• James R Kirk@startrek.website
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    2 days ago

    This has been true for over a year now, I think the only reason that community points anywhere else is because a majority of them already moved to Lemmy instances.

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      2 days ago

      I think (hope) this might be Reddit’s death. Reddit as we knew it 10-15 years ago is already gone. It’ll keep going with bots talking to bots and idiots, but if you can’t even upvote what you want without getting a ban, who’s going to stick around?

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        I don’t think it will be. I’m involved in an active subreddit community that is resistent to moving. The people in it skew older, and while progressive, are kind of short on patience for any added stress or friction.

        I think if there was a BlueSky-esque version of Lemmy that had a super simple signup - but was also federated - it would get people on board faster.

        Then they could get comfortable with it and later move to a different instance if they want. (I started on Lemmy.world and ended up with infosec.pub being my main because world was censoring swear words and I fucking love swearwords)

        And frankly, some of the reddit posts in the subreddit I’m thinking of would benefit from being ported over and searchable in their entirety with comments because they have resources and information that is quite evergreen.

        I’m trying to talk them into coming over and building community here as well. So I’m not fully out of reddit yet either.

      • FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online
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        At this point they are mainstream and are probably gaining a crazy amount of new people who don’t know any better. They’ll stick around to talk to the bots and generate some ad revenue just like facebook lol.

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        If you came to reddit from digg, you’ll have seen how they’ve been turning up the algorithm interference over the years. It used to just be upvotes, raw popularity. It’s a bad faith actor at this stage. Some frogs will jump out of the water while it boils, many won’t notice and will get algo brainwashed.