this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
723 points (95.1% liked)

Reddit

17806 readers
468 users here now

News and Discussions about Reddit

Welcome to !reddit. This is a community for all news and discussions about Reddit.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules


Rule 1- No brigading.

**You may not encourage brigading any communities or subreddits in any way. **

YSKs are about self-improvement on how to do things.



Rule 2- No illegal or NSFW or gore content.

**No illegal or NSFW or gore content. **



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding META posts.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-Reddit posts using the [META] tag on your post title.



Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.

If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



:::spoiler Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Dear User,

We will soon begin rolling out changes to Reddit's User settings. It is getting a refresh that includes changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings.

As part of these changes, we are retiring a setting that you have previously turned on that limited how we used your activity from the Reddit platform to personalize ads. We have replaced the setting with a new option to select categories of ads that you may not wish to see.

More details are available in our announcement and help center.

These changes are rolling out starting today and you may see the changes over the next few days.

Users will be tracked with no opt out. Posts may be monetized, which will make content even worse No refund or any type of usable credit for users that spent hundreds on Reddit coins The entire vibe has done a 180° since all these new "positive changes" are rolled out.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ah yes, just like how the oh so mighty mods pissed their panties with the blackouts, really killed reddit too that one huh

[–] millie@lemmy.film 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I mean, yeah. Have you been on reddit since the API stuff? It's absolutely flooded with bots trying to make up the difference. Which is like, reddit playbook 2009. The broken links are pretty prolific too at this point.

It's not going to like, close its doors, but it certainly isn't in the position it was just a few months ago.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I hope you're right and I'll take your word for it. I don't go to that site anymore.

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no difference, why you may ask?

just look at youtube, same shit different color, it keeps getting worse but they are still the king in terms of video hsoting

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but the emperor has more clothes, and more and more people are realising this.

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

i just hope, honestly, that you are right

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Although it makes it harder for me, I actually quite like hitting a Google result on Reddit and seeing swaths of editted/deleted comments.

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Digg and MySpace still technically exist

[–] MrLuemasG@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah I think it's pretty clear at this point that 99% of reddit users don't care about this, which is why reddit continues to thrive while lemmy is facing lower and lower user numbers

[–] g0nz0li0@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean lower growth in numbers? Lemmy.world recently posted users for August and it grew by a healthy amount.

[–] MrLuemasG@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm referring to this link that showed the active monthly users for lemmy as a whole across all instances trending downward

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/4010705

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

The numbers of comments is growing. I would take that as the reliable engagement metric. The falling number of active users could be a sign of people settling on a main account.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago

Is Lemmy? I've been pretty happy over here, frequent it often once I learned of it not long ago.

[–] Cranakis@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

I disagree. I think more ppl are leaving Reddit each day. My irl friends are bailing on it one by one.

[–] A10@kerala.party 3 points 1 year ago

I also feel the same, Lemmy is well..,. an echo chamber supporting Lemmy . Communties I used visit are doing just fine on reddit. But I a happy with the lower numbers and better quality of discussions