Imho it does not matter. It might, however, very well be that people who are obsessed with who is staying on Reddit, who is going back, and how fast Lemmy grows are insecure about their decisions themselves. It does not matter how many people are here, as long as the right people are here. Not only that, but it is kind of bewildering how "bigger is better, if something does not go into hypergrowth it fails" is engrained into our thinking.
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I sure wish the Reddit-obsessed would stick to their Reddit community. I am so sick of hearing about that place.
No I don’t agree. I think people “went back to reddit” (who exactly though?) because it has good SEO, robust infrastructure, and a massive user base to generate content. Also who cares? You still going there or something?
Yes, it's sad we generalize and vilify so much For those of us who are still enjoying Reddit, or both, there are perfectly valid reasons, good, let's not be tribal, it's all just social media. It would be nice if the fediverse could grow bigger though, we'll see how it goes.
It’s a shame how poorly that protest was planned. It should have been indefinite from the start, not 2 days, and moderators should have held out longer, instead of folding when Reddit said they would lose their power.
Yeah.
The only decent sized sub I moderated went private and mostly stayed that way (there was a brief restricted phase). It ended up where reddit booted the whole mod list (I was the only active one) last week.
The piecemeal way it happened allowed reddit to take their time taking subs over, which spread out reporting on the issue until that faded away and they knew they were going to be able to just wait it out.
The result was that reddit could still fuck things up, but delay the consequences of that for months. The lack of actual human users making good posts and comments combined with the shitty moderation that's now in place has been coming on gradually enough that it isn't as noticeable from the outside; you'd have to be a long term reddit user to detect that change ad it happened.
I'd disagree. I pop open kbin.social first, and now Artemis second. When I get bored of those, I go to YouTube, Instagram, and Reddit. I'm giving the fediverse priority for my leisure attention, but there just isn't an endless supply of interesting content on the fediverse yet.
It's improving slowly as the Fediverse grows and as I dial in my communities, but it'll be a while before it's able to fully hold its own (for me).
Most peoples are followers. I don't think it matters much if people leave.
I dread opening Reddit now. If I have received any comment replies, they are rude, cruel, or sarcastic (and unhelpful). The quality of the tech subs that I used to enjoy has been reduced to hot garbage. It’s confused Facebook moms asking questions that they could just Google now. The shift in quality is shocking.
I come here occasionally, but for the most part I use Reddit because it has the biggest user base, so you can find far more specific and active subreddits than Lemmy communities.
I disagree. I never fully stopped using reddit, aside from the protests. There are just too many small unique communities there that I can't leave atm, because there is no equivalent Lemmy community. I use it less and less over time but I can see how many people in my shoes would have just returned to reddit 100% instead of using both.
I mean, personally I've pretty much given up on federated reddit alternatives because they lack both fucntionality (IE, searchability and decent sorting algorithms) and the content. The War Thunder community on Lemmy for example, hasn't had a new post in nearly a month despite a large ongoing event in the game. Considering the state of the official forums, the subreddit is the only place to get content related to the game.