I haven’t gone back since Apollo shut down, and not planning to, but I am curious.

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    I read a post somewhere that really vibed with me. It said that they use Apollo and Reddit was just a backend. When Apollo died, Reddit did too for them.

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    I’m jumping between Reddit and Lemmy. Some subreddits have all of their mods booted out (r/GoCommitDie and r/OpenAI are two I can think of). Some subreddits have decided to flag their subreddit as NSFW but are being threatened by Reddit to reverse that move, and many have returned to business as usual.

    Let’s face it. We’ve lost the API protest. All we can do now is make Lemmy popular and make it attractive to other users. Give people an incentive to actually join here. Our job here is not to make Lemmy a copy of Reddit. We need to make Lemmy different (in a good way!).

    And here’s an unpopular opinion: we need to make Lemmy easy to use and understand. If normies find Lemmy difficult to use or understand, then we’re fucked.

    My personal opinion is that normies might get confused by the fediverse and might be turned away by thinking they need to make an account on every single instance in order to participate in them. I am not proposing that we get rid of federation. What I am proposing is that we somehow make it clearer to everyone that all you really need is one account and you can get access to everywhere. I don’t know how we can do this, but I’m sure there is someone who knows.

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      I’m not really a normy, but the simple act of making an account is not obvious. With that barrier of entry, most people will simply never be able to join here.

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      Right now, you DO need multiple accounts. Instances are down all the time, federation either breaks or is intentionally broken through defederation even between relatively large instances, … it gets tedious.

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        That’s just growing pains from a sudden mass migration, the hug of death if you would.

        User base growing organically over time will make this happen less and less.

        Lemmy as a software will get more sophisticated, the people running the software will get more used to how things operate and be able to buy more/better hardware, etc…

        Right now things are just a bit chaotic from thousands of people jumping ship at the same time.

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              I feel like I haven’t seen enough of that happening in the past though. Can you share some examples of where you’d seen it? Maybe Steam? No Man’s Sky?

              What other apps debuted early to a poor public reception that got people to come back and try it again and successfully change their minds?

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                Lemmy now has over an average of a million posts a day up from 300k a month ago. It’s experiencing massive massive growth NOW despite no venture capital being thrown at it. I don’t know why you are asking about sleeper hits when you are literally posting on one. EDIT: I’m an idiot. Misinterpreted the “1 million posts” post from yesterday as a daily total not a cumulative lifetime total.

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    Business as usual for the subs I frequent. I wish they’d move over to Lemmy but the infertility/IVF group is a super tight knit community and likely won’t move over. I’ve known most of the users for 5 years. If it weren’t for them I’d have deleted my Reddit account but all I did was delete the official app (I had the Reddit app and RIF).

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    Hmm, i checked out the FP and a few of the subs I used to frequent. Front page seems to have more TikTok style crap than ever, like “guy gets punched!” or “someone makes annoying food!”. Relationship advice: “get divorced!!”.
    City subs seem about the same as before. Medical subs I used to read seem about the same and holy shit, am I glad I’m not reading those every day. Same questions and memes that have been rotating through for like 5 years, and the confounding pattern where the community consensus on issues changes from week to week or post to post. One week it’s “this term is offensive and I hate it” and 50 people are “YEAH! That’s right!” and then the next, “don’t you know about this term, it’s perfectly valid” and 30 people are “YEAH! Use your brain if you have one broo!!”. And the questions like “does anyone else with this condition suffer from these extremely common effects that are listed in every medical article about it?” So anyway whether reddit has gotten worse or not, seems like I was ready for something different.

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    What infuriates me are subs that act like nothing is happening. I can understand not wanting to get involved with drama but actively supporting the devs by pretending everything is fine is vile to me.

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    The porn is still decent, but it does feel like a lower quality overall than I’m used to.

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    Noticed quite an increase in bot posts over on r/titanfall to the point where a retired mod wanted to return to their position to help deal with it. Given that I’m kinda moving away from Reddit I gave them their position back so that I can start moving on.

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    I’ve only been back to visit a small, private sub, but I’ve seen a lot of posts here saying that a high percentage of bot content is obvious. The conjecture is that there’s always been a lot of bots, but they were somewhat less obvious because there was more human content. With a lot of big content creators leaving, it’s more apparent when a lot of posts and comments are from bots.

    Plus some people think Reddit has increased bot usage to astroturf against the protests and to give the illusion that traffic isn’t down.

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      The small communities I look at are half of what they used to be. The bigger ones just made up for it with increased bot posting.

      The bot posting will probably last long enough for their IPO so they can sucker in enough investors for them to fuck on out of there. The more casual users that are left probably don’t use the system enough to know/care until it comes crashing down.

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    You can see a lot of communities being closed or not back to normal. My feeling is that this whole thing will leave a big scar on reddit for a long time, and it will probably never heal, because it was mostly hitting core users who were there for a long time. Maybe they calculated that most users are lurkers who use mobile, and the rest is people using old reddit?

    The problem is that it’s not a good idea to upset the mods, but reddit also works with content, and it’s a complex chemistry between people who post new things and how the mods regulate it to make sure their sub has quality. I guess that a lot of mods don’t care, or maybe they don’t care now but will care later? Maybe new subreddits will open with other mods.

    Eitherway, reddit is ready to sacrifice a good fraction of its quality and trust to extract money out of it, but reddit users are not instagram users.

    It was more and more difficult to make reddit interesting by avoiding some subreddits and searching for subreddits that were more and more niche, but at some point you feel that something is lost after the whole “increase quantity, dilute quality” phase.

    Reddit is also getting more polarized and politics have really poisoned the site to a degree never seen before, Trumpists were present there for waaaaay too long, and it attracted a lot of conservatives and right wing users who don’t fit with the usual reddit crowds. It managed to survive after a looooot of drama, but after all this, maybe the core users of reddit are just tired, and might slowly quit the ship, and maybe reddit will see the same problems twitter is currently having, with conservative etc running rampant.

    I wish reddit would have stood up with its core users who are mostly liberals/leftists, instead of compromising and letting fascists thrive there.

    I use my country’s subreddit and it seems the right wing phase is being felt more and more, I’m feeling even the mods start to get tired because of it. every month I’m surprised by the opinions of the comments I see on this sub. Maybe it also reflects world politics, but I’m not sure. Sometimes I get paranoid and I imagine that astroturfers are often around to leave a mean comment, or downvote things that doesn’t fit their agenda.

    The upside is that reddit still managed to hold up for much longer than digg.

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    I mean, half the good subs are still gone. I can’t even use my home feed anymore, its half just video game subs now. Places like r/interestingasfuck were regular features in my feed that were pretty important to it being a pleasant experience overall. I balanced that shit.

    Now its all fucked. I still have my account and still go there, to poke around and participate in some of those video game subs, where reddit is still clearly dominant. But hanging out has gotten kinda lame.