‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit::A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever

  • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This is delusional copium. By just about every single metric nothing has changed at Reddit. Mods were forced out as everyone said and Reddit is still the front page of the internet.

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      10 months ago

      Reddit won’t die tomorrow, likely won’t die for years yet, but Lemmy is very much a viable alternative when it wasn’t a shadow half a year ago. It’s not a perfect change, but it’s something.

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        10 months ago

        Lemmy is very much a viable alternative

        Oh, how I wish that were true. Alas, stats keep showing that Lemmy is not continuing to grow, on the contrary. There is close to zero activity in anything but the most main stream communities and Lemmy is only now making very, very slow and tentative steps to actually surface more niche communities after effectively burying and suffocating them in every release up to and including the current stable.

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          10 months ago

          Lemmy is not continuing to grow

          Great news! So glad we’re not becoming a mainstream piece of shit

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              10 months ago

              You aren’t the only one. I feel like there’s some number of users that will ruin lemmy. I don’t know what it is, but a guess is if we exceed 10 million it’ll get much worse. So I’m good with the (last I heard) ~1 million

        • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          10 months ago

          What are people using Reddit for? Why does Lemmy have to continue to grow to be a viable alternative? It needs a certain critical mass but it seems to be at that point at least. The number of new users and daily users went down from the first peak after the Reddit exodus but that’s to be expected, what I’ve heard last is the numbers aren’t dropping rapidly but just the usual attrition of the wave of users. From my instance the communities I frequent are more than active enough for me, I’m able to see any news that would be relevant as quickly as any other social media, I can discuss things in communities that feel welcoming to me as a queer socialist that I could hardly find on Reddit.

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            10 months ago

            I’m able to see any news that would be relevant as quickly as any other social media,

            That’s not what I use Reddit for and that’s sadly the only Reddit (and other social media) thing today, that Lemmy mimics successfully.

            I’m using Reddit mostly for the niche and special interest communities. For specific tech advice and troubleshooting. For all the stuff that once used to be home on newsgroups and bulletin boards and can now only be found in subreddits and, even worse, Discord communities.

            And a lot of these smaller tech communities were super motivated to move to Lemmy, but Lemmy’s complete inability to surface anything but the most popular posts in the most popular communities (there’s still no equivalent for multireddits and there was no weighted popularity until 0.19) rapidly killed and suffocated virtually all of them.

            That’s the reason why you can type “obscure technical problem Reddit” into Google and almost always get a relevant answer, while that will likely never be the case for Lemmy.

            I can discuss things in communities that feel welcoming to me as a queer socialist that I could hardly find on Reddit.

            I’m not saying Lemmy doesn’t have good communities, it certainly does, but once you go beyond news, politics and memes there’s neither enough content nor enough users to keep anything else alive.