As I go back there now after the protest, I find reddits' content less and less interesting. I used to be able to lose hours on there, now I get bored after 5 minutes and get back to lemmy. It'll keep on existing, but here's hoping many more mainstream and non-techy users like me found the fediverse and know there's valid alternatives now.

[–] Mistymtn421@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Some part of our brains knew we were losing the real people. It hasn't felt right there in awhile. I wonder how many bots we were talking to thinking they weren't.

I've commented more this week than the past year on there.

[–] sailsperson@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tell me about it! I swear they have been making adjustments to their algorithms for the past months year.

Before thee protest, I've been getting increasingly annoyed at the content Reddit decides to show me. The subs I chose to follow are all great and often offer something engaging in the best ways possible, and finding a good piece of content there has never been an issue... expect for the past time, where I got what felt like pre-digested and advertiser-friendly posts that I was supposed to maybe vote on and keep scrolling.

I understand that business is about money, but seeing tech largely following the same practices and strategies just to keep pumping cash for execs to liquidate is so mind-numbing and obnoxious. That's gonna sound stupid, but sometimes I wish the tech people would just kick the finance people out of the field and do their own thing, which is what the average people like, too, simply because that's the conditions when really cool and enjoyable shit is born.

Or maybe we all should just collectively pile up some cash buy some land, build ourselves a self-sustainable settlement and get away from the hungry execs.

[–] panoptic@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

We all just lack spez's grand vision of a corporate future where we all are simply not allowed to avoid talking about Rampart.

[–] DigDoug@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that I never saw any content from /r/switchhacks on my feed despite having been subscribed for years led me to believe that Nintendo had had a "discussion" with Reddit and they complied.

[–] kronicmage@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know if there's a switch hacks community in the threadiverse?

[–] DigDoug@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I couldn't find one.

There's one for Switch piracy, but there aren't any posts yet.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No posts? We've got to start planting seeds if we want to grow a garden.

I'll figure out something interesting to post there tomorrow.

[–] Morcyphr@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I went back there for like 3 minutes today and found myself getting angry at some stupid argument that didn't matter to me really but still got to me. I don't need that, I got enough irl. Lemmy et al. ain't perfect, but at least it's not that shithole.

[–] skillissuer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

if you get people to argue, you can pump users engagement statistics. same with conspiracy theories, and neither makes place that does this worth visiting (like facebook does)

[–] WheresYourShoe@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I honestly found myself browsing Facebook more and more over the past several months, rather than Reddit. It just wasn't holding my interest like it used to. I was a Reddit user from summer '07 until June 11th, 2023, but the switch to the fediverse was easy. I've really enjoyed the last few days here.