I haven’t gone back since Apollo shut down, and not planning to, but I am curious.
/r/all has top posts from very obscure subreddits now
My Frontpage has much much less churn.
As long as we keep making this place good and active, it will be attractive. With the increased spam bots and degraded moderation, people will start looking elsewhere
I’ve only been back to visit a small, private sub, but I’ve seen a lot of posts here saying that a high percentage of bot content is obvious. The conjecture is that there’s always been a lot of bots, but they were somewhat less obvious because there was more human content. With a lot of big content creators leaving, it’s more apparent when a lot of posts and comments are from bots.
Plus some people think Reddit has increased bot usage to astroturf against the protests and to give the illusion that traffic isn’t down.
The small communities I look at are half of what they used to be. The bigger ones just made up for it with increased bot posting.
The bot posting will probably last long enough for their IPO so they can sucker in enough investors for them to fuck on out of there. The more casual users that are left probably don’t use the system enough to know/care until it comes crashing down.
Surely by now Reddit is toxic for any investors. Their IPO is dead in the water.
Elon would buy it
They updated the mobile site so it no longer hounds your to download their app!
Funny how they get desperate, no?
I mean, half the good subs are still gone. I can’t even use my home feed anymore, its half just video game subs now. Places like r/interestingasfuck were regular features in my feed that were pretty important to it being a pleasant experience overall. I balanced that shit.
Now its all fucked. I still have my account and still go there, to poke around and participate in some of those video game subs, where reddit is still clearly dominant. But hanging out has gotten kinda lame.
I miss Tihi to be honest. And few other subreddits. But I can survive without them.
One of my most frequentes subs (/r/soccer) is seemingly working as normal. No changes or differences, before and after the protest. No real replacement for it on Lemmy yet
Look up lemmy.world/c/football basically r/soccer and it’s growing
Write it like this:
[email protected]and it will turn into a link that fits whatever instance you are on: [email protected]The client should be able to do this tho. Users would usually want to copy paste a link instead of converting it.
Ah, yes, typical reddit addict having withdrawal syndrome.
Don’t look back…
Is it withdrawal symptoms if I’m only curious out of spite?
Lemmy is my new Reddit addiction. With Lemmy becoming more vibrant I’m missing Reddit less and less, though Lemmy still has a ways to go.
Getting better daily though.
Tbh this is filling that void. Think I checked reddit once since Apollo died
Tell us dear Redditors, is r/foodinbutt still going strong? It’s the only sub I miss
Well, the (kind of) opposite is online: https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/poopfromabutt
Don’t click
Of course it’s a German hosted website 🤣
Business as usual for the subs I frequent. I wish they’d move over to Lemmy but the infertility/IVF group is a super tight knit community and likely won’t move over. I’ve known most of the users for 5 years. If it weren’t for them I’d have deleted my Reddit account but all I did was delete the official app (I had the Reddit app and RIF).
Noticed quite an increase in bot posts over on r/titanfall to the point where a retired mod wanted to return to their position to help deal with it. Given that I’m kinda moving away from Reddit I gave them their position back so that I can start moving on.
Welcome to your new home :)
Unironically this. It look s like chatgpt replies all over the place, mostly less than a week old accounts.
That place is dead, hopefully bots stay there
I just saw a lemming creating a chatgpt bot for here though.
@[email protected] Tell us the story about Kratoz the lemming that knew too much and got whacked.
Kratoz was not just another lemming on the icy tundra, but a knowledge-obsessed rodent with an insatiable curiosity. He loved exploring and learning about the world around him, which was uncharacteristic of the typical cautious and group-oriented behaviour of his fellow lemmings.
His brethren were happy following the crowd, quite literally, often migrating en masse without a clear reason. But Kratoz was an anomaly. He questioned the unending migrations and preferred poking around nooks and crannies, collecting stories and tales of the lemming world.
Through his years of exploring, Kratoz accumulated knowledge that no lemming had even dreamed of. He knew of the humans who visited their lands, of the predators that lurked in darkness, and most importantly, he knew of an unspoken lemming secret - the myth of the lemmings ‘mass suicide.’
