Is “Crushed” a new term for driving away the most active and interesting users away?
I sometimes use Instagram though and it’s soo much bot and ai contend.
Idk Reddit cuz I don’t go there anymore, but it seems the internet is fakker and fakker.
I just hope it’s real people that im messing with here in Lemmy. Because at least y’all still fight and argue XD, the comments aren’t brain dead.
Except for these guys that I just talked to that said they didn’t like Oppenheimer
Dead internet theory
This post made by a normal human person
Beep boop
My only problem with Oppenheimer is that they should have issued earplugs upon entering the theater. Shit hurt my ears.
Like, I get that bombs are loud, but I don’t need to actually feel pain and probably damage my hearing to get the picture.
Reminds me: do we have an earrumblers community yet
They can spin it that way all they want but personally I just left. Granted, I was mostly a lurker but I’m quite sure they lost many of them.
I was pretty active for about 10-12 years. Then things gradually started changing. As the platform got bigger it also got more toxic. I found myself commenting less and less because when I did I’d often be met by trolls or contrarians who didn’t want to have a discussion in good faith.
Outside a group of fellow mods who I got to know very well (and who I spoke to more outside of reddit anyway) I was disengaging from reddit, and I was getting disillusioned with it.
Lemmy feels a lot like reddit from around 2009/2010. In some ways it feels even better: it doesn’t have that underlying unpleasant corporate odor, and you have more confidence you are talking to a real person who is what they say they are, instead of a bot or a troll.
Saying reddit crushed the protest is accurate in some ways. But the next question is: what did they lose in doing so? I think they lost a lot of their charm, their character, their very essence.
I was already sniffing around for a new reddit before the whole protest thing. Turns out Lemmy is what I had been looking for off and on for the last couple of years.
I’ll take 1.5m or 150k or 20k or whatever the actual user count is over the shit show that has been reddit for the past few years.
Same. Don’t care what reddit does now, cause I’m not there 🤷🏼♂️
Same
I was a pretty active user. I check in maybe a few times a month now at most.
I moderated a couple dozen specialized communities. I left them after 15 years of being on Reddit, and haven’t been back in 5 months. They’re effectively dead now, weeks between posts and no activity.
Many niche sub’s have been murdered but the big shitsubs are still going strong with bots and spammers, so they have that going for them, I guess.
Thank you for your service.
Oh yeah I feel soooooo defeated and crushed just like soooooo sad that I have to be here and not with spez
I used Reddit from 2010-2023. They crushed the protest alright and also ruined the site. I’ve lost all interest in using it. Fuck Reddit. Fuck Spez.
The title does make it look like reddit is completely fine…when it’s like them burning down their own house to get rid of a house guest that was just staying to long.
Just looked at Reddit after a long while. That new redesign is horrendous.
IMO they didn’t crush anything?
The apathetic remained.
Those who have niche communities that aren’t available elsewhere likely remained.
Several of my subscribed subs are completely gone or functionally extinct due to lack of participation.
Anecdotally I find reduced participation in other subs, people seem less willing to have a discussion.
Personally I’ve moved on to Lemmy/KBin/etc. and spend most of my time there now.
But “crushed”?
Crushed is a funny way to spell “all the good people left”
Fucking lol
Left reddit and never looked back
I deleted my account and it was liberating. Nowadays I only go there when I want to look up something for a game on Google.
I use a 3rd party API modded app with a burner a and check on niche communities that Lemmy doesn’t have yet…I do not comment, upvote or engage.
I know how everyone just wants to pipe up and say, “well it didn’t crush me hur hur”, but I actually watched the video. It’s a good record of what went down. I wish it would’ve mentioned Reddit alternatives, but it’s still solid work.
And to anyone who still maintains that the protest has fatally wounded Reddit, look, I’m on your side but Reddit is still the 800 lb gorilla of link aggregation, and most folks still don’t get why they should care about API pricing.
I’m almost glad they did this. It cut my social media time down drastically, and really nothing of value was lost.
The only thing that matters to me is that the vast majority of my interactions on Reddit are shite ones with negative assholes, while the vast majority of my interactions here are pretty chill. Reddit won’t die, but if it did… I wouldn’t miss it one bit.
Yeah, they threatened and when I didn’t budge, they disabled my account. I found out lately, because I have been gone from that hellhole since summer. Somehow they forgot to reopen my subreddit I’ve marked as Private. I’m (was) the sole admin. Well, go fuck yourself Spaz.
To be honest, the quality of content went down even years before this spez/API thing started. It’s like Reddit got more polluted with shit even tho some quality stayed intact. The time was ripe for a change is what I felt anyways. So it was nice to learn more about the fediverse, and easy to move here because of all of this.
Fuck reddit. Can’t wait for the options chain after IPO.
Before consuming this video with a provocative title, does anyone have experience with this YouTube creator? Typically a decent source/conduit to good information?
