Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPO::“Edit: Obligatory ‘F— Spez’ for karma.”

  • @[email protected]
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    3811 months ago

    Everyone here is on copium, not gonna lie.

    Reddit isn’t going to die. Honestly it has 1000x more content than lemmy.

    Lemmy has a place and so does reddit.

    • @SLGC
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      5311 months ago

      I still browse reddit, simply because the size of the communities I want to visit is much larger there. My browsing is however confined to the mobile page in Firefox, which is slow, clunky, and breaks frequently, which means my reddit usage is down by something like 99%. Lemmy has the sync app, and without the app I wouldn’t be here. Browsing Lemmy before it was awful.

      Also, I kinda like that Lemmy is smaller. There’s much less noise, less of an algorithm feel to browsing. It feels slightly more like the internet I grew up with in the 90s and 00s, and I kinda missed that.

      • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N
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        711 months ago

        The throwback feel really is an intangible value add that means it might not catch on for younger folks but damn it does feel good.

        • @[email protected]
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          511 months ago

          honestly I think the opposite. from what a younger sibling has told me, old is new and the current trends in TikTok and stuff seem to be younger people wanting physical media, non flat design back, the old internet and etc. gives me hope at least.

      • @agitatedpotato
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        311 months ago

        I go back for sports communities because they’re still active enough on reddit for back and forth during live games, but literally yesterday on the hockey sub people were talking about how there’s less content. API changes meant less autoposted game highlights and it even seems there’s less back and forth on the game day threads. Now it depends a lot on the team these days.

      • @Pipoca
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        111 months ago

        Size has some pretty big advantages.

        In particular, it feels like lemmy is mostly memes and news.

        While on reddit, you can have productive discussions about the internals of the Haskell compiler, or ask questions to actual historians. Niche subreddits having a quorum of experts to actually have discussions about stuff was always the best part about reddit. And that part has always been sadly lacking from lemmy because of size.

    • @SquirtleHermit
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      2111 months ago

      TIL not supporting businesses you don’t agree with = being on copium.

      Guess I better go buy Nestle products again.

      • @[email protected]
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        1611 months ago

        No I think that’s fine, it’s just I see people thinking that reddit is literally dying, which is just not the case.

    • MacN'Cheezus
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      1811 months ago

      Honestly it has 1000x more content than lemmy.

      So steal the content and post it here. At least the good stuff.

      There aren’t any laws preventing you from doing that.

      • @SLGC
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        511 months ago

        It’s kinda how these sites function at all nowadays lol. Wasn’t reddit text posts only a long time ago?

        • @Mr_Blott
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          411 months ago

          Send us the text posts to replace all the people posting fuckin YouTube videos instead of articles here!

        • @vxx
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      • @Pipoca
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        211 months ago

        The good content on reddit isn’t the shitty-ass memes, it’s the discussion by experts on niche subreddits. Kinda hard to steal that…

        • MacN'Cheezus
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          011 months ago

          What if you told you you can take a screenshot of those and share that here…

          • @elephantium
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            111 months ago

            What if I told you that you could copy and paste text instead of taking a photo?

    • @[email protected]
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      211 months ago

      Everyone? Those people who say these companies are sinking ship are probably so addicted to them they have to mention it anytime anything vaguely relates to it. Normal people use both and don’t give a shit where their meme comes from.