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Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.

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[–] [email protected] 169 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

I wanted to call bullshit ~~but they’re entirely right.~~* Comments per day took a nosedive. Now if only more hobby communities would lift off, I’d be able to abandon Reddit entirely. I’m up to my tits in Linux and privacy guides but I still know nothing of mushroom picking. Nothing!

Edit: *some users pointed out that subredditstats is no longer capable of accurately tracking comment numbers. I was wrong.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that's exactly why lemmy needs to grow its userbase significantly before it can ever become mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

grow sounded nice until you said mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The beauty of a federated social network, is that even if it becomes mainstream as a whole, there will always be smaller niche instances for us to get away from the big ones on.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I’m up to my tits in Linux and privacy guides

omg I'm seriously loling rn 😆 there's so much fucking linux on this site. ive been using linux for ~14 years (exclusively for 2), and i have no idea what most linux posts are going on about, nor do i know anyone with a linux pc in my real life. us on lemmy have somehow managed to find each other.

i give it a few months until i have my own instance, a pi hole (whatever tf that is), and completely blocked google from tracking me in any way.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still love seeing them despite lying outside my interests. Seeing someone’s passion project or troubleshooting session from the outside is interesting, if only thanks to their enthusiasm inspiring novel approaches and clever workarounds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

yeah, it's engaging and entertaining. i spent half an hour yesterday going through a thread where OP argued for the use of linux in business settings and the comments were reaming OP for his arguments. i was like, "jeez. dont make a mistake on this site. people will let you have it." OP should wait a few weeks, make an alternate account, and argue for the use of Win over linux in business settings to get the other end covered. 😆

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Network-wide ad blocking

You set it up to be your local DNS server and it will support all devices on your network.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I like a good project. Pi-Hole actually frustrated me with how easy and straightforward it was to set up. Maybe like- ten minutes total. You won't regret it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

see‽ im already getting sucked in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pi-hole isn't a complicated tech thing!

It's just a raspberry pi with a piece of software that you attach to your router and set up block lists that...

Well shit, maybe it is.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the giggle. Coffee wasn't helping that much but the thought of someone just standing near some mushrooms and dramatically throwing their hands in the air pepped me right up

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

[email protected]

[email protected] needs some love... pick random mushrooms you find, say you're thinking of eating it and wait for a lot of "NONOONOOOOOO"s in the comments. Next step is ????, then profit!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Shit you're right. I never imagined it was this massive a phenomenon. I guess there's even more lurkers than posters now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How accurate is that site, though? I checked one sub and it seems to heavily undercount the number of threads and comments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, you’re right. The site missed 75% of the comments on the subreddit I checked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yep.

Hopefully it always misses 75%, but that's tough to check.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is Subredditstats still working after reddit api changes?

My guess is that they are also rate limited, so that information may not be valid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Another user and I checked and it seems not to be accurate anymore, you’re right.