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Geek_King ,

I have zero hope for Reddit. I had no idea there were much better 3rd party apps available for Reddit on phones, so the API changes don’t impact me. But I’ve noticed over the years more and more, astro turfing by bots, bots reposting popular things to karma farm, as to sell the bot to entities looking to influence reddit via the aforementioned astro turfing.

It’s all very gross, I started to feel like a duck sitting in a pond surrounded by ducks, but not really, they’re all decoys, fakes, mean to give the impression of a big crowd. I don’t like that trend, and on top of that, the idea of Reddit going public, and trying to push our content as their value makes me sick. The owners of reddit haven’t done the heavy lifting, we the users, the mods all did the work and built up content. The idea that some chucklefuck was going to profit big from our effort isn’t something I want to be part of any more. So here I am, and I gotta say, Lemmy feels like a 2000’s forum by comparison, and I hope its very nature makes it harder to fall into the same pit falls as reddit and digg did.

berkeleyblue ,
@berkeleyblue@lemmy.world avatar

Denial, at least for me. I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that anyone could be that stupid and eager to destroy it’s most active part of the user base…

And the fact that it’s Reddit, a Site I always preceived as community driven and kinda above those corporate shenanigans, I still have hopes some saner heads might prevail. Although that seems increasingly unlikely by the minute…

peter ,
@peter@feddit.uk avatar

Reddit is a VC backed startup so this was always going to happen. I am surprised it took so long, to be honest.

seriousslayerguy ,

I just hope there’s no power trippin edgelords - toxic sweaty mods here. And whoever is in charge(like a CEO) I hope is also a normal human being. All I ask from you is to work with the community not against it.

Hexarei ,
@Hexarei@programming.dev avatar

Whoever is in charge (like a CEO)

That’s the fun of the Fediverse; there isn’t a CEO. You’re in charge if you want to be. Go setup your own instance if you find you don’t like the one you’re on, or find one whose admins you like. Don’t like Lemmy? Go write your own activitypub software to do the same stuff!

Sterile_Technique ,
@Sterile_Technique@kbin.social avatar

Denial
Anger
Bargaining <-- they are here
Depression
Acceptance

SwingingKoala ,

Oh, that makes me feel good. Looks like I’m at acceptance. Just not sure how long I was depressed :-\

The1Morrigan ,

Because Reddit is familiar and people like to stick with what they’re used to and comfortable with.

z3n0x ,
@z3n0x@feddit.de avatar

sunk cost fallacy and/or laziness

ThisIsMyNewAccount ,

That’s really not it.

DaGuys470 ,
@DaGuys470@kbin.social avatar

There are about 5 years of my life on there, for some users 15+. Now, if you dropped your laptop with 15 years worth of memories on it, you damn sure would have hope you could still save the data, even if it's obviously done for.

palarith ,

I've being feeling that lately reddit had become full of repost bots and fake ads. Was there just because there was nowhere else to go

Emanresu ,

I feel a similar way. The quality just kept going down and down to the point where I couldn’t tell what was real or not. Most just weren’t worth reading either way. Lemmy seems the same way now too. People are focusing on making “content” instead of trying to make higher quality posts.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Reddit is like the restaurant you’ve been going to for several years that was a mom & pop operation with awesome food and atmosphere. It got popular, and the owners made it a chain, so you could get the same food in a lot of different areas. The quality started to go down as they expanded, but it was already very popular. Then the owners started raising the prices, and the atmosphere started to get way less awesome. At some point, you realized that it’s not the restaurant you fell in love with, and it wasn’t a good value anymore, so you started looking for a similar kind of restaurant that was more like that one was early on. But the chain is still really popular, and a lot of people just keep going because it’s what they’re familiar with and they know the menu - they don’t want to go to the work of finding a new place and they’re content with what they’re getting there. The people who have left are a drop in the bucket so far, and the chain restaurant is likely to continue operating for the foreseeable future.

Felemuso ,

I guess because there are a lot of people who just don’t care. Look at Twitter, Musk could do what he wants Twitter still has a big number of users.

Also reddit has a huge and very active community. This is very hard to replace.

briongloid ,
@briongloid@aussie.zone avatar

I disagree with twitter, I wanted to continue using it despite the issues but the tweets and replies I was seeing was such a drop in quality that it naturally phased out of my routine, which I’ve from others in person that felt the same.

Reddit is a sharper change for us, twitter kind of just declined out of being worthwile.

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