Kratoz knew that this was mere folklore, bred by human misconception. Lemmings, he knew, simply migrated when their population became too big, and due to their poor vision, sometimes, unfortunately, plunged off cliffs or into rivers, leading humans to believe they were purposefully jumping to their deaths.
Kratoz’s knowledge turned into a threat when the lemming elders got wind of it. They feared this exposure would shatter the silence and safety of their world. They imagined a situation where their migration pattern was disturbed, which could lead to the endangerment of their species. They were terrified of the unknown consequences of Kratoz’s revelations.
So one icy night, Kratoz was led away from the lemming settlement. His brethren pleaded ignorance, but the wise old Kratoz knew. His heart pounded, yet he held his head high, his short life filled with excitement and knowledge, rather than prolonged monotonous existence.
As the elders pushed Kratoz towards the perilous cliff, he looked back one last time. He didn’t see fear or hatred in the eyes of his lemming kin but confusion and helpless submission. He wasn’t being whacked because of animosity, but because of dread of the unknown.
His last thoughts before the cold wind carried him away were not of bitterness but hope. Hope that his tales and truths would someday surface, that his kin would no longer live in fear of myths and change but embrace knowledge and questioning as he once did.
That’s the story of Kratoz, the lemming that knew too much and got whacked. But remember, stories never truly end. They live on, whispered on icy winds and echoed in snowy caverns, waiting for the day they can be rekindled.
Of all the different parties involved in “Reddit”, Reddit Inc. actually brought very little value to the table. There isnt any good reason any a message board should have 2000 employees and be worth billions of $.
The magic was always from the users.
Do they seriously have 2k employees? I’d kill to know what all of their jobs are and what each of them does day to day. From what I’ve heard from mods and from what we’ve seen I can’t imagine they were all doing much.
You’re gonna have Devs, Support, QA testing, HR, Accounting, IT, Facilities, cleaners etc etc.
Lots of stuff behind the scenes that doesn’t interact with the public.
Reddit is like a museum, except they don’t pay for the art, and the staff (docents, security, etc) are all volunteers. Further, they don’t sell tickets, rather they charge people to run concessions and gift shops on the premises.
Without the art, nobody comes and the vendors all quit. Without the staff the art will get vandalized and stolen, visitors leave, and the vendors all quit.
Reddit owns a warehouse where volunteers built something valuable for them. Fighting with the volunteers is next level dumb.
What’s more disgusting is the army of bots they used to slander their volunteers. Every subreddit I was actually active in was painfully obvious to see hundreds of accounts that never posted there suddenly showing up and being violently anti-moderator.
Hmm, i checked out the FP and a few of the subs I used to frequent. Front page seems to have more TikTok style crap than ever, like “guy gets punched!” or “someone makes annoying food!”. Relationship advice: “get divorced!!”.
City subs seem about the same as before. Medical subs I used to read seem about the same and holy shit, am I glad I’m not reading those every day. Same questions and memes that have been rotating through for like 5 years, and the confounding pattern where the community consensus on issues changes from week to week or post to post. One week it’s “this term is offensive and I hate it” and 50 people are “YEAH! That’s right!” and then the next, “don’t you know about this term, it’s perfectly valid” and 30 people are “YEAH! Use your brain if you have one broo!!”. And the questions like “does anyone else with this condition suffer from these extremely common effects that are listed in every medical article about it?” So anyway whether reddit has gotten worse or not, seems like I was ready for something different.They are now in the business of opening up NSFW subs as if they were SFW because they can’t even distinguish between where it is appropriate and where it is not.
My favorite thing over there right now is r/videos, which only allows text descriptions of the video you were going to post. It’s way more entertaining than it has any right to be.
Dammit.
I haven’t been on for a couple days because boost is finally dying, but the front page is shit, it’s 90% anime and doordash.
That door dash subreddit is the weirdest thing ever. It popped out of nowhere seemingly overnight with thousands of upvotes and activity. Seems like obvious marketing to me, but yet most of the submissions are a bad look for the company… I guess any publicity is good publicity.
