• ShooBoo@lemmy.world
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    Not sure what this place will evolve in to but it seems like a nice replacement for Reddit. There is a lot of work to be done for people to re-build the communities and transfer the information but if enough people buy in to it… years down the road this could be the place to be.

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      I agree, Rome wasn’t build in a day, it takes consistent effort to create a thriving community.

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      I did, I only check the very niche subs once very few days, but it’s like returning to the still smoldering ruins of your burnt down home town, talking to the survivors…

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    I uninstalled it. I can’t stand the “r/Hegetsus” promoted religious ads. It said it could not be blocked.

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    yeah, this is not true. some subs are gone. there are still tons of people there. HOWEVER, the level of shitheadedness is increasing across all subs, even ones that were once relatively free of it. I’m seeing fewer thoughtful responses and more of the kind of reactionary kneejerk bullshit you expect from the front page subs or youtube comments or something. As ever, niche content remains your best bet, but I’m noticing a sharp decline in quality. This has been happening for a long time now, but this event has certainly been a(nother) tipping point. People have constantly compared reddit to digg in this instance, implying that the same kind of replacement is nigh… but I don’t know. We are kind of in uncharted territory on this. In the earlier days of the www there was always a new thing, but the Digg collapse happened (or started happening) like 15 years ago, the internet is an entirely different beast now. I don’t know what’s going to happen with reddit, but I’m on permanent lurker status over there until I suss it out.

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      I agree with everything you said, but I have a few additions that I’ve noticed in terms of Reddit going downhill. I’m seeing a ton of anti-copium in this thread, but ngl, I Reddit has gotten a LOT worse for me as a whole as someone that uses it regularly. it’s the reason I came here, even though I actually didn’t stick with Lemmy originally after the blackout (due to lack of content).

      -Like you said, shitheadedness has gone up

      -Reposts and unserious posts have gone up (replacing actual interesting and varied content, which has gone down)

      -Content farming has gone up (related to the above point)

      -“Subtle” advertisement like astroturfing has gone up (once again, reducing visibility of any actual worthwhile posts)

      -The NSFW side of reddit is legit worthless at this point.

      In addition the the app being unusable and the APIs no longer allowing for third party apps. I’m a bit surprised there are so many people in this thread that claim not to have noticed. Like, Reddit has legitimately turned into IFunny quality material seemingly overnight from my perspective. I’m not sure how people could not notice, but maybe I just use it differently from others.

      This may not affect the shareholders at the end of the day since it will probably just turn into a low quality garbage machine that still makes money, but from an actual social media perspective I think there will be a significant number of others like me who need to find a new home that’s not full of shit content.

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    My time on Reddit died simultaneously with Apollo. I’m doing what I can by not giving that place anymore traffic from me.

    Found out about Lemmy yesterday. While it’s not there with niche interests at this point, it definitely cures the itch.

    You want to stick it to the man? Quit going there altogether people!

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      Thank you for saying this. When I created it, I thought it was a nice pun, a good way to revive the bad pun dog meme and I stand by it that there is some truth to it. I definitely wasn’t expecting it to become my post with the highest exposure to date, or for a post made in a shitposting community (!) to be taking this seriously.

      That being said, I still think Reddit is in trouble. As I pointed out in a previous comment, there are still more than 2000 subs in the dark, moderation is at an all time low morale, bot traffic is increasing, re-posts are increasing, content quality is decreasing, comments are increasingly toxic. etc. There are definitely a lot of small subreddits where there is no change noticeable. But saying Reddit is back to business as usual doesn’t seem very realistic to me.

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    It doesn’t seem like it’s actively collapsing but there is definitely a slow decline in its early stages. There’s a noticeable uptick in the number of bots and they aren’t being caught and deleted as quickly. There’s also a lot of subtle protest going on such as r/DIY making their automod be as obnoxious as possible. It’s still working and there’s still content but there’s a noticeable pallor over the place.

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    Content is slowing drastically, r/all isn’t updating for most of the day from low engagement, reddit uses a differential for upvotes which doesn’t reflect total users well.

