• Jo Miran
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    26310 months ago

    It’s difficult for me to give any less of a shit about Reddit. I’m perfectly happy with Lemmy.

    • @pageOP
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      3710 months ago

      It’s been a hard habit to break after 15 years, but I’m getting there.

      • @Everblue@lemmy.ca
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        9110 months ago

        Luckily for me reddit made it easy by killing 3rd party apps and I only ever browsed it with RiF.

        • @thorbot@lemmy.world
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          2410 months ago

          Same, when the app I used stopped working, I tried the reddit default one and bailed out after like 5 minutes of using that ad riddled shitpile

        • @Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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          I still have it installed and even though it doesn’t and will never work, I still like to open it, and have it once again try to retrieve posts only to return “forbidden”. I do it for old time’s sake, like a digital pouring one out for RIF and the Reddit I used to know.

        • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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          410 months ago

          They have yet to kill old, but I assume it’s coming, and there’s no way I’m tolerating the new interfaces.

      • @jettrscga@lemmy.world
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        2610 months ago

        I still have to google search reddit when I’m looking for specific info like opinions on games. Unfortunately lemmy’s not reasonable to search, and Reddit has a much bigger userbase with a longer time to accumulate info about most topics.

    • @SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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      Went to reddit to see what the top posts were. Not much has changed.

      “I kicked a puppy. AITA?”

      “Gang of teens beat up an elderly homeless guy. Not ragebait.”

      “What are your favorite dating tips? Help me write my fluff article.”

      • @glockenspiel@lemmy.world
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        310 months ago

        The comments are just so much worse than the top posts. It is akin to Twitter after Musk pushed the main active user base away in exchange for a Faustian deal with right wingnuts. That or Reddit was truly duplicitous in their messaging and are perfectly fine taking money from propaganda organizations running in other countries which can pay the API fees to push narratives still. Not that they’d want that before an IPO or anything…

      • @cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
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        310 months ago

        you forgot “Men have it so much harder than women and here’s an entire fucking essay on why you bitches!!”

      • JustSomePerson
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        010 months ago

        So the same shit as here, except for the “look at how bad Reddit is now” posts?

        • @glockenspiel@lemmy.world
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          910 months ago

          That’s not accurate. The article is about Australia. Netflix Australia had a net loss of 200K subscribers specifically due to the anti-consumer moves they’ve made which affects a lot more than just sharing a password with a family member. That’s a 3% decline in a major country. Meanwhile, Netflix rivals had subscriptions increase overall and several saw huge surges. Netflix remains #1 by total subscribers in Australia, but that shouldn’t shock anyone given the inherit momentum they possess.

          The article was never about Netflix globally. It was always about Australia. Companies operate business units in regions, and each region must perform.

    • Uranium3006
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      The API kerfuffle finally gave us the critical mass ofbusers to make it viable, and it’s only uphill from here

  • Margot Robbie
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    5710 months ago

    At least they are not doing the Twitter/X thing where they impersonate celebrities to push crypto… yet.

    Lemmy Silver is the only fake Internet money I endorse.

  • @cerevant@lemm.ee
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    4610 months ago

    This is clearly the trend for Reddit- posts in general interest subs are frequently reposts by bots and commented on by bots that are karma farming so that they can post and upvote these scams.

    The scary thing is that this would be easier to accomplish on Lemmy, we just aren’t big enough to be worth their time yet.

    • @pageOP
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      3910 months ago

      Every day the Dead Internet theory looks more and more correct.

      • @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1710 months ago

        “Nah I’d rather just sit back and silently upvote while someone else provides the content / comments”

        So many threads have tons of upvotes but less than 10 comments

        • @Shortstack@reddthat.com
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          Man you have no idea how annoying it is to dredge up enough effort to post comments and shit. Take it from me, a former 100% lurker on reddit

        • @hibsen@lemmy.world
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          810 months ago

          I find that having a really shit take on something tends to get even passive people talking, but I worry about the long-term effects of generating conversation that way.

  • alterforlett
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    4210 months ago

    Unrelated, but has anyone noticed that almost all posts and comments have at least one downvote?

    • candyman337
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      1310 months ago

      When you have a platform with multiple millions of people, everyone is gonna be hated by someone

    • @NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca
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      510 months ago

      On reddit? Vote % is fuzzed a little to prevent spambots or something.

      On lemmy I haven’t noticed that

      • candyman337
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        210 months ago

        Well they changed their algo, it doesn’t work like that anymore

        • Deebster
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          110 months ago

          Did they? This is the first I’ve heard of it, was it a recent change?

  • @Rooty@lemmy.world
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    4010 months ago

    I’m sorry op, I tried to summon all of my fucks, but alas, there were none to give

  • TheLurker
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    3210 months ago

    In a few years Reddit will “rebrand” as a link aggregation site.

    It’s the last stage of a social media platform’s demise.

    • @s_s@lemmy.one
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      1610 months ago

      Have you been to digg lately? It still exists.

      Each link on the frontpage gets maybe 2-3 comments. 😂

      • DM_Gold
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        310 months ago

        Wow really? How the hell are they staying afloat?

    • @itsmect@monero.town
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      1510 months ago

      Essentially it’s a giveaway/handout/distribution to people who fulfill some criteria. There was one coin that gave away significant amounts (>1k USD) to early users and since then it has become kinda popular. Because who would turn down something free?!

      Except its not free. For starters, you’d usually have to pay significant network fees to claim the airdrop, and second the money has to come from somewhere. It’s the same with government printing money and distributing some to the people, in the end we all pay for it with inflation. So yeah, pretty scammy overall.

    • @pageOP
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      1610 months ago

      It’s the rising posts for /r/all. So all the posts from all the subs that, if they continue to get up votes and comments, are close to being on the front page.