Spez who?

    • @[email protected]
      4•2 years ago

      I’m pretty sure “we’re” not doing the r/place protest. Lemmy has 63k active users per month, per the most recent user stats. Reddit pre-protest had 52 million daily active users and 450 million monthly active users.

      I’m sure Reddit’s metrics have probably taken a hit, but it’s going to be the future people leaving Reddit for alternatives that kill it, not Lemmings that have already jumped ship shunning it. One small subreddit could individually take over Lemmy.

      I like Lemmy, but it’s pure hubris to think that we would even be noticed by Reddit, outside of being a place to siphon users away to.

    • no banana
      13•2 years ago

      Didn’t touch it for two weeks and realised I won’t be needing an account anymore

    • @[email protected]
      2•2 years ago

      I’m only touching it to not miss my 7 day GDPR data download window. And after to run mirror scripts for 2-3 communities once.

      • @[email protected]
        5•2 years ago

        I’ve spent ten minutes there. Down from ten hours.

        Doomscrolling is completely gone. I now use it when it turns up in Google search results or very specific things such as copying threads I care about to Lemmy.

        Can I advertise [email protected] while I’m here? One of the biggest subs over there, and it’s dead over here.

    • @[email protected]
      3•2 years ago

      That’s exactly my experience with Reddit lately. All the worst sort are left on the bigger subs, making the community absolutely insufferable. If spez’s goal was to make me not use that website, then…well, he succeeded.

  • kratoz29
    3•2 years ago

    Nowadays I mostly lurk Reddit very sporadically, tbh only when I finish with my Lemmy feed (doom scroll just got worse lol).

  • @[email protected]
    8•2 years ago

    The fuck spez people will get tired eventually and either move on or stay on the site. Just move on at your own pace, thinking about it won’t change much.

  • @[email protected]
    3•2 years ago

    I dunno, I get a sort of schadenfreude when Reddit fucks up bigly but I can’t say that I care enough to want to see it fail. When they screw up, the feeling isn’t so much malicious gratification but more relief at finding something better before Huffman Musked it up. Given that there’s a full community devoted to gleefully watching reddit burn, my opinion is probably in the minority. Still, glad that lemmy’s so great.

    • Metal Zealot OP
      2•2 years ago

      <Comments on post about Reddit, further perpetuating the thing he’s criticizing>

      <Points out irony of the cycle we’ve created>

      Wow, looks like you’re in here with me, huh?

  • @[email protected]
    14•2 years ago

    I still visit reddit to get relevant info to cross post to the communities I’m keeping alive here on Lemmy. And I’ve noticed a significant decline in the subbs I used to frequent. I can’t be the only one noticing this? I mean like it’s extremely easy to notice as you might go days without content on several subreddits that used be active. They are niche subs, but still…

  • @[email protected]
    3•2 years ago

    I think it would take half as long to die as it did to become a monolith. It’s almost twenty so ten years. But I don’t know, could happen faster. I’d say for sure it’s not going to get any bigger. How much growth have the other major media sites seen since the profit mongering started?

  • @[email protected]
    35•2 years ago

    I think it impossible to say if something like Lemmy and federated social media is going to replace Reddit, but it’s interesting participating in a potential shift and watching the evolution of how the internet organises itself.

    I’m also quite shitfaced.

  • qaz
    6•2 years ago

    The irony of this post is astonishing