11% can be substantial, especially if the users were the ones generating a majority of the “good” content for the platform. Just look at Reddit. User numbers may not be down that much, but the quality of the site is far, far worse than it was just a few short months ago.
Very true. And replacing actual users with bots to keep up appearances doesn’t help with the content or user experience. Of course these companies don’t care about either of those things so long as the shareholders think all is well.
A time will come that instead of lemmy operating bots to do reposting from reddit sources, the opposite will happen, reddit bots will start reposting with lemmy sa it’s source.
11% can be substantial, especially if the users were the ones generating a majority of the “good” content for the platform. Just look at Reddit. User numbers may not be down that much, but the quality of the site is far, far worse than it was just a few short months ago.
Very true. And replacing actual users with bots to keep up appearances doesn’t help with the content or user experience. Of course these companies don’t care about either of those things so long as the shareholders think all is well.
A time will come that instead of lemmy operating bots to do reposting from reddit sources, the opposite will happen, reddit bots will start reposting with lemmy sa it’s source.
Hopefully by the time that happens nobody will be left there to notice.