This makes me sad. Not just because of what happened with reddit, but because I'm still missing that high-brow discussion. Most of my reddit comments were replies to other people, rather than top-level comments, and I spent more time reading comment sections than I did looking at the content they were discussing.

I like it here, but I don't feel like I come across the depth of content I did on reddit. I don't mind the lower quantity - that's expected on a small platform - but I'm definitely not enjoying the lower quality. Most of the activity seems to be around memes and American politics, neither of which particularly interest me, and most of the comments across most posts feel fairly unsubstantial. It's so much rarer for me to find something I want to reply to on here than it was on reddit.

While I don't think Reddit is going to collapse anytime soon or anything, any moderators that chose to stay after seeing how little Reddit cares about them, are not going to be the sorts of people with a bold vision on what they want to see in a community. What remains of the culture is just going to get more and more generic as evidenced here.

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?)

Nah we're doing the same shit just on Lemmy now

When you monetize karma, this is the result. Reddit will be Buzzfeed / WatchMojo / Snapchat Top 10 lists in a couple months. But number 1 will shock you!

Glad to see the migration actually made an impact to some degree.

Reddit nowadays feels like quora + socmed with stagnant contents

Reddit has been dying for a decade or longer, it's just now the people who saw it through all the previous crap, and tried to make it have some semblance of the site it once was, have up and left, leaving it to the brainless hordes.

I don't understand. I was told in no uncertain terms from many news outlets that "Reddit won."

I wonder what they’re doing with their time instead? Hopefully some new hobbies? Time with friends?

Way too much Lemmy...

It never was about the quantity of users leaving reddit, but the quality. Those that didn't care about the changes were not those who were posting the most. They weren't the moderators, the power users, people making original shit. Those all cared about the site and about the changes.

And they all left.

Reddit has long paid mods to be “Community Builders”. Ostensibly they’re there to help other mods build their subreddits, but actually what seems to happen is they spam low effort posts like the ones described (the “question style” post is very popular) in lots of subreddits.

I’ve posted this before but here’s more info:

Have a look at this user’s posts prior to the blackouts: https://old.reddit.com/user/WelshCai/ Lots and lots of low-effort posts in various UK subreddits.

And read this (which was posted after he got accused of being a karma farming bot), note the admin comment confirming it: https://old.reddit.com/user/WelshCai/comments/130zbw6/i_am_a_community_builder_for_reddit/

This link confirms that Community Builders are “vetted and paid by Reddit for their time”: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4418715794324-What-is-the-Community-Builders-Program-

Despite claiming they work with mods, the mods of those subreddits don’t seem to be aware of this, as evidenced by this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Leeds/comments/138gi40/reddit_community_builders_please_read_details/

/r/movies has always had tons of those generic hidden/underrated gem/actor threads about huge blockbuster films that everyone has seen. It's in no way a new phenomenon. The /r/moviescirclejerk subreddit has existed for years, and lives off those posts.

Discussion quality in the whole platform went down. It isn't just r/movies, or large subs - it's everywhere. Specially jarring if you stopped going to reddit since the revolts, and then checked it "randomly".

They used to farm kharma to sell accounts to other parties. This resulted in a WHOLE lot of karma-farming bots that just reposted old content. Now they're going to just pay those bots directly instead. Now do we think things will get better or worse?

I wonder what they're doing with their time instead? Hopefully some new hobbies?

Like hell they would ever touch grass. They're probably spending all that time on lemmy.film instead.

Reddits offial site

I like that this is closer to "offal" than "official".

Reddit is a website rotting from the inside out. Can't wait to see how much of a disaster that IPO is going to be.

astroturfing

Maybe I should go back there and make my fourth Reddit comment in three months. (Down from ~6 per day.) Would be nice to bring more Reddit people over.

Having the niche communities again would be nice. The benefit Reddit had there is that it was the default for so long, people would proactively search out the community for their new hobby. [email protected] is just starting to come back.

A great reminder that !moviesandtv ( @moviesandtv ) community exists!