Yeah it is interesting. Hopefully it was just due to mod inactivity. At least those other subs are up.

probably, maybe people are getting banned, censored so often they are probably looking at alternatives of reddit on reddit.

I await the week of dreadful news when they start using their immense wealth to take down instances via DDoS attacks, one by one...

50+% of the users are bots on reddit anyways.

I love Lemmy, if we want it to survive and thrive we also need to be realistic with ourselves.

Should Reddit be scared? No, no they shouldn't, laughably.

We're talking about 0.01% of the active user base. Lemmy has ~ 40-50k mau, if we're being incredibly conservative, Reddit has ~400 million MAU . Reddit gains about an entire Lemmy worth of new users, daily.

It's a humbling number.

"Well it's all bots" you say. Well.... Given that ~ 1% of reddit users actually post, it would seem safe to assume that non-content posting users would not be bots. Which doesn't really change the numbers much here.

Spoken like a true enthusiast 🫂 🤝

My theory: they're just trying to push stock price for the short term as much as possible (by looking good on paper). Then they can cash out and let others figure out what to do with the dumpster fire in the long term.

They've made so many short-sighted decisions with Reddit lately, burning all good will of the community in the process, I can't really explain it another way.

im not surprised, the bots often go for unmoderated subs, because they wont be detected or shadowbanned as fast if they were in a normal modded sub. im in a forum where they often target subs with low moderation to pedal thier OF, or "business". Also because subs are very hard to obtain by a user if it becomes unmoderated.

Yes but it's empty. I made it just so someone else couldn't.

How many people here learned about Lemmy through Reddit? I did. Can't use Lemmy if you don't even know it's an option.

talking about Reddit when we said we gonna abandon it, does the opposite.

Yeah, but I still like watching the shitshow.

Its way better than it used to be. I don't know if that's just because there's less drama happening right now regarding reddit, but I didn't get a flooded front page when reddit's chatbot citations started plummeting which is a huge improvement over the past.

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4501843-reddit-bulls-react-chatgpt-citations-fall

I don't think we should never talk about reddit, but I think it gets really annoying when people start clickbait spamming with Reddit headlines which hasn't happened in a while.

[–]vernes1978 4 points 4 hours ago

This is reddit.
Nobody has to explain anything here.

[–]eccsoheccsseven 1 point 4 hours ago

It's basically Stalinism

I'm glad they cleared that up, if people believe this shit, and the spooky stalin stories why are they still using reddit? Won't stalin find out? I hear he's got spys everywhere, maybe even in this thread!

occums razor

Get your mind out of the gutter.

*Occam's Razor

are we sure the mod(s) didn’t delete their accounts leaving the community unmoderated or something?

does that result in this error message?

This community has been banned for violating the Reddit rules.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Lemmy

This community has been banned for violating the Reddit rules.