least as a site to visit between all these new ‘reddit-likes’, but I’m not going to be yelling like a goddamn child like I’d be above it. Sure, criticism I’ll give if warranted but that goes with everything.
If only this effort was used to make a giant banner of some Reddit alternatives - Lemmy, yes, but even something else like Kbin, Tildes, Squabbles, etc., just anything to get people to actually move somewhere else and put a tiny crack in the face of Reddit’s titanic forum almost-monopoly.
So you’re one of those complaining about people being on Reddit and simultaneously complaining that those that are aren’t being on Reddit the right way. OK.
It is my opinion that no one should continue to be on Reddit at all. Accordingly, I deleted my account.
The people who think Reddit is still fine and hasn’t done anything wrong - well, I think they’re wrong, but it makes sense that they continue to use the site.
But the people who are upset with the site and think they’re acting shiftily and that things are getting worse - why do they stay? It seems hypocritical to me, past a point. It makes sense that they’d want to try and get the site to reverse course, but i don’t think writing FUCK SPEZ was ever intended to do that. So why stick around?
Cathartic rage would be my guess, Spez wants to sell the house so they’re happy to help smash the windows, paint the walls, and swear at the prospective buyers.
Too hard and not everyone would’ve agreed. Nonetheless, they did put a banner for Lemmy at the exact center of the canvas, and while not huge it’s still better than nothing.
How many of those people are still gonna be using the site though?
It doesn’t matter how loud you scream if you won’t actually do anything about it.
Best view I can take on that is that I can’t stop others from continuing to use the site, but I can stop myself from using it.
Lemmy has proven to be a satisfactory replacement that successfully keeps me from going back.
It’s the same with people shitting on twitter and elon, and then spend the next 3 hours on twitter
It’s insane that it’s been some weeks since the API changes and axing of the third party apps. Yet r place has shown people are still willing to use Reddit after all this time and proclaiming “fuck spez”
After the api changes I noticed many of the subs were mere shells of their former selves, even ones with no c/ counterparts yet
IMHO reddit’s been declining for quite a while. The only reason it was less noticeable was repost/comment bots.
I mean, a subreddit like /r/videos which claimed to have 30 millions subscribers, but the top post would often have no more than 200 upvotes.
Very little original content either. Askreddit is mostly reposts, elsewhere it’s reposts from facebook, twitter and snapchat. You notice the decline less when you’re on reddit daily. Take a longer break, and it becomes more noticeable.
Sure there are less people here, but at least you know you’re likely interacting with a human. On reddit I’d often see people interacting with comment bots who’d copy pasted the top comment.
Pretty depressing if interacting with a bot is what you do to fulfill the human need for social connection and validation.
And on lemmy, a few weeks ago they went and deleted so many bot accounts to prevent vote manipulation that the total number of accounts actually decreased sharply for a few seconds and then continued growing as usual
I noticed r/all has changed drastically and showing less popular subs.
I noticed you’re still giving them views.
How’s that protest going?
No need to give them crap for checking on Reddit, not every community has moved here yet, and it’s not that bad to use both.
Still dealing with weirdos on Lemmy who have nothing better to do than stalk my profile and try to pick fights with me elsewhere if I dare to disagree with them on a post, so not much has changed…
Everyone clapping their own backs by helping to write fuck spez in a Reddit game sure is something. Just childish.
I’m thinking about going back, at least as a site to visit between all these new ‘reddit-likes’, but I’m not going to be yelling like a goddamn child like I’d be above it. Sure, criticism I’ll give if warranted but that goes with everything.
If only this effort was used to make a giant banner of some Reddit alternatives - Lemmy, yes, but even something else like Kbin, Tildes, Squabbles, etc., just anything to get people to actually move somewhere else and put a tiny crack in the face of Reddit’s titanic forum almost-monopoly.
Yeah, that would’ve been at least interesting.
I’ve seen this same sentiment dozens of times, so why did none of you do it?
I was too busy not using Reddit
So you’re one of those complaining about people being on Reddit and simultaneously complaining that those that are aren’t being on Reddit the right way. OK.
It is my opinion that no one should continue to be on Reddit at all. Accordingly, I deleted my account.
The people who think Reddit is still fine and hasn’t done anything wrong - well, I think they’re wrong, but it makes sense that they continue to use the site.
But the people who are upset with the site and think they’re acting shiftily and that things are getting worse - why do they stay? It seems hypocritical to me, past a point. It makes sense that they’d want to try and get the site to reverse course, but i don’t think writing FUCK SPEZ was ever intended to do that. So why stick around?
Cathartic rage would be my guess, Spez wants to sell the house so they’re happy to help smash the windows, paint the walls, and swear at the prospective buyers.
Because I deleted my account.
Too hard and not everyone would’ve agreed. Nonetheless, they did put a banner for Lemmy at the exact center of the canvas, and while not huge it’s still better than nothing.