Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they’ve been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving…
Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they’ve been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving…
Define mass… The giant Twitter exodus we can now know was maybe 10%, some to mastodon/fedi, the rest who knows. I’d assume the same for Reddit, pending any factual data.
And I suspect that many of those they left Reddit, reddit is better off without – super touchy argumentative people kinda made a noisy bro-ish pass through, may be starting to calm down now… I hope.
The thing is, to me, to not worry about what “other people” are doing and stfu and build community. Post what you want to read etc. We don’t need over 9000 million people we just need the right people who show and contribute and all that.
And so here we are!
The issue with that line of thinking is that it is either ignorant of or deliberately ignores the fact that Reddit actively undermines your ability to build community as you see fit. They don’t view subreddits as communities, they view them as commodities, and their users are unpaid content producers that they are happy to steamroll over the moment your “contributions” don’t exceed any impediments to monetization you may be causing.
Reddit is no longer an actually communal space. It’s a virtual sweatshop for online content so Reddit Inc can monetize ads ads ads all over.
“actively inhibits our ability to form community” oh gimme a break. You need to back this is up with fact.
It’s nonsense assertion. They don’t give a shit about anyone not on Reddit.
That means we need to build the communities we want to see somewhere else, like here. Which is what that poster was saying. Don’t worry about what Reddit is doing, just build something new.
You know I haven’t really thought of it that way. A huge problem with the way people are thinking is that we want to see the other side fail or be worse off. It doesn’t really have to be like that, we can just make what we have better.
Although I gotta say, it is nice to have a service that your real life friends might use that you can discuss things with them. I find it kind of annoying sometimes that I have to explain everything that I use like the Fediverse or Matrix, or other services that I self host. But I guess that’s a price you gotta pay for freedom.
At least it’s easy. The federation stuff isn’t super important. I understand it now, but that understanding hasn’t caused me to change or use lemmy differently.
10% based on what?
Some numbers on Twitter traffic gleaned from reading posts my Twitter folk on fedi somewhere.
It’s merely curious anyway. I assume shitter is gonna die eventually, I try mainly to ignore it.
The people who don’t care how it works and just wanted it to be a doomscroll content feed for them are a ton of the ones who got mad about the protest and are still there. It’s noticably more repost bot content now. I decided to dip out cuz the content kept getting further and further from what I wanted to see anyway and then it was a sudden noticable decline.
Is there nowhere to see traffic to the site?