Reddit Migration

I think I've contributing factor that's likely is that the users that care already bailed and aren't on there anymore

Beehaw defederated, I lost access to the communities I cared about, I started going back to reddit unfortunately.

Honestly learning how defederation works turned me off the plataform entirely, not only can it kill budding communities, the fact it can disable communications among users everywhere means its also incredible censoring power given to the instance admins and you as an user hoping they dont abuse it. I understand how its necessary for extreme cases, but having it exist just means it gets used trivially over reasons that dont deserve it.

Most of us, the "chronically online" have a lot of voting power and are up to date with reddit and other options to use it. Now, most "left, AKA the majority of reddit users, are just casual users using reddit like any other social media. And most are the kind of people that browse without any form of adblocking

Those who have an issue are leaving and not commenting or upvoting each other anymore either. This creates a sort of feedback loop where people critical of Reddit get less positive feedback and either they adjust their opinion to fit the majority or get downvoted. Thus minority opinions are pushed into small communities or off the site entirely.

It‘s always kinda been that way tbh, I could still tolerate it cause who wants to hear Nazi or tankie opinions for example, but now I‘m thinking I‘d rather be uncomfortable with them than comfortable with this hivemind.

Well, people who have left the site will, by definition, not be the people who are still commenting over there.

And as others say, probably a some bots are involved.

Simply, there's not people I like anymore on Reddit or content I need. It's not a place for me now. I don't care what happens to it, I'll never go on it again. Thankfully I don't have mega niche hobbies so there's a lot of alternatives for me (forums or discords or kbin)

Probably the latter. Most users likely didn't care about any of it enough to vote or participate in conversations leading up to blackouts, but got annoyed when they couldn't use reddit the same way. The rest of us probably started minimizing usage and/or deleting accounts.

I went on there the other day and I wasn't really surprised. Getting the people to turn on eachother is the golden rule, and fairly easy. Most people just don't care. Fair enough. I personally like it better here.