Those numbers don’t look good at all for the Fediverse.
Reddit gets over a billion monthly active users.
Fuck me man with that defeatist attitude, don’t you know about “perfect is the enemy of good” and all that? You expect a Reddit alternative with billions of monthly users to just sit there in the wild? I’m so tired of these people.
Treating a billion users as a positive is insane to me.
I love that the Fediverse isn’t trying to get all users on a single platform. There’s any number of people who can go hang out on their own communities. I’m not even talking politics - I mean that having a single platform that combines football fans and cross-stitch enthusiasts seems mad to me.
Being able to use the same infrastructure is handy but that’s not how Reddit works - there’s basically a chalk line on the floor dividing communities. Fights happen constantly.
I’ve basically stopped using Reddit (except the tiny Gorkamorka community I admin) because almost every reply to my comments is someone spoiling for a fight. I don’t get that anywhere else. I don’t want to hang out on the digital equivalent of the Monty Python sketch about having an argument. Hello, is this the room to have an argument?
That’s what finally made me leave. I was a part of the initial digg migration and what sold me was a sense of quirky community and the ability to constantly learn cool stuff in the comments. The last few years have just been full of angry people and clout chasers. This community has almost given me hope again!
There are AI bots literally scrapping the whole internet many times over. There were even tools to check negative sentiment all across the social media before AI blew up.
Propaganda doesn’t care about small or big subs, it has to seem subtle. Since it’s anonymous to anyone but the operators, it’s not a wild assumption. Small subs also often use bots for posting controversial things just for creating engagement.
Most repost bots are probably run by mods or even admins. Seeing as they never ban them, it’s not that farfetched.
The web wasn’t automated last year with AI. It’s been a playing ground for shaping narratives for decades.
These are words from the insane (and new redditors). No sane redditor from the early days stayed on reddit after all the big controversies happened over reddit getting bigger.
I have half a mind to go there and reply reddit numbers back when digg was the place to go was also shit.
While history rhymes, reddit did cook the frogs slower than old digg did, so while there were mass migrations already, reddit still have massive non bots.
hopefully reddit pushes more dumb bots and AI to make the people leave reddit and let it die being artificial thru and thru.
I stayed on Reddit for the longest time. I’ve been a user since the mass Digg migration. I’ve continued to use the site less and less. However, it seems the site quality continues to decline and userbase goes us.
There are still a few good subs with active members but even those still have some issues. I think discussion on the internet on general has gotten significantly worse overall.
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Fuck me man with that defeatist attitude, don’t you know about “perfect is the enemy of good” and all that? You expect a Reddit alternative with billions of monthly users to just sit there in the wild? I’m so tired of these people.
Treating a billion users as a positive is insane to me.
I love that the Fediverse isn’t trying to get all users on a single platform. There’s any number of people who can go hang out on their own communities. I’m not even talking politics - I mean that having a single platform that combines football fans and cross-stitch enthusiasts seems mad to me.
Being able to use the same infrastructure is handy but that’s not how Reddit works - there’s basically a chalk line on the floor dividing communities. Fights happen constantly.
I’ve basically stopped using Reddit (except the tiny Gorkamorka community I admin) because almost every reply to my comments is someone spoiling for a fight. I don’t get that anywhere else. I don’t want to hang out on the digital equivalent of the Monty Python sketch about having an argument. Hello, is this the room to have an argument?
I haven’t even seen that sketch, but just reading about it made me laugh.
right? hahaha
That’s what finally made me leave. I was a part of the initial digg migration and what sold me was a sense of quirky community and the ability to constantly learn cool stuff in the comments. The last few years have just been full of angry people and clout chasers. This community has almost given me hope again!
I also want to add, how many of these are bots ?
Almost a billion.
Not sure why bots would bother posting to /r/RedditAlternatives, it’s a tiny subreddit that most of the normal users will probably never see
There are AI bots literally scrapping the whole internet many times over. There were even tools to check negative sentiment all across the social media before AI blew up.
Propaganda doesn’t care about small or big subs, it has to seem subtle. Since it’s anonymous to anyone but the operators, it’s not a wild assumption. Small subs also often use bots for posting controversial things just for creating engagement.
Most repost bots are probably run by mods or even admins. Seeing as they never ban them, it’s not that farfetched.
The web wasn’t automated last year with AI. It’s been a playing ground for shaping narratives for decades.
For /r/RedditAlternatives, one of the mods is @Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works , who regularly post here to try to make the platform grow https://lemmy.zip/post/17001110
They probably wouldn’t allow obvious post to stay on that sub
Fairly certain they meant of the billion monthly active users.
Oh, then definitely
I hereby award Lemmy with the title of “based”. Reddit is no longer necessary.
These are words from the insane (and new redditors). No sane redditor from the early days stayed on reddit after all the big controversies happened over reddit getting bigger.
I have half a mind to go there and reply reddit numbers back when digg was the place to go was also shit.
While history rhymes, reddit did cook the frogs slower than old digg did, so while there were mass migrations already, reddit still have massive non bots.
hopefully reddit pushes more dumb bots and AI to make the people leave reddit and let it die being artificial thru and thru.
I stayed on Reddit for the longest time. I’ve been a user since the mass Digg migration. I’ve continued to use the site less and less. However, it seems the site quality continues to decline and userbase goes us.
There are still a few good subs with active members but even those still have some issues. I think discussion on the internet on general has gotten significantly worse overall.
Feel free, it’s always good to bring perspective to this kind of threads
Billion monthly users 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We probably all are
a billion minus one. I gave up this week.