• onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    This video is from August. Doesn’t reddit still have millions of users? There’s still bots copying content from there onto the fediverse and the number of active users on the threadiverse is dropping. 40k or so? That’s a drop in the bucket.

    It doesn’t feel to me like anything changed besides there being more lemmy users.

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    11 months ago

    Crushed? Or drove away tons of OC creators and active members leaving a bot filled wasteland?

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      11 months ago

      🙄

      Crushed. Lots lots more of over at reddit as well as a smaller percent reposting.

      Lemmys front page is a ton of bots reposting content from Reddit.

      Neither of the services have a lot of OC.

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        11 months ago

        It took a couple weeks but I’ve found that blocking some bot accounts and adjusting the sorting on the app I use has plenty of fresh content with active posts. It isn’t exactly the same as reddit in its prime, but I shouldn’t expect it to be either.

        It’s causing me to branch out into other topics and conversations that I probably would’ve missed on a gigantic platform like reddit. I think reddit made it easy to see interesting content because of how long it had to develop into a community. Lemmy is still a bit jumbled and fragmented, but the community seems to be sticking around and forming a new identity apart from reddit.

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          11 months ago

          Mind sharing which bots to block? Some bots are useful, so I’d rather not hide all bots.

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    11 months ago

    Reddit crushed itself more than anything. Sure they ended the protest, but that place is a ghost-town now, all that’s left are the bots and politcal propaganda pushers. Stale links that are several days old populate the front pages of the big subs.