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.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    301·
    2 years ago

    The scale is so much larger now. Reddit could lose 1m users and its a blip.

    • Ech@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      2 years ago

      Reddit’s actual daily users only equates to about half that number. While an interesting metric, Google search rates don’t equate to users. Heck, my searching for that information contributed to that and I didn’t click through to Reddit once.

      • LawnMooser@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 years ago

        That is a good point, today internet is mainstream, and heavily indexed websites are much more reliant on such type of interactions than forums and social media were when digg was big, so reddit has a comparatively huge influx of click from google searches alone. However, that might change as they are making the web inferface worse and worse to redirect the traffic towards the app. If reddit becomes app-centric, i don’t kno what may change given how it is so reliant on google searches.___

    • Lanfordr@lemmy.world
      24·
      2 years ago

      Not if the redditors that leave are the ones that do the majority of the moderating and quality posting. If the quality goes way down, people will look elsewhere. Also, I have a feeling we’ll see a much bigger migration once the third party apps all die on the 30th.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nz
        121·
        2 years ago

        Thats true. I am continuing to keep using reddit to spread awareness of Lemmy so that people know it exists.

      • x3i@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 years ago

        Well, “unfortunately” some of them will stay up since they are classified as open-source and non-profit by reddit. So, while I’m glad that these projects live on, it will certainly soften the blow for Reddit on 30th.

      • Sir_mittens2@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 years ago

        Iam not to use. Before I left reddit. Most of it was just reposted tiktoks and just general low quality posts on the big subreddits already

      • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
        13·
        2 years ago

        I have noticed a huge quality decline on reddit. I hope people get fed up and search for other options.

          • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
            9·
            2 years ago

            I’m new as well. Made my account a few days ago. First time participating in the fediverse and I am loving it so far. I love the vibe and building new communities. I wish I better knew how to spread the word because up until last week I never knew any of this existed.

            • sudsieskymo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              2·
              2 years ago

              There’s been so many threads I’ve read on lemmy where pretty much everyone was able to voice disagreement in some way, but the discourse refrained from being toxic. That seemed so very rare on Reddit. I wonder if this is due to the lack of the total karma metric or something.

              • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                I think that it’s because the bad users aren’t here yet.