• @[email protected]English
    152•1 year ago

    I suspect half that drop is from me alone, lol.

    Reddit lost a LOT of their power users. Even if the general traffic isn’t that badly dented, it means a lot of the best content and conversations will not go back. Reddit will spiral down to a 9gag clone.

    • @[email protected]English
      66•1 year ago

      I lurk the frontpage occasionally and I’ve already noticed the Reddit atmosphere has gotten … weird.

      Little-known, content-churning subreddits are bubbling to the top because of all the other blackouts and desertions. Fringe viewpoints and wacko opinions that would normally get downvoted to the bottom of a thread are now out in the open because there’s no voice of reason to hold them back.

      And the kind of people that are still on there, acting as if everything is fine (or, God forbid, better(???) than it was before the revolts) … it’s a very strange place now.

      • @[email protected]English
        14•1 year ago

        The meltdowns are something else.

        On one smaller sub that participated in the blackout people were seriously accusing mods of rigging the votes to stay closed for longer. Of course nothing actually indicated that, and neither did they present any evidence, they just couldn’t stand not getting their content.

      • @[email protected]English
        13•1 year ago

        Same! I went to check it out earlier and the frontpage had a couple of subreddits I recognized but am not interested in, and the rest were all subreddits I had never heard of before. I also thought the scores seemed weirdly low, but not 100% sure about that since I dont usually pay super close attention. At least the weird vibe was pretty helpful in getting me to hop off, versus getting sucked in to browsing around more.

      • @[email protected]English
        10•1 year ago

        There was an r/Apple thread were people were going off about simplicity and just how hard it is to get into and use Lemmy… I am so glad I left lol

        • @[email protected]English
          5•1 year ago

          I didn’t make an account for awhile because so many people on Reddit were saying that. Once I finally did, I laughed how easy it was.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•1 year ago

        Reddit is pretty much at the point where you can open any thread on the front page and the comments will be indistinguishable from a Facebook comment section.

    • @[email protected]English
      24•1 year ago

      9gag… That’s a word I haven’t seen in a long time.

      Reddit will stay, heck Digg if still around. It won’t be the same though.

    • Hunter2English
      19•1 year ago

      Reddit will spiral down to a 9gag clone.

      Back in the day, I discovered Reddit because people in the comments on 9gag would say a certain post was stolen from reddit.

      I was a sucker for rage comics, so r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu (aka f7u12) was my gateway drug.

      • ParadoxEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I’d start a f7u12 community here, but I haven’t seen a classic rage comic that was actually worth a wet slap in years

    • @[email protected]English
      11•1 year ago

      On the other hand, most upvoted posts and comments on redit are far away from best. I expect most of those people will not even notice, they just scroll over reposts and bot.