Karma will be coming. Cuz reddit will fall.
Spez has decided that banning the user base is a good idea, let’s see how that plays out for him
Yeah I still mod a couple subs over there. One large, 2 smaller. I’ve seen SO FREAKING MANY users banned by Reddit before I can even see what comment got reported. I’ve been modding for like 7 years. I’d see that maybe twice a year before. I’m seeing it 5+ times a day now. It’s crazy.
They’re using ai and ai is doing what it does best
Yeah it’s infuriating watching good users disappear. It would be fine if they came here but, they don’t. I have a duplicate of all my subs on Lemmy for when the time comes.
It’s not just AI and bots. Their mods love to ban real people for petty stupid shit.
Some people make new accounts. Others don’t.
After I got my 11 year old account banned for saying some stupid thing about Musk (I think, I’m still not sure), I decided it’s better to just leach their service, ad block on, and not contribute. That said, I only look at Reddit maybe once a week these days.
75% or more of the reddit posts my friends link in discord are removed by the time I click on them, typically in less than 24 hours.
The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers
Surprisingly, the weakest number may be logged-in users. Growth held at just 1% for the second straight quarter, down from 12% one year ago.
I haven’t used reddit for many years, but this is probably not a good development for the internet (or humanity), if it means people use AI instead of reddit.
Confident bullshitting that looked like human communication has been reddit’s entire wheelhouse, since before LLMs were an itch in anyone’s pants.
Reddit began to suck years ago, I stopped using it because the quality of the content declined as they began to become more and more like the old Digg.
Losing reddit is fun killed off lot of the reason to use reddit logged in, which led to less reasons to actually comment on things.
I never made an account on quora but it would sometimes show up in search results and try to not show everything to get people to sign up but I never felt compelled to. Wonder if that is what is happening with reddit now.
I don’t find the default reddit interface pleasant to scroll or read through, so wonder if people are just getting their info from search results and leaving.
I never used anything but old reddit, their new interface was crap from day one.
I quit using reddit about 5 years ago because of enshittification.They are getting info from the Google AI so they have no reason to visit reddit. The article explains this. It has nothing to do with reddit’s terrible ux decisions, which we all know most consumers roll over for anyway.
Reddit kept banning people for the most hilarious reasons. I stopped logging in once i was banned from my countries “official” sub. Why log in when i cant participate? Used to lurk with browser which blocked ads then but they disabled using reddit that way by forcing a login pop up. This drove me to lemmy.
I hate that reddit is still shown in top rankings of google because following their links ask/force you to log in after 10 seconds…
I can only agree that reddit became crap, I quit it after having used it for many years.
The power users found other outlets, it’s not bad for the internet or humanity. When I came over here years ago, it was already better than reddit.
Better then reddit in what way? UX? Sure. Lemmy is better than reddit. The memes are better and fewer bots are better. But unless you’re into tech and politics, lemmy doesn’t have content for you.
Preach. I just migrated here and found a disturbing lack of casual communities with any real activity. A real bummer because I miss the old internet and figured this could replicate it. Still, if you build it, they will come. Maybe it’s a user count issue.
Still, if you build it, they will come. Maybe it’s a user count issue.
Yep, be the change you want to see.
Your first 3 are what I’m talking about and I’m into politics. You’re on an instance that has probably been algorithmed out of getting things to the front page too. lemmy-world has a lot of control over what users see because they’re so big.
You have to go looking for places to subscribe. Once you do that, you’ll start seeing more, not reddit amounts, but some of more of what you like. I still don’t know how to link across instances, but these have places.
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Every now and then there are big posts of best communities to recommend. We’re probably due for one because I’m noticing a small migration.
Also, you might not have gone through your reddit withdrawal yet. It takes a couple of weeks, but this place isn’t as addicting.
I agree, when I came over here 3 years ago, I had already stopped using reddit for a couple of years.
Lemmy is more like reddit was originally.
I just want to know how they were getting “new” users?!
Humanity will be fine. This is just another cold war. AI is like the Berlin wall: it will crumble and DDR5 will be free once more.
I don’t think this AI shit is like when Christians destroyed Rock and Roll records in the 50’s.
I think AI is a real problem. And I’m not so sure we will be fine anymore.The LLMs aren’t going anywhere. They have legitimate uses. But you will see the bubble deflate if not pop over the next few years. OpenAI in particular is done for.
Yeah it’ll find its place like all new tech
I didn’t join Lemmy because of being banned on Reddit or other drama.
I joined because I wanted to contribute to something that is going to stand the test of time better.
i.e. Although there are serious threats to its usability, the Fediverse is hopefully never going to be enshittified, commercially milquetoasted, or eventually sold to corporate fascists.
Oh no. :D
How truly terrible. :D
My heart is practically breaking. :DWhen the only accounts that are allowed to exist on your platform are bots and Russian trolls, and you just ban actual long time users en masse for completely asinine and/or made up reasons, this is the fucking end result. Reddit is literally eating itself, but no! It’s AI that’s to blame. This fucking dogshit company literally just made me defend AI.
They didn’t have to ban me, they just had to make their site unusable and then block API to make any worthwhile app no longer usable too.
It still blows my mind how late they were to their own party when it came to releasing an app, and even with all the in-house knowledge they had, they delivered by far the worst app we’d ever seen lmao. I guess this shouldn’t come as a surprise considering how shit their redesigns were too.
They actually started off on a 3rd party app they bought. Which was quite decent until their acquisition. Not only did they not manage to create a good app on their own, they destroyed a perfectly good one.
I think that was just on the iOS side. Android had a lot of really good apps.
Prob couldn’t figure out how to read the code or do anything with it, so they shut it down lmao. Can’t have nice things on Reddit.
Well, I was on Boost on reddit and now am on Boost on lemmy.
Hell yeah, me too! For both 😂
Maybe if they just use more AI bots, numbers go up.
🍿 That’s a shame.
there was user growth ? (?!!??)
wtf
Imagine if most of the “new users” are actually old users whose first accounts were banned. We get a lot of traffic from Redfugees, but surely there must be loads more who just find a way to sign up on Reddit again. Til their new account gets banned, at least.
Rinse, repeat, and pretend the new accounts are “growth” when the shareholders come around.
thanks - this makes the most reddit sense.
These are not the kind of users you’re looking for.
I don’t know if these numbers can be verified, or if it’s a “trust me bro” situation, but in case Reddit’s numbers are legitimate, its userbase to be still growing but only 1% could be inertia even as acceleration becomes negative. In an analogy, putting a car in reverse while it’s still moving forward can only keep taking it forward so much.
bot growth
But they’re still up some 280% since IPO :/
We’ll get there
Ha ha!
Happy over here in the fediverse.
