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A video about the effectiveness of the Reddit protest

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The people who see the protest as a failure were many of the users who used the official app, default settings, and seldom if ever contributed to the site. They were never going to leave anyway.

Look how many people came here, and there is a noticeable decrease in the number of bots and trolls. I see this as a huge win for us users.

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

Not only are there fewer trolls here but there are but more well thought out replies and less attention seeking in general. The entirety of Reddit is going to turn into r/teenagers

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

🌎 👨‍🚀 🔫 👩‍🚀

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

I should have seen this coming

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

I couldn't resist :P

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

It's a matter of education and how they understand the situation I suppose. I was a Reddit refugee moving over from the official app because the news really showed how anti consumer the company was being. It's not much of a protest, but I only go on Reddit now if I really need certain information, so I don't think it's a total failure.

Bots and trolls will probably follow as Lemmy grows and gains traction, but I hope by that time moderation will have improved and will be able to scale to handle that.