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.
From what I’ve seen with these mass exodus to the fediverse events, this is how it goes. A whole load of people leave $corporate_website, and then get impatient with the fedi-replacement being slow from the sudden spike in traffic. The impatient toxic people go back to $corporate_website, and the friendly chill people stay here.
It’s great to see the fediverse growing, but I don’t think we actually want to see it become twitter/reddit levels of popular.
I have (maybe naive) hope that the logistics of federation might help stave off enshittification longer than other places before, since the “platform” no longer controls the content.
I’m assuming this is about the possible enshittification of Lemmy? I’m not too sure if such a thing is possible - right now at least
There’s no ads, devs are supported by OSS funding (NLNet) and a Patreon, and many of the instances accept donations in one way or another to keep the servers running. It’s also defederated so you could just host your own Lemmy and interact with everyone else that way
Ohh I just noticed you’re on Kbin - not too familiar with the funding for that but it looks like the developer was provided a grant from NLNet as well.
I personally know I don’t want any server by itself to become deddit or twatter popular but I hope the fediverse at least attracts similar numbers of good people.
I believe there’s a substantial number of people who found large platforms banal and toxic, so they might have been refraining from participating.
I know I was avoiding Instagram but now I’m interested in trying out pixelfed for example.
Outside of lemmy.ml migrating to a new server under load and Beehaw decederating, everything seems to work smoothly for me.