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I decided to take a peek at Reddit to see what kind of activity is happening, a good handful of the subreddits I am subscribed to are still super active with posts and commenters.

There's quite a few news articles on the front page regarding Spez and the blackouts, I am surprised those articles are even still up for people to see.

The comment section is filled with people saying how they should just kick the mods out of the dark Reddit's and take over, ofcourse these posts are heavily upvoted...

Perhaps there is some AI activity going on, I mean it's kind of easy to do in this day and age. You just prompt an army of AI bots to defend Reddit, and try to keep users engaged.

I am so happy I found Lemmy, and I am so happy that there is a comfortable level of activity. Sure it's only a small fraction of what Reddit is activity wise, but it's so much more hearty and welcoming.

Reddit has just turned into one big toxic mess. Lemmy reminds me of what Reddit used to be 10 years ago.

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[โ€“] ryxben@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

sometimes I'm upset at how apathetic people on reddit are

[โ€“] thesoloist@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've been on reddit for almost a decade and a half. Never have I seen so many users gilding pro corporate reddit/pro spez comments. It is almost always the former. It's very unusual and makes me a tad suspicious. I'm not sure if reddit has evolved into a platform overflowing with users that I truly don't synchronize with, or perhaps reddit is virtually augmenting these posts/comments, increasing bot posts to augment activity, etc. I accept either or and for that and many other reasons I have contently moved on from the platform. It's just not for me anymore and has been fracturing into an environment that lost its luster. Too many common folk have saturated the platform, too many bots, too much corporate shenanigans, too many miserable users, too little civility, too much ignorance and a lack of analytical literacy. The fediverse has given a breath of fresh air and something of nostalgia from the early days of reddit. I do think this is the way forward with time and I'm here for it.

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[โ€“] Tot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

spez: third party apps are making money off our platform using our data for free!

Mods: .............. Yup.

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[โ€“] Aussiemandeus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah unfortunately with today's attention span no protest really works

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[โ€“] Ragnell@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

From the fediverse side of things, good. The bootlickers can stay there until the whole thing gets shutter, people with sense can come here.

[โ€“] BodyBroker@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] KillaBeez@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It blows my mind that r/Apple decided to cave after all of that.

[โ€“] ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

r/Technology have been the biggest bootlickers in the comments so it doesn't surprise me. For a sub that has a hard on for hating Google they seem perfectly fine with carrying water for Reddit.

[โ€“] Pilirin@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

personally i'm loving the fact that they're laughing at us in the mistaken belief that this can't work and we'll be back there before the end of the month, yet after a bit of lag and a couple memory overruns combined with some utterly HILARIOUS glitches they still don't realise that the system survived its' stress test and is in the process of being upgraded and expanded so that it can take the rest of the load (i'v heard that 20% of traffic has moved over, which is enormous) by the end of next week, we're very easily capable of funding it entirely ourselves, and we know it

right now i'm having difficulty sitting still, waiting in eager anticipation for the horror to cross their faces when they realise that they have nobody left except for unironic trump voters. rekon it might even be the very last piece of entertainment i might get from the website

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