Nice try u/spez

This is like asking someone to check in on your ex, sure it sounds like a good idea, but...

The answer to this question probably depends on how much you like John Oliver.

You can check on Reddit surreptitiously by going to https://libreddit/r/[subreddit]. If I understand correctly, reddit gets no "credit" for your visit that way.

The sub that I mod has gotten a LOT quieter since I stopped posting there (around the time of the blackout). Historically I was doing the bulk of the posting there, I guess.

There are 11K subscribers over there; my new "official" community has 16 at latest count--despite my notice and links to it.

When things settle down in the Fediverse, I'll make an announcement that I will be posting stuff exclusively on lemmy. We'll see what happens. 🤷‍♂️

I noticed I think just yesterday that r/pics was going full NSFW (tag) but didn’t see any nudity in posts.

I still go on old Reddit on desktop. I’ve noticed the quality and variety of posts has declined a little. There are more medium quality memes and reposts. A lot of the big subs that drove the serious engagement have become quieter and not as present on the front page. It’s still busy and the front page refreshes often but it does feel different. Maybe only 10 percent different which isn’t much, but those heavy users that were forced to decrease engagement across a whole lot of subs were responsible for so much of the vibe.

Personally I've to admit that sadly I didn't notice many changes in some communities :(

But well, it would take time.

Haven't deleted rif yet and have been opening the just to check every couple if days. On July 1, I was getting errors (429 I think), then the login page after a couple if days. Earlier, I was seeing posts, but the front page, popular, and all were the same. Also, all the multis I created were gone. Haven't checked on desktop yet.

I've found my Lemmy experience much better, even though many of the subs I was subscribed to haven't migrated yet. But it's early days and I have enough patience to see the Fediverse grow.

Can’t speak for defaults or large subs, just anecdotal stuff from the few times when I browsed on desktop since Friday.

One of my favorite subreddits /r/progmetal is still private with a message to join the discord instead. Glad they’re staying dark.

Others seem like business as usual, but I don’t have any data obv.

r/all is showing the weirdest subs. In 10 years just stuff I've never even heard of. Not sure if that's good or bad, but something is definitely off.

I check in occasionally to see if my 3rd party app still works (strangely it does). Checked a few of the subs I use & some are still dark. A poster on Worldnews this morning was complaining about the lack of posts in the Ukraine thread, though sadly thats likely a combination of 4th July in the US plus the current Elon clownshow on Twitter rather than due to the blackouts

It's functionally the same for the majority of the userbase. Certain subs are still chaotic. Others have normalized.

Maybe a small chunk of reddit's old-time/ power users have left. And since those people probably generate content at a much higher rate than average user, perhaps reddit user experience will decrease a couple % or so.

Not really gonna be noticeable for most people, but I think its likely.