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      I agree, I studied abroad with a 12 hour difference and during the day there, when I browsed Reddit, most of the posts were lower quality because most people were asleep. (Sorry euro peeps)

      It’s when the evening came that the posts picked up quality and engaged me.

      Now that I’m stateside, I feel like Reddit posters are completely and perpetually asleep (or just gone).

      It’s really wild to see reposts over and over. Like some Redditbot constantly spamming the same thing hoping to get some traction going for conversation.

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      reddit uses a differential for upvotes

      ELI5? I’m genuinely interested - just wonder what this means? I’d always assumed +1 on a post meant 1 user clicking the “upvote” button.

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        It’s some sort of weird percentage once you get past a certain number. I’m fuzzy on the numbers but 1.2k upvotes shown on the website was worth a different amount than actual. Something like 1.5k = 1.2k upvotes for your personal karma.

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          They “fuzz,” votes, and it starts after only 10 or so. It will return a value within 10% or so of the true vote. It is to obfuscate the totals to make it harder for bot accounts to tell if they are shadowbanned or not.

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      I will. But I do want to say that it’s my personal opinion, that yes, we definitely should grow as a community with more reddit refugees, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing to grow relatively slowly. On the technological side, we need the infrastructure growth to match the user base growth. Maybe even more importantly, I think most of us will agree we want to take the good of reddit with us, but definitely not the toxicity. Copy pasting the whole user base to the fediverse could lead to also copy pasting the culture that exists over there now. The thing I most enjoy on Lemmy is definitely the general vibe over the content for now, and that is pretty special on the Internet.

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        Also, we don’t necessarily need a big userbase. Just a good active one. More is not necessarily better in my opinion.

        Smaller is also much more manageable.

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          We don’t need to be REDDIT big but…ayo you people need to post more so i can scroll an unhealthy amount all day.

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          Absolutely, I would be happy if we stayed where we are on the main subs with niche ones growing a bit. Game specific subs are still pretty barren with most of the content being three or four people. I could use some of that growth for sure.

          A few hundred comments and consistent uploads are all I think we really need to keep chugging along.

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      notes to self:

      • no, that did not say “hornie”
      • check system font settings on this computer
      • maybe start a c/keming
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    I really miss my community there 🥲It feels like breaking up with a shitty boyfriend, but his grandma was really nice to you.

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      tbf Boost was still working until yesterday so today is my first day without reddit and this time using both plataforms I really came to apreciate Lemmy.

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      Yeah, I moved over on the 30th when the app I’d been using for over a decade (the only way I ever accessed reddit) shut down and haven’t felt the need to discuss it. Until now, of course. It’s really silly and as newcomers to this place, we should be mindful that there are many longtime users that have made this space what it is. Here’s hoping the pollution ends soon.

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    Ok, just went there. My home is full of smaller subs reposting old high-quality stuff. I could even mistake that for good activity if I haven’t seen it already.

    Popular is full of useless shit… so no visible impact.

    I guess one has to subscribe to the correct subs to see the implosion.

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      Im still using my custom app patched with my own API key. But it’s slowly not becoming worth it with most of the smaller subs I follow only having 1 or 2 posts in the last week. Opposed to the 2 or 3 posts per day.

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        They also haven’t actually kicked off third party clients for mods. If you moderate any sub (even just create a private sub now) and the client didn’t purposely kill their own API key (Apollo and RIF did I believe) it will still work even without the patch.

        It’s getting pretty bad though. With most people who were truly pro-protest gone, average sentiment is “oh well protest failed let’s get back to normal”. I was pretty heavily downvoted in the Ask Historians meta thread about next steps for suggesting the mods/experts were fairly irreplaceable and they should look to move content off of reddit to their own site.

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        Dude, tell me more about your custom app.

        Take this as an opportunity to talk as much as you want about it. That sounds fascinating.

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          Request your own API key from Reddit stating you’re an app developer, then use revanced manager to inject that key into any custom Reddit app.

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          there is i think a personal key that stays on a one user basis within the free limit. From my knowledge reddit claims it as illegal but it still works

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            Why would it be illegal? That’s literally what the key is made for: to make API requests from the app you wrote.

            If anybody could deny you from doing that, it’s the author of the app that you patched and I’m pretty sure, they don’t give a shit anymore.