Curious about if there is any discernable difference anyone can see if they may have popped in to Reddit today? I know it’s probably naive to think there would be a big difference first day.
I deleted rif and never even used other apps or desktop site so I won’t be going back, hense the question to those that are accessing the site.
@Bendersmember Content generation has slowed and from what I can tell, comment participation is way down. Right now, after going through and subscribing to a number of magazines, my kbin feed is more useful and active than reddit ever was, although the audience is clearly smaller (but seriously growing since last week). The quality of the content is better, and it’s much easier to filter out the shitposting.
The clearest place to see content drought this is in /r/all - the top posts are all 3 - 15 hours old. Before the blackout, it would refresh in a matter of minutes, not hours.
One thing I’d point out is that it’s a holiday weekend in the US, one of the traditional weekends for going out and doing stuff with family or friends. So some of the slowdown may be related to that.
It’s a holiday weekend in Canada as well.
I would agree if 1/4 of the country wasn’t covered in a fog equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes while another 1/4 is getting 115F temps. We had to wear masks a couple days ago… outside. When the 80 year old weatherman-for-life on the news says he’s never seen anything like this, you know it’s bad. I wasn’t paying attention to the weather and was confused a week ago when I went outside and everything smelled like a delightful campfire but there was no visible smoke.
And folks aren’t at the stores. I had to grab a few 4th of July things today and went to Costco and Target. I was 1 of maybe 10 people in both. On a normal Saturday, even during rainstorms and blizzards, there are usually 15-20 minute lines at checkout with all registers open. I walked right up to the register and only half were open.
So people are either traveling or stuck inside, both prime mobile Reddit conditions.
There’s a lot of gratuitous rounding going on in this comment but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t sufficiently illuminate a path to such a good point
Haha, yeah, maaaaybe a I was a teensy, tiny bit hyperbolic with the numbers, but I did check the weather map to make sure it wasn’t too far out there. But, in my defense, do we really count the Dakotas, Montana, and Idaho? We all know they don’t exist and are simply giant holes that reach down to the core of the Earth. That removes a big chunk of area from the total size.
Heh, I feel like I was more active on Reddit during family gatherings…
That is true but I would like to point out that lemmy.world just grew by 40% in the last 12 hours.
https://lemmy.world/post/920949
These growth rates for reddit alternatives are insane. I love it.
who else is impressed about the general stability of all the services?
I was totally expecting everything to be down half the time due to sudden unexpected skyrocket demand over past few weeks. But it has been 98% good. About the same as reddit.
I thought I’d be checking to see if it was still running, a burning crater, or unaffected (nobody left Reddit). I’m happy to see an uptick in conversation.
That’s kinda what I figured, didn’t expect it to be a ghost town, so that makes sense.
I could tell by the loud users declaring that Reddit is gonna be better and everyone else were just whiners that content would slow down quite a bit. Didn’t get a vibe of those types putting out engaging content haha.
Plus its the weeked espeically 4th of july weekend. the content creators are probably having a vacation!