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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.

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

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

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      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.

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        1 year ago

        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

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          Yes but the emperor has no clothes, and more and more people are realising this.

          Also reddit is made up primarily by users and the posts/comments they make, YouTube is made up by paid video creators. YouTubers don’t have anywhere else to go, but reddit users do and just need a critical mass somewhere else for reddit to go the way of digg.

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

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      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

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        1 year ago

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

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

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        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