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Took a peek on Reddit, it really boggles my mind how oblivious and obedient people are. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CoffeeBlood91@lemmy.ca to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I decided to take a peek at Reddit to see what kind of activity is happening, a good handful of the subreddits I am subscribed to are still super active with posts and commenters.

There's quite a few news articles on the front page regarding Spez and the blackouts, I am surprised those articles are even still up for people to see.

The comment section is filled with people saying how they should just kick the mods out of the dark Reddit's and take over, ofcourse these posts are heavily upvoted...

Perhaps there is some AI activity going on, I mean it's kind of easy to do in this day and age. You just prompt an army of AI bots to defend Reddit, and try to keep users engaged.

I am so happy I found Lemmy, and I am so happy that there is a comfortable level of activity. Sure it's only a small fraction of what Reddit is activity wise, but it's so much more hearty and welcoming.

Reddit has just turned into one big toxic mess. Lemmy reminds me of what Reddit used to be 10 years ago.

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[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (21 children)

This may just an old interwebz man talking, but I'd say "Don't worry."

It's not a 1:1, but this is similar to what happened with Digg in the mid 2000s. I was there. I migrated from there to Reddit - specifically because Digg had decided to ignore its vocal user base and fundamentally change what the site was.

It ultimately resulted in this : this

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Worth noting that the main migration happened in 2007 and start of 2008, but look how it managed to drag on for another 4 years before really dying.

I think the same will happen here - like there'll be a lot of users on Reddit still, but it'll be heavily corporate controlled and moderated, and most comments will be on the level of "Putin small pp" etc.

[–] oldmate@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The main migration was actually in 2010 after the v4 redesign. Digg wasn't dying in 2007-2009, it was one of the hottest websites on the internet.

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm something happened in 2008-2009 though, as it was when I migrated and I remember loads of people were doing it at the same time.

It might have just been Reddit having a cleaner, more direct interface, and a better community.

[–] oldmate@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

The site started to go downhill around that period because of power users and some started to move to reddit, but it was still pretty niche.

I stayed on digg until v4, then I moved with the masses over to reddit. They lost over 30% of their users that month!

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