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Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they've been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving...

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Just have a look at the content there, it dropped a lot in quality.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As someone who only ever browsed all, I see no difference.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

As a browser, I notice that Lemmy seems much more dynamic and engaging. It's small, weird and there appear to be all sorts of things going on in the corners which I didn't notice so much on reddit (they were probably there, but got overlooked die to sheer volume of content). I like the experience so far, reminds me of the early days of exploring the web.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The OC to porn ratio has shifted in favor of porn.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

The real metric is the OC to bot ratio

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Only if you don't want to see porn

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

Reddit probably got it's initial boost from porn that got it to where it is today

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I lost all patience with low effort posts. I try to call out anyone asking easily google-able questions or clear karma baiting. It took a couple days of this to realize I needed take a long break from it. I'm debating keeping my account solely to get my karma up a bit more and trying to sell it, not sure yet.

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

Probably yes, many of people from subreddits I followed left

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

For a bunch of the subs I frequented the mods just left. Some of those died, some are being taken over by right-wing extremists, some are still chugging along.

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