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No we don't.
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Yes we do.
You're both wrong.
No we aren't
I came here for an argument, not a contradiction!
Whaaa!
You are just stupid and im smart
I portrayed myself as the chad and you as the soyjack, so obviously I'm right and you're wrong
They're bots. And people simple enough to basically be bots. All the people worth a damn left already, or are perhaps sticking around out of some combination of masochism, morbid curiosity and dogged stubbornness. This latter group would admittedly be a pretty huge segment, probably.
But yea, I still check in sometimes too. The specific video game subs are mostly unchanged in my experience, and reddit still has us soundly beat in that arena. It's a major source of their remaining strength.
I would say any niche sub remains pretty good. I look at a lot of camping and outdoors stuff, and I don’t notice a change there, either. But yeah, the “popular” subs are not nearly as “good” as they were (whatever that means…).
I made a similar comment to another thread, but I've been having login issues and I don't think it posted.
I'm not sure if it's being able to compare apples to Oranges with Lemmy, and I was very aware that the quality of reddit was lower than when I joined in like 2010. But Holy Cow is it ever bad at Reddit.
RIF is still working for me, I'm logged out and never vote or comment on Reddit anymore. But I still pop in to view local news and subreddits that don't have the same traction here yet.
The current Reddit experience is terrible. All the comments feel like opinion wedge bots stating divisive opinions that aren't engaging with anyone.
All the top/best sorted comments are a few minutes old and largely irrelevant. Seems like reddit is pushing bot/chat GPT content to replace migration users.
I'd rather be on a buggy platform, talking to real people, who disagree or not, are engaging in real discussion.
Going to reddit when I've crushed through most hot topics on Lemmy really drives home what makes a social platform good, and what makes a social platform bad.
Hopefully Reddit doesn't fully migrate here and it can serve it's new purpose of being a social cesspool trap for special interest bots.
Getting the same news from Lemmy has provided a comparison that allowed me to see exactly how toxic Reddit currently is.
I was very aware that the quality of reddit was lower than when I joined in like 2010
It was an ongoing meme that "reddit was better a few years ago and kinda sucks now" but I really think it was accurately the case. Everyone remembers it being at its best when they first signed up because it had been on a slow, consistent downward slide from around 2010 on.
The last couple of years were so bad that I was already going to other sites for actual news and whatnot because anything outside of small, niche subs were overrun with bots (or trolls, since they were functionally the same).
I'm actually spending more time in here than I ever (proportionately) spent on Reddit 👀
But I agree, I'm definitely more at home in here, discussions are more relevant and with way less noise. The fact there's no "karma counter" attached to our profiles also makes things more comfortable since we don't feel the pressure to always be agreeable. It's fine to have disagreements sometimes, but the karma system made people too wary of doing so.