Why is this subreddit now just askreddit for movies?
Some time in the last few months, r/movies has been entirely consumed by askreddit-style questions like "What's your favorite hidden gem??" or "What actor fell off the map??"
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What is now causing all these unique, seemingly-non-bot posters to suddenly start flooding this particular subreddit with their discussion posts, instead of going to askreddit? Did the whole reddit protest shit change the moderation rules? Has the subreddit been infiltrated by a secret Buzzfeed content farming cabal? I unsubscribed from r/askreddit because I got sick of this shit, but now it's back on r/movies!
What is going on??
I think the comments are most interesting though
Because the audience for reddit has dwindled since July. Reddits offial site and app push controversial posts over just well yovkted ones. Most controversial posts asks inane questions. Then there's bots reposting those questions for karma and then websites juicing social media for content to get crammed down your throat via SEO.
They should make a second internet just for people
This all started with the boycott.
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I’d assumed things would go back to “normal” after the boycott, but it looks like a lot of power users really did take their ball and go home. (I wonder what they’re doing with their time instead? Hopefully some new hobbies? Time with friends?) Maybe reddit will regret removing the 3rd party apps, after all? Maybe we’ll just accept a future where niche subs become little more than BuzzFeed polls, but we get paid if our poll does well, so users won’t care?
It's because Reddit is trying to drive engagement. I don't know if you noticed, but since the purge of third-party apps, the comment sections have been kind of meager, and things don't get as many upvotes as they used to. Heck, half the comments act like bots anyway. It seems like reddit has been distilled down to those most addicted to it and has taken a hard lean into all the most extreme views.
When Reddit killed third party apps, the quality fell off all over the place. It took me about a month to realize the timing and why r/all had so much AITA rage bait stories and celebrity gossip and stuff now. I think a lot of the quality posters and people who liked more high brow discussions just left Reddit.
Many of the niche communities are still on Reddit. Those who follow the crowd, those who simply follow routine, those who would step up to provide content but it is the type mentioned in the OP here, etc. And quite frankly the Reddit UI/UX, as bad as it is, is still 1000-fold better than Kbin, especially on a mobile browser, and I can assume Lemmy is significantly better but surely not perfect either. Ofc there are reasons for all of this and I'm not knocking these FREE services willy nilly, just saying that it is understandable why not everyone has migrated over to Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon yet, or at least a sufficient number to allow niche communities to thrive as much as they once did. We are pioneers of beta (Lemmy) and alpha (Kbin) services, and that's not for everyone. Though I for one vastly prefer this to the crud of Reddit:-P.
Lemmy had the advantage of a ready API. I'm browsing on an app that's indistinguishable from how I'd browse reddit a year ago.